"Yu-Yu~"
Bai Yue noticed something was wrong.
Forgetting her sorrow, she hurried over to Long Xingyu and Long Haoyu.
Her gentle hand lightly clasped Long Haoyu's, and her eyes brimmed with concern as she looked at the unusually abnormal Long Haoyu.
Over the past two years, Long Haoyu had never once taken the initiative to say he had something to tell Long Xingyu.
This sudden abnormality made her heart leap into her throat. She feared that, at this moment of parting, Long Xingyu might decide not to take the two brothers with him, causing Long Haoyu to erupt completely.
Feeling his mother's trembling hand, Long Haoyu let out a quiet sigh. "Mom, don't worry. What you're afraid of won't happen. I've always been your good son."
A good son?
I'm a good son to her, but a rebellious son to you? Playing favorites?
Seeing this, Long Xingyu wore an especially strange expression, an inexplicable sense of imbalance rising within him.
Bai Yue held tightly onto Long Haoyu, her eyes pleading with him to give up on causing trouble for Long Xingyu.
Seeing his mother like this—seeing a mother look at her own son with such eyes—Long Haoyu felt as though his heart had been carved apart by a blade.
Wrapping an arm around his mother's back, Long Haoyu rested his head on her shoulder. "Mom, don't worry!"
Long Haoyu spoke gently, still just as he had always been by Bai Yue's side.
Just moments ago, his state of mind had undergone a transformation. He had changed many of his deeply ingrained ideas.
Especially after seeing his mother as she was now, those changed thoughts had become even firmer.
He truly could not simply stand by and let his mother return to the Holy Temple Alliance with Long Xingyu.
That irresponsible