Free Web NovelIn the dining room, on the walnut-colored long table, a cooked king crab was placed on a silver plate. It was bright red, as if shy or perhaps angry. The candlelight flickered gently on the candelabra, and a song titled "Our Farewell" played from the recorder in the corner of the dining room.
"I can hear you say my name~♪ (Spreading hands, memories can still be seen)
I can almost see your smile~♪ (I hear you calling my name)
Feel the warmth of your embrace~♪ (I can even see your smile)
......"
The music echoed in her ears.
Lu Yibei looked at the recorder in the corner, then at the woman sitting across from her, and frowned, "Um, could you please turn off the music?"
You really don't need to deliberately please me... Lu Yibei thought.
Wang Meili looked at Lu Yibei and was startled for a moment. "Isn't this an insert song used in 'love and magical girls'? I thought you would like it."
"..." Lu Yibei opened her mouth as if to speak but hesitated, finally sighing silently and saying, "Then do you know that this insert song appears when White Little Flower is in the enemy's laboratory and finds the body of her childhood friend?"
"Oh." Wang Meili responded with dimmed eyes, got up, walked over, turned off the recorder, sat back down, and smiled at Lu Yibei, "Shall we start eating then?"
"Okay." Lu Yibei nodded expressionlessly, quietly picking up a crab leg and the seafood crab scissors beside her.
Time passed quietly. The two of them silently enjoyed the ridiculously large king crab on the table. For a while, only the soft cracking of crab shells and the clinking of utensils echoed in the dining room.
Both of them knew what was going to happen next, but they tacitly avoided mentioning it.
They were sitting very close, separated only by a table, yet it felt like there was an invisible wall between them, keeping them very far apart.
Lu Yibei hadn't expected that her first candlelight dinner in this life would be with her Old Dad, and there was hardly any interaction, more silent than two people sharing a table.
After a long time, she finally couldn't bear the strange atmosphere. She put down the seafood crab scissors in her hand, raised her head, and looked at the woman across from her who was eating heartily.
"Actually, I don't know what makes a good father, after all, I haven't been one yet. But I think my Old Dad, at least, was a very responsible father." freewёbnoνel.com
Wang Meili raised her head and smiled sweetly, "Right? I also think my judgment was good."
After speaking, seeing that Lu Yibei didn't respond, she fell silent again. After a moment's wait, Lu Yibei continued.
"For a single father, raising a child is a very difficult thing. He bathed his son alone, fed him milk, acted as both father and mother... He always went out alone, but was used to taking a small child everywhere. He alone dug out an ancestral recipe book that had long been abandoned in a corner and started practicing cooking from scratch..."
Lu Yibei once thought that if she saw Wang Meili again, she would be very emotional, very angry. But now, her heart was surprisingly calm.
"He clumsily learned to be a not-so-bad father, trying hard to let me grow up like a child from a normal family. Although there were many things that many children could learn directly from their mothers, I had to stumble and fall to learn them. But I didn't disappoint him, I managed to grow into the person he expected."
You didn't participate in any of this, you just imitated it... Lu Yibei added in her heart.
As she arrived at this small house, the mist that had enveloped her memories finally completely dissipated, and her memories of Old Dad also became clear.
It was only at this moment that Lu Yibei suddenly realized that everything in this special space, as expected of a projection of Hua City, even the things she experienced with her mother, were replicated based on her past with her father, just carefully embellished.
She even realized that this core lady might just be a projection carrying the memories and feelings of the real Wang Meili.
"I first realized I was different from others when I was in elementary school. During a school parent-child activity, my parents were two big men. From then on, although the ◆ Nоvеlіgһt ◆ (Only on Nоvеlіgһt) Teacher and classmates didn't say anything, the way they looked at me became strange."
"However, at that time, I only vaguely felt that I was a bit different from others, but I hadn't truly realized that I was different from others, until the third year of junior high, on Mother's Day, when the school organized a movie viewing..."
"It was an old movie, the name was... Sorry, it's been too long, I forgot, anyway, it was quite boring. It was a nearly ninety-minute movie, and I didn't even watch ten minutes of it."
"I don't know if that movie was really touching, or if everyone was affected by the sad atmosphere and developed a herd mentality. When the climax of the movie arrived, almost everyone in the auditorium had red eyes, except for me..."
Speaking of this, the scene in the school auditorium that day flashed through Lu Yibei's mind again.
In the dimly lit auditorium, she looked at the big screen, the faint sound of sobbing reaching her ears. She felt no real emotion for the classmates'move.
She watched the same movie as everyone else, but she completely failed to understand why a mediocre art film would make her classmates cry like pear blossoms in the rain.
