Chapter 766: Shen Jing Awakens
Translator: Nyoi-Bo Studio Editor: Nyoi-Bo Studio
Upon hearing what Mo Wen had to say, Shen Jing’s adoptive parents’ expressions suddenly changed drastically.
“Shen Jing is the daughter that we raised. She belongs to us, dead or alive. What gives you the right to take her away?” Shen Jing’s adoptive mother screamed.
What right did he have to take away the daughter that she had raised? She still hoped that this daughter would provide them with a wealthy life in their later years.
Furthermore, Shen Jing worked with Lin Qing and had many investments in her hands. They were well aware of that and had long coveted those a.s.sets. How could they let those a.s.sets slip away from them so easily?
“You are not qualified to be her parents. That’s it. From now on, Shen Jing has no relations.h.i.+p with either of you. You exhausted your remaining ties with her when you forced her to choose death,” Mo Wen said coldly. He could not sense any family love in the eyes of these two people. Their eyes were filled with greed and schemes.
“She is my daughter! You can’t take her away!” Shen Jing’s adoptive mother was adamant. Her potential to be a shrew was unleashed completely. This matter was related to her own benefits. Throwing all caution to the wind, she was stirring up quite a scene. She was only a step away from rolling on the ground while wailing.
“Is she your daughter?” Mo Wen coldly laughed. He plainly said, “I can also not take her away. I can ask her to continue recognizing both of you as parents. But you both must die. Do you dare to also use your death to make up for your wrongs? If you dare, I will ask Shen Jing to bury you both as your daughter.”
“You… You want to murder us! It’s illegal to murder people. You murderer. You will be punished by the law and be shot.” Shen Jing’s adoptive father was not calm either. Why was it that the more he spoke, the more threatened he felt? His back was covered in cold sweat.
“Illegal? Humph! I have ten thousand ‘illegal’ ways to murder you that can also guarantee that you will die without any trace. It will look exactly the same as a natural death. Do you believe me?” Mo Wen said as he looked at the two of them while smiling playfully.
“You demon, you murderer. You can’t do this. You will be punished…” Madam Shen was so scared that her entire body was tingling from top to bottom. She had seen the methods of these ancient martial art pract.i.tioners before. They could truly do such things. Just thinking that she may die unknowingly, she felt the sky falling down on her. Her face was deadly pale.
“Simply put, the choice is up to you. Before I change my mind, get the h.e.l.l out of here. Otherwise, I cannot be certain that I will not kill you right now,” Mo Wen said impatiently.
The two of them were terrified. They did not dare to say another word, fumbling in their haste to get out of the office. They ran as though they would die at the hands of Mo Wen, this demon, if they moved a step slower.
“What’s going on?”
Right after Shen Jing’s adoptive parents left the office, Dongfang Yi walked in and stared at Mo Wen and the rest incredulously. The current situation seemed a little off. Where were the troublemakers?
Didn’t they say Fan Junsheng had come to the hospital and was stirring up trouble? Why were there only Mo Wen, Lin Qing and a few others in the office?
“The matter has been settled. You came too late.” Lin Qing rolled her eyes at him.
“It has been settled?” Dongfang Yi was stunned. How long had it been? He merely made a call downstairs and the case had been settled?
“Most likely the Crimson Star Sect will not let this go so easily. You should stay alert. Don’t let your guard down. I have other matters of the Group that I need to attend to. I will leave first.” Lin Qing left the office after saying this to Mo Wen.
“Mo Wen…” Dongfang Yi had something else to say.
But Mo Wen had no intention of paying him any heed. Mo Wen walked straight out of the hospital, called a cab and returned to the university.
Dongfang Yi had no choice but to find Han Jiangong and Hu Tianfeng to ask them about what had happened.
“What? Mo Wen punched Fan Junsheng and crippled the cultivation of a Crimson Star Sect elder? Terrible! This is terrible. Mo Wen and his bad temper. Why can’t he change a little?” Dongfang Yi was shocked after he found out what had happened. He knew that Mo Wen was not someone to be messed with. Yet, he had never expected that Mo Wen would have done such a thing.
“The Crimson Star Sect will definitely not let this go easily. Why are all of you so impulsive?” Right now, Dongfang Yi felt utterly helpless. He had persuaded them for so long, yet his effort was useless.
“If you knew what kind of person Fan Junsheng is, you wouldn’t be able to resist punching him either. A punch cannot be retracted. Why is it that the Crimson Star Sect can bully us, yet we are not allowed to retaliate? We, the Dafang Sect, are not pushovers.” Hu Tianfeng coldly snorted. Even now, Hu Tianfeng was itching to slap Fan Junsheng to death when he thought of that brute. After he knew that Mo Wen had broken through to the Golden Elixir Realm, he had few scruples with the Crimson Star Sect.
When Mo Wen reached the university, the sun had already set. Night descended.
Qin Xiaoyou had already prepared a table full of dishes and was waiting for Mo Wen to come home and eat. Maybe it was because Mo Wen had come home that there were more dishes than usual. The table was covered in delicacies.
“What are you looking at? Is there something on my face?” Mo Wen was eating when he suddenly noticed that something was off. Why was Qin Xiaoyou poking around with her chopsticks? She had not eaten anything and was just watching him eat.
