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Once he barged in, the two people inside looked alarmed to see him. Zhang Lei coughed, seeing that he had been caught while his mother looked restless and worried.

"Wei'er," she called out. "Come, your father wants to talk to you."

Zhang Wei eyed the man seated on the high chair while his mother sat on the floor. "We have nothing to talk about."

She looked restless and tried to persuade, "Your father said it will be dangerous for you to go to that place. You don't have any cultivation. What if..."

"That was what he told you?" Zhang Wei scoffed, glancing at Zhang Lei. "You sure are rather leisurely spinning fear into the heart of a weak woman, 'Father.'"

This time, the word 'father' was rather fluid to say albeit it was full of sarcasm.

"What nonsense are you talking about?" Zhang Lei was about to yell at him.

But Zhang Wei paid him no heed and reached out to help his mother from the futon before turning to Zhang Lei. "Tomorrow is the trial day, and you can't sit still anymore, can yo