Mother

With Xiao Che still hugging him and with Xiao ling leading her by the hips, the two siblings have had finally reached their neighborhood. it was a normal middle-class neighborhood that used to be calm for the most part in the past but now wherever you looked you could see construction work going on. homes getting demolished and getting replaced by all different kinds of entertainment buildings, from gamings shops to cyber cafes to clothing shops, all was starting to get built here in this neighborhood as a result of the expansions of one of the biggest companies in the city.

While ignoring the weird looks they received from the construction workers that were gathering their stuff to get back home, the siblings arrived at the front door of their house.

The house was a small and normal looking two-story house that had seen better days based upon its outside shape.

Xiao Ling looked at the house that in his mind he hadn't seen since hundred of thousands of years ago. it was in this house that he had grown up raised by his mother along with his little sister, it was in this house that he achieved his first breakthrough in martial arts training, it was in this house that he had made countless happy memories with his family.

But as much as this house had been the place where he had made some of the happiest memories of his life, it was also here where he had felt sadness beyond compare, it was here that he had witnessed things that he would rather forget and never be reminded of again.

Xiao ling shook his head and reached his hand to knock upon the wooden door of the small house. As he did soo he took another look at the house, for even though it was a small house, it had been enough for the trio of him and his mother and little sister. As for his father, well he had died in a car accident when he was barely a year old and his mother had just gotten pregnant with Che Che, or so had said his mother.

Xiao ling managed to stop himself from grunting as he thought about his father. for all the love xiao ling had toward his family, that love absolutely did not extend to his 'dead' father.

As he was lost in his thoughts, the door suddenly opened.

"Ah, finaly you two are back.....AAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHH."

The person who had opened the door and let out a horrified scream was a beautiful looking woman who had this aura of maturity around her. She had a breathtakingly beautiful face, big black eyes and silky hair that she had tied in a ponytail. and as for her clothes, she was wearing the same clothes as Che Che, a pair of normal jeans that hugged her long legs and showed her wide hips, while her modest T-shirt couldn't hide her large breast as they bulged from her chest and they looked so perky as if they defied gravity and the passage of time.

And This beautiful woman here who looked more like an overdeveloped teenage girl rather than a woman in her thirties who had given birth two times was Xiao Tan, The mother of Xiao ling and Xiao Che. The women who given birth to them and had raised and supported them both all by herself.

Xiao Tan was currently frozen in her place with a look of horror on her face as she looked at Xiao ling who looked like he had been through a wood shredder with his clothes torn in multiple places and with dried blood sticking to his usually pale white skin.

"W...wh....what happened to you....are you okay..medical help....you need medical help...hospital... I should get you to the hospital.....yes...lets go....."

Xiao tan started stuttering and shaking in her place before she finally was able to calm down a little bit and reached forward to grab the hand of Xiao ling and to try and grab him, but to her shock, she couldn't move Xiao Ling who just stood there with a small troubled smile on his face.

"Mother, calm down. There is no need for me to go to any hospital. I'm completely fine and a trip to the hospital would be just a waste of time and money."

"But how can you say that while looking like that? you think your mother is blind just because she is old? I can see all those cuts that cover your body. How can you say that you would be fine? what if you got some kind of infection? Or what if you have suffered an internal injury? and what if....."

"MOTHER."

Xiao Tan stooped her talking and closed her mouth in shock upon hearing how her son had addressed her. He hadn't raised his voice but the way he had just said that word, Mother, in such a domineering way that she hadn't heard for him before, she couldn't help but close her mouth instinctively and to raise her wide-open eyes and look at him to see what he shall say.

Xiao Ling looked at his mother and he couldn't help but smile while nostalgia filled his heart, it had been so long for him since he had last seen his mother, a women who loved her children more than anything, who would do anything for them and would protect them with her life if she had to, but it was alose because of that love that she was incredibly overprotective at times, often to the annoyance of Xiao ling and Xiao Che.

