"The person standing before you is your real mother!"
Tang Xiao's roar exploded through Tang San's mind like a thunderclap!
His entire body went rigid.
The hand covering his badly swollen cheek dropped limply.
Stunned, he mechanically shifted his gaze from his furious uncle to the blue-skirted woman standing not far away, who wore the same look of shock.
This...
This woman who had just stopped him from taking the immortal herb, whom he had attacked with the Godly Zhuge Crossbow...
Was... my mother?
Tang San's brain completely shut down.
Chaotic scenes flashed wildly through his mind.
The purple-skirted "mother" who had pinned him across her lap and beaten his butt until it bloomed, yet somehow made him feel a different kind of "warmth."
The blue-skirted woman before him, peerlessly beautiful and ethereal in temperament, yet filled with hostility toward him.
If this was his mother...
Then...
Who... was that woman just now?
"Uncle..." Tang San's voice was dry, as though a red-hot branding iron had lodged in his throat. "Did... did you mistake her for someone else? My mother... wasn't she the one just now..."
Instinctively, he wanted to say: Wasn't my mother that woman in the purple gown who spanked me?
Slap!
The moment Tang Xiao heard him mention her, the fury he had been suppressing surged back to his head. He backhanded Tang San again.
"That woman is not your mother at all!"
Tang Xiao's chest heaved violently. He had nearly blurted out, "That was Spirit Hall's Pope, Bibi Dong," but the words caught in his throat as he suddenly recalled the "real" Bibi Dong at the restaurant, who had regressed to the appearance of an eighteen-year-old.
This damned complicated relationship!
After a brief pause, Tang Xiao could only roar vaguely, "In any case, she's from Spirit