Chapter 39: Three Paths

Although Yufillia was very dissatisfied with her daughter's insistence on taking this "crooked path" of research, and still felt in her heart that this was a waste of her daughter's talent, she did indeed understand her daughter's thoughts.

After all, in a sense, this daughter's personality and temper were really exactly the same as her own.

Yufillia was cultivated as a future patriarch since she was a child, and her life ideal was to revive the family. As for whether this life ideal was generated by herself or instilled and brainwashed by the family, this is no longer important today.

In the eyes of the current Dragon Witch, rights and obligations should be one. Since she did indeed accept the family's investment and support on her growth path, then revitalizing the family became an obligation she should strive for. Putting other things aside, this is just a type of equivalent exchange, very fair.

Yufillia also likes such fairness, and equivalent exchange has long become her life principle.

And because of this, if anyone dares to trample on this fairness, they must also pay the price for it.

The family gave her investment, and she took revitalizing the family as her own responsibility. She wouldn't refuse the things a qualified head of the family should do, but this doesn't mean she would become a puppet of family revitalization, only knowing how to mechanically complete the mission and being able to abandon everything for the family.

With her aptitude, there were actually many shortcuts she could have taken to revive the family back then, the simplest of which was marrying or marrying into other families in the Dragon Kingdom. With her talent, no other family would refuse. In fact, the families that came to propose to her back then could have flattened the threshold.

But Yufillia ultimately refused them all. She didn't disdain to take such shortcuts; she had her own dignity and pride.

There are always some choices in life that are the theoretical optimal solution, but it doesn't mean these choices are necessarily right.

And her refusal back then actually caused a disturbance within the family. Many elders in the clan accused her of being too young and naive, wasting opportunities indiscriminately, accused her of being too arrogant and not knowing how to appreciate favors, and even some took out family law, wanting to make a big deal out of her, the head of the family.

To this, Yufillia didn't yield. She was even too lazy to say anything more to that bunch of guys. As the strongest person in the family at that time, she just "kindly" convinced people with "reason," and then these old guys who opposed her also quite sensibly "voluntarily" went to the border front line to reclaim land for the family territory.

When was it Yufillia's turn for others to point fingers at her life? She would revive the family, but how to revive it and how to revive it, these would also be decided by herself.

Since the family entrusted this heavy responsibility to her, then it might as well be entrusted more thoroughly.

She hopes that from then on, there will only be one voice speaking in the entire family, and that is the voice of her, the patriarch. She will lead the family on the right path, and others just need to obey, obey, and obey.

The ideas of those old things are too weak. They are the ones who are truly naive. A family that can't even achieve independence, how can it talk about revival? How can it talk about glory?

There is only one choice for the family revival in Yufillia's heart, and that is to follow the path of the ancestor Dragon King, to personally open up, personally conquer, and personally develop with her own hands.

Even if this path is the most dangerous and difficult, so what? This is the path of glory, the path of brilliance. Only by reaching the end along this path is the realization of Yufillia's life ideal.

Besides this, other shortcuts are all evil paths, meaningless.

It's just that I don't know when it started, but Yufillia herself started to forget this initial ideal.

Thinking about it now, the way she opposed her daughter just now was really exactly the same as those old guys who opposed her back then. The only difference is that she is stronger now, and her daughter, who is still weak, doesn't have the ability to reproduce her overbearingness back then, sending her, this mother, to the border to dig potatoes.

But similarly, she doesn't doubt that if her daughter really had that ability, she might have really done so.

Thinking of this, Yufillia couldn't help but think of the words of Annie, the short stepmother of Dorothy.

"Sigh, in the identity of a mother, I seem to be really a bit far behind."

The Dragon Witch sighed in her heart, feeling a bit sad but also a bit proud.

She raised her head and looked seriously at her daughter who was still trembling in front of her. The more she looked, the more she was overjoyed.

This is truly worthy of being my daughter, the continuation of my bloodline. Even though she has been influenced by that waste Adam for many years, this personality and temper are still exactly the same as mine.

Therefore, although she was still a bit unwilling in her heart, the strong and overbearing Dragon Witch rarely chose to yield. She looked at her daughter in front of her and opened her mouth.

"I almost understand what you mean, Dorothy."

