"I'm sorry." Li Mu Yang knew his emotions were out of control, so he lowered his voice and apologized to his father, Li Yan, and his mother, Luo Qi. The anger he had suppressed for so long, along with the grievances he found impossible to voice to outsiders, had finally found an outlet.
The stupidest thing people often did was put on a cheerful face outside, then say the ugliest things to those closest to them.
Many times, parents ended up becoming a different kind of punching bag for their children.
Because they knew that if they said those things to outsiders, the outsiders would hold a grudge—but their parents wouldn't. Never.
Li Yan and Luo Qi exchanged a glance. Li Yan spoke up. "Mu Yang, did something happen? Nothing happened to you out there, did it?"
"That's right." Luo Qi also looked worried. "Did you run into anything upsetting outside? In this world, some people's hearts are rotten through and through. Don't take anything they said to heart. No matter what, you'll always be our good son."
Luo Qi had thought a little further. Although they had always been unwilling to mention it, there was no denying that Li Mu Yang was a member of the Dragon race. They simply couldn't understand it. How had the good son they had known before suddenly become the Dragon race that outsiders spoke of?
Just look at him. What part of him looked like a dragon?
"It's nothing." Li Mu Yang gathered up those negative emotions in his heart. There was no way he could explain everything that had happened in Tiandu to these two loved ones before him, nor could he tell them about the grief and grievance he had felt upon learning that the mastermind behind everything was his own