Martial arts have become extinct worldwide, yet I am forced to have a large family.

Chapter 404 Why haven't you come to find me yet?

"Like jade!!"

Yang Xian suddenly jumped up from the sofa and was about to rush out.

"Don't rush..." Liu Qin reached out to stop him.

"Don't panic?" Yang Xian turned to look at her incredulously. "Your daughter ran out crying, and you're telling me not to panic?"

"Even if you chase after them, you should at least put your pants back on, right?"

Upon hearing this, Yang Xian looked down.

Good heavens, she was only wearing a bath towel and had her legs bare.

He frantically grabbed his pants while glaring at Liu Qin, "You're so calm! What if she does something rash?"

"No." Liu Qin tucked her stray hair behind her ear.

"I know that child's personality. Don't be fooled by her usually carefree attitude; she's actually quite timid."

"Rebellious as she may be, she can't do anything extreme."

The words say so.

But Liu Ruyu is still his girlfriend in name only, so Yang Xian can't just sit idly by!

He put on his pants even faster.

"I know you have a lot of questions you want to ask, so ask them now." Liu Qin leaned back on the sofa armrest.

Yang Xian started to speak as he pulled his pants onto his legs.

"Ruyu just said you're her mother."

"Yes."

"So you lied to me before? You said you weren't related by blood?"

"We are indeed not related by blood." Liu Qin's gaze did not waver. "She is an orphan I adopted twenty years ago."

Yang Xian recalled for a moment.

indeed.

When Liu Qin saw him off out of the city, he asked about their relationship, and Liu Qin only said, "We are not related by blood."

He didn't press for details at the time, and Liu Qin didn't offer any further explanation.

Strictly speaking, Liu Qin did not lie to him.

But they didn't tell the truth either.

"Okay, I'll let this go for now." Yang Xian grabbed his pants and kicked them up his legs. "But there's one more thing you need to explain to me."

"you say."

"How could you, a seventh-realm Martial Emperor, not know when someone gets close? You clearly had plenty of time to warn me."

Yang Xian stared into her eyes: "You did this on purpose? Why?"

"Because the relationship between the three of us will have to be laid bare sooner or later." Liu Qin put her glasses back on.

"My original plan was to wait until I had a child, and then find a suitable time to clarify things between the three of us."

"But she came back on her own today."

"Since she bumped into it on her own initiative, let's just let things take their course and save ourselves the trouble of hiding it."

Let nature take its course?

You let your daughter witness this scene firsthand and call that letting things take their course?

"Couldn't you have told me beforehand?" Yang Xian buckled his belt and straightened up.

Today's scene was indeed a bit too exciting.

Anyone who opens the door and sees their adoptive mother on top of their boyfriend would find it impossible to remain calm.

It's already a good thing they didn't go crazy with anger.

"One last question," Yang Xian said, putting on his clothes, "Why did you try to match me up with Ruyu?"

Liu Qin lowered her head, her fingers unconsciously stroking the leather surface of the sofa:

"My relationship with that child... has never been good."

"I was too busy when she was little and spent very little time with her. Later I wanted to make up for it and get closer to her, but every time I got closer, she would take a step back. I would take two steps forward and she would take three steps back."

"The more I try to fix it, the more resistant she becomes."

"In the end, I realized that I could never mend the rift between us on my own."

"So I need someone. Someone she's willing to trust and open her heart to, to build a bridge between us."

"You think that person is me?" Yang Xian finished dressing and walked towards the door.

"You are the most suitable candidate I have ever met."

"...You think too highly of me."

Yang Xian stood on the threshold, his mind a jumble of thoughts.

What's going on?

I was inexplicably drawn into a 20-year feud between a mother and daughter, and I even had to act as a mediator.

Oh no, not a mediator.

He is a man who is simultaneously dating both a mother and a daughter, and also works as a mediator.

He was trying to appease his mother upstairs and his daughter downstairs.

But things have already come to this point; Ruyu's feelings for him are genuine, and so are Liuqin's.

He can't abandon either side.

Whether you want to do it or not, you have to do it; whether you do it well or not, you still have to do it.

"I'll settle the score with you later."

Yang Xian threw down those words and strode out the door.

Behind her, Liu Qin's expression revealed a rare tenderness.

"Go quickly..."

"You absolutely have to succeed!"

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Liu Ruyu ran for a long time.

Tears blurred my vision, and the streetlights turned into clusters of orange halos.

As I ran, my pace began to slow down.

It's not that I'm tired.

A thought in my mind was growing stronger and stronger.

Liu Ruyu slowed her pace and glanced back.

The road was deserted; there was no one there.

Under the streetlights, only her elongated shadow remained.

That thought became a needle, piercing her heart.

He didn't chase after him.

Liu Ruyu withdrew her gaze and bit her lower lip.

"Yang Xian, you bastard..."

"Why haven't you come to find me yet?"

"Does he really not want me anymore?"

Liu Ruyu wiped her eyes, her mind starting to drift toward the worst possible outcome.

On one side is the youngest seventh-realm Martial Emperor in Star City, the chief of the Mecha Research Institute, who is good-looking, beautiful, and powerful.

On one side is a student from Sanjing who skips classes all day, gets into fights, and gets punished.

If she were Yang Xian, she would also know who to choose.

Even a fool would know that.

"snort."

Liu Ruyu sniffed hard and quickened her pace.

"So what if Yang Xian doesn't choose me!"

"I can live a perfectly good life on my own!"

They spoke with great conviction.

But with each step she took, she couldn't help but strain her ears to hear if there were any footsteps behind her.

No.

Liu Ruyu's eyes welled up with tears again.

She started counting down in her mind.