It was like being an outsider.
"..." Wang Meili was silent for a long time. Looking into Lu Yibei's eyes, she said softly, "I'm sorry."
Lu Yibei shook her head, "You have nothing to be sorry for. I am already very grateful that you brought me into this world. I just want to tell you, stop imitating Old Dad, there's no need."
I just want to feel, just once, the first and last time, the warmth of a real mother... Lu Yibei seemed to be saying this silently to Wang Meili.
Wang Meili vaguely sensed Lu Yibei's intention, but just gently shook her head.
She really wanted to respond to Lu Yibei, but she wasn't born a mother. It was her first time being a mother, and she didn't know how to bring warmth to Lu Yibei at such a time.
"No... I'm not apologizing for that," Wang Meili said flatly.
What is it? Lu Yibei opened her mouth, wanting to say something, but her vision suddenly blurred. The scene in her sight rippled like a reflection in water being disturbed.
A feeling of numbness rose from her abdomen, like an electric shock, quickly spreading throughout her body.
Immediately after, a strong drowsiness rushed into her brain, like an invisible large hand, pulling her consciousness away.
"You put something in the food..."
Lu Yibei suddenly realized something. She raised her head to look at Wang Meili, watching the woman's figure gradually distort in her sight, as if it could be blown away by the wind at any moment.
Damn it, a biological mother putting sedatives in her child's food? How could you do that?!
Lu Yibei thought, desperately mobilizing all the Spiritual Energy in her body to resist the drowsiness that was eroding her consciousness. She raised her hand, wanting to grab that figure.
Wang Meili gently pressed down on Lu Yibei's hand and said calmly, "Don't waste your energy, my child. I added 【Brahma's Tears】 to the food, a very potent soporific Alchemy potion. I learned it from a man from India..."
Watching your mother disappear before your eyes, even if it's just a projection, is a bit too cruel for you. Wang Meili thought.
"Sleep, my child, when you wake up..." This was the last sentence Lu Yibei heard Wang Meili say to her. What Wang Meili said after that, she could no longer hear.
She widened her eyes, gathering all the Spiritual Energy into them.
Light like lava pulsed in her eyes, and a few glistening drops slid down from the corners of her eyes, whether from the impending separation from Wang Meili or the intense burning pain in her eyes.
Finally, a moment before her consciousness sank into silence, her vision briefly cleared. She stared intently at the woman across the table, for three seconds, engraving her figure into her mind.
"Thump—!"
Lu Yibei fell unconscious, her body slumping onto the dining table with a soft sound.
Seeing this, Wang Meili got up and walked over, gently stroking Lu Yibei's face. Then, as if saying goodbye, she leaned down, brushed aside her hair, and kissed her forehead.
It felt like a century had passed, yet it also felt like only an instant. Wang Meili's lips left Lu Yibei's forehead.
She straightened up, a look of determination flashing in her eyes. Then she closed her eyes, her thin lips parted slightly, and she began to chant a Power description.
"Born a deity, speaking its name, ink as praise, singing 'Nine Shao'... Wherever the sun and moon shine, wherever the wind and rain reach, none shall not submit..."
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Just as Wang Meili was chanting the Power description, "Lu Yibei"'s body suddenly trembled almost imperceptibly.
Then...
She slowly opened her eyes into a slit, looked deeply at Wang Meili, closed them again, and a shallow smile flashed across the corner of her mouth.
She saw her! How nice... "She" thought.
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Accompanied by a soft chant, countless fine cracking sounds emanated from her body. Her fair skin was like shattered glass, and hideous cracks spread rapidly.
Brilliant and dazzling light burst forth from the cracks in her skin, radiating outwards. Everything within sight trembled. Countless tiny tremors overlapped, turning into a deep roar that shook the world.
Countless magnificent illusions emerged around her body.
Floods raged, people migrated and trekked for years in terror, an old man blew into a clay ocarina, ancient and solemn palaces rose from the ground under the hands of craftsmen, farmers worked from sunrise to sunset according to the seasons, amidst cheers, an ancient emperor sat upon his throne...
Scenes from distant eras were outlined in flowing light, overlapping, converging into a brilliant and dazzling Royal Authority on Wang Meili.
"Beginning today, I bestow upon you Royal Authority. Your life shall not be long, your glory shall be unending."
She said softly, gently placing the crown on Lu Yibei's head, and released her hands.
In an instant, everything around collapsed into crystalline fragments, converging into a river-like torrent of flowing light that merged into Lu Yibei's body, engulfing her figure.
Thus, the fusion began.
