Chapter 208: Not as Ambitious as Her
“You may not know this, but my mother actually has a very bad temper and is a very dark person. She is not as sunny and cheerful as she appears to be.
She was just used to pretending in front of others, in front of her father and brothers. But when I stood next to her, she would reveal her true colors without any disguise.
I don't know why she was so persistent in protecting her hand, as if she was possessed. Maybe it was related to her childhood, but we didn't know.
Anyway, I just learned how to take care of my hands from her, and this learning became a part of my life.
After that, I began going in and out of the studio with a purpose. But my father rarely forgot to take the talismans, so my mother got very little. During that time, she was particularly gloomy, and every time she looked at me, her eyes were filled with malice.
I was scared once and accidentally bumped my head against the table, and blood immediately started flowing from my forehead. She looked at my blood with excitement because she had come up with a great idea.
I remember one sentence particularly clearly: "Even if I don't have a talisman, a talisman is fine." After that, she made me hurt myself frequently, and then I would go to my father and lie, saying that someone outside had beaten me, and beg him to give me some talismans for self-defense.
She didn't want to get involved, so she told me to figure it out on my own. But I didn't want to. I was afraid of the pain, and I didn't want to lie to my father, who loved me so much, and I didn't want to make him sad.
But my mother said that if I did this, I could collect enough talismans, and with them I could leave here completely and do whatever I wanted.
I was so happy at the time that I asked her if I could become an awakened person like her. She said, of course I could.
My heart started pounding and my face turned red. I confirmed it again, and she nodded vigorously to gain my trust.
The desire to go out and become an awakened person strongly rushed into my brain, but I still held back. I wanted to find my father.
I didn't agree to her right away. I wanted to find my father! I wanted to ask him for the awakening agent. I wanted to become an awakener!
Can you imagine how desperate I was?
My father, taking it for granted, refused. No matter how much I begged, he wouldn't agree. It was because of my mother's awakening that her ambition grew, and she was always scheming to become the best.
He certainly wouldn’t want me to become like that.”
"You are wrong. He rejected you because the awakening agent has serious side effects." Yun Zhicheng spoke calmly, and the bystanders saw it clearly.
"Really? Probably. When I heard he wouldn't let me, I immediately went ballistic. I thought he was destroying my dreams and deliberately making me an ordinary person. My resentment grew even more.
After that, I agreed to my mother’s request without hesitation.”
In fact, I had agreed in my heart a long time ago, but I just lacked an excuse. My grandfather simply didn't agree, so it became my grandfather's fault alone.
Yun Xiang sneered but said nothing.
Yunting moved her mouth, but still held back from saying it.
"At first I only dared to inflict minor wounds, but as the number of wounds increased, my father would surely become suspicious, so my wounds became more and more serious, always because the people I encountered were more powerful each time.
Later, I really couldn't figure out where I was injured, so I picked up a stone and hit myself on the head. Blood gushed out instantly, and I couldn't walk a few steps before I fainted and fell to the ground.
I was terrified and thought I was going to die, but suddenly I saw Brother Dongze through the blood curtain. I wanted to reach out to him, but he looked at me coldly.
I suddenly realized what I was going to lose. As expected, I was saved, but the price I paid was losing the favor of my brothers and even the estrangement of my father.
But there were also benefits. My father would give my mother some talismans from time to time, and I didn't have to hurt myself anymore. My mother was not happy at first and wanted to exchange the talismans for them, but my father didn't agree, saying that if she insisted, it was up to her.
Only then did we realize that although our father was kind, he was not without bottom line.
My mother knew when to stop, and life finally settled down, but my father came to see us less and less. At first, he delivered the talismans himself, but later he simply asked my brother Zhong to do it.
Suddenly one day, my mother came back from outside with a happy face. I rarely saw her so energetic. She said we were about to go out, but there was something she had to do.
That is to repair the relationship with my father.
I don’t know what I was thinking, but I suddenly asked her, “Will father leave with us?”
She was stunned for a moment, as if she hadn't expected it, and then she changed her mind and said she would go with us, but I knew she hadn't thought about it, not even me. No, she didn't plan to take me away at all.
I listened to her and begged my father for forgiveness, and he finally relented. Whenever he played with me, I would mention my mother, saying that she missed him and wanted the three of us to be together.
After repeated explanations, my father finally forgave my mother. It was the happiest time I can remember, but it was tragically short-lived. While my father and I were completely absorbed in our grief, my mother remained conscious.
She was awake, and this was an elaborate illusion.
I remember that night very clearly.
My father and my second brother were working on a talisman in the studio, apparently preparing a new one. At a critical juncture, my father missed dinner, so my mother sent me to find him and ask how long he would be busy.
At that time, I wondered why my mother didn't just dial the communicator, but she told me not to rush back and to stay with my father so that he wouldn't be lonely.
I suddenly realized that my mother was concerned about my father.
My mother looked at me gently as I skipped away, but who could have imagined that behind her gentleness was a ruthless and decisive knife.
I just ran to the door of the studio and saw my father and second brother packing up their things. Thinking they would be out soon, I simply hid behind an old tree in the yard, ready to jump out and scare them when they weren't paying attention.
Unexpectedly, before they came out, Brother Zedong rushed into the studio covered in blood, pulling his father away.
My father was anxious to find my mother and me, but was stopped by Brother Zedong, who said that it was all done by my mother.
My father was stunned for a moment, then stumbled away with Brother Zedong and Brother Zenan. Thinking about it, it was easy to guess.
I was completely bewildered at the time, and instinctively wanted to call out to my father, but I swallowed the words back. Because I knew that if I called out to my father, I would completely lose my chance to become an awakened being and become just an ordinary person.
My mother and I are actually the same at heart. We are not content with the status quo. Whenever possible, we will work hard to climb up. However, I am not as ambitious as she is.
Is that really the case? Yun Xiang and Yun Yunze both smiled meaningfully. Although they were not in the same place, their movements were perfectly synchronized.
Yun Xiang felt that Bai Feng’s hardware conditions were not much worse than Bian Qin’s back then. It was just that the situation was different, and if he chose to make corresponding changes, the result would be different.
Back then, Bian Qin had the Bai family, and she had the Yun family. Bian Qin chose to establish her own family, while she married into the Yun family. The last two generations of the Yun family were powerful, so she naturally couldn't become the second Bian Qin.
Her guess was not without basis. Over the years, Bai Feng had often used her children to interfere in the affairs of the Yun family.
(End of this chapter)
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