Socially anxious people transmigrate to another world; living in seclusion is too difficult.

Looking at the name engraved on the stone tablet in front of him, Su Yang immediately understood that Lin Geyun was Lin Anlan's biological mother. He once thought that Lin Anlan took her father's surname. Looking at the girl standing in front of the stone tablet that had been straightened again, he was filled with thoughts. He even suspected that Lin Anlan might just be an alias for the girl in front of him, just to forget that heartbreaking past.

A gentle breeze rustled through the trees, the sound of leaves whispering like a lament. The three stood there quietly, a faint sadness slowly spreading through them. Suddenly, a leaf seemed to fall from the treetop, its soft patter breaking the stillness. Su Yang looked around for the sound and found it coming from near Lin Anlan's feet.

This was the third time he had seen Lin Anlan cry. Her slightly trembling shoulders were trying their best to hide the vulnerability of this strong-willed girl at this moment. It was a silent cry. Su Yang had also felt this way, but he could not suppress his own weakness like Lin Anlan.

The sun shone brightly today, and the sounds of flowing water, birdsong, and insect chirping all indicated a peaceful moment. Lin Anlan finally made a move. She slowly squatted down and lowered her stubborn head in front of the stone tablet. Then, she pressed her forehead tightly against the stone tablet. At this moment, her longing seemed to have a concrete shape and was no longer something indescribable.

Su Yang and Tang Wan stood quietly behind her, waiting silently. Perhaps it was the pent-up emotions in Su Yang's heart that were causing him to be unmoved, unlike Tang Wan. Even though he noticed the tears in Tang Wan's eyes, he didn't understand his own feelings. But he knew that if that day ever came and Lin Anlan needed his help, he would not hesitate to kill the man who had betrayed the title of "father."

"let's go."

After a long while, Lin Anlan slowly got up, her voice tinged with exhaustion, perhaps because conveying her longing had exhausted all her strength.

The three left silently. Perhaps when they came back next time, the stone tablet would be covered with a thick layer of fallen leaves again, but for now it stood there, just like Lin Geyun standing in place watching her child leave home.

Walking along the stream along the same path, Lin Anlan's mood had improved somewhat. Seeing this, Tang Wan asked tentatively with comforting words, "Sister Anlan, I was too embarrassed to ask earlier, was that your old home?"

Lin Anlan did not speak, but simply nodded slightly as a response.

"Then Aunt Lin is..." Tang Wan started to say a few words, but realizing something was wrong, she changed her question: "And Uncle?"

Little did they know that this was the person Lin Anlan least wanted to mention. When Su Yang saw Tang Wan ask this, he couldn't help but feel worried for her. But Lin Anlan wasn't angry. She just slowly said, "My mother was killed by him."

"Ah, this, I'm so sorry, Sister Anlan, I didn't know, so..."

Lin Anlan waved her hand, then took Tang Wan's arm and said, "It's okay, I don't blame you."

Seeing that Lin Anlan's emotions had completely recovered, Su Yang asked the question that had been bothering him: "Anlan, so you take your mother's surname?"

“No.” Almost instantly, Lin Anlan’s rebuttal came out, but she added, “That’s true. To be honest, I don’t know whose surname I have, because that person also has the surname Lin.”

Yes, whose surname did I actually take? If only I hadn't been born, if only that person wasn't my father, if only he weren't so bad, so cold-blooded. Lin Anlan couldn't help but recall that person's appearance. His face looked so kind, and he had loved her like the other children's fathers in the village. Although her memories of him were only a year or two long, they were so heavy. Just as Lin Anlan was reminiscing about the past, that kind face suddenly turned repulsive.

From Lin Anlan's denial, Su Yang understood that the girl beside him still longed to find her lost fatherly love, but hatred could not go unavenged. Her mother shared the same surname, and perhaps sharing the same surname would strengthen her resolve for revenge. Thinking of this, Su Yang asked:

"What's that person's name?"

"Brother Su Yang!" Tang Wan wanted to stop Su Yang from asking more questions. After all, anyone would feel sad if their father killed their mother.

“His name is Lin Ji.” Lin Anlan stopped, looking directly at Su Yang, their eyes meeting. Su Yang also stopped, and the two stared at each other. Tang Wan, thinking they were about to argue, quickly intervened, saying, “Sister Anlan, Brother Su Yang is just curious, he didn’t…”

"Will you need my help then?" Su Yang interrupted Tang Wan.

"want."

Then their conversation abruptly stopped, and they tacitly continued walking forward, only this time they started talking more.

"Have you heard from him all these years?"

"not yet."

"The house doesn't seem to have collapsed naturally. Was there a battle taking place at that time?"

"Yes, a battle ensued with the demon healers who came to the scene, but they couldn't stop him, and he escaped."

"So how did he treat you... um, what did he do?"

Do you remember me saying that he abused me?

Su Yang nodded, waiting for Lin Anlan to continue.

"I was only five or six years old at the time. Since the end of the war between humans and demons, there have been conflicts between various countries, resulting in constant wars. During that time, my mother, a demon elementalist, was drafted into the army. He took me away while my mother was away. Later, I learned that the place was a branch of the Saint Cult. They had been conducting experiments on demons and demon humans to try to figure out the weaknesses of the demons. In that basement, there were abandoned demon children everywhere. As a demon human, because of my small number, I was healed after each experiment, which is why I survived."

"The so-called experiments were nothing more than various kinds of hacking and slashing, and all kinds of torture were used in turn. After the demon children died, their bodies would be cut open. I don't know what they were looking at. At first, they studied the blood and collected it in wooden buckets each time, but they soon found that many children died after being bled out, so they changed it to collecting only a small bowl each time."

"Later, I don't know when, they started researching regenerative abilities. First, it was about physical regeneration, like mutilating a child with a knife and observing whether the child could heal themselves. Later, it became about the regenerative abilities of elemental power. The child in my cell was driven insane by being forced to release elemental power..."

"They also..." Lin Anlan was about to continue speaking when Su Yang couldn't bear to listen anymore. Although he couldn't empathize with many of the world's emotions, he couldn't bear such a bloody reality, so he interrupted Lin Anlan.

“The sage is not benevolent; he treats the people like straw dogs.”

Just as Su Yang and his two companions arrived in Lin Anlan's hometown, a piece of news that terrified the world spread rapidly: "War has broken out."