Keiko pleaded with Asahi Aoi, saying, "This time, Mom isn't lying to you. It's really true. If you help Mom just this once, Mom can marry him and Mom can be happy."

Aoi Asahi shook her head and said, "This is a lie. You can't possibly marry him. Risa Yajima won't agree to it, and she'll do everything she can to stop you."

“Yajima Risa is just his daughter, how could she possibly have any say in Jiro’s affairs?” Keiko said anxiously. “Even if Yajima Risa really made this request, as long as you agree, please help your mother this once.”

"Then if any problems arise, it will be Risa Yajima's problem, not mine. Mom will definitely be able to marry Jiro Yajima."

"If you promise your mother, your mother can be happy."

"Mom, please."

Keiko quickly grabbed Asahi Aoi's hand, begging her not to leave.

Aoi felt something cold and sticky, like a snake, grabbing her. She used all her strength to finally shake it off.

The girl said, as if making a final decision, "Mom, I'll call you Mom one last time."

She stood in the sunlight and said to Keiko, "I will absolutely not agree to your request. I will not help you with anything anymore, nor will I listen to you again."

"Mom, I'm not the same Asahi I used to be. I'm leaving now. From now on, let's pretend we never met."

Sunflower wields its sword, a sword called happiness and misfortune, severing everything.

She got up, ready to leave.

Because everything has been done, everything is over.

"I can't wait to tell Xia Wuzhao the news. I can't wait to see his surprised expression."

"Back then, he would probably praise himself."

Having severed everything, Asahi felt as if she were weightless, as if her entire body was so light.

Just as she was about to leave, Keiko grabbed her arm.

Huizi said anxiously, "Don't go. Let me show you something before you make a decision."

"You only need to look at one thing, Aoi."

As Huizi said this, she held on tightly.

Aoi Asahi shook her head and said, "No matter what I see, my feelings will not change."

Keiko, however, was undeterred. She was confident that as long as she produced that item, she could definitely change Aoi Asahi's mind.

All she could do was plead and beg Aoi to give her a little more time.

"After today, I will never bother you again, and I will never harass you again."

Huizi hurriedly made her request.

"This is my mother; the only way she threatens her daughter is by saying, 'I won't bother you anymore.'"

"It's truly too tragic."

Aoi looked at Keiko and said, "I won't believe you, Mother."

Keiko stubbornly held onto Aoi Asahi, and the strength of this crazy adult woman made it impossible for Aoi Asahi to break free.

She grabbed Asahi Aoi and forcibly dragged her to the cabinet in the corner.

He hurriedly found a picture frame inside. The frame was too old and full of dark cracks.

Keiko hurriedly held up the photo frame and held it in front of Asahi Aoi: "Look, look!"

The photo shows a young woman holding a small child, and they are smiling brightly under a cherry blossom tree.

They looked so happy and so beautiful.

"This is us. Look, this is you."

Huizi spoke hurriedly, pointing to the toddler in the photo.

"So, I have smiled happily before."

"But why do I feel so grief and indignation?"

Asahi Aoi suppressed her grief, but her tone was filled with indignation.

"Mother, what use is this to you?"

The girl said, "Do you think this will make me change my mind? Do you think showing this will make me agree to your request?"

Her words were like a raging fire.

It was so hot it felt like it was going to burn my skin.

"No, absolutely not, Mother!"

She shouted, almost bursting with anger, "I will never change my mind! I will never agree to this!"

"Do you think I'll be grateful to you? On the contrary, I hate you, Mother! I hate you!"

"Seeing this photo intensified my hatred. If you hated me from the start, you should have just abandoned me or let me die!"

"If you had actually done that, I would have been happier. But instead, after all the suffering I've endured, just when I wanted to leave, you showed me this thing?"

Are you going to tell me that I was happy before? Are you going to tell me that you loved me before?

She spoke loudly, expressing all her grievances, sadness, and anger.

The girl was finally exhausted. She said coldly, "Let it all end. It should all be over."

Keiko Nomura's face twitched. Finally, she couldn't hold back any longer and angrily accused Aoi Asahi, saying, "I raised you! It was me!"

"You said you felt wronged, you said you had suffered a lot."

"It's just a lack of food and clothing, and I just scolded you a few times. Is that what you call suffering?"

"Without me! Where would you get a house to live in? Without me, where would you get money to spend?"

"How could you have grown up without me?!"

