Tang Hao: It Seems... I Still Have a Chance to Clear My Name

["Son? You... you're calling me?"]

[While cultivating the Blue Silver Grass Meditation Method, Tang Chuan's mind had also connected with Ah Yin's, allowing him to hear her mental voice. He couldn't help asking hesitantly,]

["That's right! You're my son. Can't you sense the blood connection between us, mother and son?" Ah Yin said excitedly, choking back sobs. "All this time, Mother has wanted to see you. Now, we've finally reunited!"]

["I also feel that you're very familiar, but... but I'm human! My mother... how could my mother be a blade of grass?" Tang Chuan seemed unable to accept reality. He was agitated and confused.]

["Child, listen to me..." Ah Yin understood how Tang Chuan felt. She couldn't help forcing a gentle, bitter smile as she told him everything: how she had been a hundred-thousand-year-old Soul Beast that had taken human form, her love with Tang Hao, and everything that had happened afterward.]

["So that's how it is!" Tang Chuan seemed shocked, yet enlightened at the same time.]

["Xiao Chuan, did you come here alone? Where's your father?" After telling Tang Chuan about the past, Ah Yin couldn't help asking about Tang Hao with anticipation and hope.]

[Ever since Tang Hao had planted her here, she hadn't seen him for many years.]

But when he heard Ah Yin's question, Tang Chuan fell silent. After a moment, he replied calmly, "Mother, I don't have a father!"

White World, Shrek Academy.

"Good!"

When Ning Rongrong saw Tang Chuan directly tell Ah Yin in the Comparison Video that he had no father, her beautiful eyes lit up. She immediately applauded loudly and cheered for Tang Chuan.

"This Tang Chuan is much better than that Tang San from the Black World!"

"He knows how to distinguish love from hate. That's what a normal person should be like!"

Ning Rongrong was thoroughly satisfied.

"Unlike that Tang San, who acts like a complete idiot and lunatic!"

"He claims to repay kindness and respect his teachers, yet in his previous life, in the Bashu Tang Sect, he stole the Tang Sect's supreme technique, the Mysterious Heaven Treasure Record."

"And in this life, when faced with Tang Hao, who had no sense of responsibility or accountability and spent every day drinking, and Yu Xiaogang, who was all reputation and no substance and nearly got him killed, he still blindly acted filial and fawned over them!"

"He's simply insane!!"

Ning Rongrong went on a furious rant.

Dai Mubai, Zhu Zhuqing, Ma Hongjun, and Oscar all nodded repeatedly, deeply agreeing with her.

As normal people, they simply couldn't understand Tang San.

Black World, Shrek Academy.

"Hmph! What an ungrateful, rebellious, and unfilial wretch!"

When Tang San discovered that Tang Chuan had actually told his mother, Ah Yin, that he had no father, he immediately snorted coldly. He found it utterly unacceptable and loudly berated Tang Chuan.

As an ancient good son who prided himself on being filial to his parents,

in his view, after finally gaining a biological father, that father had given him life. Such an enormous debt of gratitude had to be repaid with respect and filial devotion unless the father asked him to kill himself!

Yet this Tang Chuan had refused to acknowledge the name his father had given him simply because his father had failed in some ways. He even wanted to sever ties with him.

He was simply rebellious, unfilial, and unworthy of being called a son!

Bah!

Tang San practically wanted to spit viciously at Tang Chuan.

Nearby, Ning Rongrong, Dai Mubai, and the others exchanged glances, utterly speechless at Tang San's worldview.

Tang Hao hadn't acted like a father at all when this child was young.

If he had been an ordinary child, he probably would have died long ago!

A selfish, cowardly man who only cared about giving birth to a child and not raising him, who spent his days drinking himself senseless and had failed the wife who had sacrificed herself for him, Ah Yin—did he even deserve to be called a father?

Aside from Tang San,

who else in the world could go through something like that and still kneel and fawn over Tang Hao in every possible way?

["What! You don't have a father?!" Upon hearing this, Ah Yin immediately grew sorrowful. "Could it be that Hao Ge still failed to escape the Spirit Hall's pursuit and only managed to settle Xiao Chuan somewhere?"]

[When he realized that his mother, Ah Yin, had still imagined Tang Hao as a good father, Tang Chuan could hold back no longer. He immediately exposed the truth in a cold voice. "Mother, things aren't as you think. Tang Hao is still alive, but I don't consider him my father!"]

[Hearing this, Ah Yin was even more shocked and unable to understand. She hurriedly asked, "What happened? Why won't you acknowledge your father anymore? Did something happen between the two of you? Is there some misunderstanding?"]

["Mother, once you've heard me out, you'll understand." Tang Chuan spoke calmly as he recounted every one of Tang Hao's failures as a father since the day he was born.]

["Impossible! How could Hao Ge have done such things?!"]

[After learning that she had willingly sacrificed herself to her husband so he and their son could live, only for her husband, Tang Hao, to completely fail as a father and care only about drinking while abandoning their son, Tang Chuan,]

[that he had neglected the child from a young age, making him cook for himself when he was barely a year old and forcing him to shoulder the responsibility of supporting the family by chopping wood and fetching water,]

[Ah Yin was on the verge of breaking down. She felt utterly unable to accept or believe it.]

[She had to remember that when she sacrificed herself, she had specifically entrusted her husband, Tang Hao, to take good care of their son and help him live well. She had never expected Tang Hao to raise the child as though he wanted him dead.]

[How could Ah Yin accept that?]

[However, their many years of love still made Ah Yin forcibly convince herself. She even tried to persuade Tang Chuan, forcing a smile as she said, "Xiao Chuan, you have to understand your father. Perhaps he was too devastated by my death and couldn't accept reality, so he drank every day to numb himself. He may have had his own difficulties..."]

["Mother, you aren't dead yet!" Tang Chuan immediately interrupted Ah Yin in a cold voice.]

["After your Sacrifice, Mother, you left behind a seed. Is Tang Hao sick in the head? How could he think you were dead?"]

["Besides, no matter what, I'm still his son, right? No matter how heartbroken and devastated he was, he couldn't just abandon his son, could he?"]

["I was only one year old, and he made me cook. He even made me fetch water and chop wood. If not for the grandpas, grandmas, uncles, and aunts in the village taking care of me, I would have starved to death or worked myself to death long ago!"]

["And he insisted on making me call myself Tang San. I didn't want that name, so he even hit me. I don't have a father like that!"]

White World, Holy Soul Village, Back Mountain.

In this valley,

when Tang Hao discovered that Tang Chuan still refused to let the matter go, he was so furious that he gnashed his teeth. His eyes were bloodshot, his breathing was as heavy as an enraged ox, and he roared furiously.

"You unfilial son! What an unfilial son!"

"No matter what, I'm still your father. How dare you refuse to acknowledge me!"

"This is outrageous!"

"If you had displayed your Clear Sky Hammer back then, would I have refused to acknowledge you?"

"Besides, Tang San from the Black World is in the same situation as you. Why can he remain just as filial to his father?"

"You unfilial son! Why can't you learn from Tang San?"

In his fury and rage, Tang Hao also felt incomparably envious of his counterpart in the Black World.

When he saw that Ah Yin in the Comparison Video still believed in him, explaining things on his behalf and persuading Tang Chuan to trust him as a father,

Tang Hao's anger was joined by a sudden stirring in his heart. His eyes gradually brightened again.

"Although this unfilial son is somewhat ungrateful, Ah Yin still believes in me. She's even speaking up for me."

"It seems... I still have a chance to clear my name!"