Chapter 112

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“Mommy, I miss you. Let Yaoyao give you a big hug.”

“Mommy, you said that if one day you were no longer here, you would become the moon and keep Yaoyao company forever!”

“Mommy, Yaoyao misses you. Yaoyao misses you so much!”

Tears streamed down Yaoyao’s cheeks. Her words left Chu Tianhe rooted to the spot, his heart twisting with pain.

So Yaoyao had not been throwing a tantrum or acting spoiled when she insisted on coming to the top of Tianhong Tower to touch the moon. She had simply missed her mother too much.

In Yaoyao’s heart, after her mother died, she had become the moon, watching over Yaoyao every night. That was why Yaoyao had to touch the moon no matter what—as if touching it meant touching her mother.

Seeing Yaoyao like this, Qin Xiaomeng’s eyes also filled with tears. She raised her head and blinked, trying her best to keep them from falling.

But in the end, she could not hold them back. Tears slid down her cheeks as well.

At that moment, everyone knew that the scene before them was merely a stage effect, a fabricated illusion. Yet not one of them could bear to shatter it. Mu Xue wore a sorrowful expression, as though she had truly empathized with Yaoyao, and her eyes reddened slightly. Wang Yanyan was crying outright.

At first, she had thought Yaoyao’s desire to touch the moon was nothing more than a child’s foolish mischief and stubbornness. She had never imagined there was such a reason behind it.

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“Daddy, come quickly. Come and hug Mommy.”

“Mommy said she misses you very much. She said that being in your arms was when she was happiest!”

“Daddy, come over here!”

Sobbing, her face covered in tears, Yaoyao turned toward Chu Tianhe. Almost pleading, she begged him to come and embrace “Mommy.”

“All right.”

Even Chu Tianhe, a man of unyielding strength who had slain countless enemies, had reddened eyes at that moment. He nodded and strode toward the moon. Then he stretched out his arms and truly seemed to be embracing Qin Xiaorou as he held the “moon” close.

The sorrowful sight weighed heavily on everyone’s hearts. They all fell silent, watching quietly as Yaoyao closed her eyes and felt the faint chill on the moon’s surface, feeling the warmth of a mother’s love that had already vanished.

At that moment, Mu Xue could no longer hold back either. Tears slipped down her cheeks, and she quietly turned away to wipe them off.

For a long, long while, no one moved.

At last, Wang Yanyan broke the silence. Though it pained her to do so, she crouched down, gently took Yaoyao’s hand, and said, “Good girl, Mommy has things she needs to do too. She can’t stay down here for long. Let’s send her back into the sky, all right? She still has to protect Yaoyao from up there.”

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“Mm-hmm!”

Yaoyao raised her hand and wiped the cold water from her face. With her eyes red, she looked at Chu Tianhe and said, “Daddy, let’s send Mommy back.”

“All right.”

Chu Tianhe nodded. If one looked closely, it was not difficult to see that there was also a glimmer of tears deep in his eyes—a reflection of his longing for his departed wife.

“Yaoyao, close your eyes and count to three, all right?”

Crouching beside Yaoyao, Wang Yanyan guided her patiently. She wanted to bring everything to a perfect close, unwilling to shatter the beautiful fairy tale in the child’s heart.

“All right.”

Yaoyao nodded and obediently closed her eyes, counting softly, “One, two, three...”

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