Chapter 129: For My Ex-Girlfriend, I Regret Cutting Open My Dao Partner to Take the Child |
Silver Sword Peak's fifth disciple of the younger generation, Yan Zidong.
Golden Core Stage cultivation.
Yan Zidong came from the Yan family of Hedong.
He and Li Feiyan of the Li family in Hedong had known each other since childhood and were mutually in love.
Unfortunately, the Li and Yan families were old enemies, and their love was doomed to fail.
Later, Yan Zidong joined Mount Shushan.
Li Feiyan joined the Xuantian Sword Sect.
Yan Zidong also found his own Dao partner.
Though she wasn’t a Mount Shushan disciple, she was innocent and kind-hearted.
Then the two fell in love and became Dao partners.
Now, they even had a child.
But Yan Zidong’s Dao partner didn’t know—he had planned from the start to cut her open and take the child to save the woman he truly loved.
Li Feiyan had a natural Yin Spiritual Root.
Though variant single spiritual roots had great potential and cultivation speed no worse than pure roots...
Some variant roots also had flaws.
For instance, Li Feiyan was a female cultivator with heavy Yin energy.
And with a natural Yin Spiritual Root on top of that.
If she continued cultivating recklessly, it would harm her life.
But if she didn’t cultivate, her path would be ruined.
She’d be stuck at Golden Core Stage, her realm and cultivation falling further and further behind.
After learning this, Yan Zidong thought of Bai Ling.
Bai Ling—Bai Ling had a natural Yang Spiritual Root.
If she bore a male child, and he cut her open to take the child, then used it as medicine!
It would cure Li Feiyan’s suffering.
But this act went against the laws of nature and violated Mount Shushan’s rules.
And after spending time with Bai Ling, Yan Zidong couldn’t bear to harm his unborn child and Dao partner.
So he kept postponing it.
But he never expected Bai Ling to be pregnant for ten years.
It was as if Heaven had given Yan Zidong ten years to think it through.
Not long ago, he ran into Li Feiyan by chance.
That encounter solidified his resolve to go through with it.
All he would lose was a child.
But Li Feiyan—his beloved—might then forge ahead and become the founder of a sect!
There would be more children in the future...
With that thought, guilt filled Yan Zidong’s gaze as he looked at his Dao partner Bai Ling.
"Zidong, these days our child keeps kicking me, it’s driving me crazy. I don’t even know when it’ll end."
Bai Ling gently rubbed her round belly and spoke to it.
"It’s been ten years already—when will it be over? You’re driving your poor mom nuts."
Yan Zidong said, "Bai Ling, what if... we didn’t keep this child?"
Bai Ling looked up in surprise, staring at Yan Zidong.
"Zidong, what are you saying!!"
"I mean... I can’t bear to see you suffer."
"Why would you say that? I’m used to it by now. Besides, I feel like our child is about to be born. I even dreamed yesterday that the baby was talking to me."
Yan Zidong pulled at the corner of his mouth. "I... was just speaking thoughtlessly."
"Don’t ever say that again."
"Alright!"
"..........."
Yan Zidong sighed with a gloomy expression.
All these years, he’d basically drowned his sorrows in alcohol.
Tried everything to convince himself and lessen the guilt.
There was no one he could talk to about this, because what he planned to do went too far against humanity.
"Bai Ling is so kind... she... she’ll understand, right?"
Yan Zidong muttered to himself.
Bai Ling was once the daughter of a wealthy merchant.
Her father was naturally kind and always taught her to be good, believing good deeds would be rewarded.
When war and famine broke out in the city, the merchant opened his granary to feed the starving.
He saved many lives, but Bai Ling’s family still met a tragic end.
After the city fell, the rebel army massacred her entire family—only the young Bai Ling survived.
After avenging her family, Bai Ling held firmly to her father’s teachings as her life’s code.
"Yeah... she’s that kind, that pure...
Sacrificing one unborn child to save someone—she should understand, maybe even support me..."
So thought Yan Zidong, when his gaze casually landed on a bookshelf by the roadside.
At that moment, Yan Zidong was standing at a stall on Menial Peak, surrounded by Mount Shushan disciples trading goods for spirit stones.
Yan Zidong looked at the book cover, the bold title glaringly obvious.
[I Regret Cutting Open My Dao Partner to Take the Child for My Ex-Girlfriend]
Yan Zidong: ...........
What an incredibly specific storybook.
He couldn’t help his curiosity and bought the book from the disciple.
The story was simple.
A male disciple, in order to cure the cold poison in his white moonlight’s body, cut open his Dao partner with a fire spiritual root and used their child as medicine.
Though there were a few small differences, the general plot was extremely similar to what he was about to do.
Yan Zidong frowned.
Could it be... a sign from Heaven?
The ending of the book’s protagonist was tragic.
He gave up his child to use as medicine for his beloved.
But after she was cured of the cold poison, she immediately abandoned him.
The man was held accountable by his sect and imprisoned until death.
Yan Zidong’s gaze grew deep, and he clenched his fists.
".........."
Night fell.
After Bai Ling had fallen asleep.
She dreamed of her child again.
"Mommy, mommy..."
Seeing a child calling her mommy, Bai Ling happily ran toward it.
But as she neared—suddenly...
"Mommy!"
Everything before her turned blood-red.
Bai Ling lay on the ground as Yan Zidong reached in and pulled out the baby.
"Ling’er, in this life, I’ve failed you!"
"........."
"Ah!!"
Bai Ling woke from her nightmare with a scream.
She clutched her aching head.
She had been having this same dream for half a month now.
In the dream, the person closest to her betrayed her.
Yan Zidong took out the baby from inside her just to use it as medicine for his beloved.
She had never told Yan Zidong about this dream.
Because she never believed he would betray her.
She figured it was just her mind being disturbed from being pregnant too long.
But just because she didn’t speak, didn’t mean she didn’t notice.
The guilt in Yan Zidong’s eyes whenever he looked at her was too obvious.
The sorrow when he drank alone...
Bai Ling didn’t dare to think about it.
Finally, one night.
Yan Zidong, drunk out of his mind, confessed everything to Bai Ling.
"I’m a beast! I’m not human—I’m a b*****d!"
"When I first approached you, it was because I noticed your Yang Spiritual Root!"
"I even wanted to use our child as medicine for Meng Yun, to save her from disaster."
"I can’t hide it from you anymore!!"
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