Max Level Return—I'll Protect That Fragile One

In fact, when Xu Xingguang received that call from Ye Mingluo at the Moon Palace this morning, and learned that Song Chi was actually Huo Yunsheng and the first lady’s real child, Xu Xingguang vaguely had this suspicion.

It wasn’t until he received another call from Ye Mingluo just now, hearing Ye Mingluo’s unusually excited tone, that Xu Xingguang was sure his guess was correct.

Who could have thought that such a rare genetic situation would occur with Huo Wen’an.

”A Zui grew up in Cangshan Town, which means his mother got A Zui’s identity wrong from the very start. Until death, Aunt Huo didn’t know Huo Wen’an was neither Huo Yunsheng’s nor Mrs. Huo’s child.”

Whenever Huo Wen’an’s foster mother was mentioned, Ye Mingluo’s eyes filled with hostility.

If Mrs. Huo were still alive, standing before him, Ye Mingluo would absolutely disregard the usual respect for elders and would beat Mrs. Huo fiercely.

She deserves to be beaten.

She resented Huo Yunsheng and Mrs. Huo, so she should have gone to Divine Concealment Island to get revenge on those two; why torture a child?

During Huo Wen’an’s childhood and teenage years, not a single day passed without living under the abuse caused by Huo Qinyou’s hatred.

And the result?

In the end, Huo Qinyou got the target of her revenge wrong.

Huo Wen’an truly suffered an undeserved disaster, more unjustly than Dou E, who brought about snow in June in the story.

”A Zui...” Ye Mingluo was heartbroken for Huo Wen’an; he bent over, elbows on his knees, covering his face with his palms, speaking painfully, ”The first time I noticed A Zui, he was being beaten by his crazy mom with a broom. It’s the first time I saw a mother hit her child so hard.”

”I was outside the yard gate at the time and said, wow, hitting so fiercely like this, she must be a stepmother. Then his mom hit him even harder. I stood outside the gate, watching him get beaten to the ground, not daring to make a sound, I really thought he would be beaten to death.”

”Later, I found out the reason he was beaten that day was because he scored first in the entire grade at the town’s elementary school.”

Ye Mingluo rubbed his eyes and cursed hoarsely, ”When other kids score first, their parents are so proud. But when A Zui got first, it became a crime.”

Recalling how he got acquainted with Huo Wen’an, Ye Mingluo felt even more heartbroken for Huo Wen’an.

Ye Mingluo was born into a noble family in medicine, his whole family were doctors, and his parents were busy with life-saving work, having no time to take care of Ye Mingluo.

Although there were nannies at home, how could they compare to the reassurance of having a grandfather take care of a child?

So, every summer vacation, Ye Mingluo would be sent to live with his grandfather in Cangshan Town.

Ye Mingluo, coming from the city, couldn’t fit in with the kids in town.

Every evening, those kids would run wild in the fields, picking lotus pods, catching mudfish, and fishing for crayfish.

Ye Mingluo joined them a few times, but after accidentally stepping into a pile of cow manure and dirtying his limited edition sneakers, he refused to go to the fields again.

Stumbling upon Huo Zui being abused by his crazy mother, Ye Mingluo felt a sense of pity and compassion for him, and ran back to ask his grandfather about the child’s identity.

The usually silent grandfather showed a rare sign of pity upon hearing the term ’Huo Family’s kid’.

He told Ye Mingluo, ”Luo Luo, you always feel unhappy, your parents busy with work and don’t have time for you, you disdain your grandfather’s cooking for being bad and find his personality hard to deal with. That’s because you haven’t seen what kind of life the Huo Family’s kid lives.”

Ye Mingluo, for the first time, didn’t refute his grandfather’s lecture.

He asked his grandfather, ”You all call him Huo Family’s kid, doesn’t he have a name?”

Grandfather frowned and said, ”He does have a name, but it doesn’t sound good.”

”What is it?”

”Huo Zui.”

At that time, Ye Mingluo was already fifteen years old, and knowledgeable as he was, he immediately guessed which ’Zui’ character it was.

The teenager knitted his brows, sipping a gulp of fresh milk sent from the city, muttering, ”What were his parents thinking, giving him such a name?”

”What parents? He has no dad, only a mom, who’s also a mentally unbalanced poor woman.”

Regarding Huo Wen’an’s mother, grandfather commented, ”She is a contradictory woman.”

Grandfather told Ye Mingluo some stories about Mrs. Huo.

”Huo Zui’s sister is a child with cerebral palsy, foolish. But his mom treats his sister really well, everything she eats, uses, is given to that child first.”

”Once, a bachelor from the village came to the town to buy something, saw the silly girl playing with sand outside the door, had ill intentions, and nearly defiled her, but was discovered by her mom in time.”