The cold wind blows in and the snow howls.
The woman didn't care about this. Seeing the man's fierce look, her body trembled and she subconsciously protected the baby in her arms.
The drunk man's eyes were very red.
It's so red it's almost cannibalistic.
Tremblingly, he raised the hatchet in his hand, as if he wanted to chop the mother and child in front of him into pieces.
Can……
Even though his eyes were full of resentment and humiliation, he didn't dare to take action. Even though he was drunk, he still couldn't hide the cowardice in his bones.
Bang!
The hatchet swung down heavily and struck the firewood nearby, and then... as if to vent the anger in his heart, he got out of control.
"Bitch!"
"Son of a bitch!"
"Bitch!!"
"Son of a bitch!!"
"..."
Sawdust flying, accompanied by insults one after another, made the atmosphere in this small woodshed even more depressing.
Gu Han watched all this calmly.
He knew that this little baby was Luo Wannian, but he did not take action, let alone stop the drunkard. After all, this was not a river of time, but an illusion created by Luo Wannian. No matter what he did, he could not change what had happened.
established fact.
He was just a little curious.
"Is this your father?"
"In name only."
"name?"
"My father-in-law was powerful and had disciples all over the world. The father-in-law was suppressed and he was depressed. He used wine to relieve his sorrow. He met a maid and... took possession of her by force."
A few words.
Luo Wannian has already told what happened and his origins.
"Then what?"
Gu Han asked again.
"Then?"
Luo Wannian said quietly: "There is no airtight wall in the world. This matter quickly spread throughout the Duke's house. How did the Duke get his title? You should know that the mistress is fierce and ordered my mother to be imprisoned."
Get up, and even...my nominal father, Luo Si, is also implicated."
Gu Han was stunned.
This drunkard was Luo Si. No wonder the other party had such a big reaction. After all, this kind of thing... no one can bear it.
"Do you think he is innocent?"
"A little."
"Not at all actually."
Luo Wannian said seriously: "Don't you think it's strange why my father-in-law met so many people when he was drunk, but he met my mother instead?"
"Could it be..."
Gu Han looked surprised!
"He arranged it."
Luo Wannian said again: "The coincidence that everyone thought was actually not a coincidence, it was just a deliberate push by a thoughtful person behind the scenes."
"It's him?"
"Who else could it be?"
Luo Wannian said softly: "He thought that by doing this he could please the father-in-law and get a better job, but he didn't expect that it would be self-defeating and my mother would become pregnant... Naturally, everything he wanted was also given to him.
No, he was even implicated for it.”
"..."
Gu Han suddenly fell silent.
Glancing again at Luo Si, who kept venting on the pyre, he sighed: "Damn it."
"He deserves to die."
Luo Wannian said indifferently: "But...he is not the only one who deserves to die."
"Who else?"
"Everyone."
Luo Wannian said indifferently: "Everyone deserves to die, including myself!"
Gu Han frowned.
He had met Luo Wannian several times, and this was the first time he had seen such a paranoid and extreme side of him.
"so what?"
He sighed: "Why did you let me see all this? To make me sympathize with you?"
"No."
Luo Wannian said: "I don't deserve sympathy, not at all! You said before that you are more suitable to follow the path of sentient beings than me. I admit that you are right."
"Can……"
Changing the subject, he added: "If we were to change places and you were me, would you still be able to walk on this road? Or rather, how else could you walk on this road?"
Gu Han said nothing.
Continue to look at everything in front of you.
boom!
boom!
…
Sawdust was flying, Luo Si's curses, the baby's cries, and even the woman's pleas were mixed together, turning into strands of resentment, and quietly disappeared into the surrounding area.
Regarding this.
Gu Han didn't notice it.
He only knew that in this Duke's Mansion, which almost symbolized the pinnacle of power in the world, two babies were born at the same time on this day. One was the little prince who was aloof and loved by thousands of people. The other was almost frozen to death and was looked at.
Like, a bastard destined to live a very difficult life.
…
time flies.
Unknowingly, five years have passed in the fantasy world, and Gu Han has also stayed in this palace for five years, as if he has completely integrated into it, becoming an invisible and transparent person, witnessing the rise and fall of this place.
Honor and disgrace, and... the filth and nastiness hidden beneath the superficial pomp.
It’s the end of the year and the new year is approaching.
The Duke's Mansion was decorated with lights and colorful decorations, making it very lively, but in this old woodshed, which had been in disrepair, under the dim candlelight, there was a mother and her son who were suffering from cold and hunger.
"Mom...I'm so cold and hungry."
Nestling in the woman's arms, the five-year-old child looked at the lights in the distance and smelled the faint aroma of the food. His mind was dizzy and he had no strength at all.
"..."
The woman was silent.
In the past five years, she carried water to wash clothes, chopped firewood and cooked rice... she almost tried her best and did the dirtiest and most tiring work in the Duke's mansion. But every time she just brought back a few coins and a few mouthfuls of food, she would be taken away.
After all the food was eaten, it was already a miracle that the child could be raised. Where would he have the remaining money to exchange for food?
As for the other people in the house.
With the Duke's wife here and everyone trying to avoid them, who would dare to come to their aid?
"Mom, I'm hungry."
When the woman didn't answer, the child thought she didn't hear clearly and said something else.
"wait……"
The woman stood up with difficulty and staggered toward the door. Halfway through, she suddenly stopped as if she thought of something.
"You remember."
She turned to look at the child, her expression less loving than usual and more stern: "From today on, you can no longer call me a bastard, and you can't answer when others call you."
"Why?"
The child was a little strange: "Isn't that what they all call me?"
Ever since he can remember.
Except for the woman in front of him, everyone, including Luo Si, had only one name for him.
Bastard.
He has long been accustomed to it.
A trace of sadness suddenly flashed in the woman's eyes: "This is not a name that a person should call."
"people?"
The boy cheered up and asked strangely: "Am I not a human being?"
"..."
The woman suddenly fell silent.
"you are human!"
After a moment, she spoke again with a firm tone: "You are an upright person!"
"Yeah?"
The child thought seriously, and after a moment he said blankly: "But if I'm not called a bastard, what should I be called?"
The woman was startled.
She didn't know a few words, and she only remembered a piece of writing she had seen when she first entered the Duke's Mansion. It had been read out, and she had always remembered it in her mind.
"Ten thousand years."
Thinking of this, she said softly: "From today on, your name is Wannian...Luo Wannian."
To this day.
She still remembered the content of the words, because it was not complicated, only seven words.
Flowers bloom and bring wealth and honor for thousands of years.
This chapter has been completed!