440 XIAO TIANYAO's MEMORY 4

Luna was cradling Xiao Mugi in her arms as she cooed at him.

Xiao Mugi wriggled away from her arms and Luna set him down on the floor before she took a few steps back.

She couldn't be happier than this, to have her own little family. Xiao Mugi was only seven month old when Xiao Tianyao left to the battlefield and now he had learned to walk.

He took four steps before he fell on his pudgy butt. Luna couldn't help, but chuckled at this scene.

Xiao Mugi looked at his mother with the exact same eyes as Xiao Tianyao with knitted eyebrows as his tiny lips pouted.

The toddler was crouching down with his knees and both of his hand to push himself up. Just like his father, he didn't care with his surrounding as he kept his balance and walked slowly toward his mother opened arms.

Only after he reached his mother and Luna hugged him, a big smile appeared on his lips.

He was the copy of his father, there was a tiny bit Luna there, but she was so happy about this. She loved everything about both of her men.

She swung her baby as she caught a glimpse of someone was watching them.

"Tianyao!" Luna called out his name with delight. It had been a long time and she missed him so much.

Second after, her eyes grew bigger as they glued at the thick blood on his robe from his shoulder. Panic, Luna started to run toward him with Xiao Mugi in her arms.

"Tianyao, what happened?" Tears threatened to fall down to see her husband condition when she felt something was off.

Because of overwhelmed feeling to see him and his badly injuries, she didn't realize it at first, but then when she took another step closer that feeling tick her off.

She stopped midway before she reached him and looked at Xiao Tianyao in the eyes.

"Impossible…" Luna mumbled and shook her head. "It impossible…" She backed away.

Luna could sense the strange feeling emitted from him and along with that there was malicious intention mixed in his aim.

"Tianyao…"

Luna backed away and Xiao Tianyao decided to start to take another step closer. With his long strides, he brought the distance between them faster.

Luna started to turn her back and ran inside the house as she called out for help. But, no one came for her to help, not even the Shadow Guard that had assigned to protect her.

She slammed the door closed right before Xiao Tianyao could enter the room. She knew really well, a door wouldn't hold him longer.

When Luna heard the sound of sword that was being drawn, her mind rushed to Xiao Mugi in her arms. She looked around her frantically and saw cabinet near the window.

She pulled out all the books inside the cabinet and put Xiao Mugi in. The toddler looked at her with his wide eyes.

"Don't go outside, alright?" Luna talked to her son hastily as Xiao Mugi gave her a looked of confused. In normal day, she would have giggled to see his cute chubby son for making a face like that, but not today. "Stay. Don't go outside." Luna emphasized her words as she closed the door.

Afterward, she was walking away from the cabinet and watched in horror when Xiao Tianyao managed to tear the door opened.

Luna glanced at the cabinet and relieved when she saw Xiao Mugi did what she told. She could hypnotize him, but if something happened to her and she couldn't come back alive, who would lift it up?

She prayed her son would stay for as long as needed and for his safety.

Luna stilled her heart when she watched Xiao Tianyao walked slowly toward her. His eyes were devoid from any emotions.

"It is not you…" Luna said while staring at him right in the eyes, concentrated. "Remember me please."

She needed to be close to him so his suggestion could work, but if she was closer than this, Xiao Tianyao would cut her first before she could do anything.

The suggestion that her father had put on him must be skin to skin contact to make it more powerful and Luna needed to do the same to break it.

She gulped hard. But, she forced her feet to take another stepped closer at him as he did the same.

Blood covered his robe and stained his cheek and neck, this make set her in pain to see the damage that her father had done to him and the damnation that he would bear if he accomplished the task that was given.

Luna kept her eyes on him. Focus on him. Wished it was enough to make him faltered for a while.

It did make Xiao Tianyao halted, however when Luna was about to touch him, Xiao Tianyao swung his sword and slashed his sword at her body.

The anguish screamed that came from her lips was frightening.

She felt backward as blood spurted out from her opened wound on her chest. She had difficulty to breath as the blood rushed on her throat.

Right at the moment, because of the eerie screamed and the noisy outside, Xiao Mugi pushed open the cabinet with his tiny palm and crawled out from the cabinet.

With his slurred tongue he called out for his mother. "Ma…"