"Mother, As I said, there is no need for you to worry, I'm completely fine and I shall explain everything once we are inside. so, can we get inside or is it our punishment to spend the night outside today for being late?"

"No, of course, No. come, get inside. But Are sure that you don't need to go see a doctor?"

Xiao Tan moved to the side to allow the two sibling entrance into the house after seeing Xiao ling shake his head as an answer to her question, but even as she did so, her heart was still filled with worry about the health of her son, worry that was being suppressed because of the even bigger shock that filled her heart upon hearing her son's confident tone and the way he had addressed her.

After the two siblings had gotten inside, Xiao Tan closed the door and followed the siblings that were still hugging each other into the living room.

Xiao tan entered into the living room to look at the two siblings who had sat together on one of the couches while still hugging, a thing which she had noticed and caused her to raise her eyebrows forgetting her worry about her son for a fleeting moment, for even though the two of them had been close before, she had never seen them be this close to one another.

she truly was starting to get more and more curious about what had happened today. deciding that the best thing to do to lessen her worry and satisfy her curiosity was to just ask them she took a seat on the couch facing the siblings and after clearing her throat to get their attention.

"Alright then, even though my instinct as a mother is still screaming at me to get a doctor to come to see you, I'm willing to hear what you have to say first. So, what happened today, Who dared do that to you, my son?"

The expressions on Xiao Tan became an expression of barely concealed anger for even though she usually was kind and soft-hearted the thought of someone daring to lay his hand on one of her children caused extreme anger to start bubbling inside her heart.

After hearing the question of his mother, Xiao Ling nodded his head and began to answer honestly.

"I don't know."

"HuH?.....What do you mean that you 'don't know'?"

"Exactly that. I have no memories of this day, or to be exact, I have no memories of what happened this day before I awakened to see Che Che crying over me and starting our journey back home."

"How could that be? You're suffering from memory loss? That may be a clue to you suffering from a head injury. As I thought, I really should get you a doctor."

"*Sigh*...Mother, I already told you that I'm fine and that there is no need for that. As for my memory, I simply need a refresher to remember what happened today, and we have the perfect girl to help me with that right here."

After finishing his sentence Xiao Ling turned his head slightly to meet the eyes of Che Che who had laid her head on his chest and was looking at him with her eyes wide open.

"Big brother, so you were telling the truth when you told miss policewoman that you didn't know what happened?"

"Of course. Che Che, your big brother never lies. Anyhow, how about you tell me and mother what had happened today and what caused my injury?"

Suddenly being reminded of what had happened to cause his injury, a look of sadness and depression cover the face of Che Che.

"It is all my fault. You had told me to run and get away, that you would follow me later, but I didn't listen and you ended up getting injured so badly...."

Seeing that look on his little sister's face, Xiao ling used his hand to pat her head and to assure her.

"Che Che, no matter what had happened you shouldn't blame yourself. I won't blame you, I promise you of that. so tell us what happened."

"Well, it all started with that Fen Dong. To be more exact when he stopped us on our way back home from school while we were taking a shortcut through the old district."

"Fen Dong? That scoundrel is still bothering you?"

Upon hearing that name the expression on their mother's face soured even more while at the same time Xiao Ling tilted his head slightly to the side trying to sift through his memories spanning hundreds of thousands of years to remember to who belonged that name.

After a couple of seconds of sorting through his memories, Xiao ling was finally able to remember to whom had belonged the name, Fen Dong. He was the heir to the prestigious Fen clan and in his past life had caused him countless trouble in his early years of cultivation and he was one of his very first enemies and the animosity between them had all started for Fen Dong had continued to pursue little Che Che despite her refusing him time and time again and things had escalated even more when he had dared to try and kidnap her.

Thankfully Che Che was able to escape unharmed But upon Hearing of what had Fen Dong tried to do, Xiao ling became consumed by rage and in his rage, he had crippled Fen Dong and facing the wrath of the Fen clan he was forced to go into hiding and to leave the city.