“Can’t I just watch you? You leave for a few months at a time. Normally I can’t see you even if I wanted to,” Qin Xiaoyou complained.
Mo Wen was somewhat embarra.s.sed. He lowered his head and focused on eating, not daring to say anything else.
“Mo Wen.”
“Huh?”
Qin Xiaoyou didn’t say anything.
“Yes?”
“Mo Wen…”
“Hmm.”
Qin Xiaoyou once again fell silent.
“What do you want to say?” Mo Wen was somewhat speechless. He put down his chopsticks and looked at Qin Xiaoyou. What did she want, and why was she speaking so hesitantly?
“You see, Teacher Shen Jing is sleeping in your room. Tonight, you should sleep in my room.” Qin Xiaoyou’s face instantly turned red. Her voice grew softer as she spoke. Her little hand pinched the chopsticks tightly, just short of snapping them.
“You’d better focus on practicing. What have you been thinking about?” Mo Wen coughed dryly. He understood Qin Xiaoyou’s intentions. This little girl most likely wanted to give him her most precious thing. However, she was in the growth stage of her practice, and it was not appropriate. Losing her virginity would be detrimental to her practice.
“I have not been imagining things. You have been imagining things.” Qin Xiaoyou’s face turned even redder. She was close to burying her face in her own chest.
“Alright, alright. I’m the one imagining things okay?” Mo Wen was speechless.
“That being said, the winter holidays are about to start at the university. Are you going home?” Qin Xiaoyou said while blinking.
“Going home…” Mo Wen was slightly stunned. He lowered his gaze and fell silent all of a sudden.
“What’s the matter? Did I say something wrong?” Qin Xiaoyou asked somewhat nervously when she noticed something was off with Mo Wen.
“No, it’s just that I have not gone home in a long time. I suddenly had a sense of nostalgia.”
Mo Wen shook his head. In reality, ever since his previous life’s memories had resurfaced, he had thought of going home, but a part of him did not dare to. Many times, he had forced himself to not think about going home, focusing all of his attention on practicing diligently.
With another set of memories, he suddenly did not dare to face his own mother. He knew that he had not changed and that he was still Mo Wen, the Mo Wen born in a village in the mountains. He merely had a dream, a dream of his previous life’s memories.
He was actually afraid that his mother would notice the changes in him, and that it would make his mother feel as though he was a stranger and cause an unnecessary barrier to form between their relations.h.i.+p as mother and son. It was because of this concern that he had forced himself to not think about going home.
“Then, go back. The university will be having a month off. Since you have not been home in a long time, your mother will certainly miss you. Let me follow you back, okay?”
The gaze Qin Xiaoyou gave Mo Wen was hopeful. Of course, she wanted Mo Wen to bring her back to meet his parents.
“Okay, I’ll bring you along when the holidays come.” Mo Wen nodded his head. He knew that continuing to avoid it was not a solution. Also, he had not returned home for a year. He also wanted to see his mother who was at home.
That night, Qin Xiaoyou practiced in her room. After practicing for so long, she had already developed the habit of not sleeping. Practice was the best form of rest.
Mo Wen sat in his room, looking anxiously at Shen Jing on his bed. He had once again inspected Shen Jing’s body in detail. He still could not find any problems. If he could not find the cause, he could not find a solution. Right now, Shen Jing was like a perfectly normal person who had just seemingly fallen into a deep sleep. But this sort of deep sleep was considered a sleep that was isolated from the world. No one could wake her up.
“What exactly is up with you?”
Mo Wen knocked his head, very distressed. This was the first time he had encountered such a situation. He held Shen Jing’s fair hand while staring spellbound.
“There is nothing up with me. I just don’t want to see you.” A faint voice sounded.
“If you don’t want to see me, then why are you talking to me?” Mo Wen said subconsciously.
“Then, I will continue my deep sleep. Don’t care about me forever…”
“Hey, wait! Wait a minute…”
Mo Wen suddenly realized what was going on and awakened fully. He looked at the pair of eyes that were like black gemstones that were exceptionally bright in the night. He felt ecstatic.
“I don’t want to care about you.” After saying this, the eyes began to close.
“Wait… don’t be like this.” Mo Wen was shocked. He immediately reached out to prop open those poignant eyes. He was afraid that they would close again.
“Let go!”
“I won’t let go.”
“Let go!”
“I won’t let go.”
“I won’t fall asleep, okay?”
“Haha.” Only then did Mo Wen retract his hand.
“Ruffian.” Shen Jing rolled her eyes at Mo Wen. How could there be such a man?
“Who asked you to trick me like this?” Mo Wen softly snorted. From the looks of Shen Jing’s current condition, it wasn’t that she did not have any perception at all. She most likely noticed he had returned long ago. This form of deep sleep was a deep sleep of choice, though he did not know how Shen Jing pulled it off.
“Who was tricking you? Did you know that I nearly died?” Shen Jing’s eyes started to turn red.
When her adoptive parents grounded her and forced her to marry that Fan Junsheng, she despaired so much and chose death. However, she had not expected that not only would she survive, but, by a strange turn of events, she discovered that she had the ability to go into a deep sleep that could trick everyone. When she did not want to wake up, no one could wake her up. The reason why she had chosen to continue her deep sleep was as a form of self-preservation. Only when Mo Wen returned did she choose to wake up.