Chapter 346 "Thank you, Mom. Goodbye, Mom."_2

"So, when I realized that I was such a person, I've been thinking that before this, I must have been asking someone for something. I yearn for others to love me, and this yearning is almost endless... then I understood, that person was you, Mom. Even after you died, I never let you go, because I am that greedy."

"Yes, my daughter, I exist for you."

Zhu Qingyue bowed her head and heard her mother's hoarse voice rise beside her ear, a raspy sound accompanied by the rustling noise, not human-like, more resembling millions of flying insects flapping their wings, piled upon each other.

"All along, it was me who was with you. Because deep down in your heart, you felt that you definitely couldn't go on living after losing me, so 'I' have been here—" Her mother's voice grew closer and closer, eerily worming into her ear canal, "but now, do you really want to abandon me?"

Zhu Qingyue subconsciously bit her lip hard, her cherry-colored lips bleeding, her pale cheeks showing pain.

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