227 Ch. 227 Anxiaâs Parents
âYouâre right. I brought you here on purpose because I wanted something.â
Somehow Anxia still felt surprised to hear the confirmation answer from her mother. She had suspected that her mother had an ulterior motive for bringing her here, but she had no idea that her suspicions were correct.
âWould you like to help me?â
âLetâs hear it first.â Neither did Anxia agree or refuse itâshe was curious about what her mother wanted her to do.
âHave you ever heard of Hawkeye?ân/o/vel/b//in dot c//om
âNo. What about it?â
âHawkeye is a program which all dark hunters are most coveted.â
Dark hunters? This was also the first time Anxia had heard this term.
âIf someone has Hawkeye, that person can see the world without lifting his finger, and that person can change the world economy as easily as turning a palm. And also, most importantly, that person can make all the people he hates live miserable in this world.â
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âI donât understand. Why can an ordinary program change the world economy or make peopleâs lives miserable? Isnât this unreasonable?â
âXiao Xia, you havenât joined the underworld for a long time. Naturally, you know nothing about the most update news. If your friend hadnât died, maybe it would be different.â
âMy friend?â
âThe friend who always accompanies you, whatâs her name? Li Mei? Ling Ling?â
ââ¦â Anxia knew whom her mother talked about. âIt looks like youâve not only been watching over Lori these past five years, but youâve been watching me too?â
âYou could say that.â
âSince when?â
âWhat?â Loraine Shu pretended not to understand what her daughter was asking even though she already knew what answer Anxia wanted.
âSince when did you watch over me?â Anxia clarified her question with an even tone but cold eyes.
âWho knows,â replied the mother indifferently and did not seem to care or be afraid of her daughterâs gaze. âPerhaps since you were with master Yu?â
Anxiaâs hands clenched upon hearing this. âSo... you already know master Yu captured me, yet you did nothing?â
âXiao Xia, donât misunderstand me. I already knew you were in master Yuâs hands, but at that time, I couldnât do anything about it. I had no power and was alone. So I was forced to let him take you and train you. Now, I have the power I desire; thatâs why I was able to bring you here.â
âWho are you?â
âI am your mother.â That was the short answer given by the mother in an extraordinarily casual tone. âXiao Xia, donât you want to meet your father?â
ââ¦â This woman shifted their conversation. Noted Anxia.
There was something that this woman was hiding; Anxia was very sure of it. âOkay. Where is he?â
Loraine Shu smiled broadly, then extended a hand towards her. âCome on, follow me. Weâre going to visit your father.â
Anxia glanced at her motherâs open palm and put her hand down hesitantly.
Cold. It was uncomfortably cold. As Anxia recalled, her motherâs hand felt warm and soothed her restless heart. But her motherâs hand was cold this time, and she felt like a stranger.
Is⦠her mother not her old mother anymore? Has she lost her warm and gentle mother? Even though Anxia didnât like the touch of her motherâs skin, she still didnât resist and let her mother hold her hand.
The two walked towards a room where a distinct medicinal smell assaulted his nostrils.
As soon as the bedroom door was opened, Anxiaâs eyes filled with tears when she saw a skinny and helpless man lying down, filled with various kinds of aids.
Without waiting for her motherâs explanation, Anxia broke away from her motherâs hand and walked over to her fatherâs bed. She had seen another woman standing at her fatherâs bedside, but she didnât care. All she cared about was she wanted to see her father.
On her own initiative, Anxia held her fatherâs hand gently, and suddenly her heart felt like crying.
Her fatherâs hand was as skinny as bone and its weight as light as a feather. Anxia had to restrain her power not to break her fatherâs hand bones.
âDad, what happened to you?â Anxiaâs heart screamed to see how helpless her prideful father was now.
âWhat happened? I heard he died in prison, and you committed suicide in a mental hospital.â Anxiaâs heart seemed to be sliced ??seeing her fatherâs condition, so she accidentally lowered her defenses and asked her mother.
âMr. Wongâs men beat up your father to death and almost died in there. If not for someone managed to save him and get him out of jail, Iâm afraid I would lose him too. However, your father has been hit in the head so many times that he has a severe concussion. Since then, your father has been in a coma until this second. When it comes to me killing myself⦠it was because of her help.â Loraine glanced at the woman who had accompanied her husband, making Anxia pay close attention to the foreign woman.
âShe isâ¦â
âShe was my old school friend. She visited me as soon as she found out I was in a mental hospital, and I convinced her I wasnât sick, and we planned an escape together. You could say she was my savior. Isnât that so, Jamie?â
The foreign woman named Jamie only gave a faint smile and then looked at Anxia gently... it felt as if... Jamie was her mother, instead of Loraine Shu, who looked at Anxia as if she was only a tool to get what Loraine wanted.
âAh, I almost forgot. She canât talk, so you have to communicate with her through hand language or wait for her to write something down if she wants to talk to you.â
Once again, Anxia glanced at Jamie and investigated her from head to toe. Somehow she did not like this woman, and it wasnât that this woman had saved her mother but that she felt that the other woman cared too much for her father.
Jamie seemed far more concerned about her fatherâs condition than Loraine, who relaxed despite watching her husband lie unconscious for years.
âThen why is she here? Why is she in my dadâs room?â
Anxia, ??who has sharp hearing, heard Jamieâs gasp of surprise as if his cynical tone hurt her. Of course, Anxia didnât care because she didnât want to see any other woman besides her father. Even though she didnât feel comfortable with her mother at the moment, Anxia believed that she would love her mother again with time.
âXiao Xia, I am the leader here, and I have many things to take care of. I donât have time to take care of your dying father. Thatâs why I asked her to look after your father while I was busy. After all, she is also willing to help me in exchange for me giving her my home and protection.â
âBut⦠Never mind. From now on, I will accompany him here. So I donât need her.â
âNo. I have a task for you rather than watching you idle here.â
Anxiaâs brow furrowed at this. So Loraine Shu wanted to use her immediately??