2 Death from heartbreak?

"Mother…. Please don't leave me!!"

Speaking with tears threatening to flow out of his sharp black eyes, Li Feng was using all of his strength to hold onto his mother's robes in hopes of her never leaving.

Squeezing her fists tightly and bearing with the pain her heart felt from seeing how pitiful the young twelve-year-old looked, Xinya coldly slapped the small hands which were holding onto her clothes.

"Let go! Do you think someone as weak as you is allowed to touch me?!"

Doing her best to not show her real feelings, Xinya's face was completely expressionless as she looked towards her son whose young face was covered in tears by now.

"Mothe…"

"Silence! You're not worthy of calling me that!"

With the streams of tears flowing down even more furiously, Li Feng didn't know why his own mother hated him so much.

He always did everything she asked him to.

Regardless of what she taught him, he never once failed to learn it.

Every test she conducted to measure how hard he worked, he always excelled at it in hopes of not disappointing her.

But… But no matter how hard he worked, she would always look at him with those cold eyes as if he wasn't her son and rather her worst bane.

Why?!! What did he ever do to deserve this!!!

For the past twelve years, he did everything possible in hopes of seeing her smile at least once but nothing ever worked.

As for why his own mother treated him like this, Li Feng had no answer.

Even when it was revealed that his Spirit Root was revealed to be higher than Sky Grade, all his mother did was look at him as if he wasn't a complete eyesore.

WHY?!!!

If there was one thing which Li Feng could think about, it would be due to who his father was.

Given how Xinya treated Yao Cheng, there was no way that Li Feng didn't know that she hated him to her bone. But what did that have to do with him?!!! Was it his fault that he was that man's son?!!

"Humph! Crying like a little girl, how disappointing."

"Mother… I…"

"Don't call me that!!!"

Flinching in fear, Li Feng took a step back while continuing to look at Xinya with both fear and longing.

"What good can come for me from having an inferior son like you? You are destined to be a local snake who'll never know how big the world is!"

"Here, take this!"

"Once you realize your own inferiority, you can use the wealth inside it to live a useless mortal life!"

Throwing a ring towards Li Feng, Xinya's eyes drifted somewhere else and sent a secret signal to someone.

Turning around and flying to the sky, Xinya spared Li Feng one last glance before she continued flying away with a determined look.

"MOTHERRRRRRRRRRR!!!!"

Ignoring the loud pain-filled cry, Xinya didn't stop flying and disappeared from the world itself leaving her own son behind.

....

Squeezing the bright red scale which was the only thing he ever received from his mother other than that ring which she had thrown towards him now, Li Feng kept on staring towards the horizon in hopes of spotting even a glimpse of his mother.

But, even after the sun which had just risen completely disappeared and was replaced by the moon which seemed to share his sadness, Li Feng looked like a sculpture who was frozen in time.

Kneeling on the same spot since the morning, Li Feng's tears had long since dried up but he refused to leave in hopes that all of this was a bad prank or his worst nightmare.

"Young master, you should return to your quarters. Mistress isn't coming back."

"Shut up."

"Young master,

"SHUT UP!!!"

Gripping the red feather tightly, Li Feng hastily released it in fear of destroying it and losing the one thing which made him feel warm and think that his mother didn't hate him.

Unfortunately, all that needed to be done had been done. With the sharp shaft of the feather which was showing off the same dangerous yet alluring red colour piercing into his skin, Li Feng's hand began bleeding.

But, to someone who felt his heart itself was numb, what could the pain of something piercing his hand be worth?

Lifelessly glancing towards his hand, Li Feng felt an urge to cry once again as he saw that the feather his mother had given him had been sullied by his blood.

Li Feng didn't know what this feather was, but since he always had it around his neck and his mother's servant had told him that she gave it to him on the day he was born, the young boy had treated it as a treasure which was more valuable than his life.

Seeing such a thing being covered in his blood, Li Feng trembled as tears once again began flowing out of his eyes.

"Young master, the mistress doesn't hate you. She only wants what's best for you. The mistress is from a completely different world where someone like you will only drag her down."

"That's why she wants you to live a simple peaceful life."

Not bothering to hear what the woman whom he had seen beside his mother since the day he could remember was saying, Li Feng looked towards the feather in his eyes with blurry eyes.

"Mother's not coming back...is she?"

Shaking her head with a bitter smile, the woman didn't know what to say to her young master who according to her lived a pitiful life despite being born to a heaven shaking expert like her mistress.

"Let's go inside, young master."

Walking near the kneeling Li Feng, Yu Yan stretched her hand to help him stand up. What happened next though shocked Yu Yan to her core.

Shaking her young master's shoulder who didn't respond at all, Yu Yan felt even sadder from thinking that Li Feng was heartbroken due to what happened.

"Young master?!"

Thud!

"!!!!"

Kneeling on the ground beside Li Feng who fell face forward on the ground after she shook his shoulder a little too hard, Yu Yan hastily turned him around and shivered from fear as she noticed his heartbeat dangerously slowing down.