A Vicious Vow

He feared that Yi Ling would race out with a chopper in hand if she heard the news.

Lu Yi stopped talking. He had to come up with a way to explain it to the kids, who had only just reunited with their mother after a year of being motherless. And what about Xunxun? She had only just begun to talk again. How will he go about telling them Yan Huan was gone, and that they were on their own once again? 

When he stepped into the door, all three of them ran up to him.

Lu Yi hunkered down. Before these piteous faces, he didn't know what to say. He took all of them into his arms.

"Papa. Is Mama not coming back?" asked Xiao Qi, looking up at him.