Daddy Really Missed Our Yeye

Inside the wooden hut

Ning Yechen gently laid Luo Ruying on the bed, fingers pressed to her pulse as his expression grew colder and colder.

After a hundred years, killing intent had finally stirred in his heart once more!

Only after examining her carefully did he discover that her condition was far worse than he had imagined.

The meridians throughout her body were damaged...

Her Immortal Bone had been dug out...

Even her heart was gone...

She was clinging to life with an artificial heart!

There were also several wounds on her back, faintly seeping blood.

For her to have held on until now was already no easy feat...

Ning Yechen could not help but blame himself, and the look he gave Luo Ruying softened considerably.

He did not know what she had experienced in the Immortal Realm over the past ten years, but he could guess that it could not have been easy.

Otherwise, a once-mighty Immortal Emperor would never have fallen to such a state.

When she had reached the end of the road, she had brought their child to find him, yet he had nearly driven the mother and daughter away...

Ning Yechen gently caressed Luo Ruying's cheek, channeling spiritual power through his palm to protect her body.

Saving her life posed no difficulty for Ning Yechen, but with her meridians damaged and both her Immortal Bone and heart gone, restoring her cultivation to its former peak would be difficult indeed.

Luo Hongye lay anxiously against the edge of the bed, tears the size of pearls silently falling from her eyes. She obediently kept herself from making a sound.

"Daughter, come here~"

Ning Yechen put away his icy expression and revealed a warm, kindly smile as he beckoned Luo Hongye over.

He wanted to call her, only to awkwardly realize that he did not even know his own daughter's name...

Forget his daughter—he did not even know his wife's name...

Luo Hongye timidly toddled over to Ning Yechen, looking up at him with her large watery eyes. In a soft, childish voice, she weakly called out:

"Daddy..."

That single "Daddy" nearly melted Ning Yechen's heart.

Overcome with emotion, Ning Yechen swept little Luo Hongye into his arms and gently stroked her tiny, adorable head.

"Daughter, what's your name?"

"Luo Hongye..."

Luo Hongye answered in a soft, sweet voice.

"Luo Hongye..."

Ning Yechen softly repeated her name, committing it to his heart. Then he smiled and coaxed Luo Hongye:

"Yeye, don't worry. Your mother is already fine."

"Don't cry anymore, alright?"

"Mhm...!"

Luo Hongye nodded hard, then looked at Ning Yechen with concern and asked:

"Daddy, are your injuries serious?"

"Huh...?"

Ning Yechen looked utterly confused by the question.

He could not even remember how long it had been since he was last injured...

As for the last time he had been hurt, he had no memory of it at all...

"Mommy said Daddy didn't come to find Yeye and Mommy because Daddy was badly hurt, so you couldn't come see Yeye. Is that true?"

Luo Hongye gazed at Ning Yechen expectantly as she asked.

The moment Ning Yechen heard that, he understood that Luo Ruying must have casually made up an excuse to deceive their daughter. Smiling helplessly, he went along with it:

"That's right. Daddy has been recovering from his injuries here, so I couldn't go see Yeye."

"Daddy really missed our Yeye~!"

"The moment Daddy saw our Yeye, all my injuries got better at once!"

"Really?"

"Then Daddy won't abandon Yeye and Mommy, right?"

Luo Hongye asked with an innocent, delighted smile.

Waves of tenderness rose in Ning Yechen's heart. He hugged Luo Hongye tighter, gently stroking her little head as he promised:

"I won't!"

"From now on, Daddy will always stay by Mommy and Yeye's side and protect you both."

"Mhm...!"

Luo Hongye happily pressed herself against Ning Yechen's chest, her little hands tightly clutching his clothes.

She had finally found Daddy...

"Yeye, tell Daddy—where did you and Mommy live before?"

"What were your days like?"

Ning Yechen asked with a smile.

Yet there was a deeper meaning hidden behind that smile...

He had to find out exactly what had happened over the past ten years!

Who had dared to dig out his wife's Immortal Bone and heart, and injure her so badly!

Luo Hongye innocently thought Ning Yechen was merely curious about her past with her mother, and happily began to chatter away.

Ever since she had been born and become aware of things, she had spent most of her time living inside a tiny closet.

Mommy said they were playing hide-and-seek, and told her to hide well and not make a sound.

Only whenever Mommy returned would she be carried out to be with Mommy.

Then, one time, she hid in the closet for several days, but Mommy never came to find her.

She had been too bored, so she could not help sneaking out to look for her. Then other people discovered her...

After that, she was locked inside a pitch-black iron cage...

All alone in the darkness, she had been so scared...

Sometimes people came to look at her, but they all cursed her as lowborn trash...

Those people all looked so frightening. She did not like them, so she kept curling herself up in a corner to hide.

Not until Mommy came for her again, broke open that pitch-black iron cage, and took her away.

But no matter where they went, so many people chased after them...

"Those bad people hurt Mommy...! Yeye doesn't like them!"

At this point, Luo Hongye raised her angry little face and said indignantly.

When Ning Yechen heard this, his face froze over with frost, and he was already on the verge of exploding with rage.

How impressive, Immortal Realm!

They even dared bully his wife and daughter!

From Luo Hongye's words, he could roughly infer what kind of life she had lived.

Luo Ruying had secretly given birth to Luo Hongye while hiding it from everyone. To keep her from being discovered, she had hidden her in a closet and tricked her into believing they were playing hide-and-seek.

Until she was eventually discovered, forcing Luo Ruying to break open the Heavenly Prison and flee the Immortal Realm with Luo Hongye...

She must have suffered many injuries and endured countless hardships along the way...

Ning Yechen wanted nothing more than to charge into the Immortal Realm right now and wipe out every last person who had harmed his wife and daughter!

Unfortunately, Luo Hongye did not know where in the Immortal Realm she had lived. She only knew it had been a vast, beautiful palace.

Such palaces and jade towers were everywhere in the Immortal Realm. There was simply nowhere to begin looking.

Or perhaps... destroy the entire Immortal Realm?

That was not impossible...

Simply for calling his precious daughter lowborn trash, the reason was more than sufficient!

"Daddy, you look so scary..."

Luo Hongye looked at Ning Yechen's face filled with killing intent, shrinking back as she said timidly in her soft voice.

"Don't be afraid, Yeye. Daddy is thinking about how to deal with those bad people who bullied Yeye~"

"Daddy will stand up for you in the future, alright~?"

Ning Yechen quickly withdrew his killing intent and revealed a warm, gentle smile.

"Okay~"

"Daddy has to stand up for Mommy too. Those bad people are always bullying Mommy!"

Luo Hongye nodded, angrily clenching her tiny little fist.

"Don't worry. Not a single one of those bad people will get away~"

Ning Yechen said with a smile, rubbing Luo Hongye's head.

He was already calculating where to begin...

It seemed he would have to leave seclusion for a while...

Just then, Luo Ruying, lying on the bed, lightly fluttered her eyelashes and slowly opened her eyes, awakening...