After saying this, Yufillia unexpectedly saw her daughter's confused and uncomprehending look. The bewilderment in her daughter's eyes that almost clearly wrote "What do you understand?" made the Dragon Witch feel a bit happy in her heart. She hadn't been this happy for many years. This kind of pure happiness was as delightful as when a prank succeeded when she was young.

"Rest assured, I won't give you money or divide a territory for you directly anymore. This is an insult to you, isn't it? My daughter."

Yufillia opened her mouth again. This time, she saw surprise in her daughter's eyes. The eyes of this daughter, who had always looked at her, this mother, as if looking at a stranger, a bit cautious and distant, flashed with light for the first time, becoming much closer and softer.

This made the Dragon Witch even more certain that her previous thoughts were indeed not a guess. This daughter's personality and temper were really following her.

"So, choose whatever academy you want to choose. I won't say anything more."

As soon as these words came out, the light that suddenly brightened in her daughter's eyes made Yufillia feel a bit comforted. She knew that in this way, the relationship between mother and daughter had taken a big step forward.

If it was just to improve the mother-daughter relationship, probably with a little more effort, this daughter's address to her might change from the distant "Mother" to the closer "Mom."

But...

My stupid and naive daughter, do you think I would really just want to stop at being a so-called "good mother"?

The Dragon Witch's mouth curled up slightly, revealing a smile full of malice.

This naive child still doesn't know the importance of convincing people with "reason" in this world. Does she naively think that everyone she meets in the future will be as patient and accommodating to her as I am? Does she know that if she weren't my daughter, just her attitude would have already caused her to die how many times?

In this cruel world, you can't move an inch without strength.

Even if it means becoming an unqualified mother, even if it means being resented and misunderstood, it doesn't matter. Only this point must be learned and remembered by this child.

Dorothy looked at the Dragon Witch in front of her, a bit surprised and a bit pleasantly surprised. She unexpectedly and surprisingly found that this strange mother could actually understand her thoughts.

And she actually agreed to her lying-flat ideal, which was actually a bit unambitious, and didn't directly take action to forcibly tie her back to inherit the family business.

At this moment, Dorothy suddenly felt a kind of moving feeling. For the first time in two lifetimes, she had a mother, and this mother was actually her soulmate. Two happy things overlapped, giving birth to more happiness.

Dorothy couldn't help but start to imagine the beautiful life of a happy family in the future.

Hmm, right, it should be like this. I don't have so many grand ideals at all, I just want a peaceful and beautiful home. Family harmony is more important than anything else.

She looked at the smiling Dragon Witch in front of her, and the moving feeling in her heart almost turned into reality, wanting to blurt out that most sincere address.

"Mom..."

However, just as she opened her mouth, she saw the mother opposite her smile become malicious.

"But..."

The Dragon Witch looked straight at Dorothy, the aura of a Peak Witch rising, becoming full of oppressive feeling in an instant.

"Dorothy, I've heard your reasons, and I've understood them. Then shouldn't it be your turn to listen to my persistence?"

"Do you know equivalent exchange? My daughter, this is my life creed. I believe in the principle that all things can be equivalent exchange."

"And I paid so much price to give birth to you back then, just to leave a qualified successor for myself. Everything I worked hard for all my life must have a successor. But now that you've grown up and have your own ideals and paths, you are unwilling to accept this obligation that should have belonged to you. Then what should you use to compensate me? Or how should you exchange your freedom from my hands?"

Yufillia's golden dragon pupils met Dorothy's bewildered gaze, and then she threw out three choices overbearingly.

"I give you three choices."

The Dragon Witch stretched out three fingers.

"First, you give up that boring dream and dignity now, go back with me, and be my successor properly. I will give you all the territories to manage, and you can build the blueprint of your dreams at will, but similarly, you must also fulfill your obligations for the continuation of the family. You must become an armed witch."

"Second, you can freely dominate your life. For the next 50 years, you can do whatever you want, and I won't care about you. But 50 years later, I will personally catch you back. I will launch a lord war on your territory. If you can successfully resist me, then you are free. But if you fail and are caught back by me, you can only obediently be my successor and walk the path I arranged for you."

"As for the third, this is the easiest to handle. You marry Sophie Liya now. I hope you two can give me a granddaughter as soon as possible. I don't care which one of you gives birth, anyway, I want a granddaughter. After having a granddaughter, you two will both be free. How about it?"

Dorothy: "........"

Sophie Liya, who was eating the mother-daughter melon and it landed on herself: "......." ===== CHAPTER 40 =====