After remembering all this Xiao ling was on the verge of laughing. The prestigious Fen Clan? Truly at that time, to the still mortal him, The fen clan was something to be feared and respected, but after all, he had seen in the hundreds of thousands of years after he had annihilated them and ascended to the middle realm and beyond he couldn't help but feel ridiculous describing what can only be said to be a low-level clan with some backing at best with the word prestigious. even more damning evidence of their low importance was how it took his superhuman brain a couple of seconds to even remember their existence, while it usually could recall all the information it has in store about the truly strong people in milliseconds.

While he had used a part of his focus on sorting through his memories, another part of it was still on the conversation going on outside between mother and daughter.

"In the past couple of days he had started leaving me alone, and I had thought that he had finally accepted my refusal of him, but I was wrong. today, as we were heading home, he had stooped us as we were taking a shortcut to here by passing through the old district."

"And that had lead to your brother getting this injured? He did this to him?"

"Well, he was acting, as usual, Asking me on dates and stuff.." Xiao Che stopped talking to take a deep breath while an expression of disgust appeared on her face showing what she thought of his proposal before continuing. "And well, After hearing what he was saying, big brother had told me to get away because he felt something was wrong and that he would deal with him and follow me back him, But I was stubborn, I didn't listen to him and stayed there."

Xiao Che took another deep breath before continuing her story of what had happened earlier today.

"Well, big brother interrupted Fen Dong and the situation got tense between them, and just when I thought things will get ugly between the two, this old man who was hiding somewhere jumped trying to catch me, but big brother reacted quickly and pushed me out of the way and tried to push the old man away. But the expression's of the old man suddenly changed upon seeing that I had escaped him and he turned his hand toward big brother to touch him in the chest, and the next thing I knew big brother fell down to the ground with blood running down his body.

I don't know what he had done, but big brother had suddenly lost consciousness while countless cuts appeared all over his body....."

Xiao Che's body began trembling as she started recalling how her brother looked laying down there bleeding while she had thought at that time that he died and that she had lost the most important person in her life.

Xiao Tan looked at her trembling and she couldn't help but bite her lips and curse in her heart the bastard, Fen Dong, for daring to cause this pain to her child and she also cursed her own weakness for not being able to protect her children properly from him and to stop him from pursuing her daughter even though she had already refused him countless time before.

Xiao ling felt his little sister's body tremble against his and he hugged her even tighter trying to calm her down While Xiao Tan opened her mouth to ask a question that had appeared on her mind after hearing her daughter's story.

"If that was what had happened, then how did you manage to get away?"

Even though Xiao Tan was Absolutely happy that her daughter and son were able to get home, relatively Fine, or at the very least fine completely in the case of her daughter, she wasn't so naive as to not realize what had Fen Dong intended to do. He had obviously been planning to kidnap her daughter.

AH, Just thinking about this caused incredible anger to appear in her heart. But still, she was equally curious about how had her daughter managed to get back home, and how had her son managed to recover so quickly to manage to get back along with her.

A look of confusion appeared on little Che's face after she had heard her mother's question and began thinking about the matter.

"Now That you mention it, at that time, I didn't pay any attention to Fen Dong nor the old man with him, For I was too shocked and focused on big brother, but I remember that suddenly an expression of terror appeared on both their faces and them leaving immediately afterward without even taking another look at me."

"So they just randomly and suddenly left? And what happened after they left?"

"Well, Yeah. now that I said it, it sounds kind of weird even to me who had been there. But after that, I just couldn't stand the sight of big brother laying down there bloodied and bleeding thinking that he had died and...it was my fault for not listening to him... I should have listened...then he probably wouldn't have gotten injured like that...and...*Sob*...i had thought that I had lost him....*Sob*..."

Tears began to run down Xiao Che's Cheeks As she thought back to what had happened. Her happiness at seeing Xiao Ling awake and her confusion over his change in demeanor and her feeling even more happiness after he told her that she was one of his women, all this had held back the shook and stress she had suffered before that from seeing her beloved get injured and even thinking that he had died, but now, upon thinking actively of what had happened, all that shock and stress came running back and she started to blame herself as she began to cry.

