Chapter 1098: Chapter 266: Your Dad Is Pretty Awesome! [Ten Thousand Words!]

She spoke with a hint of suggestion.

The meaning is, if you continue to strive like this, continue to bring honor to your family, how wonderful would that be? Is the identity of the Demon Sect really that important?

Fang Che was suddenly enlightened, feeling the clouds of doubt in his mind and the gloom in his heart suddenly disperse.

He laughed: "Indeed, what matters is the present. Living in the moment, staying happy and content, that’s the right way."

He laughed towards the sky, saying: "Forget the past, don’t think about the future, but right now, I am Fang Che."

Ye Meng covered her mouth with a smile, saying: "What are you talking about, if you’re not Fang Che, could you be a tiger?"

"Yes, yes, yes, I am Fang Che indeed."

Fang Che laughed heartily, and amidst Ye Meng’s surprised cries, he picked her up and carried her into the room.

...

Early the next morning.

Fang Qianyi got up early.

Since her son has loved chive dumplings since childhood, she went out early to buy spiritual energy chives and started chopping the filling.

She also bought fatty and lean spirit beast meat.

Started showcasing her culinary skills.

Although these tasks could be done by the servants, Fang Qianyi insisted on doing it herself because the dumplings made by others don’t have the taste of those made by a mother.

Busy all morning, she prepared over two thousand dumplings on ten or so bamboo trays.

The maid laughed: "Madam, you’ve made so many, could the young master eat them all?"

Fang Qianyi smiled contentedly: "If he can’t finish them in one sitting, then in two. And if he still can’t finish them, we’ll seal them with Ice Spirit Qi and take them back to Baiyun State for later."

"Madam has thought of everything."

At noon, Fang Che indeed couldn’t resist the temptation.

The uncle sent someone to invite him to a banquet, but he declined, drooling over the stove, waiting to eat dumplings.

He ate ten whole plates by himself!

His belly was round!

Patting his belly, he made a sound like a ripe watermelon, utterly satisfied: "Delicious, I’m full from this meal!"

Fang Qianyi, both annoyed and amused: "You’ve stuffed yourself, you should eat less..."

She turned to look at the leftovers, still about a thousand dumplings.

In one meal, he nearly ate half!

She frowned slightly: "Tomorrow I’ll buy more, make them for you, and you can seal and store them with Ice Spirit Qi to take home. Whenever you crave them, have Ye Meng make them for you."

"Okay."

Fang Che agreed readily.

Immediately, Fang Qianyi began to instruct Ye Meng: "Cooking and making meals require attention. Although there’s not much trick to it, they require mood. It’s not just about cooking them until they’re edible; it’s best to do it with happiness, joy, and anticipation... That’s what makes good cooking."

"Because... the dishes made by a happy woman and those by a woman filled with resentment have different flavors..."

Ye Meng listened earnestly.

She agreed wholeheartedly.

Although this sounded a bit mysterious at first, thinking it over carefully, it seemed to make some sense.

After the meal, the family drank tea together.

Fang Che asked about the biggest question on his mind: "Mom, did you say... you dreamed of my dad last night?"

Fang Qianyi looked a bit embarrassed, saying: "Yes, I dreamed of him, that heartless man. Dreamed that he said he’s coming back soon."

As she spoke, she began to smile, saying: "After all, it’s just a dream, can’t take it for certain."

Fang Che said: "About my dad, I was little before, never asked. Who is he... what’s his name? Why is he so mysterious?"

Fang Qianyi hesitated for a moment, then had the servants leave and closed the door.

She lowered her voice, saying: "Your dad... always seemed very mysterious to me. We met during an adventure in Jianghu, originally I was out with a girlfriend... But that girlfriend was from another family and harbored bad intentions towards me, although I was completely unaware at the time..."

"Later, I met your dad, who looked gravely ill; obviously didn’t have long to live. Out of compassion, I cared for him, but that woman actually drugged me... That’s how it happened..."

Fang Che frowned deeply.

Back then, the family feud in Bibo City reached such a level? Even between two young girlfriends, there was such malicious scheming?

"What happened next?"

"Later, after your dad found out, he chased her down with a sword for three hundred miles, beheaded that woman with a single strike!"

Fang Qianyi showed a trace of melancholic expression.

"Good!"

Fang Che couldn’t help but shout in praise: "Decisive in killing, swift and neat, didn’t expect my dad to be quite a character."

"Your dad indeed was quite the character, but he was severely weak at the time, frequently too weak to stand for some reason. Yet, it seemed if he wasn’t so weak, he would be really powerful."

"Later, at his weakest, unable to move, I had no choice but to make a grass hut to care for him, and ironically at that moment, several demons came. Though your dad was too weak to stand, just as I was about to be killed, he suddenly jumped up and killed the demons cleanly with three sword strokes. But afterward, he couldn’t stand anymore."

Fang Che sighed.

Listening up to this point, he came to understand.

His father must have suffered severe injuries, the kind with significant damage to his origin, requiring prolonged rest. His desperate last fight to save lives would have required him to use the ultimate lifesaving Origin Power.

Once that power was used, he too was likely done.

"What’s my dad’s name?"

Fang Che asked.

"He said he was called Fang Xiaoxiao."

Upon saying this, Fang Qianyi burst into laughter: "Haha..."

"Fang Xiaoxiao..."

Fang Che looked speechless.

A grown man with such a name, really, as his son, I can hardly complain...