[Begonia Flower Spirit × Xie Yuchen] [Growing-Up Romance]
[Fanfiction with original headcanons, OOC warning]
Ever since Xie Wantang took human form, she spent every day either cultivating or on her way to cultivate, until she unexpectedly owed someone a favor and had to help look after a child.
Back then, Xie Wantang thought: How hard could raising a child be? It couldn't be much different from tending flowers.
Later, Xie Wantang decided that the biggest mistake of her life as a demon was taking the job of looking after Xie Yuchen.
She raised him from eight to eighteen, thinking she was growing a flower.
Watering him, fertilizing him, letting him bask in the sun, and waiting for him to grow into a towering tree.
She never expected the tree to grow crooked, blossoming in her direction.
"Sister, my hand hurts."
"Sister, I'm cold."
"Sister, don't leave me."
For ten years, she indulged him, assuming it was just teenage rebellion.
Until the City of Mirage in Mobei, where a bronze mirror revealed his deepest fears and desires: she was wearing a wedding dress, smiling at him, then turning and walking away. No matter how hard he chased, he couldn't catch up...
He lost control and kissed her.
She crouched in a corner, overwhelmed: "The child I raised... How could he feel that way about me...? How did I raise him so wrong?"
Hei Xiazi chewed on his dry rations. "So what if you raised him? It's not like he's your biological son."
"In my heart, he is my biological son!"
The great demon had finally made a blunder, and she was far too late to make up for lost lessons.
