Just Enemies
"As—"
"—her son?"
Han Su froze on the spot, unable to react for a long while.
The revelation had come so suddenly that his expression couldn't keep up. He just looked numb.
He had always wanted to know the answer, yet had never even been willing to seek it out himself. Now it was right in front of him. So that woman really was his mother?
Before he turned ten, there had been traces of her in his fragmented memories. Zhang Chiguo, Song Chushi, and even Han Su himself had all wondered if she might be his mother. But deep down, he had resisted the idea. He couldn't believe that woman was his mother.
After all, Han Su didn't remember ever calling her "Mom," nor did he remember any warm, happy moments with her.
In his hazy memories, there was only the image of her hitting him, then holding him and crying, along with the cold look that would sometimes flash across her face.
So in his mind, that woman was merely someone who had looked after him before he turned ten. She had nothing to do with the word "mother." Besides, the string of events that followed made it hard to even consider the possibility. They had been far too cruel.
If she was his mother, then why had she personally sent him into the Kidnapping Case?
Han Su hadn't wanted to learn who his mother was only to discover that he had already become her mortal enemy.
Countless thoughts collided and roared through his mind. Instead, they left him strangely silent, with no reaction at all.
Across from him, Bai Senmang watched him with a frenzied, vicious look, a satisfied madness in his eyes.
But the hatred didn't seem to be directed purely at Han Su.