5 Mothers

Four months flapped away; I sleep and drink milk after finishing my lengthy naps.

My instant mother didn't move an inch from my side the whole time; she seemed to be smitten with my face, from the clingy looks and behaviors she occasionally makes.

Her meals and necessities all get taken care of by the place maids, and as expected, my father only visited one time in a skulking manner the entire period to "dual cultivate" with her and left shortly after.

Furthermore, he still didn't acknowledge my existence.

'The first time, let's say he was stressed, but for the second time?'

I wasn't longing for any fatherly love or anything; I just found it bizarre.

"Am I even his son? isn't it normal to be happy about your newborn infant.?" I wondered, feeling dejected.

Although my mother did not like to speak about him that much, but I heard her one-time self-talk about how my father only treats her as an object to stabilize his yin.

I understood from her mindless whispers that she possesses a unique construction, which enticed the cunning wolf to make her his.

I kind of sympathize with her; after all, I, too. Got used by the people around me.

'But that isn't a reason to explain such degree of clinginess; she adheres to my body, like a tight dress, my little bones would probably soon crack, and I can't even breath sometimes,'

Nonetheless, I was still delighted; no, I was extremely ecctasic, as I felt like I'm being adored and cherished for the first time.

"How cute my little rabbit can be, you're surely going to grow up to be a ladykiller," mother said. At the same time, raining kisses all over my face.

I didn't notice her super sad gaze while saying "ladykiller,"

If she weren't my mother, someone would've thought that she's jaundiced.

'But I guess that's all coming from her motherly love.'

"Mothers always going to be mothers." I thought.

Days went by.

For the first time, my mother decided to breathe some fresh air and take a stroll beside the blue lake near the residence.

I hadn't the ability to crawl yet, and besides, my mother had an illness that weakens her physique. So I couldn't take a glance at the outside world.

But wait, Chou, what about getting taken by the servants?

Well, for my mother, it wasn't an option either.

As an infant, I enjoyed my time glimpsing at my new world. It was still fairly early by the sun.

Outside everything was green and pale gold under the autumn sky of thin blue; the scent of turf rose was strong and sweet as I took a long, refreshed whiff.

Meanwhile, I was getting carried by a maid while two servants supported my mother from each side, as we crested the red wooden bridge; A skyline-silver lake rested under us, clearer than a mirror made of diamonds, freckled trouts were leaping for flies and thunking on its surface.

In the East, my eyes went up the hills crowned with green mounds, around the stipe mountains, and down into new valleys; however, afar; I looked, but it appeared like I never did, far in the foreign land, above the mountains were veiled and mystic, it was normal since I suspect that the clan is built around a chain of cliffs.

The hollowness of the valley magnified all sounds; it was indeed an idyllic scene that took spectators breaths, unruffled by wind or any kind of disturbance.

Yet, it didn't match the grandeur of the next scene, a scene with a fairy created like us with blood and flesh, but in a transcendent way

The fairy moved past us, gracefully walking while the maid shouldered the son from her celestial face using an umbrella.

My mother's face twitched, noticing the coming women. In a moment, she stopped at once, no everything there stopped. They all bowed their heads to the women with the cold, pacific eyes, not bothered with any otherworldly affairs.

Seemingly, not putting anything on her lofty eyes, as she didn't appear like she even acknowledges our existence.

I was so stunned I forgot to blink, as my eyes were fixated on the eye candy in front of me.

Her senses were sharper than a saber; she knew that someone didn't avert his gaze, assaulting her figure with every bit of pixels his eyes possessed, and to her, it was an imperial crime; no one dares to steal a peek at her maiden self, even brainless infants wasn't spared from this rule, but I wasn't one of them, even though my brain is limited right now still my experience coated the flaw.

She then frowned, directing her dreary eyes to look at me; our eyes met for a split-second.

She gapped, mouth twitching; her eyes seem like they gained back their life for a split second.

I wasn't afraid, but a hunch told me to hide.

So I listened to my senses, averting my eyes, breaking the eye contact.

After I opened them, the fairy was already gone.

"Sigh* that was close,"

....

Somewhere in the inner manor.

"Maid, Who's that kid?" Ice fairy ordered her servant.

"Kid?" The maid was baffled.

"Yes, the one back in the bridge," Ice fairy said.

"Ah! He's one of the master's concubines bastard kids; he was born exactly after you broke from the nascent soul ninth stage, your Majesty."

"Why I'm not informed about him?"

