Chapter 556: Cursed Offspring

Chapter 556: Cursed Offspring

“Ms. Su,” Qing Ling said coldly. “You can’t give birth to the child.”

“What are you talking about?” Su Xi paused, her smile dropping. “This is my and Old Huang’s kid. How can you say something so cruel? He promised to give me a family, and we’re going to have one.”

Su Xi lowered her head and stroked her protruding belly gently, lovingly.

Qing Ling was silent for two seconds before killing intent shone in her eyes. She raised her two blades and took a step forward. “I’m sorry, Ms. Su. If you want someone to blame, blame fate.”

“Fate?” Su Xi slowly stood up with her hands supporting her belly. “Why should I resent fate when fate has given me this happiness? I should thank it instead.”

Su Xi took two steps toward Qing Ling, and Qing Ling immediately felt threatened.

While Su Xi was significantly weakened now, she was still a life monster.

“Still, I’m curious. When did you notice?” Su Xi smiled with interest, sounding confident. “Old Huang would never betray us.”

Qing Ling admitted, “He didn’t. Gao Yang noticed.”

“How did he find out?” Su Xi asked.

On her way here, Qing Ling had messaged Gao Shou. What she had to do now was to buy time for reinforcements to come.

“I’ll tell you if you want to know.”

Qing Ling explained things concisely.

Up until Dragon killed Zhuang Mei, Officer Huang had kept up the act well.

Gao Yang and Qing Ling had never once suspected him, and never in their dream would they imagine that the kidnapping was all an act put up by Officer Huang, Su Xi, and Tails.

Still, Officer Huang wasn’t only acting. After all, no one expected Zhuang Mei to suddenly show up.

Officer Huang knew that Zhuang Mei was going to induce a miscarriage, and his worry, fear, anxiety, impatience during the trip were all real, as well as his anger when he made a final attempt to attack Zhuang Mei.

Zhuang Mei’s biggest mistake was her disappointment in humans.

Disappointment begot resentment, and resentment brewed contempt.

Her contempt made her unwilling to explain to Gao Yang what she was going to do.

If Zhuang Mei had taken her time to explain her intention, Gao Yang would’ve had a moment of realization even if he wasn’t entirely certain, and he would come to suspect the kidnapping to be an act put up by Officer Huang and Su Xi.

At that moment, he realized what Lin Yue actually meant.

You’re my child.

Gao Yang was Lin Yue’s child, the child she had given birth to for real.

He felt like the world was shattering around him.

After dealing with what should be a Cursed Offspring, Gao Yang calmed himself with Psychic Armor and sorted out his thoughts, speculating and guessing to arrive at a conclusion.

He concluded that he was the child Lin Yue, a life monster, had given birth to with Gao Shou, a human.

He was neither a Forlorn Ghost or the Malediction. He was the glowing child depicted in the second mural on the obelisk—the Divine Scion, the Blessed Child.

That would explain why Fresh Snow could only feed on Gao Yang, and how Gao Yang survived the feeding.

Fresh Snow must be the one Forlorn Ghost most like a Divine Scion. While she was great, she was still flawed. That was why Gao Yang, the complete work, drew Fresh Snow on an instinctual level.

Based on that, he could make further deductions.

After giving birth to Gao Yang, Lin Yue became weak, but she didn’t die like other life monsters. Instead, she became a real mother and continued to live, but she didn’t tell anyone about it.

Yun, the leader of lightbringers, discovered the secret, and she had her answer then.

She decided to keep the secret for Lin Yue.

Three years later, Yun found a wanderer infant and disguised her as a child of Lin Yue’s: Gao Xinxin, Gao Yang’s sister.

She was meant as a smokescreen to protect Lin Yue’s secret so that the elite monsters, especially her fellow life monsters, Zhuang Mei and Su Xi, would believe that Lin Yue had never had a child with a human, but had instead found a human infant and a wanderer infant to keep up an act, just like Zhung Mei had done.

However, Gao Yang’s grandfather—a summoner—had discovered Gao Yang’s true identity.

Yun quickly took care of him and continued to hide LIn Yue’s secret.

Although Gao Yang had chanced upon his grandmother taking care of his grandfather as he woke up to use the toilet, he had been too young to remember it, and he thought he simply had a nightmare.

It wasn’t until his eighteenth birthday, when he knocked into the awakener who was said to be mentally-ill, that he started to awaken and remembered what he saw.

He was a secret Yun and Lin Yue had been guarding for years.

And at that moment, the secret learned about himself.