"Mom... enough already. A little is enough."
Gu Linyuan truly could not stand her excessive motherly affection.
In essence,
Gu Linyuan was not really a normal human either. His life form was probably similar to the Snow Empress, who had been born of heaven and earth, perhaps even a few ranks higher. He merely existed in human form for now.
But Gu Linyuan still retained the consciousness and values of his past life.
He would not see himself as a child.
"Doesn't Yuan'er want to be affectionate with Mother?"
The Goddess of Life pouted, helplessness appearing on her face.
As she watched Gu Linyuan turn his face aside, her lips pursed slightly. The curve was subtle, yet it gave her flawless face a trace of girlishness that she only revealed before those closest to her.
She felt somewhat disappointed.
Gu Linyuan was only in his teens. In her eyes, he was still a child.
She had lived for millions of years. A dozen or so years was no more than an instant in her long life.
To her, Gu Linyuan was no different from the infant she had once held in her arms.
But by human standards, he was indeed no longer small. In a few more years, he would become an adult. His shoulders were broader than she had imagined, and he stood a full head taller than her. Standing there, he was already a man whose face she had to tilt her head up to see.
She had not been there during her son's childhood. That was her greatest regret.
She had missed his first roll, his first crawl, his first time standing, and his first steps. Those softest, most precious memories that should have been hers had been forever left in the years when she was absent.