Chapter 71 - 71. key....

What could he do?

He couldn't hear anything....the ringing hadn't stopped yet, the only way he knew that he was alive was by beating those guys half-dead or killing the others...their warm blood made him feel a little alive.....isn't it laughable?

Well, he couldn't even laugh at his own logic...

Anyway, this day too, he just sat there, inside the ward with his eyes trained outside but no one knew where and what he was looking at..maybe it was nothingness, or maybe something that at least his mother couldn't fathom.

She had a pleading in her eyes, it seems she wanted to say something but Mu Xuan was acting like an immortal cultivator, devoid of worldly desires, aloof and ignorant of the world.

Just then, a man who seemed to be in his late 50s came inside, he had this righteous aura to himself but also a slight slyness of a fox in his onyx black eyes...he was a followed by a smart-looking and gentle middle-aged man.

Even Xuan didn't know the reason but watching the old man, he felt a certain warmth inside himself, it's not that this man was the missing part of his life's puzzle but its just that...he had this feeling that this man was certainly the key to find that something that he has been yearning for.

The ringing inside Xuan's head, subsided slightly as he heard his mother call the man in a soft voice, "U-Uncle Mo".

Mu Xuan saw the man softly wrinkle his brows, in a stern voice Xuan heard him say, "The day I took you inside my house was the day I became your father, Bao-er."

Li Bao, was the daughter of Qin Mo's best friend, Li Cheng, whose family was based in Country G, as Li Cheng married his love of life there.

15 years ago both her parents died in a plane crash and Qin Mo adopted her....

Li Bao, fell in love with Xuan's father and though she loved and respected Qin Mo, she went against his wishes and instead of marrying his son, ran away to marry Mu Tianluo.

You see, as someone has said, a marriage without the blessings of parents and elders is never happy*.....she had forced him to marry her using her status as the Young Miss of both the Li and Qins, well, karma was a bitch, right?

He used her, true to his Underworld Lord's personality, and after he squeezed her dry of her usefulness, he left her....only that, this fool of a lady was still helplessly in love with her till her death.....

NOT EVERY LOVE IS REQUITED and that too if it's over the love of others and formed over the root of many evils, that is money.

"I'm sorry, Father", a drop of tear trailed down her cheek.

Qin Mo shook his head, "the one you have wronged the most is xiao Xuan, Bao-er.....he suffered much more than your single sorry could handle."

She broke out as she cried out loud, her body was emaciated as she was only living on drips right now, the lonely figure washed in sunshine, as she cried her heart out of her wrongdoings would always be etched in Xuan heart, not because he felt pity but because even though it was the first time his mother was sorry for him, all he felt was cold and a tinge of hatred....crying never solved a thing and tears won't wash away your sins....it only made you feel less guilty...hah....even he knew that he was being too mean but demeaning your mother, who brought you to this life can only be done after what he went through at such a young age, a life harsher than life on earth....

He was now 8 but the 'normal' human beings would not even go through this at 800, it seems like a tragedy right, living up to that age but he went through 'that' tragedy already, so much so that, the word can't describe even a single-digit percentage of his life.

No one took pity on him, not his parents, not anyone and he wasn't a saint to just let them harm him in the name of 'LOVE', if not for his last shred of rationality, even he wasn't sure how these people around him would die, he would kill them in the deadliest way possible, even if, he had to destroy himself for the same... But you see, losing YUN made him realize a single thing and that is, investing your feelings of any sort, without power was useless, all you'll ever get is pain....

This world is a fucking dog it dog world, either you survive or you die, no one gives a shit about you..in his case, not even his parents did, so, all he could do is at least live without no more regrets than he already has till his last breath, this way he won't atleast regret living this life...his mother was a hypocrite in his eyes, so the best strategy against her was ignoring her, if she used the pity-card and her woes to get sympathy from him then she was too late.....He was too much into the darkness that all he could feel against this world was pure disgust and hatred, but he knew he shouldn't 'feel' anything and hence, he suppressed it all, his hatred, his care, and his emotions.

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Atsuki's note:

*I don't exactly believe in that, it's actually a kind of saying in our country.