"What do you mean, 'my mother will be fine too'?" Ji Zeqiu's gaze fixed intently on her.
"Is there a possibility that she didn't die?" Lin Xu said.
"Not dead..." Ji Zeqiu's throat tightened, his heart clenched suddenly, and he said in a daze, "How is that possible? They've all been buried... If she really didn't die, why didn't she come to find us when we were struggling so much in the past?"
"Maybe she wasn't able to find you at that time, but now she can," Lin Xu explained.
The volume of Ji Zeqiu's voice suddenly rose, his throat so dry it hurt, "When we needed her the most before, she wasn't there, and now that I don't need her anymore, why should she show up!"
The hand at his side clenched into a fist, the nails digging fiercely into his palm, piercing the fragile skin and letting blood seep out.
