Chapter 518: Guilt (1/2)

Lan could not help but look at Xue Wei during their travel down the streets of the busy town.

He had initially not intended to tell him about the situation with his family. It was very confusing and chaotic, and while he knew the facts, it was impossible to understand the emotions behind everyone's actions.

Also, this did not actually concern him. He had no hand in what had happened, and had never involved himself before he came across Xue Wei and realized that he was a Rulebreaker.

However, they were now in the Ghost Realm. While his parents would be unable to remember the time they had spent in the world of the living, they were still his parents, and since this young man was willing to help him look for Li Zhiqing, he felt that there was nothing wrong with expanding their search, and try to locate his parents as well.

While he was unable to regain the loss he had experienced in his childhood, perhaps it would make him feel better to see the two of them at least, should they still exist in this Ghost Realm.

Xue Wei had been shocked upon hearing what Lan had told him. He had initially thought that his parents would be something he would forever miss, but never get to see, and when Lan offered that they also searched for them, he felt a mixture of emotions.

He had always accepted the fact that his mother and father were gone. He had lost his memories of his biological parents for a long time due to the interference of Xiao Lei, but when he remembered them, he was already a young man.

While he would lie if he said that he had never longed for family affection, he was not aware of how much this emotion mattered to him. He was of a mixed breed. He was the Holy Son of the Sovereign Beasts. But all of this was because of his parents.

When he was a small child, his biggest wish had been to become a hero who could bring humanity victory in the war, but reality had proven that the humans in the Chang'an Continent did not need him.

They had chased him, tried to kill him every time they had the chance, and even the beasts had schemed against him. He was a being with no place to belong, no place to call home.

Knowing that he might be able to get a family again, his heart was feeling excitement, but also slight worry as to whether or not they would be able to ever become a family again.

His mother did not know him. She was not familiar with him at all, as she had died upon giving birth to him. His father had known him for ten years, but he had been an innocent and optimistic child back then. The world had changed his personality and his view of the world.

Sighing, he took some time to calm his mind, and while he was tangled with the thoughts of what to decide upon, he suddenly remembered that, although he did not have his family by his side, he had so many companions who had been by his side for so long. Naturally, they were equal to family now.