PS: (There was a time-related bug in the previous chapter. A year has already passed since the Saints' Calamity; it has now been corrected.)
"It shouldn't be—or rather, it's unlikely," Li Wei thought.
In fact, Li Wei had long made his own guesses about the several possible relationships between himself and Sylvie.
It was simply that, all this time, he had instinctively resisted the possibility of a "mother and son" relationship alone.
Because he was, after all, a transmigrator.
If that dragon egg had truly been laid by Sylvie, then in a certain sense—
wouldn't he be no different from a bandit who had "killed" her child and then usurped the nest?
Even if it had not been his own choice.
More importantly, when the Hundred-Armed Giant had stood at the gates all those years ago, and he had already prepared himself to be assimilated and devoured by the Void Star God, he had declared his identity as an "outsider" while denouncing the Dead Three and those shadowy masterminds.
It was just that Coriel had always been a world of many planes and dimensions. "Outsiders" like him were hardly uncommon; even quite a few deities themselves had come from elsewhere.
Thus, those beings had shown little surprise at such an "answer."
But if Sylvie could "foresee" that scene—if she truly was his "mother" in this world—how could she possibly accept such an outcome, and still spare no effort to help him after learning the truth?
It made no sense!
Then there was the innate flaw common to males—
For a female as powerful and near-perfect as Sylvie, even Li Wei had not been without longing for her at first.
But later, once he had Xia Lan Veloss, the sweet and gentle Steel Dragon lady, such thoughts—the kind most men probably