Urbaner Blumentraum

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She was now powerless, unable to protect him even if Zhu Huihui came to his side. But knowing this, he still felt that he could only feel at ease when she was by his side.

Zhu Huihui wiped away her tears: "She wants to kill me, I'll let her kill me!"

Maple Snow said softly, "Grey Grey, stop fooling around, I have some questions for you!"

Zhu Huihui still clung to Yu Xiaoyao's leg, refusing to let go, but stopped crying and asked, "What did you say?"

Maple Snow said slowly, "Grey Grey, why weren't you poisoned?"

Zhu Huihui froze: "I—"

Feng Xue said, "The poison produced by this reaction mainly erodes a person's internal energy. The stronger the internal energy, the more intense the backlash. If you say that you are not poisoned because you have little internal energy, then why are you unharmed when Miss Mu's internal energy is even weaker than yours and she has already collapsed?" The question he asked was also the question in everyone's mind.

Zhu Huihui looked up at Yu Xiaoyao, unsure of what to say.

Feng Xue said, "I know your body is special, and you seem to be immune to poisons. But that's not the point. The point is, why wasn't Senior Fish surprised at all when he saw that Huihui wasn't poisoned?"

Yu Xiaoyao sneered and did not answer.

Maple Snow said softly, "Grey Grey, do you know something?"

Zhu Huihui looked at him, lowered her head, hesitated for a long time, and then said, "If I... if I tell you, will you hate me from now on?"

Feng Xuese countered, "Do you think it's possible?"

Zhu Huihui gazed at him; his handsome face exuded warmth amidst its calm and composed demeanor. Suddenly, her confidence surged, and she replied, "Of course not!"

She turned to look at Yu Xiaoyao, her face unusually calm, and called out, "Mother!"

Yu Xiaoyao was taken aback, her face suddenly tightening: "What did you say?"

Zhu Huihui's eyes instantly filled with tears: "Mother! I recognize you as my mother!"

While listening to Liu Yue's stories on the boat, she already knew her mother was incredibly mysterious and strange. But if it weren't for the slaps and kicks Yu Xiaoyao had given her earlier—slaps and kicks that she'd received hundreds, even thousands of times since childhood, so familiar and unmistakable—she would never have recognized this ethereal, beautiful woman with such immense power in every gesture as her own volatile, ugly, sickly mother, who was utterly helpless against the bullying of her wicked neighbors!

Her words struck like a thunderbolt, leaving everyone in the room dumbfounded and utterly shocked.

Yu Xiaoyao's face darkened as she shouted, "What nonsense are you spouting! Who's your mother!"

Zhu Huihui hugged her leg and cried out, "It's you! You're my mother! Don't think I won't recognize you just because you've disguised yourself!" Although she spoke with certainty, she was truly unsure in her heart. Her mother was clearly very fat, had bad skin, gray hair, and was blind in one eye. How could she suddenly become a different person? Had she encountered a deity who transformed her?

She reached out and touched Yu Xiaoyao's body, trying to remove her disguise.

Yu Xiaoyao hurriedly slapped away the recognizing claws, wondering where she had given herself away so that this brat had recognized her.

Her face was ashen: "Now that you recognize me as your mother, how dare you repeatedly help my enemy and oppose me?"

Zhu Huihui didn't answer her question, but just hugged her leg and cried, "Mother, you have no conscience! After you left home, Huahua and I searched for you everywhere. I was bitten by a ghost in the graveyard. I was beaten by the old lady's cane for stealing chickens, and I was chased by bad guys everywhere. I was pinched on the face by a Japanese tortoise... Waaah, I suffered so much outside, and you... you got tired of me and thought you were prettier, so you looked down on your own daughter and didn't want me anymore..."

After hearing Zhu Huihui's tearful account, everyone wanted to laugh but couldn't. What kind of nonsense was this?

As Zhu Huihui's mother, Yu Xiaoyao raised her single-handedly, so she naturally understood this pitiful act. She reached out and grabbed her ear, scolding, "You good-for-nothing! Get away!"

"I won't get away!" Zhu Huihui clung to her leg and wouldn't let go.

Yu Xiaoyao glanced at Madam Wan, a wicked smile suddenly appearing on her face: "This woman is the most hypocritical. She caused your mother so much suffering back then. Go and cut off her right hand for me!"

Zhu Huihui looked at Madam Wan and shook her head: "Mother, when I was injured and about to die before, it was Master and Madam who saved me!"

Yu Xiaoyao's voice was deep: "So, you're not listening to your mother?"

Zhu Huihui said slyly, "Mother, it's not that I don't listen, it's that I don't understand!"

Yu Xiaoyao remained unmoved and asked, "What don't you understand?"

"Mom, how did you suddenly turn into a little fish demon? And become so beautiful? You were so powerful, why didn't you fight back when Chen Er and his fat wife bullied you?"

Yu Xiaoyao said coldly, "Didn't you hear that woman say that I was seriously injured fifteen years ago? If it weren't for that injury, why would I have had to disguise myself and hide in a poor village? Besides, even if I suffered a backlash from the poison and lost all my martial arts skills, how could I let those beasts, who are worse than pigs and dogs, bully me? Do you really think that Chen Er's family of sixteen really died of the plague?"

Zhu Huihui said, "Now I know, of course. They were poisoned to death by Mother!"

She spoke these words in a completely ordinary way, not thinking at all that her mother had done anything wrong by poisoning the neighbor. However, the others felt heartbroken. It was just a quarrel between neighbors, yet it had resulted in the poisoning of an entire family. This little demon, Yu Xiaoyao, was indeed cruel and vicious. It was sad that Zhu Huihui always had a touch of evil in her eyes. It was already quite remarkable that the child raised by such a woman had grown up to be what he is today.

Yu Xiaoyao snorted and said, "You're just stalling for time so you won't cut off that woman's hand?"

Zhu Huihui was secretly anxious after her mother exposed her thoughts, but she forced herself to say, "Mother, Madam just said your injuries are very serious."

Yu Xiaoyao said coldly, "So what?"

"Madam is a miracle doctor, perhaps she can cure him..."

Yu Xiaoyao raised her eyebrows, looked her up and down, and said in a gentle tone, "So, after all this talk, you just won't do it?"

Zhu Huihui lowered her head: "Mother, the master and madam saved me. If I were to hurt them, wouldn't I be worse than an animal?"

Yu Xiaoyao slapped Zhu Huihui across the face, leaving five red marks on his cheek: "If I had known you were this useless, I would have killed you fifteen years ago!"

Zhu Huihui's tears rolled down her cheeks again and again.

"You dare cry again!" He raised his hand to hit her again.

Even before her hand was fully raised in the air, Zhu Huihui burst into loud wailing, kicking her legs wildly as she cried, "Just kill me already! I knew you didn't want me! You didn't want me before, and now that I've found you, you want to kill me! Who cares if I want to remarry? I don't want to be that burden, is it really necessary to take my life? Waaah, just kill me! I have no face to live with a mother like you!" It was obvious where she'd learned these outrageous words from some shrew!

Feng Xuese felt sorry for her when she was beaten, but when she cried like this, she didn't know what to do.

Yu Xiaoyao was so angry at Zhu Huihui's nonsense that she got a headache and punched her a few times. Although she didn't use her full strength, the "bang bang" sounds were quite frightening.

Mr. Chen couldn't help but say, "Yu Xiaoyao, that's your own daughter, how could you be so cruel to her!"