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"I was abducted from my family when I was at the age of five." Rong Xia started.
Rong Yue's fists tightened as she saw the tremble from her mother's hands.
"Even now, I don't know my family but I know that they used to be in the capital."
"For twenty three years, we were kept in a laboratory that wanted to make some groundbreaking discoveries. They gathered talents and geniuses from around the world and made use of their intelligence."
"Like you, I had exceptional brain and I was one of the very few people that was able to survive being in the laboratory and all the tests they gave us."
Rong Yue's eyes narrowed as she heard her words. Why did this sound so similar and familiar.
Also, from what she was saying, she could sense that these were the people her mother was wary about.
"Did you escape from there or did they let you go?" She asked, afraid that if she let her mom keep talking, she would go through the pain of reliving all those memories.
"I.. I escaped. I escaped with five others."
"Mom..." Rong Yue stood up abruptly and rushed to her mother's side.
The crack in her voice was very heartbreaking to hear and it was enough to tell her just how much pain she must have been in.
"T..they were going to move us to another location, a new facility that they had just built. Yue'er... it was our only chance because after then, it would have gotten even harder."
"Mom... you don't have to say everything..."
"It's okay, I can talk about it..."
Seeing that her mother wanted to talk, Rong Yue pulled the seat closer to her and held her arms.
"Before I left, I had been assigned to a project. It was their biggest one. It would have destroyed the world but if we didn't do it, we were subjected to inhumane treatments."
"So we had to..." thinking of how she had done all those evil things for them. Rong Xia broke down and cried miserably.
Rong Yue stood up and hugged her mother, but in her past life, she had experienced something really similar.
She was very certain that if it wasn't the organization that had taken her mother, it was something even worse.
Also, for that facility to have been existing since her mother was five years old meant that they had already become a frightening existence.
The more she thought about, the more Rong Yue's heart bled.
"Mom, you didn't have a choice."
After like ten minutes, Rong Xia finally managed to get her emotions in control. She then explained how she had escaped with her team to her daughter.
"If we didn't fake our deaths, there's no way they would let us live. So the explosion was the best bet. However, I have always been worried.."
"Why? Did you leave a clue behind?"
"Even if the world try to stop us, we would fight them together!"
Like that, their bond that was already perfect before became even closer.
Each one of them had their wounds and pains that they hadn't talked about, yet. But it didn't stop them from understanding each other.
Rong Xia also understood that having more money was a type of power so she gave Rong Yue some pointers.
"I haven't also remained idle all these years. I have also tried to build my own force of people. Although they don't have a lot of money, I sell them some things that they can't find anywhere else. With this, I earn enough money to use and grow my men."
"Mom, what are you planning?" Rong Yue's mouth fell open in shock.
Even though her mother used some few words to describe everything, she could already tell that there was more to it than that, after all, producing something that they couldn't buy anywhere else was not something easy.
Also, building her own people?
As she thought of it, Rong Yue's eyes fell open in shock.
"Mom? Are you building a personal army that can handle those people?"
In this moment, despite the two lives experience that she had, Rong Yue couldn't help her heart from beating fast in excitement.
She looked at her mom like she was looking at her own superhero.
Rong Xia also blushed hard from the way her daughter was looking at her.
While Rong Xia had never despised her, she had also never looked at her in such a way.
It was a new feeling but Rong Xia felt her heart warm up in a new way.
"Even though I have escaped, there are several others out there that are still locked up and being exploited by those monsters."
The anger and pain in Rong Xia's gaze was enough for Rong Yue to know that her mom had made up her mind to save the others if she could.
Rong Yue was also happy, after all, she wanted people like Little Loli to grow up as a normal child in this life and not exploited by those evil monsters.
The both of them were lost in their thoughts for a few minutes, each person processing their emotions and responsibilities in their mind.
After what seemed like ten minutes, Rong Yue broke the silence.
"Mom, I'm sorry." She was truly sorry that in their last life, up until her mother died, she had never realized that it was just a cover up.
She felt that she had not paid proper attention. And she had selfishly taken the life that her mother gave her.
After all, just to make sure that Rong Yue was fine and safe, Rong Xia feigned being an idiot for eighteen years.
That level of sacrifice was impressive and hard to imagine.
But Rong Xia didn't feel that Rong Yue should apologize.
On the other hand, she felt ashamed and a little worried about pulling her daughter into her battles.