From the day she lost Scarlett and left her to face the world alone, Logan had already beco a neglectful mother.
She missed fifteen years of Scarlett’s life.
Apart from teaching her self-defense thods in the shortest ti possible, she couldn’t even et her as she truly was.
It wasn’t that she didn’t recognize her.
It was... she didn’t dare to recognize her.
"Knowing that I wouldn’t be able to stay, if I appeared as your mother and, after you finally accepted , soday you’d have to face the reality of losing your mother again, it would be too cruel for you."
If one had never seen the sun, they could endure the darkness.
She didn’t want to be a fleeting light, only to let Scarlett feel abandoned once more.
She had thought about letting Scarlett return to the Jennings Family.
But at that ti, Solomon’s magic had entangled Scarlett’s fate chart with that of the Garrison family’s daughter for fifteen years.
To break the influence of the fate chart, Scarlett had to unlock that shackle herself.
So, even knowing that continuing to let her stay with the Garrison Family would cause her more suffering...
But for Scarlett’s sake, she had to harden her heart.
Whether it was the Garrison Family or Solomon, they were her final trial stones left for Scarlett.
"...What I didn’t expect was that you would co looking for ."
Logan truly hadn’t expected that.
She had approached Scarlett as Jasmine Hamilton’s identity for barely two years.
She originally thought that even if Scarlett had feelings for her as her "master," they wouldn’t be too deep.
Yet, she miscalculated.
Knowing that she ca to the otherworld for her master, Logan felt a bit conflicted for a mont.
Her daughter went to the otherworld not for her, this mother, but for her master.
Oddly enough... there was a sense of feeling jealous of herself.
Scarlett Jennings quietly listened to her speak.
Listening to her explain the reasons for leaving her back then.
Listening to her explain why she didn’t recognize her.
Listening to her saying she didn’t expect her to co.
Why she ca, she thought she should have known.
Scarlett slightly lowered her eyes, feeling the warmth tightly wrapped around her arm.
She didn’t tell the person in front of her.
In her first eighteen years, she hadn’t experienced true maternal love.
But the appearance of her master filled her imagination of a mother.
The master was the first light to pass through her life.
She didn’t know of the blood connection between them.
She just wanted to hold onto that light again.
...
"Scarlett, you’ll stay in this room tonight."
After discussing things openly, Logan quickly collected herself and began enthusiastically arranging things for Scarlett.
"This room is decorated according to your tastes, and it even has clothes and gifts prepared for you."
Logan pointed to another room,
"This room is for Donovan. When I left, he was very small; I don’t even know if he still rembers ."
Scarlett looked at the two obviously well-kept rooms.
A small apartnt, yet it had been divided into three rooms.
Even Thalassa Hamilton had to share a room with her, yet she preferred to keep two rooms empty for people who would likely never stay there.
At this mont, she seed to truly understand Logan’s feelings.
For eighteen years, living alone in another world where no one knew her, she engraved her longing into every corner of her life.
The sa bed sheets and quilt covers she used before,
The sa brand of instant noodles they once ate together,
And together, they raised a fox much like her beautiful one.
A strange, sour feeling lingered in her chest.
Scarlett didn’t bla her.
If it were her, perhaps she would have made the sa choice.
If she had taken her away from the Garrison Family and brought her back to the Jennings Family as soon as she found her, she might have felt the warmth of family protection sooner.
But she would only always be protected.
Then, one day, when danger ca, she could only watch helplessly as her family exhausted themselves to protect her, and she could only passively wait for protection...
This was not what she wanted.
So she didn’t bla her for her choice.
Instead, she was grateful to her for giving her the ability to choose.
However, she seed to have forgotten how to live well in another world.
"Knowing you might not be able to go back, why didn’t you find Dad?"
Even if she couldn’t return to the original world, she knew soone familiar in this world, right?
Why choose to hide and peek rather than re-enter his life?
She recalled Alicia Sharp saying that the Luca Jennings in this world had no children, nor had he started a family.
Even if Logan sought out Luca Jennings, it wouldn’t disrupt too much of this world’s trajectory, would it?
"You don’t understand."
Logan smiled and said, "Even though they’re the sa person, different experiences make them different from who they originally were."
Moreover, she’s not from the otherworld.
To survive as a demon in the otherworld was already a stroke of luck; getting too involved with soone here would attract the Heavenly Dao’s attention...
Logan didn’t disclose too much to Scarlett about this world; seeing her still looking at her, she couldn’t help but pat her shoulder, feigning seriousness as she explained,
"I love the dad from our original world. Though he’s the sa here, he’s not the one I love.
Even though I often go to peek at Luca Jennings in this world, it’s not him I’m watching. I’m seeing the Luca Jennings from our original world through him, do you understand?
Of course, it’s okay if you don’t understand. After all, you’re only eighteen, still a child..."
Before Logan could finish her sentence, Scarlett interrupted her.
"I understand."
Scarlett said,
"Even though I’m just eighteen, I have a fiancé. Speaking of which, it was you who arranged it for ..."
From this perspective, she had already fulfilled her "duties" as a mother ahead of ti.
Logan, still in the middle of chatting away, froze at Scarlett’s words.
"Fi... fiancé, you know about that? You’ve decided already? He agreed to it?"
Logan’s words sounded a bit nonsensical, causing Scarlett to narrow her eyes slightly.
What do you an, he agreed? Didn’t she pre-determine her destined partner through calculating her marital fate with a marriage contract?
Seeing the clear doubt in Scarlett’s expression, Logan flashed a slightly awkward smile,
"What I an is, the kid seed hard to deal with, so I didn’t expect you’d settle so quickly despite the marriage contract..."
Scarlett watched Logan’s reaction for a long mont and simply said,
"He’s easy to get along with."
After pausing, she added, "You guys might have so misunderstandings about him."
Logan: ...
Are you sure, it’s a misunderstanding?
Without going deeper into that topic, Logan had Scarlett go back to her room to rest.
After all, passing through the turbulence of the otherworld portal had quite an effect on her ntally and physically.
Closing the door and lying down on the bed, Scarlett finally showed a trace of fatigue in her eyes.
The system’s voice then chid in mockingly,
[You tricked about finding your master, but you were actually little tadpole looking for mom!
Are you happy to have reunited with your mom? Are you planning to take her back with you next?]
Scarlett quietly listened to it finish, then said softly,
"I might not be able to go back."
Although Logan had just explained many things, there were still things she hadn’t revealed to her.
For example, why, after she found the otherworld and found her, wasn’t the first choice to reunite with her?
What else was Mom hiding?
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