Meng Jianxi’s body tensed little by little as he rasped, “Mother, please… don’t pressure me.”0

Meng Xuanjue uttered coldly, “I’m not pressuring you, I’m saving you!”2

“When Jianzhou died, my heart ached at the loss of my son, but frankly, my relief was even greater. With him and Meng Jingzhe dead, no one would ever find out the truth—or so I thought. I wasn’t ever going to share this with you, but I could not have imagined that those two worthless idiots were such failures that they couldn’t even take out their primary target!”11

In fact, Meng Jianxi suspected from almost the beginning that Meng Jianzhou had a hand in Meng Jianyuan’s death. He was Meng Jianzhou’s true younger brother, so he knew his jealousy and hatred for Meng Jianyuan better than anyone else.0

This was also why he stomped Meng Jianzhou under the mud after he awakened his divine essence and became the Dreamweaver Divine Son; why he stamped out all of his courage and ambition without mercy even though Meng Jianzhou should have been his closest brother.1

He never once thought that his mother was involved in this matter. She was the empress of a Kingdom of God and a woman who stood in the pinnacle of the Abyss. There should have been no reason for her to take such a risk, one that carried such severe consequences no less.0

Poor Meng Jianzhou… He never thought that a third person beside him and Meng Jingzhe who knew of his dirty deed existed. He never realized that it was his own mother who secretly pushed him to kill Meng Jianyuan until he died.1

“Back then, I was overly confident that no one could ever threaten my position, and what happened? That bitch came within an inch of dethroning me! Since then, I recognized that there is no such thing as an enemy I can underestimate. Anyone and everyone who may pose a threat to me must be extinguished before they can grow into a true threat!”0

Meng Xuanjue abruptly grabbed Meng Jianxi’s arms and turned him toward her. She stared straight into his eyes and said, “Meng Jianyuan is far past the level of a ‘sprout’ at...4