"Who told you that child wanted to kill anyone?"
Ellin reliably demonstrated her talent for ruining the mood with a single sentence.
That one sentence left both Chongyun and Liu Qingyi stunned.
"That child died over ten years ago. If it wanted to kill you, it had plenty of chances all these years."
With a gentle smile, Ellin looked at Liu Qingyi and said, "It's a good child."
"It actually understands your difficulties, and the good deeds you've done over the years have touched it, too. It believes you're a good mother..."
"So for all these years, it's simply followed you, quietly protecting you. It has never hurt you."
"But..." Liu Qingyi asked anxiously, "Then why has it spent this past month..."
"Because it's a child!"
That single sentence silenced Liu Qingyi, leaving her frozen in place.
"It's just a child. From the moment it came into this world, it never experienced a mother's love."
"Though its body is gone, it still longs for its mother's affection. It wants to run around its mother like other children its age, and it wants to be held in her arms."
"But it's a good child. It knows how hard you've worked all these years, so it has never asked for anything."
"But now you're wealthy, and your life has settled down, yet you've never given it even a little motherly affection. You haven't even said you're sorry."
"As a little child, of course it's upset."
"As for why it's been troubling you this past month, that's simply how a yin soul gets a living person's attention. Ordinary people can't see yin souls, after all. If it didn't make a fuss, you wouldn't even know it was there."
"That's also why the yin souls gathered around you to repay your kindness wouldn't help