Ten years after the failed awakening, I became a god

Hot Spring Mountain, Ji Family.

At the Ji family's dining table, three people were sitting on each side eating dinner.

"Father, is this really a misunderstanding? Mother is such a fool! How could she have put the things away long ago without telling me? I've lost such a big face. Tomorrow I have to go to Qingyun Palace and apologize in person to a member of the Wen family's side branch."

Ji Chunlu complained angrily while stuffing food into his mouth.

The man sitting at the main seat put down his chopsticks and looked at the middle-aged woman sitting opposite Ji Chunlu with a bad face: "This is the good son you gave birth to."

The woman also put down her chopsticks and calmly wiped her hands with a wet towel beside her. Then she calmly replied, "Don't say that. I can't give birth to a son by myself."

The man scolded her even more angrily, "After all these years, as the Duke's wife, you haven't learned any etiquette at all. You are still as vulgar and unbearable as ever."

The woman smiled. "What's wrong with me? I eat quite elegantly, don't I? I think I've improved over the years. Twenty years ago, I'd probably flip the table right now. But twenty years later, I'm still sitting here calmly listening to your criticism. It really feels like time has flown by so quickly."

The man became even angrier and pointed his finger at the woman: "You..."

"I shouldn't have married you twenty years ago."

The woman threw the wet towel onto the table, landing right on the dishes in front of the man. "Twenty years ago, it wasn't you I wanted to marry. It was you who, in order to succeed the Duke, shamelessly begged me, a mere collateral daughter, to marry you after hearing I'd awakened my spatial spirit. So, you said you'd marry me, but you didn't become the Duke, did you? And now that your son has inherited your bloodline, you're ashamed to say I'm his son alone?"

"I awakened the Space Element, so what does my son's awakening the Support Element have to do with me? You take all the good things and I take all the blame, right? This time you couldn't protect the things at home, and something was stolen, and you put the blame on me. Do you really think I'm easy to bully?"

The man took a deep breath, held his forehead and said to the woman, "Don't say this in front of the children."

The woman rolled her eyes. "For so many years, ever since this child was diagnosed with an auxiliary spirit at age six, I begged you, even when the child was young, not to mention this in front of him. Did you listen? It wasn't you who provoked me that time by bringing up these things? I endured it all for the sake of the child, but you kept putting the blame on me, and now what do I get?"

You and your son colluded to exclude me. You said I put my things away. I want to ask you, when did you ever tell me about our Duke's Mansion and what valuables your Ji family has? I treat him as a son, but he respects you more for giving him the inheritance. I want to ask, has he ever respected me as his mother?

The middle-aged woman turned her gaze towards the stunned Ji Chunlu: "You said, I treat you as my son, have you ever respected me as a mother?"

Ji Chunlu lowered his head and said awkwardly, "Stop talking, Mother. Father did this for a reason."

The woman laughed loudly, and even tears fell from her eyes, but Ji Chunlu lowered his head and did not see it.

"I don't want to know the reason. I just want to know if you have ever respected me as your mother from the bottom of your heart. If I hadn't stopped your father from having any other mistresses outside, would you still be able to sit peacefully in the position of the eldest young master of the Ji family?"

Ji Chunlu raised his head in shock: "Really?"

The woman smiled. "If you believe me, then this is true. If you don't, no matter how much I say, it's all for my father's benefit. You will always bow to power."

Ji Chunlu glanced at the woman, then at the silent man, and finally lowered his head without saying a word.

The woman sneered, "I don't expect you to fight for me in front of your father, but this time you're using me to take the blame. You have to tell me what exactly is missing, right? Are you going to keep me a scapegoat?"

The middle-aged man sighed: "I didn't say this to protect you. You think too much."

The woman stood up. "You're protecting me by letting me bear all the blame and letting me be a fool? If that's the case, then I don't need such protection. If something goes wrong in the future, you don't need to put all the blame on me in the name of protecting me."

After saying that, the woman turned and left the restaurant.

The middle-aged man sighed again and said to Ji Chunlu, who still lowered his head, "Chunlu, you really disappoint me this time. I handed this matter over to you, but I didn't expect you to do such a terrible job."

Ji Chunlu looked up to defend himself, but saw the back of the middle-aged man leaving. He stammered and could not make a sound.

"Meow."

At this time, a pure white cat jumped onto Ji Chunlu's knees. Ji Chunlu reached out and touched its head. A tear fell into the cat's fur and disappeared in an instant.

Ji Chunlu stroked the cat that had been with him since he was six years old, and thought of the first time his spirit awakened at the age of six, his father's disappointed eyes, and his mother's exclamation of disbelief.

At that time, he was still little and didn't understand what this meant. Until he grew up year by year, the quarrels between his father and mother became more and more frequent, and almost every moment was for him.

At a certain moment, he really wanted to hide in a corner of the world, where there was only him and Maomao (the cat's name).

But when he thought about this incident, he couldn't understand one thing. It was his father who said that the thing was lost, and it was also his father who said that the thing was not lost. Why was his father so disappointed in him regardless of whether the thing was lost or not?

Is he really that unbearable?

He wanted to find his father to ask for clarification, but his father's disappointed look suddenly appeared in his mind. He turned around and walked towards his mother's room on the other side.

Ji Chunlu stood nervously at the door. When he saw the cat running out from behind the door, he quickly went forward and touched its fur.

Maomao let out a faint cat meow.

"Meow." The lady did not smash anything in the room.

Ji Chunlu stood up and breathed a sigh of relief, then knocked three times on the door.

The woman looked up at Ji Chunlu with a calm expression: "You're here?"

Ji Chunlu mustered up the courage to ask, "Mom, is the thing lost or not?"

The woman glanced at Ji Chunlu with a half-smile and said, "I've made it very clear. I don't know what the thing is. If you want to know whether it's lost or not, go ask your father."

Ji Chunlu suddenly fell silent.

He didn't dare.

The woman smiled again. "But if you tell me what the thing is, I can tell you for sure whether it's lost or not."

Ji Chunlu glanced at the woman and thought of his father's advice not to tell anyone.

But what my mother said is right, they are a family...

Finally, Ji Chunlu raised his head and said with courage: "It's a crystal..."

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