Chapter 368: Chapter 356: After Disguising Herself as a Man the Rabbit Spirit Runs Away with a Baby in Her Womb 66_3
Seeing Su Zhiruan say that, Changqi’s face suddenly paled.
Even his figure started to sway, his eyes filled with hurt, with grievance, with bewilderment, like a child being punished for a misdeed.
At that moment, he didn’t even know where to put his hands, he opened his mouth as if to explain, but upon seeing her wary eyes, he retracted his words, wounded.
In the end, Changqi merely murmured weakly, “I didn’t… I wasn’t… I just wanted to take them for a tour of the Divine World, I never intended to take them away, to separate them from you…”
The wariness in Su Zhiruan’s eyes didn’t lessen. Her biggest fear was that Changqi would suddenly appear and then take away her children. Maybe he didn’t need children by his side, but he wouldn’t allow his own blood to stay with a common Rabbit Demon like her.
As a mother, if he were to take her children away, Su Zhiruan believed without a doubt that she would go insane.
And at that moment, Shen Qingman, who was standing behind, seemed to sense something wrong, he stood up, glancing from one to the other with confusion on his face, not even knowing what exactly they were talking about.
Even though Shen Qingman’s feelings for Su Zhiruan were known to all, in reality, he had never penetrated Su Zhiruan’s inner world. She had never spoken to anyone about her past, her family life, and why she came to Shen Kingdom with her children alone. He had never asked, afraid of bringing up her sorrow, and nobody knew what Su Zhiruan had been through.
But now, this man who had appeared so suddenly was talking about things he had never heard before.
Like gods of the Divine World, for example, Shen Qingman had a faint feeling that these two were not simple, that they might not be ordinary people but beings with different identities. Even the four children’s identities might not be simple. Perhaps their tangled love and hate led to their temporary separation, but the actual connection was deep, uncuttable, inseparable.
Shen Qingman suddenly felt a profound sense of defeat. He had always thought that if he worked hard enough, he could break down Su Zhiruan’s inner defenses, enter her heart, and be with her.
But today, while she confronted this man, he saw different emotions in her eyes, emotions he had never seen before: tension, panic, and a too familiar sting.
In an instant, Shen Qingman felt he had never truly reached the heart of Su Zhiruan.
In other words, his unrequited love was just that and would never receive a response. Even without this man’s appearance, he never stood a chance.
Sometimes fate is just so ironic, he had always thought he would never fall in love with a woman.
His dream was to slay demons, to wander the lands, but no one would have thought that he would stay in Shen Kingdom for seven years because of a woman. In those seven years, he tried to engage with court affairs that he didn’t like. He interacted with courtiers he didn’t favor, entered realms he disliked, gradually falling deeper, falling in love with Su Zhiruan, only to realize he wasn’t even considered a friend to her, just someone she met by chance.
If what they were saying was true, then the man before him was a god.
The ancient texts recorded that the five supreme gods each guarded a direction, with the most revered god presiding in the center, immortal and emotionless, eternally as cold and indifferent as the day they were born.
So even in his dreams, Shen Qingman had never imagined Su Zhiruan could be connected to a god. If their conversation was true, if he hadn’t misheard, then even Lin An, Lin You, Lin Zhou, and Yun Xia, these four children, might be of divine lineage, their blood flowing with that of gods, far from ordinary people.
Thinking this, Shen Qingman fell completely into despair. He staggered back two steps, deeply aware he stood no chance against this man in any respect. All he had was his affection, but that affection would now have to be locked away, never to see the light of day again.
“Why then has the god suddenly brought up taking them to the Divine World?” Su Zhiruan’s expression unchanged, still wary of Changqi and protective of the four children, looked at Changqi, seeking an explanation.
“Mother, it was our idea,” Yun Xia stepped forward, bowing her head, taking the blame, “Mother said not to go off with strangers, so we came back to ask for Mother’s permission.”