An Accidental Rebirth: The Surrogate Bride - Chapter 108

Seeing that his senior brother was rendered speechless, in spite of the unconscious Liuxu in bed and Zixiu, who had the strength to punch someone, but still looked feeble, Liu Wuyi strode out of the room without even looking back.

Thirteen years ago, when he cut the tie with his master and left the Valley of Fallen Blossoms with his wife and son, he had sworn that he would never practice medicine for the rest of his life! His master had never forced him to do so, but as he had lost his passion to travel the world and practice medicine, he voluntarily gave up his medical skills and even the cultivation base of his martial arts. As he had gone back on his word for Zixiu’s sake months ago, it didn’t matter whether he had done this because of what his senior brother had said. He did not diagnose Liuxu’s illness not because of his oath, but because he was too restless and he was in no mood to take care of the two kids for the moment. He needed to be alone to calm himself down!

This daughter who had suddenly shown up from nowhere and what his senior brother had brought up not only reminded him of the past, but also led him to a startling deduction that even he himself could not believe!

If it was true that he had mistakenly taken Ziyan as Wang Ning and committed an unforgivable sin years ago, he expected no forgiveness from anyone. It was him who had defiled Ziyan’s chastity and hurt Wang Ning’s feelings, so he deserved to be punished, and he would never complain even if he was spurned for the rest of his life. However, watching the kid he had picked up by the lake growing up and becoming more and more like the person he could not possibly look like, he kept telling himself that this was merely an illusion, a coincidence! And now, his “daughter”, who was not supposed to exist, suddenly came to him in tears! The two kids looked so alike as twins! All this made him wonder what had happened that night seventeen years ago. If Wang Ning did not lie, how could the two kids look so much like him? What did Wang Ning take him and the kids for?

The more he thought about it, the more disappointed he felt. In the beginning, to atone for it, and also because he felt ashamed to see Wang Ning again, though reluctantly, he deliberately distanced himself from her. After marrying Ziyan, he left the Wang family and the Wen Kingdom. A few years later, he even cut off his contact with everyone from the Valley of Fallen Blossoms and came to the remote mountains. He would rather Wang Ning hated him for the rest of her life and she had done all this only to take revenge on him, but obviously, it was not that simple. Even if everything was just a coincidence, how could Liuxu find Mount Winward, a place that even his senior brother did not know? How come she suddenly showed up after so many things had happened to Zixiu? Wait… Since the only thing that connected Zixiu to Prince Mu’s Mansion was the princess of the Wen Kingdom, Liuxu must have been involved in all this before Zixiu was kidnapped!

Yan Ke did not chase after Liu Wuyi. It took him a lot of effort to suppress the impulse to rush out and punch his junior brother. If it were seventeen years ago, he would have done so. Yes, seventeen years ago, he had beaten up this junior brother a lot in rage because the latter gave up on himself for a woman. And at their master’s request, he even disabled his senior brother’s martial arts base in person! Now things were different. As his junior brother was no longer a martial artist, if he still picked a fight with him, he would be regarded as a bully!

“Yan Lingxiao, move your ass out of here and stand attention outside!” Yan Ke vented his anger on his son naturally.

As far as Yan Ke was concerned, taking care of his junior brothers was the duty of a senior brother. So, his first disciple, Luo Huali, had been asked to face the wall outside and ponder about his misdeed for his failure in disciplining his junior brother, just like years ago, Yan Ke had been locked up for a year by his master as punishment because of his junior brother’s mistake. Since Zixiu was a boy, it was not a big deal that the three kids shared the same bed. However, he still could not hold back his anger, because Yan Lingxiao already knew that Liu Zixiu was a boy, but he still had a crush on him! This… This was just ridiculous! “You damned brat, if you can’t explain yourself, I’m going…”

As discomfited as the moment he had been dragged in, the poor Lingxiao was hustled out of the door.

Looking blankly at the complicated expression in Lingxiao’s eyes, Zixiu was left alone in the room again. What had happened just now made him even more confused. Someone even took him as a girl, and this person was his dad’s old acquaintance! What’s more, his dad’s explanation was too far-fetched! How could a dad mistake the gender of his own child? Even if he was drunk as a skunk, such a thing could never happen! Zixiu believed that his dad would not have made such a silly mistake, but he did not intend to get to the bottom of it.

It did not mean that he was not curious about the past, but since he had grown up, he should learn to understand his dad. Everyone has a skeleton in the closet!  He was already sixteen years old, and he should not act like a three-year-old boy who knew nothing except for playing cute in front of his dad, and could not even unzip his pants when he was going to pee! Although he was not a mind reader, he was sensitive sometimes. From the conversation between his elders and his dad’s abnormal attitude, he could tell that something bad must have happened in the past, which made his dad reluctant to hear anyone mention it! Dad must be painful at the thought of the past, just like him, every time he caught a little memory in his mind, he would feel a splitting headache. He was afraid of pain and did not want his dad to suffer the same. So he would try to understand his dad, respect his dad, and never ask what his dad did not want to talk about!