The Middle-Aged Woman slowly walked forward, each step heavy. She had always thought she understood her child well, but gradually, she realized that was not the truth.
Following closely behind Situ An's mother, Xuan Wen and Gao Ming finally entered the area they had been unable to access before. Here, only Situ An's mother could move freely.
The courtyard apartments were part of the home. Only together with Lishan Hospital on the other side of the road did they form a complete home.
All the beauty and all the ugliness were divided by a road leading to the future. Warmth and cruelty lay on either side.
The Middle-Aged Woman walked at the front. In her eyes, Situ An was her pride and joy: top of his class, dutiful and considerate, kind to others, and beloved by the neighbors since childhood.
"I watched that child grow up. He never lied to me..."
The sunlight in the Courtyard Compound seemed to sprout fine blood vessels. Like countless arms, they tried to seize the Middle-Aged Woman. But Situ An, the true master of this home, was already dead. The sunlight of the past stretched her shadow, but it could no longer drag her back into the compound.
"Just as I suspected." Xuan Wen sensed the change. "In this seemingly normal world, his mother is the only sick person. But in reality, everything normal was transformed from evil ghosts and cursed items from the Shadow World. His sick mother is the only normal person, because she holds the last of Situ An's humanity. She is his most precious treasure."
Once his mother, the last normal person, became abnormal too, the home would be no different from the terrifying world outside.
The sunlight grew gloomy. Instead of warmth, it brought a bone-piercing chill as it