"Aoi Asahi! You are my daughter! I raised you!"

Even if I have made a thousand mistakes, ten thousand mistakes, I am still your mother, Aoi Asahita.

"I gave birth to you, I raised you."

"it's me!"

"If it weren't for me, would you have met Xia Wuzhao? If it weren't for me, would you even exist in this world?"

"If it weren't for me, would you have been able to find happiness?"

"Impossible, absolutely impossible!"

"Now that you've found a good man, have you forgotten that your mother is still suffering?"

"Yes, even if I did everything wrong. I'm the one who made you suffer!"

"But I gave birth to you and raised you."

"This is the grace of giving me life! This is the grace of raising me!"

"Aoi Asahi, tell me."

"What kindness in the world can be greater than this?"

Chapter 85 Was it all my fault? [6k/10k]

She shamelessly spoke of the kindness of giving birth to someone and the kindness of raising them.

It was as if he were holding a supreme scepter, intending to use it to subdue the sunflower.

She was extremely confident, holding her head high.

They really did look like they had victory in the bag.

This is a right she naturally possesses, and it is also her weapon.

She looked at Aoi Asahi and scolded her for being too unfilial.

"Don't you even acknowledge your mother's kindness in giving birth to you and raising you?"

“Aoi Asahi! Tell me! Your mother carried you for ten months and gave birth to you. You are a piece of flesh that fell from your mother’s body.”

“We are of one heart, mother and daughter!” she said. “We share the same blood, and you grew up drinking your mother’s milk.”

Even if Mom is wrong in a thousand ways, isn't that the truth? Does Mom's past kindness to you and the love she showed in raising you disappear just because she was wrong later?

"Aoi Asahi, have you forgotten how you grew up? It was me! Your mother who took care of you and raised you to adulthood."

"This is a debt of gratitude that no one can erase, Aoi Asahi!"

Keiko Nomura shouted, screaming desperately, "Even if you go out and ask around, it's not my fault! It's your fault!"

"Aoi Asahi! You're wrong."

“You’re so selfish, Aoi Asahi,” Keiko Nomura said. “You’ve found happiness yourself, yet you’re blind to your elderly mother. Don’t you know that your mother is also searching for happiness?”

"I've never asked you for anything. Is it so hard to ask you for help just this once?"

"Is my request really that unreasonable?"

Keiko Nomura said, "You're the one who's unreasonable! You're Aoi Asahi!"

"You are selfish and only think of yourself. You only ever blame your mother for letting you live, but you never reflect on yourself."

"Without me, you wouldn't exist."

"Without me, how would you have met Xia Wuzhao?"

"You like him so much, but if it weren't for me, would you really have had any interaction with him?"

Keiko Nomura spoke, pointing fingers at Aoi Asahi.

How heavy it is.

Every word was as heavy as a mountain, every accusation was like steel melting into molten iron, scorching the heart with countless wounds.

Standing in the light, Aoi Asahi looked at Keiko.

She didn't lower her head, but just looked at Huizi and said...

"Of course I understand what you're saying."

"Of course I know you gave birth to me and raised me. But is that really something I should be grateful for?"

"If I was born just to experience so much suffering in the world, then why was I born in the first place?"

"You say I'm ungrateful and don't know how to be grateful."

"But is this my fault? Is it my own fault?"

“I learned all these things from you, Mother!”

“It is your every move, your actions that have made me who I am.”

"That's right, we share the same blood. So, I feel as if I'm your mother."

"When you said those things, I felt no gratitude or guilt whatsoever. I felt only agitation and indignation."

She spoke with absolute certainty, as if she had no feelings for Keiko whatsoever.

However, tears were about to fall from the girl's eyes.

She tilted her head back, her eyes red.

The tears ultimately did not fall.

Aoi, displaying a strong demeanor, said, "You talk about the debt of gratitude for raising me, but what about that?"

"Just because you raised me, am I supposed to be driven around like a slave?"

"Do you think that just because you said you owe me a debt of gratitude for raising you, I'll act like a girl without a self and obey your every command?"

"No, that's absolutely not the case."

“I am Asahi, Asahi of Asahi. I have never been anyone’s slave, nor am I anyone’s possession.”

"I am who I am."

She shouted those words with all her might, almost exhaling all the air from her lungs.

"I am who I am, Mother!"

"You gave birth to me and raised me! I am grateful, but how could I possibly be grateful for what you did afterward!"

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