Chapter 350 Iron Chain
After Old Master Liu left, Hu Xiner rushed out impatiently.
"What on earth is going on?" she blurted out, looking at Liu Se, who still had a calm expression.
Liu Se covered her ears and frowned slightly. If she was not mistaken, there was obvious impatience in her eyes.
Hu Xin'er felt as if a bucket of cold water was poured over her head, and she stood there in a daze.
Is this really Hu Xin'er's biological mother? Why did she react like this when she saw herself?
Indifference can be explained as being cold on the outside but warm on the inside, but this kind of obvious impatience, even an expression that carries a hint of disgust from the heart, is this really what a mother would show to her long-lost daughter?
Hu Xiner didn't understand why Liu Se acted even more indifferent than her, a theoretical outsider, in this occasion of mother-daughter reunion.
Yin Li felt a little reluctant when he saw this situation. In fact, when he explored the tunnel and found that Liu Se had such a temperament, he couldn't accept it for a while.
Liu Se was a person of extraordinary beauty. Her talent was well-known in the capital in the past. She was compared with Xie Daoyuan and was even more popular than Lu Yunjue.
Although she is 70% similar to Hu Xin'er, her manners and demeanor are those of a lady from a noble family who can only step out of a painting of a court lady. She seems to be imbued with the fragrance of books and ink that has been passed down for generations in the Liu family.
Now her features are filled with coldness, and she is pure and unworldly, not like an ordinary person.
No one spoke, and silence returned to the room. Only then did Liu Se put down his hands that were covering his ears, and showed his locked wrists somewhat coldly.
The iron lock on it was extremely heavy, and it didn't look like something that an ordinary person could unlock.
Hu Xin'er looked at Yin Li: "This lock..."
Yin Li shook his head: "I can't unlock this lock either."
"He tried it the last time he came here." Liu Se explained lightly.
Hu Xin'er looked at her and was sure that she did not see any love in her eyes.
Even if there is such a shallow layer of concern, it is accompanied by doubt, strangeness and disgust.
But according to rumors, Liu Se and her husband were very much in love, so she should also love her daughter very much.
Logically speaking, in this kind of mother-daughter reunion scene, shouldn't the mother be extremely excited and crying, while the daughter is in disbelief and uncomfortable?
Just like how Mu Qing and Lu's mother recognized each other before.
But now the atmosphere in the room was so quiet that it was almost eerie.
Liu Se looked at her as if she were a stranger.
Hu Xin'er hesitated for a moment, but couldn't help asking, "Are you really my mother?"
"Hahahaha!" Unexpectedly, when Liu Se heard this topic, it was as if a switch in his body was triggered, and his originally clear and indifferent expression became a little crazy.
She laughed loudly until her cheeks turned a faint red.
She panted slightly and muttered, "Daughter? That bastard? No, she is the continuation of my life and Wu Lang's. I love her. No, I want to throw away this bastard..."
This weird reaction scared Hu Xiner, and she subconsciously looked at Yin Li.
Yin Li's reaction was quite calm, as if she had expected such a situation.
He whispered to Hu Xin'er, "Don't be afraid, she will be back to normal after a while."
Sure enough, Liu Se's face was sometimes kind and gentle, and sometimes he muttered with gritted teeth for about half a minute, then he picked up the cold tea in his hand.
And her expression returned to that indifferent look like frost and snow.
She sat there quietly, her purple skirt hanging on the ground, gleaming with a dreamy glow in the candlelight.
Like a jade statue, and also like a painting of a beauty.
The shackles on her wrists were connected to an iron chain as thick as her arm, which was like a giant black python. It made a clanging sound as it moved, and it meandered from the edge of the table to the wall.
She seemed to have a fresh memory of what had just happened. After taking a sip of tea, she glanced at Hu Xin'er calmly and said gloomily, "Didn't you hear everything just now? I am your biological mother—Liu Se."
Hu Xiner was now full of mysteries. If Old Master Liu had not just come here, she would not have believed that the person in front of her was her mother.
"But if you are really my mother, why are you locked here?" She asked with a frown. In order to prevent Liu Se from doing the weird thing she just did, her tone and wording were very cautious.
Liu Se didn't answer directly, but smiled faintly: "I guess that old immortal must have been very enthusiastic towards you when he found you."
Hu Xiner felt inexplicably cold and nodded.
"Do you still think that although this old guy doesn't have much ability, he treats you very well?" After Liu Se finished speaking, she laughed softly again without waiting for Hu Xiner to reply. Her body kept shaking, and even the twisting shadow in the candlelight revealed some gloomy meaning.
After she had laughed enough, she smiled maliciously, "Are you disappointed? Hu Xin'er, just as you can see, I was locked up underground like an animal by my biological father, the Old Master Liu whom you like more."
She thought that Hu Xin'er, who had been living outside for many years and had just returned to the Liu family, would collapse because she could not bear this blow.
But Hu Xiner's reaction was beyond her imagination.
Hu Xin'er didn't feel entangled and depressed like a normal person. "Ah, my grandfather is a pervert, what should I do if my mother is locked up..."
Because she is a time traveler, and the real person himself doesn't look normal, so why should she act so hard?
What's more, her acting skills are not good.
Moreover, looking at Liu Se's current behavior, she strongly suspected that it was this woman who abandoned her daughter with her own hands, so she had no motivation to repay Liu Se on behalf of the original owner.
It's good enough if you don't retaliate.
Therefore, her expression was very calm, and she only asked with some confusion, "Haven't you been missing for many years? It is said that when you first disappeared, the second old lady cried every day and even mobilized all her strength to find you. Could it be that she didn't know that you were trapped?"
As a creator with a big imagination, she reasonably suspected that this Liu Se might be a stand-in!
The domineering president can have a substitute lover, the emperor can have a substitute concubine, so why can't Old Master Liu have a substitute daughter?
Thinking about it this way, the act of imprisonment seems to be a natural consequence.
Liu Se didn't know what was going on in the mind of this cheap daughter in front of him.
Of course, she didn't want to know.
At this moment, she was immersed in her own emotions, and said with a hint of mockery and sadness: "Since my father has decided to imprison me, he will naturally not let anyone know that this shameful woman like me is not missing at all, but has been locked up in this dark underground by his own hands!"
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