The maid got perplexed even more; her master never asked about any child her husband ever had.

"You never cared about any sect affairs, your majesty."

Ice fairy raised her brow upon hearing the response and ordered, "Go and take him to my room right now!"

...

I was presently sleeping when I heard two people arguing with each other; I turned my head and saw my mother clasping me as hard as she could while a maid was trying to snatch me from her hands.

"She looks different than the other maids; she probably got a higher status," I mumbled, looking at her dress.

The maid made a robotic sound. "Her Majesty instructed me to take the infant to her room."

"No! Unthinkable! What does she want from my baby?" my mother screamed in a terrified tone.

"A lowly concubine like you doesn't have the qualifications to ask about my master's intentions; hand over the newborn or face the fate of treason," A light shinned from her hand, wrapping me up entirely as it quickly pulled me towards her.

"No! Why would you take my child!? Please take everything! Just don't take my baby away from me!" My mother's shouts got louder.

Moreover, her pleads only got a sneer out of the high ranking maid, as she disappeared after acquiring me, leaving my mother behind, crying her lungs out.

She took me to a big room; space looked even more luxurious than my mom's place. I concluded that this person that wants to see me have a higher status than my birth mother.

A woman walked out to where I'm sleeping and lifted me; I looked at her; she was the same icy beauty I met beside the lake.

In an instant, knots arose in her face while delicately inspecting me.

"Those Golden eyes, our imperial family, are the only ones with this kind of Royal pupils color," I heard her say.

She started going even deeper in her examination, stripping me from my clothes, sniffing my hair, and even licking my shoulder.

Ice Fairy pov:

"T...this can't be; I can sense a vast attraction coming from this boy. It's merely absurd; the maid said he got born precisely when I broke through the nine levels of nascent-soul. Did some of my yin energy retreat? And affiliates him?"

Because of my dark ice physique, which made me unable to bear children or dual cultivate, it's impossible to have kids. But those eyes and the deep motherly attraction I feel every time I touch him is merely absurd.

Perhaps, my yin energy combined with the nature qi inside of his mother's womb when she's about to gift birth?

Yes, yes, that's what happened; it's very logical; there's no way that lowly slave can give birth to such a mystical creature.

...

Ice fairy searched for thousands of years to cure her infertility and physique, but she never succeeded.

That mainly made her build deep envy and hatred for mothers and even their children; those feelings transferred onto an obsession. Paired with the deep attraction, she felt coming from me made her brain create an illusion that I might be her own flesh and blood.

She even put the reason for the attraction as a natural cause of our yin and yang resonating with each other.

Of course, in the ordinary circumstances between a mother and her son, it's true.

However, in this case, the attraction she felt has no relation whatsoever with their yin and yang.

"B...but it's completely impossible,"

Even with her strong obsession; ice fairy was a smart woman. She knew it's nearly impossible for that to happen, But the delusional thoughts still made her check.

'What if?'

'Checking never harmed anyone.'

She touched her ring, ultimately making a bowl with a weird fluid appear in her hands; she poked me and her's finger with a needle, small drops of Blood dripped in the bowl. Thus, making the fluid shine as the different drops of blood started to merge.

After a couple of seconds, the liquid in the bowl stabilized on a green color.

I heard a loud scream, "IMPOSSIBLE! G..green! It's green!" The woman started to cry out of nowhere.

(A/N: green means they have a blood connection. red means not related)

She got up and lifted me again, taking deep glances at my little face.

"I see now, everything makes perfect sense; you were my baby all along; they stole you from me, your mother! How Hateful! They didn't even let me feel your warmth inside my belly. How did They do it? Was it the western kingdom? I should send someone to investigate, but more importantly, you are here with me now, my precious baby;"

"I WON'T LET THEM TAKE YOU FROM ME THIS TIME,"

Vicious killing intent filled the room, making my hair stand on top of my skull.

"AH! My precious treasure, I scared you! forgive your clumsy, 'mother.'"

"Shh, my baby, I'm sorry, mommy doesn't have any milk now, but I have all the love and care for you; I will go and fetch the best maid to feed you, okay?"

"Hmm, what should I do about that bitch? That called you son and claimed you from me all this time. Just by remembering, it makes my heart want to come out and bite her. Should I kill her? No! she still useful; after all, she gave birth to you; I should keep her alive for now."

I was speechless at what is this woman saying, "What's going on? is something wrong with this woman? And why is she calling herself my mother?."

( A/N: 2 mommys? Double kill!? God damn)

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