“Sometimes, being too kind isn’t necessarily a good thing.”
Liang Lai felt an itch crawling across her body, trembling violently as tears of regret streamed down her face.
Just moments ago, her ninth daughter—whom she had adopted over a year ago—licked her red lips and uttered a shocking sentence: “Liang Lai Mama isn’t a cake, so you can’t just cut her into nine pieces, right?”
Liang Lai’s entire body shuddered as she cast a desperate glance at the first child she had taken in—Dolosa, the one who was always silent and looked like the most obedient child.
But Dolosa smiled, raised her hand to gently touch Liang Lai’s cheek, and leaned in close to her ear, whispering in a voice that only the two of them could hear: “Mom, I told you long ago, adopting just me would have been enough. Now, do you regret it~?”
Regret?
Liang Lai fell silent.
She had never regretted her own kindness.
But now, having ended up in such a predicament, she truly did feel a bit of regret.
Yet, at the time, she never imagined that none of the children she picked up would turn out to be normal.
“Dolosa.”
Liang Lai lifted her head and looked calmly at her eldest daughter.
“I have never regretted adopting any of you. If I could do it all over again, I would still take your hand and bring you back to the Court of Purity. But I would be more careful in teaching you, and I wouldn’t let you develop such twisted feelings toward me.”
As soon as she finished speaking, everyone present fell silent.
“Hahaha~”
Dolosa suddenly burst into laughter, tears streaming from her eyes.
She wiped the tears from the corners of her eyes, her gaze growing ever more deranged.
She spat out, “You’re wrong, Saintess. Some people are just rotten to the core. No matter how you teach them, they’ll always end up the same way!”
“And why do you think it’s so twisted that we love you?”
Liang Lai stared blankly at Dolosa, the child she once thought was obedient.
Her vision grew blurry, and her memories drifted back to five years ago, to the day she found Dolosa.