74 Threats (1/2)

”How are you, my son?” The woman asked Shi Li as she lightly smiled.

Shi Li was taken aback as he heard the woman call her name. If you looked at the woman at first glance, you would definitely consider her as a kingdom toppling beauty with her extremely beautiful face and perfect skin the color of white jade. Even though that was the case, Shi Li couldn't help but look at her eyes.

Her eyes were normal, except for one thing. Her irises were crimson red, similar to the color of his pupils when he uses the interface, and also similar to the color of Senior Yan's eyes.

But what set her apart was that her pupils were surrounded by black concentric circles, which couldn't help but make Shi Li recall the time he met his bloodline's progenitor.

The design on the progenitor's eyes were similar to the woman's eyes, being black in color, but on the progenitor's eyes were trefoils rather than circles.

Once he saw that the eyes of the progenitor and the woman were somewhat similar, and the fact that she called him his son, it wasn't weird for Shi Li to ask this next question.

”Mother? Is that you?”

The word 'mother' was stuck in his throat for a while before he could finally say it as it was a long time since he has met his mother. Even before his transmigration, the previous owner's memories were only filled with his father and the other clan members, it was as if she didn't exist in his memories at all.

It was quite awkward for him to say this rather than feeling sad and happy that he finally met his mother. He did want to see his mother since he made it his new goal, but he wasn't sure if this is how his mother looked like in reality.

The woman lightly smiled and looked at Shi Li as she nodded. ”That's right son, I'm your mother. I'm sorry for leaving you.”

She tried to embrace Shi Li, but before she could do so, Shi Li hurriedly retreated, making her look at Shi Li with surprise.

”Is it because we haven't met for a long time? Don't you love your mother?” She put on a sad face as she asked.

Shi Li maintained a solemn expression as he replied, ”I do. I'm grateful for what my mother has done to me since she brought me into this world. Don't get me wrong, it's not that I hate you or anything. It's just that...”

”Are you really my mother?”

The woman didn't really expect that Shi Li would ask that question, but this made her shed tears as she replied, ”Of course I am! Don't you remember me, my son?”

Shi Li went blank for a while as he rummaged through his memories. Even though he rummaged through his memories a while ago, he kept up an appearance in front of this woman before coming back to reality and shaking his head.

”I do not.”

The tears continued to gush forth as the woman even started to wail loudly in grief. Shi Li looked at this and thought, 'She wouldn't cry for a reason now, would she? I think I should give her a second chance.'

Shi Li came close to the woman and surprisingly, he took the initiative to embrace the woman rather than accept the woman's embrace earlier. The woman stopped crying and looked at Shi Li in disbelief.

”I-I thought you hated me...?”

”I didn't hate you,” Shi Li refuted, ”It's just that, it's been so long since we've met. My memories of you are so hazy that I can't even remember your appearance back then...”

”Mother.”