Long Road to Stardom

Ji Yilan took the medicine bowl and said with great satisfaction, "Yuan'er is so thoughtful. I'll drink it right away."

She finished the medicine in her hand, put it back on the table, wiped her face, and then said to her son who was about to stand up, "Yuan'er, put it down for now. Mother has something to tell you."

Sun Xiuyuan, who was about to stand up, sat down again.

Ji Yilan looked at her son in front of her, as if she saw through him the person she had always been thinking about. After a while, she slowly said, "Yuan'er, your father is actually an immortal."

Although he was mentally prepared, he was still shocked when he heard his mother say it herself.

Sun Xiuyuan calmed down and then asked, "Where are my father and his family?"

"As an immortal, can you just ignore your wife and children?"

"Yuan'er, don't talk about your father like that. It was just mother's wishful thinking from the beginning to the end."

"Mom, you still have to make excuses for him."

The anger that Sun Xiuyuan had suppressed for many years finally roared out at this moment.

"Yuan'er, listen to me, things are really not what you think."

Ji Yilan recalled what happened back then and said slowly, "Your father is really a very good immortal."

"You should know how your mother was born. It was your father who redeemed me when he heard the music I played while traveling in the mortal world."

"If it weren't for your father, I don't know what would have happened to my mother."

"Although my mother was known as the most beautiful woman in Jingyang City at that time, who would really care about a prostitute? Even if she only sold her art but not her body, only your father didn't despise her and spent ten thousand taels of gold to redeem me."

"At that time, many people called your father stupid, but he didn't care at all. He was afraid that I would be hurt by the rumors, so he took me to live somewhere else."

"At first, I thought your father was interested in me, but I didn't expect that he just wanted to listen to the music I played. But even so, I am happy with it."

"Unfortunately, after a few days of this, your father suddenly came back with injuries."

"It was then that I saw your father's true appearance. I felt ashamed standing next to him. I also knew that he was an immortal. Due to his serious injuries, your father couldn't even maintain the most basic illusion technique. But because of this, I had no way to treat your father's injuries and fell into deep self-blame."

"Fortunately, God was kind to her. She found a secret recipe in a book, which said that after two people get together, they can transfer the injuries on their bodies to their own. But I knew your father would never agree to this. Fortunately, he was seriously injured, so I succeeded in the end."

"Perhaps it was an accident, your father's injury is really healed."

"After that, your father's attitude towards me became much colder, but he didn't leave. Later, when he found out that I was pregnant, perhaps as a father's responsibility, he treated me much better."

"I thought that life would go on like this without much excitement or boredom, but it didn't last long. After a few months, your father came back less and less often, and every time he came back, he looked worried. I knew that he didn't leave because I had his child."

"But after seeing your father's true appearance, mother fell into deep inferiority complex about her appearance. She knew she was not worthy of your father."

"I thought about using the child to tie him down and not let him leave, but when I saw your father looking so sad every day, I decided to let him go."

"But before he left, he left two things and some money. One is the wooden plaque on your body, and the other is the jade pendant in my hand."

"In order to let you grow up healthily like other children, mother left the place where I lived with your father and settled down in a village not far away. I come back occasionally, hoping to meet your father one day."

As Sun Xiuyuan listened to his mother's narration, more than ten years of resentment disappeared in an instant, and there was endless confusion in his eyes.

He has been studying so hard these years just so that his father can show up one day and hold his head high in front of him, but now he is told that all these efforts over the past decade are a joke.

"Yuan'er, what's wrong with you?" Ji Yilan asked with concern when she saw that her son's expression was a little strange.

"Mom, I'm fine." Sun Xiuyuan tried to suppress his turbulent heart and said calmly.

"That's good, that's good. I actually have one more thing I haven't told you. I hope you won't blame me after you hear it."

"Mom, just say it. I can bear it." Sun Xiuyuan looked at his mother who suddenly became nervous and replied calmly.

Seeing her son's face as usual, Ji Yilan heaved a sigh of relief and said gently, "Yuan'er, before your father left, he told me one thing, which was to give this jade pendant to you when you were six years old."

"Your father said that only the bloodline of the Sun family can open this jade pendant. Otherwise, it is just a piece of jade that looks good."

"Yuan'er, don't blame me for not giving it to you until now. I'm just afraid that you'll leave me like your father did."

"Yuan'er, you didn't blame me for acting on my own, did you?"

Sun Xiuyuan took the jade pendant tremblingly, looked at his mother's pleading eyes, and said with bitterness in his heart, "Mom, I don't blame you. I suddenly remembered that I have an article to write, so I went back to my room first."

"Yuan'er..." Ji Yilan called softly.

Sun Xiuyuan seemed not to hear it and staggered out of the room.

After closing the door, tears began to fall. At this moment, he felt countless grievances coming at him.

He originally wanted to go back to his room, but somehow he walked outside. At this moment, he could no longer hold back and ran outside like mad, and only stopped when he was exhausted.

"Why, why, why..."

Sun Xiuyuan was holding the jade pendant in his hand and pounding it like crazy, questioning himself over and over again. Blood was flowing from his hands and he didn't notice that all the blood was absorbed by the jade pendant.

Lin Xing followed all the way, watching it all silently, with mixed feelings in his heart.

Just as she was about to go forward to comfort him, Sun Xiuyuan disappeared before her eyes.

"What's going on? Could it be that the jade pendant is a space?"

Lin Xing's heart began to beat unconsciously. In order to prevent others from noticing the situation here, he quickly set up a barrier to prevent being noticed.

It took her a long time to calm down.

At this moment, she also remembered what Sun Xiuyuan's mother had said before, that this jade pendant required the bloodline of the Sun family to start with, and it would probably be useless even if she got it.

Suddenly, I felt a sense of loss. I didn’t know whether it was because I couldn’t use this space even though I had it, or because I was glad that it was in Sun Xiuyuan’s hands.

Sun Xiuyuan was suddenly transferred to another place and was confused. Fortunately, what happened today was beyond his knowledge and he quickly recovered.

However, the jade pendant on his hand had disappeared at some point, and the injured area had healed, but there was a green leaf in the palm of his hand.

"It seems that it's because of the jade pendant." Sun Xiuyuan thought secretly in his heart.