Pampered Beasts: Beautiful Actress, Many Children, Many Blessings

It's like... even though she's grown up, her mother still cares about everything from where she works and who she marries or dates to what clothes she wears and what she eats. Like an invisible pair of eyes, she's constantly watching her, giving her no rest.

She had been working away from home since she was young, and no one had ever taken care of her or even cared about her. She shouldn't have felt this kind of constraint, but at this very moment, she did, along with a deep sense of exhaustion and annoyance.

It seemed to have happened countless times, and she refused countless times...

She didn't understand why she felt this way, but she was genuinely happy to hear her mother's warm invitation.

"Okay!" she responded cheerfully, opening her arms and rushing towards the tree, hugging its thick trunk tightly.

Plants have no temperature, but this embrace made Xixi feel incredibly warm.

The big tree was clearly stunned. It took it a while to react before it gently stroked her hair and back with deep affection and tenderness.

"Mommy misses you so much. Please don't leave Mommy again, okay?" the big tree said, its voice choked with emotion.

Xixi tilted her head in confusion, "Mom, where are you? Where else can I find you besides in my dreams?"

She realized that this was her dream, but if it was a dream, then where was the real tree?

The tree fell silent for a long time before letting out a long sigh and slowly speaking, "Child, you've really forgotten. If it were you in the past, you certainly wouldn't have asked such a question."

Xixi: "!!!" Oh no, am I about to be exposed? In reality, I'm exposed to the monsters; in my mind, I'll be exposed to the tree as well?

The tree wasn't surprised, but continued sadly, "How could a child not know where his mother is, not know where home is? My child, my dearest child, how cruel you are! To leave me, you've been so heartless, cutting all of this... cleanly and completely!"

She could feel the tree's intense sorrow, but she didn't know what to do. She could only futilely stroke its trunk, trying to offer comfort.

Suddenly, the tree lifted her up, forcing her to stand tall, changing her gaze from looking up to looking straight ahead.

But she continued, "Even if you reincarnate a thousand times or ten thousand times, you will always be my child. We are connected by blood, and this connection can never be severed!"

Xi Xi blinked, wondering if the big tree had come to a change of heart? Did it intend to acknowledge her regardless of past or present lives? In that case, she wouldn't have lost her daughter, and she wouldn't be an orphan anymore.

However, her next sentence startled Xixi quite a bit.

"Child, stop worrying about worldly matters and come back to your mother's side, back to the days when it was just the two of us. Wouldn't that be wonderful?"

"Wh...what do you mean? What about my beastmen? What about my children?" Aren't they also caught up in the mundane world? Are they all to be abandoned? To live only with you...this big tree I've only met three times? How can I live like that? How can I be happy living like that?

"No more! No more!" the tree suddenly became agitated, shouting, "Why? Why are you always so attached to these mundane things?"

Xixi was stunned. How could her beastly husband and child be considered ordinary people? They were the source of her happiness and joy!

But she still wanted to reason with the tree, "Mom, you gave birth to me and want me to stay by your side, which is understandable. But I also have my own life. I have a lover and children, and they are also an inseparable part of my life! You can't ignore my emotional needs for your own selfish desires! Besides, my lover and my children need me too. If I leave them to stay by your side, wouldn't I be letting them down?"

"They are nothing but vulgar things! Vulgar things! How can you compare such vulgar things to me?" The tree became extremely angry.

Xi Xi frowned, completely unable to understand why she was acting this way.

Having lived two lives, the education and values ​​she received, while advocating filial piety, had never seen an elder so brazenly demand that a younger generation abandon their wife and children!

No, it's not just about abandoning her wife and children; it's about clearly distinguishing herself from her beastly husband and children into different classes, and then righteously condemning them as vulgar things that can be discarded at any time.

This intense possessiveness was already quite surprising to her.

What surprised her even more was her self-righteous attitude!

How should I put it? It's quite a reversal of the Heavenly Stems and Earthly Branches!

Seemingly realizing he had overreacted, Da Shu calmed down a bit, but his words remained icy: "You're coming back with me now, and from this day forward, never have anything to do with these mundane things again!"

Xixi withdrew her hand, refusing the branch offered, and asked warily, "Where does Senior intend to take me?"

"Senior?" The tree seemed deeply saddened. "Now, for the sake of those mundane things, you've even disowned your own mother?"

Xixi shook her head. "It's not that I don't recognize it, it's just that... I can't recognize it!"

She sighed. "As you might have guessed, I was born into the Giant Rat Tribe of the Southern Continent, and my beast form is a dwarf hamster, not the child you speak of. Moreover..."

She paused for a moment before continuing, "Besides, I have no memories of you or me. All I have are memories of growing up in the Big Rat Tribe. So if you really want to say who my mother is, it's probably my mother who was also a hamster!"

"I'm sorry, I'm not your child, and I don't know where your child is. The reason I didn't say it right away is because... my mother passed away shortly after I was born. I lost my mother at a young age and lacked maternal love. Your call made me feel warm, but that's all."

"But if you want to use this as an excuse to force me to do things I don't want to do, then this empty mother-daughter relationship is better off gone."

She boasted that her words were impassioned and irrefutable, but the tree laughed heartily, even the branches supporting her swaying in response.

It shook so badly that it almost shook her off.

Xi Xi frowned. She didn't understand why the other party would react this way. Hadn't she explained herself clearly enough?

Besides, what's so funny about that?

The big tree laughed for a very long time, so long that Xixi's legs went numb from standing and she felt dizzy from being bounced around. So long that Xixi's emotions went from doubt to irritability, then to tension, and finally returned to calm, as if she were watching a show, feeling helpless and at a loss as she watched the other person go crazy.

"Hilarious, so hilarious!" The tree finally stopped laughing, but it was still muttering about just how funny it was.

Tired of standing, Xixi plopped down on the ground. She wanted to see what this big tree, this tree that kept popping into her dreams, was up to and what it could do.