“Nobody will love you.
No one will treat you sincerely.”

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Xiu Niang smiled and pulled back his hand.

His lips were daubed with lip color bought by Shen Shiliu. Her pale and dignified face became more beautiful than before, resembling a flower that fully absorbed blood.

“I know that you are also wondering about this problem. Because today we have a chance, let’s make it clear; you’re actually not my biological child,” Xiu Niang said. “Does your heart feel better after hearing this?”

Chang Geng’s eyes trembled slightly; he is young and has not yet learned how to hide his emotions.

In this world, no matter how good a friend is or how good a teacher is, no one can replace a mother. Even a father can’t 一 not because Chang Geng never craved a mother, only sometimes, despite knowing that your hopes will never come true but still refusing to accept your fate, that would be the most painful of everything. Even he will feel sorry for himself.

Chang Geng has thought many times; he could never be Xiu Niang’s biological son. Now, he suddenly got the answer. His heart felt nothing but emptiness that he himself did not understand.

The premonition in Chang Geng’s heart gradually became stronger and he was immediately alert, “Why are you suddenly saying this?”

Xiu Niang looked at his own face in the mirror. Maybe that too much powder had made her face a little pale, so she carefully took a little lip color and applied it evenly on her cheeks.

“‘Chang Geng’ is the childhood name I gave you,” Xiu Niang said. “People from the Central Plains have the saying; ‘Qi Ming to the east, Chang Geng to the west.’ It rises in the twilight, head of the slaughter, unpleasant. What flows in your body is the most noble blood in the world but also the dirtiest blood. Born to be a disaster monster, there is no other name that is more fitting than this name. “

• [东 有 启明 ， 西 有 长庚 Dōng yǒu qǐmíng, xī yǒu chánggēng] 一 Chang Geng ([长庚] literally means “Excellent West One” the English name Lucifer or Hesperus (长庚 星)), as mentioned in the first chapter , is how the ancient Chinese people referred to the planet Venus when it appeared at dusk (Venus night); unlucky star. Whereas Qi Ming ([启明] Brightness Opener; Vesper or Phosphorus (启明星)) refers to morning Venus.

Chang Geng coldly replied, “Aren’t I the result you got when you wandered into the western mountains and were captured by bandits? Even ten fingers can’t count the number of ‘fathers’ I have 一 son of a prostitute and bandit, what glory is that are you talking about? “

Xiu Niang was stunned for a moment. He did not look back.

A little pain ran through his expressive eyes.

But the trail quickly disappeared and fell into composure.

Chang Geng’s earliest memory is in the mountain bandits’ hideout. Xiu Niang always locked it in an old musty wooden cabinet.

Through small cracks of rotten wood, young and small Chang Geng could see the drunken mountain bandits burst in.

The cruel and savage people beat or whipped him right in front of little Chang Geng’s eyes.

At first, the bandits were very strict about guarding Xiu Niang. Slowly, seeing that he was very weak and fragile and did not know how to refuse or defend himself, they became more lax towards him. Then they even let him out and made him serve them like the other old servants in their camp. Xiu Niang poisoned all the wells and hundreds of wine altars, even God didn’t know how he could have that much poison.

He used a small bowl to take poison well water then drank it to Chang Geng. However, after he had completely swallowed it, Xu Niang looked like he was regretting it and was desperately reaching into his throat to make him regurgitate again.

Xiu Niang put the half-dead Chang Geng into a bamboo basket and carried it on his back, a steel knife held in his hand. If there is someone who is not dead, he will advance to stab them.

Chang Geng remembered that he was wearing a long red dress stained with blood. He used oil and Ziliujin which was secretly kept by the head of the bandits to burn the place to the ground and then go with him.

In his short life span of more than ten years, Xiu Niang has tried to kill him many times; gave him poisoned wine, stabbed him with a knife, tied him to a horse then dragged him, and even in the middle of countless nights, there were times when he jerked awake and found that his limbs were helpless, it was Xiu Niang who tried to strangle him with a blanket. …

But every time, Xu Niang would always stop right in front of a cliff, guarding his weak life.

It also left him with an unrealistic fantasy.

Chang Geng said with as much calm as he could muster, “You think too much, I never thought of you as my mother. But I always felt that the reason you hated me was because I was a stain left by the bandits to you.”

Xiu Niang sat in front of the mirror, her face becoming increasingly pale and pale. After a long time, he suddenly sighed, “Little boy, I have wronged you.”

At that moment, thousands of layers of Chang Geng’s defense and hatred almost collapsed; He then realized that the complaints he had from his childhood until now could be easily resolved with just this simple sentence.

