Mr. CEO Wants to Renew Our Contract-Chapter 786: Deeply Rooted Feelings (231)
"The separation between Jun Xiangyi and my third brother due to the Heavenly World and Netherworld’s refusal to intermarry was preempted by the Heavenly King, who informed my father of this decision. It was a clear message: the Netherworld was being ostracized."
"Without this letter, would you have married me?"
"I would have."
"Why? Isn’t it you who wanted to keep our relationship a secret the most?"
He responded, "Even in a grand wedding, we can still remain at odds in heart and appearance. I’ve said it before, once we care, we won’t stop; I am serious about this. But now there is no way to do so... If the Heavenly King refuses to allow marriages with the Netherworld, then neither can I..."
"It doesn’t matter." Jun Li gazed at him. "We can delay if possible, and if not, we choose to be betrothed first. Let nature take its course. I have never thought of marrying any man other than you. One way or another, there will always be a solution. Do you have a way to prevent your father from arranging a marriage for you?"
"As long as I refuse to marry, my father won’t force me, especially since I have two sons." Long Yubei pulled her into his arms and sat down on the couch, whispering, "Isn’t your stepmother the Heavenly King’s biological mother? Is your relationship with her very bad?"
"Biological mother?" Jun Li sighed lightly. "Yu said that since my fight with Hong Ying and until I woke up, she only mentioned it once. She has never visited me, and since I woke up, I haven’t seen her either. Over the years, my siblings and I have gotten used to living without her. Sometimes, though, I feel regret. She is our biological mother, yet she treats us with icy detachment. On the other hand, she behaves towards him as if he were her own son."
Long Yubei embraced her tightly. He hadn’t expected that her biological mother, both in the mortal world and in her original form, would be the same in this regard.
"Why does she treat you this way? Is there a reason?"
"She and the Heavenly King’s father were truly in love but were separated and she was married off to my father. The Heavenly King’s father also married someone else. In my memory, my parents’ relationship was always poor, frequently arguing—often over trivial matters my mother would instigate while my father was mostly forbearing. Yet she persisted in nagging him. Despite all this, Yu was conceived. I remember my mother tried several times to abort the pregnancy, not wanting the child even upon learning it was a boy. It was my father who guarded her daily, insisting she give birth. But a few months after Yu was born, my father died. My mother left Yu with me and disappeared."
Long Yubei asked, "How did your father die?"
"People said he was killed by an enemy, but the identity of this so-called enemy has never been resolved. Later, upon learning that the Heavenly King’s father divorced his wife and remarried my mother, even abdicating and leading a reclusive and carefree life with her, Jun Li lowered her voice, "Yu and I have always deeply suspected that it was he who killed our father. This is our speculation, without evidence."
"Did your mother not take care of you and your sibling at the time?"
"She was too busy enjoying her own life to care about us. I looked after Yu when he was just a few months old and raised him like a son. He feels no affection towards our mother. The people of the Heavenly lineage, one and all, are superficial and insincere. Deep down, who doesn’t wish to get rid of us quickly? After my father died and his Primordial Spirit dissipated, and his body was buried, I found his Spell secret manual beneath my bedside, understanding why he had written down the secret techniques he cultivated. Perhaps he had sensed the approaching day of his demise, for the first line of the manual read: ’To my daughter.’"
