O Filho Ilegítimo é Implacável

“My condolences for your loss, Young Master Xu,” the physician stammered, kneeling in fear before Xu Mu in the clinic at Liangzhou City. Xu Mu, mind clouded with grief, suddenly found himself absorbing a surge of unfamiliar memories.

The experiences of his predecessor flashed before his eyes, stoking a fierce anger within him.

“Didn’t I give you money just yesterday? With enough for medicine, how could my mother still come to harm?” Xu Mu’s eyes blazed crimson as he roared, his voice stripped of the weakness that had previously characterized him.

The physician trembled. “Young Master Xu, what you gave was indeed enough to save your mother, but…” He hesitated, terrified to say more. After all, standing before him was the son-in-law of the magistrate’s granddaughter—a man no humble doctor could afford to offend.

“Speak!” Xu Mu slammed his palm on the table, sending another shudder through the trembling physician.

“Sir, the money you gave yesterday was taken back by your wife, Miss Su,” the physician finally confessed.

Xu Mu’s body quaked violently with rage. His mother had been sickly for years, her life sustained solely by medicine that had exhausted all his savings. Only yesterday, he’d scraped together his last ten taels of silver—his mother’s very lifeline—only for Su Hanwei to take it away.

Realizing this, Xu Mu hurried to his mother’s bedside, checking her pulse. It was gone. Even if he possessed the powers of the immortals, he could not bring the dead back to life.

“I did all I could,” the physician murmured.

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