"So you weren't crippled by someone in the Bamboo Silk House but by the Sanguine Saber Sect?" Wu Ling asked, his mind and heart shaken by the series of revelations his mother had provided. Not only did he have a half-sister and a powerful sect that wished for his death, but his own mother had attempted to fight that sect to free his sister and her mother? And she'd nearly succeeded!
"I'm sorry for deceiving you all these years," Wu Ningli said, lowering her head. Keeping secrets in a sect like the Bamboo Silk House couldn't be more normal but hiding so many things from her son had left a scar in her heart. Seeing him struggle with the revelations now that everything had to come to light only made the ache worse.
