My Demon Husband Is a Snake

Chapter 1188: It Doesn’t Hurt That Much

I glanced at Dumpling apprehensively, somewhat puzzled why Yu Longting would say this in front of Dumpling.

Hesitating for a few seconds, I then asked softly, "What method?"

"Send Dumpling to a monastery to become a monk." Yu Longting said with a gentle mischievous smile.

It really felt like a refined scoundrel.

Little Dumpling was immensely shocked, never expecting his own father to suddenly say something like that.

He tilted his little head, staring speechlessly at his shameless dad.

I, too, was left with a head full of question marks.

Yu Longting asked me, "Dumpling’s pain is because his body is too small, too weak to withstand the Art, right?"

"Do you want him to sever all emotions and desires, to be pure and reduce the pain?" I thought for a moment, finding it absurd, and I couldn’t bear the thought of being separated from my little treasure, "People say a stable Taoist Heart requires cutting off emotions and love, but don’t we also fall in love, and then there’s Zhao Sihai and Madam Zhao."

Yu Longting’s theory was to help Dumpling establish a strong Taoist Heart to alleviate the intense pain inside him.

The first thing Dumpling would have to let go of, was the parental bond between us.

How could he come up with such a lousy idea!

"Zhao Sihai and Madam Zhao are selfish people; even if they have feelings, they are very indifferent." Yu Longting watched Dumpling with a smile, explaining the Zhao couple’s Taoist Heart to me, seemingly determined to persuade me, "Their emotions only developed after their Taoist Hearts were stable. Just like Zhang Zidao, he also severed emotions and love first, later achieved Physical Sanctification, and only then experienced familial affection with you."

"Then... what about us... aren’t we doing just fine." The thought of sending away Dumpling, cutting off the mother-son relationship, tore at my heart, but I really couldn’t bear to see Dumpling suffer.

What should we do to find a solution that works for both sides?

Yu Longting stroked my face, looking at me with an expression that seemed to say ’naive’, and said solemnly, "We practice Dual Cultivation, darling, what are you thinking? If we cut off emotions and love, our skills would actually regress."

"Even serious talks can... go astray!! You shameless dad!" I wasn’t in the mood to joke, and glared at Yu Longting accusingly.

Yu Longting kissed Dumpling on the cheek and hugged the little treasure tighter.

He wrapped his other arm around me, holding the two of us together, "I really am not a shameless dad. If there were any other way, I wouldn’t bear to part with Dumpling either."

"Mmm~" A low animal-like whimper came from Yu Longting’s embrace, looking down it was Dumpling, who had turned into a tearful mess.

I hurriedly reached out my hand to wipe Dumpling’s tears, "Why are you crying, little treasure, don’t cry, you’re breaking mommy’s heart."

"Waaaah~" Little Dumpling cried even louder, his little hands damp with tears touched my forehead.

Immediately, the scene when he was implanted with the Demon Qi Seed appeared in my mind, along with the memory of Yu Longting finding medicine for me to take.

This little thing is so tiny, yet he knows more than I do.

And he understands more, is steadier than me!

I held him tightly, my heart aching so much it could bleed, "If you have to bear everything, then what am I, as your mother, supposed to do?"

[Mommy, did you know that I’m actually not in that much pain? Dumpling is doing fine.]

"Waaaah..." I broke down and cried even more childishly than Dumpling, my whole heart felt sour and painful deep within.

Yu Longting was instantly dumbfounded, both his wife and child were crying.

Somewhat at a loss, he patted Dumpling’s shoulder, and then my back, "Darling, what did Dumpling say to you, why are you crying too?"

"Dumpling asked me... if I already knew that he was enduring pain, but actually he wasn’t in that much pain." As a mother, my heart was truly being shattered, crushed by wheels, going back and forth, the pain beyond measure.