The Rebirth of the Cultivation Leader Qin Zhao as a Celebrity-Chapter 445 - 443 She is Mom

"Come back with me, he misses you a lot."

Qin Zhao saw her curl up and couldn’t help but feel even more heartbroken.

Chu Hanxu just kept shaking her head; she couldn’t speak either.

"Why can’t you speak?"

Qin Zhao noticed something was amiss and stared at her for a while.

Chu Hanxu’s body was covered in burns. If she was burnt to death, why couldn’t she speak?

"Mmm mmm mmm."

She lifted her eyes, filled with a blood-red hue, brimming with hatred.

Chu Hanxu pointed excitedly at her own mouth, gesturing something with her hands.

But her gestures were a bit chaotic, and Qin Zhao couldn’t understand.

"I have paper and pen here; can you write?"

Chu Hanxu nodded, her eyes brimming again with blood and tears.

Qin Zhao gave her the paper and pen.

She squatted on the ground, her hand trembling as she held the pen.

So many years had passed, she could neither speak nor leave this mountain.

Even her dearest son, seeing her, did not want to acknowledge her as his mother.

As she wrote, tears continuously flowed down.

The once white paper suddenly turned the color of fresh blood, filled with an unwilling resentful energy.

"Wu wu."

Chu Hanxu handed over the finished writing to Qin Zhao.

Seeing the contents, Qin Zhao’s pupils shrank, and his heart stung sharply in that moment.

That year, Chu Yan went to the provincial city to take the college entrance exam.

Chu Hanxu worked day and night as a seamstress in the factory to save money for Chu Yan’s college education.

One night during overtime, a machine in the factory suddenly exploded.

The entire building erupted into fierce flames.

She tried to run out, but the workshop door was locked.

In the end, Chu Hanxu was burnt to death in the factory.

After her death, it was not Lu Tingsheng and his wife who came to retrieve her body, but Lu Tingming.

He also brought along a Feng Shui master and chose a special burial site.

Chu Hanxu’s soul accidentally overheard that Lu Tingming was behind the tampering of the factory machine, which caused the explosion that killed her, and she wanted to take revenge on Lu Tingming.

Unfortunately, her strength was insufficient to reach the living.

Chu Hanxu entered Lu Tingming’s dreams multiple times, causing him sleepless nights.

Later, Lu Tingming found another master and told him about the incident.

The master had Lu Tingming cut off Chu Hanxu’s tongue and placed a crosspiece in the corpse’s mouth.

This would ensure that her ghost could never speak.

Even if a Netherworld Envoy found Chu Hanxu and took her to the underworld for reincarnation, because she couldn’t speak, she also couldn’t accuse King of Hell of her injustice.

Not only that, but her soul was also forever trapped in this mountain.

Thus, after Chu Hanxu’s death, Lu Tingming never returned here.

"So that’s how it is."

Qin Zhao couldn’t help but sigh.

"That master was probably just trying to make more money, or maybe he didn’t understand the rules of the underworld. Everything that one does in life, for good or ill, is recorded in the Book of Life and Death.

Even if the ghost doesn’t complain to King Yan, the underworld will still make a fair judgment."

Although Chu Hanxu couldn’t speak, she could still write.

This situation clearly had loopholes.

Lu Tingming was probably guilty as a thief; hence he believed whatever the master said.

"I’ll remove the crosspiece, and you’ll be able to speak then."

Qin Zhao put away the paper and then took out a shovel from the Eight Diagram.

He opened Chu Hanxu’s coffin, only to find a skeleton left inside.

A talisman had been drawn with blood on the white skull, which had turned brownish over the years with age.

Magic surfaced in Qin Zhao’s hands as he removed the talisman from the skull.

This way, Chu Hanxu would be able to leave the mountain and also follow the Netherworld Envoy to be reincarnated.

The crosspiece was in the skull’s mouth, which Qin Zhao also removed and burned to ashes with Spiritual Fire.

"Now you can speak."

Seeing Qin Zhao restore the gravesite to its original state, Chu Hanxu tried moving her mouth.

"I...."

There was a trace of light in her eyes.

"I, I can speak."

Chu Hanxu spoke haltingly, having not spoken in a long time.

She excitedly grabbed Qin Zhao, tears welling up in her eyes.

Qin Zhao stared at her for a while, "Why don’t you put away your deathly appearance and change back to how you originally looked?"

A ghost’s appearance as it was at the time of death is called a "death aspect."

Some ghosts with abilities would choose to conceal their death aspect and revert to their appearance while alive; after all, even ghosts care about looking beautiful, and they certainly look better in their normal state.

"I, can’t, do it."

Chu Hanxu looked apologetically at Qin Zhao, still speaking slowly.

"I’ll find a ghost to teach you."

Qin Zhao casually summoned a nearby ghost.

This ghost looked decent and probably knew the ghost technique.

After learning this ghost technique, Chu Hanxu regained her appearance from when she was alive.

Chu Yan’s features somewhat resembled hers.

But whereas Chu Yan’s demeanor was cold and detached, hers was gentle.

She didn’t look like a countrywoman but rather a noble lady from a scholarly family.

Even the wrinkles at the corners of her eyes added a touch of the charm of the years.

"Mom, you look beautiful."

Qin Zhao suddenly spoke, causing Chu Hanxu to freeze in place.

She stared blankly at Qin Zhao in front of her, taking a long time to respond.

"What, did you call me?"

Qin Zhao smiled, "Can’t I call you ’mom’?"

"Of course, of course."

She nodded with tears in her eyes.

"Let’s go, I’ll take you home."

Qin Zhao took her hand on his own, feeling a sort of pity for her akin to his feelings for Chu Yan.

When they returned home, however, Chu Yan was not there.

"Why isn’t he at home? Where did he go?"

Qin Zhao muttered, while Chu Hanxu stood nervously in place.

"I should go back."

She turned and made to return to the cemetery on the mountain.

"Don’t, why go back? If Chu Yan dares to deny you, I’d kill him."

Chu Hanxu thought for a moment, then said to her, "Don’t tell him."

"What?"

"Those things."

Chu Hanxu was referring to her death, and the deeds Lu Tingming had done after her death.

She knew Chu Yan would not reject her as his mother; she just didn’t want to make Chu Yan sad.

"Okay, I won’t tell him."

Qin Zhao then dialed Chu Yan’s number.

But the phone’s ringing came from the storeroom.

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She went to search for him in the storeroom, filled with various sundries and cardboard boxes for electronics.

Chu Hanxu looked around at the items in the storeroom, her eyes filled with memories.

"When Chu Yan was little and angry with me, he liked to hide by himself, covering himself in all kinds of mess so I couldn’t find him."

Qin Zhao removed those boxes and indeed found Chu Yan squatting at the far end.

His head was buried in his knees, curled up into a ball.

"Why are you ignoring me?"

Qin Zhao approached and poked the back of his head.

He then lifted his foggy phoenix eyes, the tips red.

After looking at Qin Zhao for a while, his gaze moved past her and saw Chu Hanxu standing at the doorway.

"She...."

"She’s mom."

Chu Hanxu stood at the door, gazing at him nervously.

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