Chapter 263

263 TWO BOYS NEED MOTHERLY LOVE

“So, that’s how I met your mother again after our first meeting some sixteen years ago. It happened ten years ago when I was only fifteen years old. Back then, I learned that you were living well as a Prince in Dong Lang, and I was so happy because you didn’t die because of me. We then continued to chat in the tavern and talked about many things, including my identity as the Eldest Prince of Si Long.”

“...” Bai Chen still didn’t respond when Wu Jinhai continued the story about his second meeting with Tang Yanmei that took place ten years ago.

He was not the real Bai Chen in this world, and that was why he had no idea what had happened ten years ago. Maybe even the real Bai Chen didn’t know anything that was related to Wu Jinhai, right?

The real Bai Chen didn’t even know the identity of the boy who had received his Power Crystal sixteen years ago, so it was easy to guess that the real Bai Chen would also not know about how his mother met the person he saved when he was only six years old.

Ah... The real Bai Chen didn’t even know that he accidentally lost his Power Crystal back then. Of course, the real Bai Chen was clueless about everything.

“She also told me that her name is Tang Yanmei, and she is a concubine in Dong Lang palace,” Wu Jinhai continued even if Bai Chen gave him no verbal response. “It was not only me who told the truth about my identity as well as the poison in my body, but she also told the story of how she became a concubine in Dong Lang.”

“Wait,” this time, the response from Bai Chen came quite quickly, and before Wu Jinhai could continue telling the full story, he wanted the man to hear it first. Getting the full attention of the man in red, the Werewolf Prince continued, “You even told my mother about the poison in your body? That was only your second meeting with her, but you already told her everything? How could you tell her all of that but chose to hide everything from me from the start, Wu Jinhai?”

For some reason, Bai Chen was quite annoyed when Wu Jinhai had just revealed how he even told Tang Yanmei about the poison in his body when the two of them were strangers who met again ten years ago.

True, Tang Yanmei had known Wu Jinhai’s birth name sixteen years ago, but that was the only information the woman had obtained, and little Wu Jinhai had not even obtained any information from the woman back then.

.....

Just now Wu Jinhai said that only ten years ago he found out that the woman’s name was Tang Yanmei, but he could trust the woman to the point he could reveal the truth about the poison in his body.

Bai Chen couldn’t accept how Wu Jinhai treated him and Tang Yanmei differently, and that was why he looked angry as he waited for the taller man to answer his question.

“It’s hard to explain,” an answer finally came from Wu Jinhai after a moment of silence. “My mother died when I was very young, and that’s why I never received love from her. Even my father’s concubine didn’t care about me, so how could I know about motherly love? However, when I accidentally met your mother sixteen years ago, I somehow could feel motherly love from her, and that’s why I see your mother as my own mother.”

“...” Once again, Bai Chen did not immediately reply to Wu Jinhai.

The man saw his mother as his own mother? That sounded quite ridiculous to Bai Chen’s ears. Sixteen years ago was the first time Wu Jinhai met Tang Yanmei, and the woman had even treated him a little coldly when she just found out that it was he who had caused her only son to be in such a critical condition.

True, the woman then warmed up to him, but Bai Chen still thought that it was quite funny when Wu Jinhai could easily see a stranger as a mother figure.

‘But maybe it’s not too strange,’ Bai Chen suddenly realized something. ‘I also instantly loved my adoptive mother in my previous life as if she was my birth mother, so I shouldn’t think that Wu Jinhai was weird just because he immediately trusted Tang Yanmei. Such feelings are hard to explain, and that’s why I shouldn’t feel annoyed with him just because he trusted Tang Yanmei.’

Bai Chen suddenly became more mature as he even compared the situation to the one he experienced in his past life. Maybe the situation wasn’t exactly the same, but somehow he thought that he and Wu Jinhai weren’t too different from each other when they could easily trust a woman they had just met.

The two of them had not felt motherly love since they were little, and that was why they were both so greedy to feel the love when they finally met a woman who truly cared about them as if they were related by blood.

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With that realization, Bai Chen took a deep breath to shake off the uncomfortable feeling in his heart, and he continued to speak, “So, not only did you immediately trust her, but she also immediately trusted you, right? She even told you about how she ended up becoming a concubine in Dong Lang?”

Bai Chen decided to put his feelings aside and used this opportunity to dig up more information about Tang Yanmei. After all, he still had a mission to complete, and that mission was related to the woman, and that was why he was carefully trying to gather more information about the woman from Wu Jinhai.

The night was getting older, even the air was getting colder. That was not weird, though. The forest was not far from Heping Mountain, so naturally, the cold air from the mountain also affected the forest.

However, the two men didn’t seem to be affected by the cold, and Wu Jinhai even calmly nodded his head as he replied, “Yes, she told me about it, and she also told me that she used to be a prostitute in one of the brothels at Wu Li.”