He didn't know from when the gentle, doting smile had disappeared.
Every time she looked at him afterwards, her gaze was evasive, resentful, and fearful; it finally burst one day, when he accidentally hurt Mu Bai. She pushed him, cursed him, hit him, and drove him away...
After that, his mother never held his hand, hugged him, kissed him, or even praised him again!
Later, he was sent to the Mystic Sect. Housekeeper Lu said that as long as he obediently stayed and trained well at the Mystic Sect, his parents would take him back home. He believed it, and firmly remembered Housekeeper Lu's words.
Thus, when his senior brothers bullied him, he dared not fight back; when Master Xie Xianghua beat him, he dared not cry; when he was locked in a dark room for days, he dared not cry out that he was hungry; when he was used as a punching bag, he dared not even voice his pain.