The fourteen-year-old boy used all his strength to hold back his tears, then asked wearily, “What do you want to achieve by saying this now? Does your conscience tell you to detoxify me? Or just kill me?”

Xiu Niang looked at him with a strange expression as if the child was a valuable artifact, “You know …”

Chang Geng, “I know very well that from the day we arrived in Yanhui City, there wasn’t a time when I didn’t have nightmares. Even if it was only napping during the day, I would still wake up from nightmares.”

The night before was the only exception 一 Chang Geng’s mind was lost for a moment. He suddenly regretted that he was angry with Shiliu.

Chang Geng, “I have never achieved great achievements, but I have also never committed immorality, how can there be so many ghosts coming to knock on my door at midnight? Or is there a strange disease that causes nightmares every night?”

A smile that looked evil and unusual formed on his bright red lips, his eyes slowly fell on the iron wristband that was exposed on Chang Geng’s wrist. There was a sharp glint in his eyes, like a pair of poisoned arrows, “What else do you know?”

Chang Geng involuntarily pulled the iron wristband around his wrist into his sleeve, as if even the woman’s gaze could contaminate the object.

“I also know that outside the city two years ago, the wolves that were chasing me did not come by themselves, they were summoned. That is a warning to me, a warning that I cannot run from you, that you have many ways to finish me, right?”

Chang Geng quietly said, “Only barbarians know how to manipulate wolves. After we arrived in Yanhui City, you have been in contact with barbarians. I have a suspicion that you are also a barbarian woman. That was when you locked me in in the closet, I see a man coming to tear your clothes. There is a wolf symbol on your chest. “

Xiu Niang laughed softly, “Barbarians … you really call us barbarians …”

His laughter kept getting louder and louder until he finally ran out of breath.

Xiu Niang’s sharp laugh suddenly ended. He grabbed his chest and coughed roughly. Chang Geng instinctively raised his hand as if he wanted to try to help him, but he pulled it back when he realized his actions, his fingers forming a fist.

Traces of blood flowed out through Xiu Niang’s fingers and landed on her soft yellow dress with a shocking purple-black color.

Chang Geng was astonished. In the end he stepped forward, “You ….”

Xiu Niang took her arm and tried with all her might to straighten her back, trembling like a leaf that wilts under a gust of cold wind. He took a piece of the jade pendant from the bottom of his face makeup box and pushed it into Chang Geng’s hands, smearing it all with his blood.

His face was snow white, the blood smeared on his lips more dazzling than the coloring of the lips themselves, he glared at Chang Geng with a pair of red eyes, “My name is not Xiu Niang, it is the name of your Central Plains women. I am called Hu Ge Er, which means Ziliujin in the heart of the earth …. “

He choked on his own words. After a painful coughing process, he spouted blood, coloring the front of Chang Geng’s robe in red.

“Ziliujin … poor thing.” The woman let out a strange cry, her breathing gradually becoming erratic. “My sister is a Goddess of Longevity, even the Wolf King worshiped her, you …

“You are a strange little creature that I raised with my own two hands.” He laughed dying, “No one will love you, no one will treat you sincerely …”

He struggled to hold Chang Geng’s wrist. His sharp nails pierced his flesh and an iron wristband on the boy’s arm, “This is Yun Pan’s wristband, part of the Black Armor 一 mainly made by the dark devil from the Black Iron Camp, who gave you this? Huh?”

Chang Geng immediately pushed him away as if he had just been burned.

The woman fell to the dressing table and curled up, her charming phoenix eyes widened, the whites of her eyes caused fear in someone’s heart.

“You have the ‘Bone of Impurity’ I put personally on you. I have given it the Chinese dialect name, it is also called ‘Chang Geng’.

“Does that … sound good?”

His face shook violently, blood and white foam mingled together and dripped on his lips, his voice not clear, but that did not prevent Chang Geng’s hearing.

“‘Bone of Impurity’ is no match, no one can detect it, no one can cure it … One day, you will grow up to be the most powerful warrior in the world, and you will also begin to be unable to distinguish between nightmares and reality. You will be a cruel crazy person 一 “

Chang Geng stood in the same place; he felt that these incomprehensible words could freeze all the bones in his body.

“The Goddess’s blood also flows in my chest. I will bless you with the power of unlimited longevity. You … In your whole life, you will only have hatred and mistrust in your heart. You must be rude and destructive. Disasters will fall into Wherever you go … Everyone in your life will never … meet … with an ending that … “

The word “good” escaped his lips, and the woman’s body jerked loudly. As if he had been hit with something, he slowly turned his head to look at the small deodorizer that hung beside the bed. There is a totem for peace in it. On one occasion when Xu Baihu returned from work, he had prayed at a temple outside the city and gave it to him as a gift.

