Mother Is Here, Always Here

"Ah!!!"

A scream of utter terror rang out at the end of the deathly silent, dim alley.

Li Er was so frightened he collapsed onto his backside, his face deathly pale, his eyes filled with horror as if he were staring at a ghost. His hands braced against the ground as he kept crawling backward.

"Monster! This is a monster!!" He stared in terror at Chen Zhixing, who stood before him in a pool of blood, his lips trembling nonstop.

Chen Zhixing's expression was calm. He looked at Li Er and asked, "Who sent you?"

"If I talk, can you let me—"

Before Li Er could finish.

"Forget it. I don't want to know anymore."

Chen Zhixing shook his head.

Bang—! Li Er, who had been slumped on the ground and crawling backward, suddenly felt an intense stabbing pain in his head. Then his Sea of Consciousness collapsed, and his entire body went limp on the ground.

A silver needle as slender as a strand of hair flashed through the black night, then returned to Chen Zhixing's Sea of Consciousness.

The next moment.

Chen Zhixing glanced left and right. Seeing that no one in the entire alley had witnessed what had just happened, he immediately let out a breath of relief inwardly.

"Mother should be stronger than that person. Without me there, she should be able to deal with him very quickly."

The calm look on his face rapidly faded, replaced by the appearance of a frightened, terrified child. He sat on the ground and began bawling loudly.

What he did not know was this.

Atop the upturned eaves of a pavilion, a Graceful Shadow was staring fixedly at this scene.

Within those beautiful eyes, a flash of stunning, unusual color flickered past.

On the street.

"Zhi'er!!!"

A shrill voice rang out.

Ying Shuangshuang looked in the direction where Chen Zhixing had been carried away, and in an instant, her eyes nearly split with fury like Yazi.

She abruptly turned and charged toward that alley.

"Where do you think you're going?"

Accompanied by a cold laugh, the Black Robed Figure stamped his foot and immediately barred Ying Shuangshuang's path.

The Black Robed Figure toyed with the dagger in his hand, narrowed his eyes, and smiled. "If that little beast dies here, you and Chen Tianliang will be heartbroken, won't you?"

Ying Shuangshuang's steps came to a halt. She raised her head and looked at the Black Robed Figure, then spat two words from her throat:

"Move aside."

The Black Robed Figure gave a soft laugh. "What's the hurry? You're just going to collect a corpse anyway. Going early or late makes no difference."

"Heh heh."

"Heh heh heh..."

Suddenly, Ying Shuangshuang began to laugh.

At first, it was only a faint, low laugh.

But then, that laughter grew fiercer and fiercer, more and more frenzied!

In the end, it actually transformed directly into a terrifying sound wave that seemed both crying and laughing, something inhuman!!

"Have you gone mad..."

Beneath the cover of the broad hood, Zhuang Wuxian's brows furrowed slightly. He was just about to continue with another taunt when he suddenly seemed to sense something, and his pupils abruptly contracted.

He snapped his head up and looked.

He saw that at some unknown point, Ying Shuangshuang's three thousand strands of waterfall-like black hair had all turned into bewitching white hair! Her nails began to grow wildly, becoming sharp and silvery white! At the center of her brows, a coquettish red diamond mark appeared!

Her lips, originally deathly pale, instantly turned as scarlet as blood.

Her skin was snow-white and ice-cold!

Just standing there, wisps of Pale Cold Qi that radiated an intense aura of danger spread from her body.

She was like a lone wolf slumbering on the Frozen Soil Plateau, finally awakening at this moment and baring her fangs to the world.

"Snow Woman?!!"

In an instant, Zhuang Wuxian's expression changed drastically, and he could not help but suck in a breath of cold air.

His mind began flashing frantic alarms!

"All these years, no matter how outsiders thought me useless, thought I was reaching above my station by being with Tianliang, or how the Chen Family looked down on me, I never felt it mattered. I did my best to play the part of a virtuous wife and loving mother in front of Tianliang..."

Ying Shuangshuang spoke in a low voice, as if talking to herself, yet also as if speaking for someone to hear.

"Tianliang bears the Reverse Malady, and we Snow Women are likewise afflicted by the Curse. We were two people who would not live long, coming together to huddle for warmth."

"Perhaps the heavens took pity on us two poor souls and brought us a child."

"From the moment Zhi'er was born, the lives of us two people, which had originally lost all meaning, finally found meaning once more."

"Perhaps Zhi'er himself doesn't even know that he is not only our child, but also a beam of light redeeming our dim, dark lives."

Zhuang Wuxian's throat bobbed, as if he were preparing to say something, his steps shifting backward in incomparable tension.

"We have nothing in this world. What truly belongs to us is only this one child."

"But."

Ying Shuangshuang suddenly lifted her head. In those eyes already covered with blood-red veins like a spider web, a killing intent violent to the extreme surged up! The next instant.

From her throat came a terrifying, low, ear-piercing shriek, as if countless voices were overlapping together, a sound wave that did not belong to any human: "But why!!!"

"Why did you have to take away even the only ray of light that belonged to us!!!!!"

Boom—!!! Ying Shuangshuang moved in an instant! Zhuang Wuxian only felt his vision blur, and Ying Shuangshuang, her hair completely white, had already appeared before him.

Five pale, ice-cold fingers had already clamped around his neck and yanked him up.

The hood that covered more than half of Zhuang Wuxian's face instantly shattered.

"It's you?"

Ying Shuangshuang narrowed her eyes, a sickly smile drawing itself across her face. One hand choking Zhuang Wuxian's neck, she pulled him closer.

"Hehehe, then that means the one who attacked Tianliang was Kui Mu? If I remember correctly, Kui Mu's entire sect is already dead, but you still have many close relatives alive, don't you?"

"Don't worry. If Zhi'er dies, Tianliang and I will slaughter every person in this world connected to you, and bury them with Zhi'er."

"As for you two, I will carve you into Human Pigs one slice at a time, and use Demonic Fire to burn your souls day after day."

"Believe me, you will be unable to live, unable to die, and regret ever being born into this world."

Zhuang Wuxian's feet hung in the air, his face swelling crimson.

A feeling of suffocation unlike anything he had ever known came over him.

Looking at Ying Shuangshuang before him, who had fallen completely into demonhood, he actually felt the great terror between life and death.

A chill shot from his spine straight to the crown of his head, cold seeping through his entire body.

He could not help trembling all over like chaff in a sieve.

"I..."

He wanted to say that Kui Mu True Person had dragged him here, that he was not the mastermind.

Before he could speak.

Those pale, ice-cold, long and slender five fingers had already slowly exerted force and tightened! Crack, crack, crack!

The sound of bones being squeezed and shattered rang out.

A regret Zhuang Wuxian had never felt before was born in his heart. He wanted to open his mouth and beg for mercy, but Ying Shuangshuang did not give him the slightest chance to speak!

The power of Spirit Travel that had once been like mountains and seas within his body was now completely sealed off as well, unable to be stirred even a fraction.

Just then.

"Waaah!!!"

A loud cry resounded through the entire street!

"The child!!"

Ying Shuangshuang suddenly raised her head and looked toward that alley. The violence in her eyes rapidly receded, turning into a thick surge of anxiety and worry.

Bang—!!! Zhuang Wuxian's head exploded! And that pale, ice-cold figure had already flashed away, instantly appearing at the end of the alley.

She bent down and gently took the child lying in the pool of blood into her arms.

"Zhi'er, don't be afraid."

"Mother is here. Always here."