"But decades later, she and I conceived again. This time, no matter what, your mother refused to give up."
Hearing this, Lei Jingxiao roughly understood what Lei Ying had meant by taking out his anger on him.
His voice turned hoarse. "So this time... the child she was carrying was me, right?"
Lei Ying nodded. He took a deep breath and continued, "Even though we had made many preparations, fate toyed with us... Plans still could not keep up with change. The energy impact you carried at birth was far too powerful. Others could not easily help with such a matter, and it severely damaged your mother's origin, completely draining her. Of course, that very incident was also why you were especially weak when you were born. The clan once suspected that if you had been born smoothly, you might have possessed a truly perfect God-Tier Bloodline."
Lei Jingxiao's face turned pale as paper. His lips twitched as he said in a low voice, "If that's true, if the price of this bloodline was Mother's life, then I'd rather not have it!"
Lei Ying glanced at him, not even daring to meet Lei Jingxiao's eyes. "After you were born, I tried every possible way to keep your mother alive. Your aunt also searched the entire continent for rare medicines. But in the end... none of it worked. We ultimately failed to keep her. One year and three months after giving birth to you, she... left us forever."
Lei Jingxiao swayed unsteadily. Lei Ying looked at him, his eyes filled with struggle and conflict.
"Jingxiao, to be honest, I never knew what attitude I should take toward you. On countless days and nights, I kept thinking... if... if there had been no you, I would never have lost her. She would