154: Chapter 154 Abandoned by His Own Daughter…

"You have your reasons, you certainly have your unspeakable reasons!"

Ye Xiaoling laughed aloud.

But to Ye Yun, who stood to the side, this smile was more filled with absolute heartbreak and a shattered spirit.

She was only a young girl of ten or so, in the prime of her youth, a flower in a greenhouse that should be enjoying warmth and the protection of her parents.

Yet in her eyes, there was an unexpected, sorrowful depth of having seen too much of the world.

What exactly had she gone through over these past ten years?

Why did Xiao Ling, at such a young age, possess not a shred of childhood innocence, but only a maturity that far exceeded her peers?

Ye Yun's heart shattered completely; countless images and conjectures flashed through his mind.

"You have your reasons, so for ten years, you never came to our side, not even sending a single message during this decade."

"Do you know that every time I played with other children, they would call me a bastard with no father? Mom would tell me that my dad was the most amazing person in the world, and that he was just off doing something very important and great."

"I believed Mom was an extremely kind person who wouldn't lie to me, and I believed my dad was the greatest person in the world. Dad was a big hero who was just busy with his own affairs, and he would definitely come to find me."

"I waited longingly for Dad to return every single day, but every hope was met with nothing but disappointment time and time again."

At this point, Ye Xiaoling could no longer hold back, and she began to sob chokingly.

Ever since she could remember, she had been asking who her father was, where he had gone, and why he hadn't come to find her.

Su Mingyue never knew how to explain it to her daughter.

She could only tell her daughter that her father was a great hero saving the world, and that one day, sooner or later, he would return to find them.

Only after growing up did she realize that what her mother said was nothing but a huge lie, one that had caused her countless troubles and pain.

Ye Xiaoling would even mutter to herself every day that her father was a great hero saving the world and would soon return like a king to find them.

Often, her elementary school teachers would call to ask if Ye Xiaoling was mentally ill for daydreaming all day long.

Gradually, all the teachers labeled her as the weirdest child, an existence that was mentally unstable.

Teachers ignored her, and classmates thought she was crazy and refused to play with her.

Ye Xiaoling was directly ostracized by everyone at school, and even by children of her own age, which fostered her precocious personality.

After crying for a while, Ye Xiaoling put away all her weakness, wiped away her tears, and a look of admiration appeared in her eyes.

"Perhaps Heaven heard Xiao Ling's cries, or perhaps everything Mom said was actually true."

"At the moment when we were most desperate, Xiao Ling's father finally appeared by our side."

"Father is incredibly powerful, even more powerful than the superman Mom talked about. After Father appeared, Mom and Xiao Ling were never bullied by those bad people again."

"Father not only avenged the destruction of the Ye family for Mom, but he also brought Xiao Ling and Mom to this villa and took care of us attentively."

"Everything about the happy and fulfilling life we live now is thanks to Father."

"At that moment, I swore that I would only ever be Father's daughter in this life, and I would honor him for as long as I live."

"So, regardless of whether you are actually my biological father, I, Ye Xiaoling, only have one dad in this life, and that is Chu Yuan."

"As for you, a scoundrel posing as my dad, get lost back to wherever you came from. From now on, you have nothing to do with us, and don't you ever come to disturb us again."

Su Mingyue just stood to the side, not saying a word, watching her daughter pour out everything from her heart.

On her fair face, at some unknown point, crystal-clear tears began to fall uncontrollably.

Her daughter had already grown up long ago.

Although she was only twelve or thirteen, her mind was more mature than an eighteen-year-old girl's.

Of course, the painful price paid over these ten years was not something an ordinary person could bear.

During these ten years, how much suffering and hardship they had endured was something only the two of them could truly understand.

Just as Ye Xiaoling said, although Ye Yun was Su Mingyue's husband and she had once held deep feelings for him, those feelings had been worn smooth by the passage of time.

As for Ye Xiaoling's feelings toward her biological father, Ye Yun, she had made them very clear.

From now on, she, Ye Xiaoling, had only one father, and that was Chu Yuan.

As for Ye Yun, she had absolutely no relationship with him anymore.

Hearing his own biological daughter say such hurtful words, not only refusing to acknowledge him as her father but actually wanting to acknowledge another as her father, Ye Yun clutched his chest tightly, feeling as if he were a shattered glass bottle, his heart broken into shards of glass.

A man does not shed tears easily, but he had reached the depths of sorrow.

The dignified master of the Nether Palace, the King of the Underworld, actually shed tears of sorrow.

Ye Xiaoling's words from just moments ago had already wounded Ye Yun deeply.

He clutched his chest tightly, his five fingers digging in as if trying to pierce into his own flesh.

Ye Yun had never imagined that over these years, Su Mingyue and her daughter had lived such miserable lives.

He had never imagined that his daughter, Ye Xiaoling, would be treated as a bastard, misunderstood by everyone, subjected to countless rumors and gossip, and looked down upon.

Not only Ye Xiaoling, but the criticism Su Mingyue, as her mother, had faced was countless and unimaginable.

Actually, this was the most unreasonable part of the God of War genre design, even if Ye Yun had his own reasons for being unable to return to the Dragon Kingdom or see the two of them.

When he was powerful and influential, he could have completely sent people to take care of them, moved them to a safe place, or even provided them with some compensation, so they wouldn't have had to live so miserably.

Of course, all of this had already happened, and what had occurred could not be undone.

Since Ye Yun had neglected Ye Xiaoling and her mother for ten years, why would they care about him, a stranger, now?

"I... I'm sorry!"

"I had no idea that you two had suffered so much injustice and endured so much pain."

Ye Yun's eyes were filled with tears, and at this moment, besides guilt, self-reproach, and apologies, he had nothing else to say.