The beautiful general's mansion.
When Li Chaojing saw Madam Pei sitting in the hall, his knees suddenly went weak and he knelt on the ground.
"M-Mother!"
"Seeing that you are still healthy, your son is relieved..."
Li Chaojing pulled the corners of his mouth and tried hard to put on a smile.
It was just the hypocrisy and forcedness in that smile that made Mrs. Pei disdain it.
"Aren't you disappointed to see that I'm not dead?"
Old Madam Pei gathered her sleeves. There were only the mother and son in the room now. Even Nanny Zhang had been sent out by Old Madam Pei today.
She stared at her son coldly, with no trace of emotion in her heart.
Li Chaojing was too guilty to look up. "Mother, you misunderstood me. I wonder what exactly did Riyue say to you that day?"
"But I was deceived by that quack, Dr. Jiang, and I was so anxious that I lost my mind. And you are my only mother. How could I not want you to live?"
"After you fell unconscious that day, I rushed out to try to find a way to seek medical help from the palace. I just didn't expect Luo'er to be so impulsive and take you away from the General's Mansion. That's why things have become so awkward today..."
"And mother, your son didn't even know that this house is yours?"
"General Xiuli's Mansion, that's a great name. I heard that the women's army you led back then was composed entirely of women, so His Majesty gave you the name General Xiuli."
"But my son has never known the glory of this house."
"But it doesn't matter. My son knows now and feels extremely honored..."
Mrs. Pei couldn't bear to listen any longer.
She picked up the teacup beside her and threw it at him: "Shut up!"
The teacup hit Li Chaojing's forehead hard, and blood immediately flowed out.
Li Chaojing covered his mouth with his hands and looked up at Madam Pei in disbelief: "Mother, are you really still angry with your son? I really know I was wrong--"
His face was filled with sorrow and tears, and he seemed to be extremely aggrieved by the teacup hit by his mother.
Mrs. Pei felt disgusted when she saw his hypocritical look.
"You still want to lie to me."
"Li Chaojing, I am old, but I am not confused!"
"Do you think that because you are my only son in this world, I will tolerate you again and again and not be reluctant to punish you?!"
"Li Chaojing, have you forgotten that when you were little, you told me that you were disgusted and ashamed to have a mother like me who was always fighting and killing, and had no tenderness or care? Now you're pretending to be a good and filial son?"
"When you were little, you treated Aunt Deng as your own mother, but you treated me like a bad guy, pushing me away from you time and time again."
"Your father is completely heartless. For him, I went through life and death, leaving scars all over my body. For him, I had to abandon you to be taken care of by a concubine. For him, I also lost... lost my family."
"But how did he betray me?"
"Except for Luo'er, all of you Lis are ungrateful wolves. You are no good!"
"I really regret that I was young and impulsive back then, making the decision to just walk away, letting your father and Aunt Deng go, and letting you go!"
"Otherwise, would this entire General's Mansion have been ruined like this by you?"
Li Chaojing's face gradually turned pale.
"Mother, you, you are really going too far!"
"Father has always been concerned about you. Before his death, his deepest obsession was still not seeing you again."
"After you left home so headstrong, your father went to see you so many times, but you were so heartless that you refused to see him again."
"My son has also... My son has also asked to see you several times."
"But you've been holding on to the past, refusing to let us go, nor yourself. Otherwise, our family wouldn't be like this now, with relatives not acting like relatives and enemies not acting like enemies. Haha, hahahahaha..."
"Mother, isn't it your fault that the General's Mansion has become like this? You abandoned your husband and children, leaving home without a care in the world. You thought you were free and happy, but you never knew how much pain my father and I had to endure for years!?"
When Madam Pei heard what he said, she slammed the table and said, "Bullshit!"
"Your father is worried about me? What a joke!"
"She's worried about me, and she and Aunt Deng gave birth to four illegitimate children! She's really worried about me!"
"Back when I was at Qingsong Temple, he came looking for me a few times. If I didn't see him, he'd just turn around and walk away. But if he really wanted to find me when I'm out in the martial arts world, wouldn't he be able to find me?"
"Hypocritical thing, why are you pretending to be affectionate!?"
"How good are you?"
"If Aunt Deng hadn't gradually revealed her true colors, if she hadn't tried to poison you for her own son, would you have thought of me? If you hadn't been unable to marry a good wife, would you have missed me?"
"Li Chaojing, stop acting in front of me!"
"You want to drag me to death this time, isn't it because of the Tianfeng Trading Company in my hands?"
"Don't think I don't know what you've done. If I didn't want Luo'er to be implicated by you as her father, I would have gone to the emperor and reported you, the beast who intended to kill my own mother!"
As long as her, as his mother, files a complaint, Li Chaojing's career will be completely over.
But Madam Pei didn't do so, which gave Li Chaojing hope again, thinking that she was still thinking about him and couldn't bear to do so.
Hearing his mother say this, Li Chaojing's whole body went limp and he sat on the ground with a pale face.
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