Chapter 704 - 214: I Have My Own Home_3
Then, this time you suddenly appeared in front of me, and suddenly became a mother who loves and cares about me?
Mom, I’m not stupid!"
Lu Xiuting suddenly seemed to have all her strength drained out, her back broken by these soft words from Lu Sisi, and her body slumped into the chair.
She breathed weakly, looking at her daughter’s face, but couldn’t utter a single word in defense.
Because the truth is a sharp knife!
The atmosphere inside the carriage was nearly stagnant, the suffocating feeling pressing down on both mother and daughter, leaving them unable to say a word.
They just sat in silence for what seemed like an eternity.
Lu Sisi sighed faintly, "After buying all the things, I’ll just drive you home on my way, mom."
On the way...
The two words struck Lu Xiuting’s heart sharply.
The distance between the supermarket and Chen Yan’s home is at most three or four kilometers.
But to her own home, it’s more than ten kilometers.
On the way to send herself home? On the way?
But at this moment, Lu Xiuting had no room left to say anything.
"... Okay." Lu Xiuting replied softly, her face full of loss and defeat.
Lu Sisi didn’t speak anymore, silently started the car.
Along the way, the car drove on the roads of Jinling Prefecture, neither of them spoke, and Lu Xiuting quietly watched each building flash past outside the window.
At some unknown point, the car stopped at the entrance of that Binjiang District, in front of the magnificent community gate.
"Mom, we’re here." Lu Sisi’s words snapped the daydreaming Lu Xiuting back to reality.
Lu Xiuting gave an "oh," slowly and arduously unbuckling the seatbelt and opening the car door.
As she got out of the car and stood on the ground, Lu Sisi finally took a deep breath.
"Mom, take care of yourself... if you need anything, you can call me anytime."
"... Okay."
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Lu Sisi didn’t know how she managed to drive all the way back home.
After parking the car in the garage, she realized that the things she bought at the supermarket were still in the car, so she returned to the garage to retrieve them.
When she walked into the villa courtyard, the sunlight once again shone on Lu Sisi, and she finally felt a trace of warmth.
In the courtyard, Gui Geng had somehow moved a rocking chair there and was basking in the sun—according to Chen Yan, that spot was the area in the entire courtyard where the Primordial Qi was most concentrated.
It was also said by Chen Yan that, before, that spot belonged to Gu Qingyi—Gu Qingyi used to like moving a chair and sitting there.
After Gu Qingyi left, that spot once belonged to Gui Geng for a time.
But after Chen Yan brought back Big White, that spot became Big White’s.
Now that Chen Yan had taken Big White out, Gui Geng reclaimed the spot.
Well... thinking about the things at "home," the corners of Lu Sisi’s mouth gradually, little by little, reappeared with a smile.
She walked into the kitchen and looked at the stove.
The pan Lu Xiuting used to fry eggs in the morning and the plate used for serving eggs at breakfast had already been cleaned.
Probably done by Gui Geng after she left the house.
The pan hung in its original place, and the plate was stored back in the disinfection cabinet—everything was scrubbed clean.
As if the traces of that woman making breakfast at home for her had been completely wiped away.
Also... what exactly am I expecting?
More than ten years of no love, how could it possibly turn into love overnight.
The subject of neglect for over a decade suddenly turns into the object of care overnight?
Lu Sisi took a deep breath and began to take out the items from the supermarket shopping bag, putting them into the pantry, the refrigerator, and the cupboard one by one.
As she did all this, she would occasionally lift her eyes to glance outside the window at the courtyard.
That guy Gui Geng was dozing in the rocking chair, his body swaying back and forth with it.
The stove next to the kitchen, where the pans are hung, was arranged by Chen Yan—he likes to hang the commonly used pans, arranged from large to small.
On the seasoning rack, the jars of salt, sugar, and MSG still had labels hand-written by Chen Yan.
Hmm, the handwriting is pretty ugly.
Suddenly, Lu Sisi’s face blossomed into a smile.
"I don’t need to expect anything else... I already have my own home."
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The thundering sound of war drums pounded relentlessly, as if hammering into one’s very soul.
The boundless wind and snow seemed to have ceased in this area beneath Snow Cliff Pass, but the clouds above seemed to weigh ever heavier, pressing lower and lower!
Under the mountain pass, an expanse of open terrain had littered countless remains and bones!
Broken swords and spears, fallen banners, congealed into blackened clots of blood... all of these, mixed with torn bodies, shattered battle gear...
The dark mass of Fierce Beast Race encampments lay far from the city pass, clusters of tents, yet it seemed more of the Fierce Beast Race simply sat in the snowfield, group upon group.
On Snow Cliff Pass, a golden glow covered it, runes flowing within, and the guard array still stood indomitable.
Yet, an eerie sight unfolded just below the city pass, at the place where the Fierce Beast Race had established their camp.
In the four cardinal directions, four massive structures resembling wooden mountains were erected high!
Countless Evil Spirit Trees were bound together, piled up, thick ropes soaked in blood binding them into mountains!
Right beneath each wooden mountain, mighty warriors of the Fierce Beast Race surrounded them, with huge stone urns by their sides, filled with a kind of foul-smelling liquid—blood red!
The warriors of the Fierce Beast Race, in pairs, held basins as big as faces, scooping the blood from the urns, one basin at a time, and pouring it onto the wooden mountains.
Vines as thick as a human arm wrapped tightly around the wooden mountains, and the blood was poured onto the vines.
As each basin of blood was poured down, the vines would writhe and swell a bit, the surfaces of the vines seemingly cracking open innumerable tiny fissures, greedily consuming all the blood!
Thereafter, countless sharp thorns plunged into the wood of the bound Evil Spirit Trees...
Chilling air spread outwards, making the already thin Heaven and Earth Primordial Qi under Snow Cliff Pass thinner as it was gradually absorbed, devoured!!
Under the mountain pass, this region originally still had some thin primordial qi, but it was slowly turning into a spiritless area!
Just like the barren Evil Land Mountain devoid of Primordial Qi!