Mother's teaching
Feng Jinxuan's epic confession ultimately ended with Yu Jinli blushing and snatching the black card, fleeing in disarray.
She felt that if she stayed in the same space as that man any longer, her heart would explode from overload.
However, she soon realized that she had been too happy.
Although the physical enemy has temporarily retreated, the psychological enemy has begun to launch a brutal and inhumane attack on her.
The next morning, Yu Jinli's mother, Yuehua, appeared before her right on time, carrying a thick, thread-bound ancient book that could be used as a pillow.
“Child,” Yuehua said, looking at Yu Jinli who was still lazing in bed, with a gentle smile that left no room for refusal, “From today onwards, I will personally teach you the unique mental cultivation method of our Tianyan Pavilion.”
Yu Jinli: "..."
She looked at the incomprehensible book in her mother's hand, the one with the title she couldn't even understand, and felt her head buzzing.
She just wants to be a lazy bum who does nothing but eat and wait to die, not some saint who saves the world!
“Mom…Auntie,” she tried to make a last-ditch effort, “Look, I have to go to work with my boss every day and manage the operation of the app. I really…can’t find the time to study.”
"It's alright." Yuehua's smile grew even gentler. "I've already discussed it with Jinxuan... oh no, I mean President Feng. He's very supportive. He said that improving your professional skills is also to better protect him, this core asset. So, he specially approved a month of paid leave for you to further your studies."
Yu Jinli was completely speechless.
She felt like a pitiful little rabbit, completely manipulated by two old foxes.
And so, Yu Jinli's miserable life began again.
Every day before dawn, Yuehua would drag her out of her warm bed and make her sit cross-legged in the garden, facing the rising sun, practicing breathing exercises.
In the morning, we have to memorize those metaphysical theories that are even more difficult to understand than advanced mathematics.
In the afternoon, we will learn how to use our lucky charm to draw all sorts of incredibly complex talismans.
Yu Jinli felt as if she had returned to the dark and hopeless time of her senior year of high school, dominated by the "five years of college entrance examination and three years of mock exams".
She had thought about quitting more than once.
But whenever she wanted to slack off, when she met Yuehua's gentle eyes, which were filled with a deep sense of guilt, all the words of resistance stuck in her throat.
She knew that her mother was clumsily trying to make up for the maternal love that had been missing for more than twenty years in her own way.
She was desperately trying to teach her everything she had learned in her life, so that she would have enough ability to face the unknown dangers of the future.
That evening, Yu Jinli had just finished a day of grueling training and was so exhausted that she collapsed into a chair like a dead dog.
Yuehua walked in carrying a bowl of rock sugar stewed pears that she had personally prepared for her.
"Are you tired?" Her voice was soft, with a hint of barely perceptible concern. "Here, have some sugar water to soothe your throat."
Looking at the gentle and kind woman in front of her, Yu Jinli's slight resentment from being forced to study vanished.
She took the bowl and drank it in small sips.
It was sweet and warm, a taste she had never experienced before, a taste that belonged to her mother.
"Mom," she called out as if possessed.
Yuehua's body suddenly trembled.
She looked at her daughter, and her eyes, so identical to her own, instantly filled with tears.
"Yes," she responded, her voice already trembling with tears.
A warm yet melancholic silence fell over the room.
After a long while, Yu Jinli finally couldn't hold back and asked the question that had been lingering in her heart for so long.
“Mom,” she looked at Yuehua, her eyes serious, “Back then, why…why did you abandon me?”
Yuehua's body trembled slightly.
She reached out, seemingly wanting to stroke her daughter's hair, but then stopped in mid-air, as if afraid of disturbing something.
She looked into her daughter's clear eyes, which were filled with incomprehension and a hint of resentment, and saw endless pain and regret in them.
“Child,” she said in a hoarse voice, “we did not abandon you. We just… had to leave you.”
She slowly began to recount a sad past filled with taboos and helplessness, a past that was enough to overturn the entire legacy of the Tianyan Pavilion.
"Your physique is the 'Koi Carp Sacred Body.' It is the most outstanding cultivation talent that only appears once every few hundred years in our Heavenly Evolution Pavilion."
"But this talent is also a kind of... curse."
"The Koi Body is born with the ability to gather the purest fortune in the world. But because of this, it will clash with the fate of all those with overly strong destinies." Yuehua's voice trembled slightly. "And your father and I, as the heads of the Tianyan Pavilion, bear the fate of the entire sect's rise and fall. Our destinies are too strong."
"On the day you were born, the entire protective array of Tianyan Pavilion almost collapsed because it could not withstand the aura emanating from you."
"The elders in the pavilion have calculated that if we force you to stay by our side, the fates of the three of us will clash, and ultimately, there will only be one outcome—"
"All three souls were annihilated, perishing together."
Yu Jinli was stunned.
She never imagined that the truth behind her being abandoned would be... such an outrageous and metaphysical reason.
“So,” Yuehua looked at her, her eyes filled with tears, “we have no choice but to send you to the mortal world, to your adoptive parents, to your two most trusted junior brothers and sisters, whose destinies are the most ordinary.”
“We put that ‘Phoenix Hairpin’ on your head to lock in your fortune, hoping that you can grow up peacefully and happily like an ordinary child.”
"Then why are you coming to find me again?" Yu Jinli's voice carried a hint of sob that she herself was unaware of.
“Because we have found a way to resolve the clash of destinies.” A glimmer of hope flashed in Yuehua’s eyes. “Your father and I have been in seclusion for ten years, and finally, we have cultivated the ‘Unity of Hearts’ technique of Tianyan Pavilion to its highest level. Now we are enough to suppress the powerful aura of destiny within you.”
“Child,” she reached out and gently stroked her daughter’s cheek this time, “come home with us. Back to Tianyan Pavilion, back to your true home.”
Looking at the sorrowful, painful, and endlessly regretful expression on her mother's face, Yu Jinli's last bit of resentment completely vanished.
She knew that they did love her.
They just... loved too deeply.
Just as she was about to nod in agreement, another face uncontrollably appeared in her mind.
That face, always cold and indifferent, yet one that would unhesitatingly shield her when she was in danger.
That face that utters the most sarcastic words, yet clumsily holds up a sky for her.
She suddenly realized that she seemed to have... already found another "home" that she couldn't bear to leave.
Yuehua seemed to see through her hesitation.
The smile on her face gradually faded.
She looked into her daughter's clear eyes, so just like her own, yet filled with a stubbornness that shouldn't be there for someone her age. Her heart ached as if it were being pierced by needles.
She sighed softly.
“Child,” she said slowly, her words carrying a deeper meaning, “do you know that the Koi Body has one fatal weakness?”
That is... being extremely easily moved by emotions.
"Once you fall in love, your heart and your fortune will become impure and unstable. You may even be tainted by the other person's misfortune."
She looked at her daughter and, word by word, clearly uttered the cruelest warning.
"Stay away from that jinx."
"He will destroy you."
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