The sky curtain makes you a useless class monitor, yet you act arbitrarily for eternity?

"mother……"

Ye Chen held her hand, his voice stuck in his throat.

"it's me."

He nodded.

Wang Quanjian stared at him blankly, his fingertips trembling slightly.

"Come...let your mother take a look."

She reached out and grabbed Ye Chen's shoulders, pushing him away slightly.

Ye Chen took a half step back, following her force.

Wang Quanjian raised his face and looked intently at his eyebrows and eyes.

He looked from her forehead to her chin, then at the dark gold dragon robe.

She read very slowly, but tears kept welling up in her eyes.

His eyebrows and eyes resembled Ye Long's, but his overall features were more like hers.

But those eyes already held too much of a life she had never experienced.

"Chen'er".

She raised her hand and touched Ye Chen's face.

"How have you been these past few years?"

Ye Chen opened his mouth.

He didn't utter a single word.

Wang Quanjian stared into his eyes and asked softly:

"You didn't have a good life after you grew up, did you?"

Ye Chen's emotions, which he had just suppressed, completely collapsed with this one sentence.

"mother……"

He lowered his head, his forehead resting on the edge of the bed, his shoulders trembling violently.

"I'm not doing well."

"Growing up a little isn't good either."

Wang Quan Jianxin's hand landed on his head.

She wanted to say a few words of comfort, but her throat was choked with sourness.

In the end, all I could do was stroke his hair again and again.

Ye Chen gripped the bedsheet tightly, his voice broken and intermittent.

"I never saw you when I was a child."

"Starting when I was six years old, that bastard Ye Long threw me into the Source of Guixu."

"Other people's children all have their mothers with them."

"I'm either injured or recovering from an injury every day."

"Sometimes I've just woken up and the next training session has already started."

Wang Quan Jianxin paused for a moment.

She looked at Ye Chen, who was lying by the bedside, and her fingers slowly tightened.

"I really hated you back then."

Ye Chen raised his head, tears streaming down his cheeks.

I thought you didn't want me anymore.

"I even thought that if I killed enough monsters and became powerful enough, you would come back."

"But I later found out..."

His voice trailed off.

"You didn't abandon me."

"You are already dead."

"They can never come back."

Wang Quanjian turned his face away, biting his lip, but still couldn't suppress his sobs.

She didn't want to cry in front of her child.

But every word Ye Chen said weighed heavily on her heart.

She didn't accompany him through his first steps, didn't hear him call out "Mom" for the first time, and never saw him hold back his tears after being injured during training.

She gave him only one life, but was absent from his entire life afterward.

"sorry."

When those three words were uttered, Wang Quan Jianxin's voice was already trembling.

Ye Chen lay by the bedside and cried for a long time.

He only sat up slowly when the pain in his chest became so intense that he wiped away his tears with his sleeve.

"Mother, what are you doing now...?"

His gaze fell on the black markings on Wang Quanjianxin's face.

Those patterns are still spreading.

Wang Quanjian patted the empty space next to him.

"Come and sit down."

Ye Chen did not move.

Wang Quanjian reached out and grabbed his wrist, pulling him to the bedside.

"Tell your mother about what will happen when you grow up."

Ye Chen's emotions, which he had just suppressed, surged up again.

He forcefully wiped away the tears from the corners of his eyes and gritted his teeth as he spoke:

"Mother, I want to tell you something."

"Ye Long is no good!"

"He actually threw me into the Source of the Ruins and had me train there for six years!"

"Seriously, he forced me to fight monsters in the freezing cold!"

"The main thing is, he specifically chose people who were better than me!"

"Every time, we have to risk our lives to fight!!"

"But that's not even the worst part!"

Ye Chen felt more and more aggrieved as he spoke.

"He took on a disciple who later became the God of War in the North!"

"That person is the same age as me!"

"Ye Long always uses him to put me down, and he's always saying that I'm not as good as others."

"If I hadn't seen myself born today, I would have doubted whether I was even his biological child!"

"Click!"

Ye Long, standing outside the door, glanced down at the medicine bottle in his hand.

The bottle contained the Level 9 Breath Concealing Pill that Doctor Lin had given him.

Once ingested, it can stop the loss of life.

He had rushed back because he wanted Wang Quan Jianxin to take the medicine to prevent her from dying before he found something to prolong her life.

But now, he stands outside the door listening to his son's accusations, not even daring to push the door open.

Wang Quanjian glanced at the doorway.

She didn't expose Ye Long, but chuckled softly.

"Perhaps your father had some good intentions?"

"With good intentions?"

Ye Chen almost jumped up.

He opened his mouth to retort, but the words caught in his throat and he swallowed them back.

Wang Quanjianxin's hand was held in his palm, and it felt icy cold.

Ye Chen lowered his head, his emotions sinking as well.

He suddenly remembered the scene he had just witnessed.

His mother exhausted her lifespan to bring him into the world.

Any father would probably feel resentful.

Wang Quanjian noticed his silence and asked softly:

"And what about your dad?"

"What happened to him afterward?"

"he?"

Ye Chen twitched the corner of his mouth.

"He's dead."

Wang Quanjian's breath hitched for a moment.

"Dead?"

"How...did he die?"

Outside the door, Ye Long gripped the medicine bottle tightly.

The ninth-grade Breath Concealing Pill swayed gently in the bottle, making a soft, rustling sound.

He was also waiting for this answer.

Ye Chen remained silent for a while inside the room.

"In the future, the entire Ruins will erupt."

"The Earth expanded a million times overnight."

"All the countries fell within half a day, leaving only China still holding on."

Wang Quanjian looked at him.

"Where's your dad?"

Ye Chen's Adam's apple bobbed.

"My deadbeat dad is on his way back to Kyoto."

"We've run into a Level 9 Ruins that has opened within our territory..."

"He did it so I could get out."

He was left inside all alone.

Outside.

Ye Long looked down at the medicine bottle, remaining motionless for a long time.

Wang Quanjianxin's face turned even paler.

"What about the Dragon Kingdom?"

Ye Chen lowered his head.

"The situation is extremely critical."

"We fought with all our might, we held our ground, and we launched a counterattack."

"But in the end, all that was left was to struggle and hold on."

He paused for a long time before continuing to speak.

"Warriors of the Dragon Kingdom, my classmate, and the descendants of your future daughter-in-law..."

"Many have died."

"I can only watch them die one by one."

"There's nothing I can do."

Wang Quanjian reached out and pulled him into his arms.

Ye Chen did not struggle.

He leaned on his mother's shoulder, his body tense for a long time, before finally collapsing little by little.

"mother……"

Growing up is really not good at all.

"It wasn't good when I was a child either."

"Everyone says that the king must remain calm, unmoved even if Mount Tai collapses before him, but..."

He looked up, his eyes filled with exhaustion.

"I can't do it!"

"How could I not feel anything after watching so many people die?"

"I don't think I'm suited for that position."

Wang Quanjian bit his lip, looking at his son who looked dejected, and felt waves of pain in his heart.

She hugged Ye Chen and gently patted his back.

"Chen'er..."

"In this world, there is no such thing as a person who is unsuitable or unsuitable."

"Many times, we are forced to do things we don't like because of external factors."

"We will fall, we will feel pain, and even despair."

"but……"

Wang Quanjian gripped his shoulders again, looking intently into Ye Chen's eyes.

Even in the darkest of times, we must not give up hope.

"Your mother can't teach you anything, nor can she help you with anything."

"In dire straits, the only person you can truly rely on is yourself."

"Never...never give up!"

"And also, Mother, I've never blamed you..."