Future Beast World: Becoming A Pampered Beauty-Chapter 339 - 278: Forgetting Love

Duotu stared at the ground, his face ashen. "No future... Then what was the child for? You tell me, what did everything between her and me even mean?"

He clutched his head, filled with anguish and resentment.

Minos said, "What if you treat it as a dream?"

Duotu snapped his head up, his bloodshot eyes fixed on him. "I can’t compare to you, Holy Monarch. You have everything now, while I have nothing left."

"The precious gift she gave you before she left is enough to make any Male Beast in the world envious." Minos shook his head. "This child is her unique gift, meant only for you."

...

Duotu’s expression gradually grew subdued.

Minos handed him the sleeping lion cub, his voice deep and gentle. "The child is what you should treasure most in this life, and the only one who truly belongs to you. As for everything else... His Majesty Yalan should just forget it."

Duotu looked at the child, closed his eyes, then opened them again. After a long while, he finally said, "How am I supposed to forget?"

Minos took out a bottle of Forgetfulness Water. "A gift for His Majesty Yalan."

Without hesitation, Duotu drank it all in one go.

He covered his face with his right hand, slowly lowering it after a moment. He rose from the ground, his expression calm once more, and said to Minos, "Thank you, Holy Monarch. I would like to return to the Holy Hall to see my mother."

"You’re willing to see her?"

Duotu was silent for a moment before nodding. "With those emotions and distracting thoughts gone, I’ve come to understand many things. When I was young, I didn’t get it. I only wondered why my mother was so cruel, why she did those things to me and abandoned me forever... Now, I finally understand why my parents’ relationship fell apart. There are things I’ve kept locked in my heart for many years that I want to say to my mother."

Minos nodded. "I wish Your Majesty Yalan a safe journey. She must be very eager to see you."

Hearing this, Duotu froze for a couple of seconds, then shook his head with a bitter smile. "No, she won’t. She despises me. I probably won’t even get to see her before she throws me out."

"And what if that’s not the case?"

...

After Duotu left, Minos found Sang Luo on a wicker chair in the Flower Forest Sea.

He told her everything that had just happened.

Sang Luo was surprised. "You have Forgetfulness Water too?"

"Forgetfulness Water is precious. I only had two bottles."

Ever since returning that day, Sang Luo had heard many rumors. Anano had agreed to undergo treatment, and her condition was gradually improving. She hadn’t suffered any more episodes, and her life was slowly returning to normal.

Minos revealed the truth. "My Aunt Anano doesn’t resent the child. She feels guilt and fear. Over years of nightmares, it slowly morphed into terror. She’s terrified of seeing the child whose wings she clipped all those years ago. She’s afraid of her son cursing and hating her... That’s the real reason she didn’t dare to see him or confront that memory."

Sang Luo nodded. "No wonder the one buried deepest in her memory isn’t Egarli Yalan, but Duotu."

Minos smiled. "My aunt was very fond of this child back then. He was her first child, her only heir. She wanted to bring him to live in the Holy Hall from a very early age, but Egarie Yalan ruined her plans."

Sang Luo said, "Huh? I didn’t see that memory."

Minos said, "That is the difference between time and memory. Emotions can distort memory, but what actually happened in time cannot be changed."

In the timeline Anano actually experienced, she was both nervous and full of anticipation for the child’s arrival. She carried him for a full ten years before giving birth to her precious heir. Her little son was born safely and smoothly—an adorable little Angel lion cub whose birth helped her evade the Holy Hall’s censure.

When the little lion cub lay softly in her arms with his eyes closed, she truly adored him. She held her little son every night as she slept.

Her little son would act cute for her and would even bring her the most beautiful flower from the garden in his mouth. Anano would put the flower in a vase by the window and give her son a kiss.

Egarli Yan wanted to keep the child as the heir to the Empire, but Anano insisted on taking her son back to the Holy Hall so he could receive his inheritance and awaken the power of the Angel Clan as soon as possible. But later, Egarli Yalan’s actions shattered everything.

During a fit of madness, Anano cut off her son’s wings. When she came to her senses, she wept bitterly, and her mind completely collapsed.

She couldn’t bear what she had done, the pain she had inflicted on her beloved son.

Her memory began to shy away from it all.

In her heart, she continuously deepened her resentment, shifting her hatred for Egarli Yalan onto her son to justify her own actions.

She hated him, and that’s why she treated him that way. It was all their fault—the father and the son—not hers.

What Anano truly feared, what she was unwilling to face, was her son’s resentment and retaliation.

"That day, after my Aunt Anano and her son talked all through the night, they finally resolved matters between them."

"Did Duotu really forgive his mother?" Sang Luo asked. "Just seeing the pain of having his wings clipped in his memory was indescribably heart-wrenching. What did he say that day?"

Minos saw her curious expression, shook his head with a smile, and recounted, "He said he doesn’t care about his Angel Clan bloodline. He just regrets that his mother couldn’t be with him as he was growing up."

Sang Luo was speechless. She agreed with his words; it was also the reason she had to acknowledge her own little lion cub. A childhood without a mother’s love was ultimately incomplete and could easily lead to character flaws. She didn’t want Hephis to follow Duotu’s path in the future.

Minos watched her for a moment. "He said one more thing."

"Oh? What else did he say?"

But Minos just looked at her, his clear blue eyes calm, as if in invitation.

Sang Luo understood instantly. She sat on his lap and leaned down to give him a kiss on the cheek.

Minos’s long, elegant fingers tapped the empty air, and golden waves of energy rippled out from his fingertip, layer by layer.

The surrounding scene changed.

The events of that day appeared before her eyes.

And Sang Luo heard the last thing he said.

Duotu said that he didn’t understand what love was until much later, but by then, it was too late.

Sang Luo swallowed. It was indeed too late. 𝐟𝕣𝗲𝕖𝕨𝗲𝐛𝗻𝗼𝐯𝗲𝚕.𝗰𝚘𝐦

But a broken mirror cannot be made whole again.

Her story with him was now completely over.

The days passed. Sang Luo learned from Ilodi that the Disaster Beasts were becoming more active.

At first, there were only a few Emperor Rank or higher Disaster Beasts, but now their numbers had rapidly swelled to several dozen, causing considerable disruption in many of the more remote cities and tribes.

Sang Luo told Minos she wanted to return to the Beast World Continent to check on things.

Minos didn’t want her to leave.

"Don’t forget, you promised not to restrict my freedom of movement."

"Wait a little longer." Minos looked at her, his Adam’s apple bobbing. In a low voice, he said, "Wait until after my Holy Monarch ceremony."

Sang Luo asked frankly, "When is it?"

"The day after tomorrow."

"Alright, that’s not long. I’ll leave after the ceremony."

"...Mm."