Chapter 23: Parents' Loving Hearts

Whoosh!

The marble fragments fell to the ground, making a clear and heavy sound. It was as if each fragment had hit these people's hearts, thumping loudly and making them tremble with fear.

"If you think your bones are harder than this marble and alloy steel, just come over!" After Ethan finished speaking, he clapped his hands and turned around and walked out潇洒地 (smartly).

Gulp!

After a long while, these people finally came to their senses from their dumbfounded state. They looked at Ethan's departing figure and then let out a long sigh of relief one by one.

Damn it!

"I... What did I just do?"

"You just almost provoked a hidden martial arts master!" Everyone looked at the power of that slap again and still felt a lingering fear.

Especially the guy who wanted to intimidate Ethan was so frightened that his legs were trembling.

The little beauty with tiger - like teeth was also stunned. She looked at the broken table and then at Ethan's receding figure, with a thoughtful look on her face. After a long while, she murmured, "This bastard! He broke my table and hasn't paid for it yet."

...

Ethan walked out of the Cybernet Cafe and looked at his hands.

"It's okay! It doesn't hurt at all!"

This feeling! Great!

There were no more buses late at night, so Ethan had to take a taxi.

By the time he got home, it was completely dark.

Ethan Lee had been waiting anxiously at home.

"Ethan, where have you been today? We couldn't find you at school. Your mother and I were so worried." Ethan Lee said somewhat reproachfully.

"Dad, I'm sorry. I went to see a classmate for something. I forgot to tell you when I left, and I came back late. Don't be angry, please." Ethan replied full of guilt.

"I'm not angry. It's just that your mother was more worried. She has been searching like crazy outside. Since you're back, I'll call her and let her come back." Ethan Lee said to Ethan.

Half an hour later, Grace Feng returned home, looking dusty and tired.

Her hair was grayish - white and messy, and she was still panting. There was mud on her body. Obviously, in order to find him, mother had fallen more than once.

However, when her originally anxious and worried expression saw Ethan come back, her face immediately showed relief.

"Ethan, have you had dinner? Mom will cook for you."

Hearing this, Ethan's nose felt sour, and the sense of guilt in his heart grew even stronger.

He came back in the middle of the night, making his hard - working parents worry about him until now!

"Mom, I've eaten at my classmate's. Aren't you going to sell vegetables at the market tomorrow? Go and have a rest quickly. Besides, you must be tired after looking for me for so long." Ethan said with a smile.

"It's okay, Mom is not tired. I'll make dumplings for you."

"Mom..."

Ethan wanted to stop her, but was stopped by his father.

"Let her do it. If you don't eat, she won't feel at ease." Ethan Lee said.

Then, Ethan Lee said to Ethan, "Do you know why we were so worried?"

"Huh?" Ethan didn't know why his father would tell him these things.

"It's all because of that damned blind fortune - teller. We had a son before. Unfortunately, he died in a car accident later. A few years later, I also had a car accident and was almost killed! Then, there was an old blind fortune - teller who said behind your mother's back that she was a 'Tiansha' fate, fated to be a widow all her life as she would kill her husband and children.

Even your grandmother, whom you have never met, heard about it and advised me to divorce your mother. She also said that if I stayed with your mother, I would be killed by her sooner or later."

Ethan Lee spoke very calmly, but Ethan could feel the tremendous pressure his mother had endured because of this.

"To avoid all that, we moved from our original hometown to here. At that time, your mother and I had already had sterilization operations. We couldn't have any more children.

We thought that would be our life for the rest of our days. But unexpectedly, on the way here, we picked you up.

The moment we picked you up, your mother cried. She kept kowtowing to the heavens at the place where we found you until her head was bleeding. She thanked God for giving her a child.

But your mother was worried. She was worried that her 'Tiansha' fate would harm you.

Over the years, she has gone to burn incense and worship the Buddha every year.

She made a wish in front of the Buddha: as long as you could be safe and sound, she was willing to pay any price, even shorten her lifespan!

Later, she still didn't feel at ease and made another wish. She was willing... when you grew up, to let you go and find your biological parents. Over the years, every time you were sick or had some setbacks, she was always worried and even blamed it on her 'Tiansha' fate.

It was eighteen years ago today that we picked you up. But it was so late and you hadn't come back. She was afraid... afraid that God would... take you away from us again."

Hearing this, Ethan felt his nose getting sour and his chest seemed to be blocked by something. It was as if there was a breath that he wanted to let out but couldn't.

He raised his head and looked at the light on in the kitchen. It was his mother making dumplings for him.

Ethan's heart was bleeding!

He hated himself. He hated himself for not being restrained at all over the years. He hated himself for always being disobedient and causing trouble outside.

Every time after causing trouble, he had never thought that there was a woman behind him who had endured so many times of fear and worry for him.

"Dad, I'm not leaving. God can't take me away! And I won't leave! I said, I'm your son! I was before, I am now, and I will be in the future!"

In the light, an old tear rolled out of Ethan Lee's eye.

"Ethan, come and eat dumplings! Your favorite eggplant and meat filling." Grace Feng's voice came from the kitchen.

Watching Ethan's departing figure.

Ethan Lee wiped the tears on his face with his hand again.

"God has been kind to me! Let me have such a wonderful son." After a while, he said in a vicissitudes - of - life and helpless tone, "Even if it's only been eighteen years."

And in his hand, there was a wet newspaper with a missing - person notice on it.

Looking for his child who was lost eighteen years ago!

There was a picture attached to it. It was a jade pendant. In the middle of the jade pendant, there was a golden character 'Ye'!

The next day.

"Remember, don't come back late this afternoon. We are going to learn skills from Teacher Chen." Ethan Lee said.

"Got it, Dad."

"Today, the weather is not so good. If it rains, call me and I'll come to pick you up."

"Okay." Ethan replied with a gentle smile.

Watching Ethan's figure slowly disappearing into the distance, Ethan Lee's face was full of kindness and satisfaction.

He wished that this could go on like this for the rest of his life.

He didn't ask for great wealth or high status, but only hoped to see his Ethan every day, watch Ethan grow up slowly, and see him get married and have children.

"Ethan Lee, you are so ugly. Unexpectedly, your son is so handsome."

"No matter how ugly I am, he is still my son!" Ethan Lee, who had always been good - tempered, couldn't help but roar at this moment.

"Look at how anxious you are! Nobody said he wasn't!" David Li curled his lips and said.

"My son is not only handsome but also filial! Among our old fellows at Huailing Mountain Immortal Seat, whose child can be as sensible and filial as my son?" Ethan Lee said proudly again.

"Ethan Lee, you're getting carried away just because I said you were right, aren't you?" David Li said somewhat discontentedly.

"Heh heh..." Ethan Lee smiled naively.

"But, come to think of it, this kid is really great! I, David Li, like him too!" Then he looked at Ethan Lee.

"How about giving me half of your son?" David Li said to Ethan Lee with a smile.

"Give you half? What do you mean?"

"Ethan Lee, are you really stupid or just pretending to be? David Li has taken a liking to Ethan and wants to recruit him as a son - in - law! A son - in - law is half a son! Can't you even understand this?" Kevin Zhang said with a laugh beside them.

"Yes! Who can't see that? Their little Juan, when she came back not long ago, couldn't wait to keep her eyes on your Ethan's face! Who can't see that girl's little thoughts?"