Chapter 280: Two People Who Share the Same Misfortune (1/2)

Pei Qiqi was sobbing softly.

Nie Tian suddenly became refreshed as he stared blankly at her and listened to the words she was mumbling.

“Mom, dad…” As vague as it was, Nie Tian could hear that Pei Qiqi was calling to her parents like a little girl seeing off her parents who were going on a long journey, begging for them to stay.

At this moment, the usual coldness and fierceness had disappeared from her delicate face. Heart-broken vulnerability was all there was.

Teardrops rolled down her cheeks like a unstrung pearl necklace, adding to her sad beauty.

However, the sobbing didn’t last long, and she soon awoke from her dreams.

When she opened her eyes, she immediately noticed Nie Tian’s gaze, and immediately hid the helpless sadness on her face.

In the next moment, her expression became as cold as a steel knife again.

However, she couldn’t stop her tears from flowing out of the corners of her eyes and rolling down her cheeks.

She took out a handkerchief and rolled her eyes to the side as she silently brushed away her tears.

Apparently, the images were still lingering in her mind and she still needed some time to come out of her dreams.

She could only constantly brush away her tears and try to calm herself.

For some reason, Nie Tian felt heartache watching her like this.

“Your parents… What happened to them?” Nie Qian asked in a soft voice.

“It’s none of your business!” Pei Qiqi answered coldly.

Nie Tian fell silent for a short while before letting out a sigh and saying with a bitter expression, “I’ve never seen my parents.”

As soon as he uttered those words, a sense of sadness immediately filled his heart.

His whole life unfurled in front of his eyes.

Pei Qiqi, who had turned her head to the side to avert Nie Tian’s eyes, turned back to look at him after hearing his words. Nose flaring and eyelashes trembling, she asked with a tone that was ten times softer than usual, “You’re also…?”

“My mother died soon after I was born.” Nie Tian said with a chilly tone. “As for my father, I don’t even know who he is.”

At this moment, Nie Tian was also drowned in sorrow and bitterness.

Pei Qiqi watched Nie Tian quietly, and only after a long time did she say, “Life is always full of misfortunes. As life goes on, there are fewer and fewer people you can share your experiences with. The world is brutal, and the path of seeking strength is endless. If you want to gain something, you will have to be willing to give up some other things.

“For my parents, they chose to give up familial love.”

With these words, she closed her eyes and didn’t seem to wish to continue.

“Familial love…” Nie Tian mulled over Pei Qiqi’s words. Then he nodded and said, his heart filled with bitterness, “Perhaps you’re right. What we cherish the most might be the very thing they had to give up.”

Nie Tian couldn’t help but think of his father, who he had never met and knew nothing of, and wondered why he had left his mother and disappeared.

From the moment his bloodline had awakened, he had realized that his father must not be an ordinary man.

No one in the Nie clan family history had been known to possess the mysterious bloodline power.

The fact that bloodline power ran through Nie Tian’s veins meant that he must have inherited it from his father.

A man who possessed such powerful bloodline power should be beyond ordinary, and have the ability to guard his own wife and child.

However, he had never showed up in Nie Tian’s life.

Because of that, Nie Tian had been shunned and treated differently by other Nie Clan members his whole life.

No one had taken him as a true member of the Nie Clan, except his grandfather and aunt.

The reason why he had repeatedly fought Nie Hong, Nie Yuan, and other children his age was because he longed for a sense of existence and recognition, and he was eager to prove his worth to the other Nie Clan members

“If I ever find him one day, I’ll demand a clear answer from him!” Nie Tian said to himself with great determination.

Even though he had never said it to anyone, he always knew that he harbored hatred towards his father.

Part of the reason he had pursued his own strength so unrelentingly over the years was that he want to be strong enough when he had the chance to question his own father.

As an orphan himself, Nie Tian shared Pei Qiqi’s feelings.

At this moment, Pei Qiqi’s weeping made his hatred towards his father even clearer and more heartfelt.

Only after a long time was he able to calm himself and stop himself from thinking about the fact that his father had abandoned and betrayed him and his mother.

Too upset to concentrate on cultivation, Nie Tian took out another huge chunk of Golden Stone Rhino’s meat, roasted it, and vented his frustration by violently tearing up and chewing on the meat.

A few days passed…

Soon after Nie Tian wolfed down another chunk of Golden Stone Rhino’s meat, wisps of faint smoke rose from his body and bits of a gooey substance flowed out of his open pores.