"Oi, Che Che, what did I tell you before on our way back home about crying and rambling? you truly think I won't spank you just because mother is present here? there is no need to cry, Che Che. Nothing of what happened today was your fault."

Xiao ling hugged his sister even tighter before and raised her head to wipe the tears from her cheeks and eyes with tender love before continuing to speak.

"Che Che, I promise you what happened today, will never happen again, you shall never have to worry about your big brother getting injured ever again, and you won't ever have to deal with Fen Dong again. What happened today happened because your big brother was weak and he had nearly failed to protect you, but that shall never happen again. I promise you that. And you to mother, I promise you that I shall never cause you to worry as much as you did today. From now on I shall protect our family and take care of it as the man of the house. so from now one, you can rely on me to take care of everything."

After he finished presenting his promises to the two beauties sitting in the room with him, Xiao ling began to get up from the couch slowly. and for the beauties in question, they were both shocked to the core, for they had felt the emotion behind Xiao ling word, and even more than that, they had for some reason believed completely what he had said and promised.

Xiao ling managed to separate himself from his sister and began heading to the second floor.

"I shall go and take a bath to wash this blood from me and to change my clothes. After that, I shall be heading immediately to bed. I shall be seeing you in the morning. and yes, for the final time, mother, I'm completely fine and there is no need to get me any medical attention."

After she heard his word, Xiao Tan who had just opened her mouth intending to ask her son again about his health closed her mouth while a smile accompanied by a small blush appeared on her face before she snorted and muttered under her breath jokingly.

"Hmph, what a brat. Daring to speak to his mother in that way. Hmph."

After Xiao ling had finished climbing the stairs and reached the second floor, Xiao Che turned to her mother with a look of slight confusion.

"He had changed, hadn't he?"

"Hmm, what do you mean by that?"

"I mean, you had noticed it too didn't you mother? The way he speaks, his confidence, his promise from before, I knew you believed in them too. It's not like he became a different person or anything like that, he's still kind big brother Xiao ling, but, ever since he had woken up, well, I don't know how to describe it with words properly, but he had been acting differently."

Xiao Che began to think of a good example to use to explain to her mother what she meant. After remembering the way her big brother had spanked her bottom, which still ached a little bit even now, while bitting on her sensitive ear, a big blush appeared on her face. Of course, she didn't dare mention this to her mother, but upon thinking about that, she remembered what had caused her to receive the spank from her big brother.

"Ah, that's right, I got an example. While we were on our way home, a beautiful policewoman had stopped us because big brother looked truly suspicious with all that blood covering him. And did you know how big brother reacted to her? with being absolutely calm and confident. he even was flirting with her in my honest opinion and promised that he shall go and look for her tomorrow at the police station."

"And what's so weird about that?"

"Mother, when was the last time you saw brother able to speak with confidence with a beautiful woman beside the two of us? I don't mean to sound like he was some spineless coward who lacked confidence before, but, AAAAh, mother, you must understand what I mean. I just can't explain it, but you must have felt it too. I just can't be going crazy imagining stuff."

Xiao Tan nodded her head after hearing her daughter's word, she too had felt a difference in the aura and demeanor of her son, and she completely agreed with what her daughter was trying to say. But besides that, Xiao Tan couldn't help but raise a delicate eyebrow upon seeing the crimson blush that covered her daughter's cheeks her thoughts started to turn toward what might have caused that.

'Something else must have happened between the two of them on the way home, something that just thinking about it causes her to blush to this degree and something that she doesn't wish to share with me. And even beyond that, they seem far closer than they looked when they had left for school this morning. I mean they had gotten back home with her hugging herself to him and him holding her by the hips. Well, whatever it is that had happened, I'm glad that Xiao ling had stopped trying to distance himself from her.'

