136: Chapter 136: Painful Decision 136: Chapter 136: Painful Decision A mother’s smile, the congratulations from brothers and sisters, wasn’t that everything Ye Xuan had once wanted?
On the wedding night.
Xia Qingzhu was shy, her head lowered.
When Ye Xuan blew out the red candlelight, the bridal chamber burst into boundless springtime hues.
From the hospital delivery room came the painful cries of Xia Qingzhu.
As the sound of a baby’s cry was heard, Ye Xuan rushed excitedly into the delivery room, accompanied by his mother and others.
Ye, congratulations, it’s a boy,” the doctor congratulated him, handing the infant to Ye Xuan.
Ye Xuan, now a father for the first time, was too excited to contain himself.
He took the baby clumsily, his face filled with pure joy.
Xia Qingzhu spoke weakly, prompting Ye Xuan to quickly approach his wife with the baby, happy as a child.
“Qingzhu, look quickly, this is our child.”
Xia Qingzhu nestled in Ye Xuan’s arms, her expression full of contentment, “Husband, this is our child, let’s name him Ye Xiaoxuan.”
Ye Xuan murmured to himself, then rapidly nodded in agreement, “Yes, yes, let’s call him Ye Xiaoxuan.”
Time flew by in the blink of an eye.
The days passed one by one, Ye’s mother was delighted daily with her grandchild, Ye Xuan’s career was booming, his wife was graceful and virtuous, taking excellent care of the home.
His siblings were both married, and Ye Xuan himself was so engrossed in life he couldn’t extricate himself.
In the year Ye Xuan turned fifty, he was already graying at the temples.
His son had grown up, found his own partner!
Ye’s mother was growing old, her brother and sister had children of their own.
The once troubled family finally branched out, leading a peaceful and happy life.
At the age of sixty, Ye Xuan already had a head full of white hair, his aged face wrinkled like the bark of an old tree, indicating he was entering his twilight years.
That same year, Ye Xuan finally held his grandson, but it was also this year that a serious illness struck, leaving him bedridden.
In the luxurious villa.
Ye Xuan’s eyes were lifeless, his body unable to move an inch.
He was wrapped in medical tubes, an oxygen mask over his mouth supplying him with an abundance of oxygen to sustain his fading life.
By his side were his aged mother, the siblings he vowed to protect his whole life, and his beloved wife and children.
With his family surrounding him, sobs and cries, a wave of sadness spread across the villa.
“Grandpa, please don’t leave Xu’er,” a young girl clutched Ye Xuan’s aged hand, sobbing.
“Dad, rest assured, I have sought out the best doctors; they are on their way,” Ye Xiaoxuan said with a mournful expression.
“Xuan’er, you won’t die,” said Ye’s mother, with tears streaming from her cloudy eyes.
“Brother,” Ye Ling’er and her sibling choked out.
“Husband, how can you be so heartless, to abandon Qingzhu?” Xia Qingzhu cried in sorrow.
Ye Xuan’s eyes were cloudy as he dazedly looked at the relatives around him.
He kept recalling his life.
He married and had children, was filial to his parents, cared for his siblings, and at the end of his life, even had his grandchildren by his side.
By all accounts, his life should have been perfect.
Yet, Ye Xuan did not understand why there was a trace of unwillingness in his heart, feeling as though he had lost something very important!
This thing was important to him, as if it had disappeared when he was fourteen.
As Ye Xuan tried hard to think what he had lost, as his heart’s beating grew weaker, he still couldn’t remember what it was.
Struggling to breathe, suffering from heart failure, Ye Xuan was surrounded by the scent of death, his body growing colder.
His eyes began to lose focus, and it wouldn’t be long before he left this world.
The loved ones surrounding Ye Xuan had no longer the faces of sorrow; instead, a sinister smile crept onto their faces as bloodshot eyes stared at Ye Xuan.
Ye Xuan asked himself repeatedly as death approached.
“Yes, I’m really going to die.
I’ve lived a lifetime of glory and wealth, with children and grandchildren all around me; I should be content!”
why is my heart telling me…
something very important to me…!”
Ye Xuan’s brain felt as if it were being pierced by needles, causing him agonizing pain, but he endured the agony and desperately tried to recollect his life.
“Is the person lying on the bed really me?”
“No, he isn’t me, no, he truly is me!”
Ye Xuan screamed in pain, his words sounding like nonsense, but at that moment, an extremely terrifying demon light steamed from his body, and the surrounding space burst into violent explosions.
Such a scene caused the complexions of the relatives around Ye Xuan to change drastically, their eyes venomous yet showing extreme panic, as if things were slipping out of their control.
“Xuan, you can go in peace, having you as my son in this life, I’m truly content.”
“Brother, don’t worry, I and your second brother will take care of your children and grandchildren.
Even if you leave this world, we will treat them as our own.”
“Husband, after you leave, Qingzhu will come to join you, and in the next life, we shall be husband and wife again.”
Warm words were spoken, yet they made the demon light around Ye Xuan grow even more dreadful.
A thunderous explosion, Heaven and Earth collapsed.
A beam of demon light seemed to shatter the ancient and modern world, as if it broke the barrier of time and space.
Ye Xuan suddenly opened his eyes, his wrinkled skin smoothed out, his pale hair turned jet black, and his body, crafted like glaze, emitted a radiance it never had before.
“I am Ye Xuan, I am the Undying Venerable, I am the man destined to ascend to the Nine Heavens and oversee all creatures.”
The void collapsed, Heaven and Earth exploded, Ye Xuan roared to the sky, the sky-reaching demon light bursting around him, his hair flying wildly, his entire being reaching the peak of frenzy.
how is this possible?”
Ye’s mother turned deathly pale and let out a piercing scream, yet her voice was extremely shrill.
“This world feels so real, so real that I almost perished in this Heart Demon Tribulation,” Ye Xuan said, his eyes drooping, his body trembling.
By just a little bit, truly by a hair’s breadth, Ye Xuan, if not for a sudden resurgence, would have almost fallen within the Heart Demon Illusion Realm.
Ye’s mother let out a strange laugh, and the faces of the other close relatives turned sinister, a chilly voice echoing in Ye Xuan’s ears.
“Ye Xuan, even if you have awakened, what of it?”
“Your heart tells us, you cannot break the Heart Demon Illusion Realm we created; your greatest weakness is the attachment to your family.
If you want to escape from here, you must kill your loved ones by your own hand.”