The woman’s eyelashes gently trembled, and suddenly it seemed to be filled with tears. Tears washed away the malice in his eyes, at that moment they looked almost soft. But that is just a momentary tenderness.

The pupils contract like lights running out of oil. Death hangs in the air. The woman in beautiful makeup exhales her last breath along with the most ferocious curses in the world, then with the last bit of warmth, she falls.

No one will love you, no one will treat you sincerely. Throughout your life, you will only have hatred and suspicion in your heart. You will commit violence and murder. You will bring disaster to every place you pass. You are destined to attract everyone you know to death.

In the raging fire on a hot summer’s night, Chang Geng stared blankly at the body wearing beautiful clothes on the dressing table, holding his blood-soaked iron wristband in a daze.

Why did he have to kill himself?

Why does he hate it so much? Why did he have to raise him until now?

… What is Camp Iron Black wristband?

In the end, who is Shen Shiliu?

The curse of Xiu Niang seems to have taken effect. The initial trust that a child has for the world comes from the love and attention of his parents, but this is something that Chang Geng has never felt.

Even though he was born generous and benevolent, but when forced to face doubts and suspicions again and again, he still resembled an injured dog that ran away with his tail between his legs.

Even if he craved and wanted the warmth of a family like that, he would still continue to push him in fear.

Chang Geng suddenly flinched with a strong urge 一 he had to meet Shen Shiliu. He had to ask Yifu directly, what kind of great character was he? What intention does he have?

However, before he could step out of the room that smelled of pungent blood, he was already scared.

“That’s right,” Chang Geng suddenly thought, “From the vast knowledge sometimes accidentally said by Teacher Shen, how could he be just a student who was desperate and never passed an exam?”

Although Shen Shiliu spent day after day relaxing around, he held the courtesy of the descendants of noble families. Even if he’s lodged under someone’s roof, you won’t be able to see the slightest bit of poverty in him … How could he possibly be a normal person?

These things should have been clear from the start, but when he closed his eyes, he could not help but think of the figure of Shen Shiliu who was supporting his head with one hand, watching him when he was sick.

If it’s also an expression of fake affection 一

The old maid who was trying to peek saw that the door had opened. He immediately came with a smile, “Young master, today …”

Chang Geng looked at him, his eyes red.

The old maid was frightened by her eyes. It took a while for him to calm down, he patted his chest and complained, “What are you doing 一.”

He wasn’t finished talking when he saw the view in the room.

The old maid froze in place, then she took three steps back and fell to the ground. Inhuman screams immediately left his throat.

At the same time, an ear-piercing warning siren suddenly rang out in the city.

No one knows who made the alarm sound on the tower. The two foot high whistle carried white smoke that had been tinged with Ziliujin and flew toward the sky, its voice resembling ripples of water, spreading for thirty or forty miles, breaking through the peace and tranquility of Yanhui City which had survived for fourteen years.

Shen Yi was burying his head in repairing steel armor when suddenly, he heard the Shen family door being kicked open from the outside. Shen Yi raised her head and immediately grabbed the sword that had been removed from the steel armor.

“It’s me,” Shen Shiliu whispered.

Shen Yi lowered his voice, “Barbarians have made their movements faster than we thought?”

This sentence is short and low, but the “half-deaf” Shiliu heard it without missing a word, “There are Barbarian spies on the ship. The people on the returning ship are not our people.”

Shen Shiliu spoke while moving into the inner room without delay. He raised his hand and cut the bed in half. There is nothing underneath.

But, a set of dark iron armor was actually hidden under a wooden plank.

Shen Shiliu’s hand deftly opened the hidden dark space inside the chest of steel armor and took the Black Iron emblem. His cold ingredients scattered a cold blue glow through his fingers.

He immediately turned around, his back which normally lacked power now resembled an iron spear.

The wind that blew outside the wide open door lifted his thin, light white robe and only swept over his shoulder as though intimidated by the killing intent issued by him.

Shiliu, “Ji Ping.”

‘Ji Ping’ is the name Shen Yi that has never been called in front of outsiders before. On normal days, the two often quarrel about domestic matters as close as siblings. However, at this moment, Shen Yi took a step back and quickly moved into a kneeling position, “Your subordinates are present.”

“Because they came so quickly, we can take advantage of the confusion and easily pull this web 一 I entrust you with the Fourth Prince. First, take him out of the city.”

Shen Yi, “Understood.”

Shen Shiliu quickly grabbed an outer coat and sword by his bedside, then immediately turned to leave.

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