With different thoughts running through her mind, Xiao Tan looked at her daughter and decided against pressing her about what had truly happened for she had already gone through a rough day and didn't want to add more pressure on her. And so with that, she decided to answer her daughter's original question.

"Well, I did indeed notice the change somewhat, as you said, his aura became more confident and somewhat domineering, his words too, they also sounded much more confident compared to his words when we spoke this morning before you had left for school. Well, no matter what caused this change, I'm sure that your brother shall tell us what happened when he thinks it's the right time to tell us. and besides, even if he had changed, he is still as you said The Xiao ling who loves you with all his heart."

Xiao Tan had nearly said that based upon the look in his eyes, he looked like he loved her even more than before, but she decided against that and simply finished her words there and began getting up too from the couch.

"Well then, I shall be going to my room to sleep for this last hour of talking and worrying had tired me. I think you must be even more tired than me considering what happened today, right dear?"

Xiao Che nodded her head as she too rose up from her seat and started heading along with her mother to their perspective rooms.

"its as you said mother, I don't even have the energy right now to take a shower so I shall just change my clothes and go sleep. I shall be taking a shower tomorrow in the early morning."

"Well, Good night then my sweet daughter. I'm truly happy that you both came back to me safe and sound."

Xiao Tan bent her head a little and kissed Che Che on the forehead before going to her own room.

"Good night to you too mother."

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As the duo of mother and daughter were wishing each other goodnight, Xiao ling had already finished taking his shower and was back in his room sitting down on his bed wearing nothing but his underwear.

He was currently inspecting his body, and taking a look at all the small cuts that were littering his body. The cuts were closing with a speed that was visible to the naked eye and this was all because of his soul energy nourishing and healing his body.

His body currently looked like the body of an average 17-year-old highschooler. For he wasn't too skinny but he also wasn't in any shape or form muscular.

'Another thing that I shall need to take care of. strengthening this mortal body a little bit and fixing its shape.'

Xiao ling added that to the mental list he had of thing he needed to do as quickly as possible. But despite having a pretty long list he needed to get through, he couldn't help but smile because of one thought in his mind.

'The past is already Changed.'

This thought had appeared in Xiao ling's mind after having heard his sister finish describing what had happened today for he had been able to finally pinpoint exactly where he had arrived in the past.

He had arrived at the time where he had his first confrontation with Fen Dong.

In his past life, Fen Dong had indeed ambushed him and his sister on their way back, and indeed Xiao Ling had gotten injured back then as well, and as had happened now, Fen Dong and the old man escaped suddenly after sensing something that terrified them.

But it was there that the similarities ended between what had happened in his past life and what happened today. For in his past life, he hadn't managed to wake up after suffering the attack of the old man leaving Che Che heartbroken and alone to cry over his bleeding body till a woman who was 'randomly' passing by happened upon them and helped Che Che get him to the hospital where he had spent an entire week unconscious causing extreme worry for his mother and sister.

But now, he had woken up immediately to console his sister and his body had nearly gotten healed up. so that means that he already changed the past just by his soul arriving her.

Xiao ling smiled as he thought of this as he felt a weight got lifted off his shoulders for he had been worried even if slightly that he won't be able to change what happened even if he came back, that what happened was doomed to repeat itself, but now, he was absolutely certain that he could achieve what he wants.

Protect his family and loved one, helping them achieve their dreams and enjoy what life has to offer along with them and finally taking them along with him as they ascend and move from one world to another.

'Well, first things first, I have to cast the binding of fate so that I can make sure that not even one hair of my loved ones get hurt even if I'm not there to protect them personally. I absolutely won't allow for my arrogance and confidence to get in the way of protecting those whom I hold dear. I had already made that mistake once in my past life, I won't make it again now.'

Xiao Ling got up from his bed and headed to the middle of his room where he sat down there on the floor while folding his legs in a meditation pose.

His breathing began to slow down as he started to enter his soul realm and at the same time he started the motions necessary for Casting the spell that had been taught to him thousands of years ago in his mind.