One sentence from Chen Changan eased Yu Nian Nian's nerves. She smiled and nodded, then turned to Chen Tian. "Tian'er, say hello."
"Tian'er?"
Yu Nian Nian looked at Chen Tian with displeasure, only to find him staring at Chen Changan with a trace of resentment.
Chen Changan noticed Chen Tian's reaction too, and smiled as he asked, "What? Do you resent me?"
"I wouldn't dare. But I want to know why you ignored Mother and me all these years."
"Have we ever crossed your mind?"
"Have you ever... thought of us?"
Hearing Chen Tian's words, Chen Changan smiled and asked, "So this is the knot in your heart?"
"You haven't been in the True Realm long, and you haven't spent much time making your way through the Eastern Extreme Domain."
"Though you've now reached the World Lord Realm, I can tell that your... state of mind is unstable."
"If you'd never known I existed, and never met me in this life, would that knot in your heart have stayed with you forever?"
"If you can't even steady your mind, how will you ever reach a higher realm?"
"If you want to become strong, you must first strengthen your heart."
"You... have disappointed me!"
Chen Tian did have a knot in his heart, but it wasn't all that serious.
Ever since he was little, Chen Tian had wanted to know who his father was. The moment he learned that Chen Changan was his father, joy and excitement had actually outweighed everything else in his heart.
But Chen Tian still wanted to know what he meant to Chen Changan—whether he was someone dispensable, someone his father had never even thought of.
Chen Tian had always regarded Chen Changan as his idol, the person he wanted to catch up to.
He had imagined