In Han Li's oldest to freshest memories, Yue Li was with him.

She was his perfect mother.

When he was too young to work, she worked hard to feed them. Han Li might seem to be the one doing all the work now.

But that was it — Now.

Some years ago, she had worked in the fields, knitted others' clothes, and even worked shortly on a stall to earn a living for them.

It was when Han Li turned eighteen that he got the Demonic Lust Sutra and the ability to cultivate.

But Yue Li had traded her Soul Cultivation Talent at the time when Han Li was just ten.

She herself was 27 at that point, quite a normal age to go through an evolution attempt.

With her extremely high talent, it was only natural she could not grow stronger easily without guidance.

High talent without knowledge of how to use it was just a hindrance in the early stages of cultivation.

But unlike other times, her "Luck-chat System" had not worked immediately after the trade – or so she had thought – and her son didn't get the ability to cultivate.

She lost her talent, but he didn't get any talent.

Only a special Eye had settled onto Han Li's soul covertly. That was what she traded for, but she never knew that.

To her, Han Li was just like any other day, he never got a spark.

So, in the end, she inevitably failed in her evolution when she was 33, and when Han Li was 16.

And the horrendous cycle of leg pain started to assault her, and Han Li, even though young, didn't allow his mom to work anymore.

He started working and found out cooking was a good way to earn decent money, he just had to copy his mother's cooking and it was easy.

All the while, she went on to be scammed multiple times in search of a lucky encounter that would one day make Han Li be able to cultivate.

She just thought the System was late.

And while they spend their life in monochromy like that, the mysterious magic set up on the Demonic Lust Sutra that made it automatically find a Sacred Eye user had been triggered and it slowly moved towards them.

It reached him on his 18th birthday.

All these thoughts briefly flashed through Han Li's mind as he looked at the stone in his hands; The Energy Extraction Pearl.

That was why he said it was not the way to use the System. Asking something vaguely like, 'Oh please give him that talent or this capability' would only end up in duds or useless trades.

Whenever you wanted something from the system, it was best to have an in-depth knowledge of what you wanted.

Yue Li waved a hand infront of his face and woke him up from his daze. And asked cutely, "Where are you Xiao Li?"

Han Li looked at her, they were now inside their home and were talking about healing her when he suddenly thought of all of that.

"I love you, Mom." He focused on her eyes and said out of nowhere.

Yue Li looked at him weirdly, 'Where did that come from?'

Irritated, Han Li playfully twisted her ears from the side and said, "Just say you love me too when I say that, you dumb woman!"

"Ouch, it hurts, it hurts!" Yue Li's face cringed in mock pain and Han Li stopped.

She looked back at him in irritation and said, "You have been pinching me too much these days."

"Okay, then, I won't pinch you." Han Li kept the smile and moved infront of her.

Their bodies mere inches apart, Yue Li looked up at his face in question.

Han Li wrapped his hands around her waist and bent down slightly, then slowly brought his face closer to hers.

She flinched slightly and Han Li's lips gently caught her lips, and before she could even think, her son was deeply kissing her.

Both of them naturally closed their eyes and enjoyed their first kiss. The taste of each other.

Feeling her grow out of breath, Han Li gently took his tongue out of her mouth and bit her lips gently before moving his face back.

Yue Li breathed heavily and clung to his chest for support. 𝘧𝑟𝑒𝑒𝑤𝑒𝑏𝓃ℴ𝘷𝑒𝓁.𝒸ℴ𝘮

And Han Li just looked at her red face in amusement and said, "I would do that instead of pinching you from now on when I feel you are too irritating."

Yue Li could feel her heart beating like a drum, she said weakly, "Th...that was out of nowhere."

Han Li smiled, the custom of kisses were new to him, but it was not a new concept to her when they came to know about it some years from now.

But it felt nice to have his mother's first kiss again.

"You like it, mom?" He didn't let her go out of his embrace and just kept looking into her eyes.

Yue Li pondered the question seriously and then asked, "You kind of taste like blackberries, did you eat some?"

Han Li looked at her irritatedly for a second and went for another kiss.

And this time, Yue Li's legs rose from the ground a bit to support the kiss.

Han Li couldn't help but find her more irritating.