Chapter 140

Austin smiled self-mockingly.

"Have you seen a four-year-old braving the winds and the snow, when everyone was gathering for Christmas, to knock on doors to beg for money to help save his mother?

"In the end, as the people mocked him and called him a 'mutt,' they gave him a little money, and he finally managed to save his mother.

"Have you seen a mother with graying hair in her 30s, enduring intense mistreatment, mockery, and beatings for decades just to raise her child?"

Austin slowly turned around. His eyes were already red.

He smiled as he looked at the stunned Aldus. "I've seen one… for more than 20 years!"

Aldus hesitated, and he wanted to say something.

But then, Austin rubbed his face and calmed down. "I know that you crawled your way out of a pile of corpses, but you don't know the difference between death and wishing you were dead.

"You wanted me to walk out of hell, but you have no idea that I was trapped in a hell where I wished I were dead for more than 20 years."