The Ultimate Sword Master

The cold wind blows in and the snow howls.

The woman didn't care about this. Seeing the man's fierce look, her body trembled and she subconsciously protected the baby in her arms.

The drunk man's eyes were very red.

It's so red it's almost cannibalistic.

He tremblingly raised the hatchet in his hand, as if he wanted to chop the mother and son in front of him into pieces before he stopped.

Can……

Even though his eyes were full of resentment and humiliation, he didn't dare to take action. Even though he was drunk, he still couldn't hide the cowardice in his bones.

Bang!

The hatchet swung down heavily and struck the firewood nearby, and then... as if to vent the anger in his heart, he got out of control.

"Bitch!"

"Son of a bitch!"

"Bitch!!"

"Son of a bitch!!"

"..."

Sawdust flying, accompanied by insults one after another, made the atmosphere in this small woodshed even more depressing.

Gu Han watched all this calmly.

He knew that this little baby was Luo Wannian, but he did not take action, let alone stop the drunkard. After all, this was not a river of time, but an illusion created by Luo Wannian. No matter what he did, he could not change what had happened. established fact.

He was just curious.

"Is this your father?"

"In name only."

"name?"

"My father-in-law was powerful and had disciples all over the world. The father-in-law was suppressed and depressed. He used wine to relieve his sorrow. He met a maid and... took possession of her by force."

A few words.

Luo Wannian has already told what happened and his origin.

"Then what?"

Gu Han asked again.

"Then?"

Luo Wannian said quietly: "There is no airtight wall in the world. This matter quickly spread throughout the Duke's house. How did the Duke get his title? You should know that the mistress is fierce and ordered my mother to be imprisoned." Get up, and even... my nominal father, Luo Si, is also implicated."

Gu Han suddenly realized.

This drunkard was Luo Si. No wonder the other party had such a big reaction. After all, this kind of thing... no one can bear it.

"Do you think he is innocent?"

"A little."

"Not at all actually."

Luo Wannian said seriously: "Don't you find it strange that after my father-in-law was drunk, so many people couldn't meet him, but he met my mother?"

"Could it be..."

Gu Han looked surprised!

"He arranged it."

Luo Wannian added: "The coincidence that everyone thought was actually not a coincidence, it was just a deliberate push by someone behind the scenes."

"It's him?"

"Who else could it be?"

Luo Wannian said softly: "He thought that by doing this he could please the father-in-law and get a better job, but he didn't expect that it would be self-defeating and my mother would become pregnant... Naturally, everything he wanted was also given. No, he was even implicated.”

"..."

Gu Han suddenly fell silent.

Glancing again at Luo Si, who kept venting on the pyre, he sighed: "It's really damned."

"He deserves to die."

Luo Wannian said indifferently: "But...he is not the only one who deserves to die."

"Who else?"

"Everyone."

Luo Wannian said indifferently: "Everyone deserves to die, including myself!"

Gu Han frowned.

He had met Luo Wannian several times, and this was the first time he had seen such a paranoid and extreme side of him.

"so what?"

He sighed: "Why did you let me see all this? To make me sympathize with you?"

"No."

Luo Wannian said: "I don't deserve sympathy, not at all! You said before that you are more suitable to follow the path of sentient beings than me. I admit that you are right."

"Can……"

Changing the topic, he added: "If we were to change places and you were me, would you still be able to walk on this road? Or rather, how else could you walk on this road?"

Gu Han said nothing.

Continue to look at everything in front of you.

boom!

boom!

…

Sawdust was flying, and Luo Si's curses, the baby's cries, and even the woman's pleas were mixed together, turning into strands of resentment that quietly disappeared into the surrounding area.

To this.

Gu Han didn't notice it.

He only knew that in this Duke's Mansion, which almost symbolized the pinnacle of power in the world, two babies were born at the same time on this day. One was the little prince who was aloof and loved by thousands of people. The other was almost frozen to death and looked at. Like, a bastard destined to live a difficult life.

…

time flies.

Unknowingly, five years have passed in the fantasy world, and Gu Han has also stayed in this palace for five years, as if he has completely integrated into it, becoming an invisible and transparent person, witnessing the rise and fall of this place. Honor and disgrace, and... the filth and filth hidden beneath the superficial pomp.

It’s the end of the year again, and the new year is approaching.

The Duke's Mansion was decorated with lights and colorful decorations, making it very lively, but in this old woodshed, which had been in disrepair, under the dim candlelight, there was a mother and her son who were suffering from cold and hunger.

"Mom...I'm so cold and hungry."

Nestled in the woman's arms, the five-year-old child looked at the lights in the distance and smelled the faint aroma of the food. His mind was dizzy and he had no strength at all.

"..."

The woman was silent.

In the past five years, she carried water, washed clothes, chopped wood and cooked... She did almost everything she could, doing the dirtiest and most tiring work in the Duke's Mansion. But every time she brought back a few copper coins and a few bites of food, Luo Si would take it all away. It was a miracle that she could raise this child. Where did she get the extra money to buy food?

As for the other people in the mansion.

With the Duke's wife around, everyone avoided them. Who would dare to help them?

"Mom, I'm hungry."

Seeing that the woman didn't answer, the child thought she didn't hear clearly, so he said another sentence.

"Wait a minute..."

The woman got up with difficulty and staggered towards the door, but halfway through, she seemed to think of something and suddenly stopped.

"Remember this."

She turned to look at the child, her expression lacked her usual kindness and became more severe: "From today on, you can no longer be called a bastard. You can't respond when others call you that."

"Why?"

The child was a little surprised: "Don't they all call me that?"

Since he could remember.

Except for the woman in front of him, everyone, including Luo Si, had only one name for him.

Bastard.

He had long been accustomed to it.

A trace of sadness suddenly flashed in the woman's eyes: "This is not a name that a person should be called."

"Human?"

The boy pulled himself together and asked curiously: "Am I not a human?"

"..."

The woman suddenly fell silent.

"You are a human!"

After a moment, she spoke again, her tone very firm: "You are an upright person!"

"Really?"

The child thought seriously, and after a moment he said blankly: "But I am not a bastard, what should I be called?"

The woman was startled.

She didn't know many words, but she remembered a piece of calligraphy she saw when she first entered the Duke's Mansion. Someone had read it out loud, and she had always remembered it in her mind.

"Wan Nian."

Thinking of this, she said softly: "From today on, your name is Wan Nian... Luo Wan Nian."

To this day.

She still remembers the content of the calligraphy, because it is not complicated, only seven words.

Flowers bloom and wealth lasts for Wan Wan Nian.