Justice Bureau · Health Hall.
After carrying Lin Heng out of the dungeon, Dugu Zixuan found a nearby place in the Justice Bureau for him to recover.
After several drops of concentrated Spirit-Nurturing Elixir entered his mouth, the pallor on his face visibly improved.
This face looked far too much like Lin Zhique's. It would be hard to believe he was not his biological son.
She sat by the bed and wiped the cold sweat from his face. Her expression, which had remained cold and detached ever since she emerged from seclusion, could not help softening.
The first meeting between mother and son had actually happened under such circumstances.
The tiny little thing she could once cradle in both hands at birth had grown so big after more than twenty years.
What should she do?!
She was feeling anxious now. Once he woke up, should she lay everything bare before him?
Tell him that she was the mother who had been in seclusion for over twenty years?
Tell him that she was the mother who had whipped him because of a misunderstanding?
Just then, a knock sounded outside the door.
The visitors were none other than Su Moxie and Su Qiubai.
The moment the two entered and saw Lin Heng lying on the bed, they froze.
What was going on? Why had they brought him here to lie down?
"Zixuan, we're back. Qiu Bai, hurry up and call her..."
"Oh, junior Su Qiubai greets Senior Zixuan!" Su Qiubai did not call her "Auntie." Addressing her as a senior instead was her deliberate way of keeping her distance.
"Eh? You little girl, didn't you say you were going to call her Auntie? Why call her Senior!"
"It's fine. Calling me Senior is the same. Am I not a senior?" Dugu Zixuan