His days were numbered?
Jiang Ning felt his heart sink.
"Thanks, you may go back and rest.”
He sent the doctor away and stood in a daze at the door. After a long time, Jiang Ning took a deep breath and walked into the room.
It was hard to imagine how the virtually invincible and undefeatable Peter Pan from three years ago had become so frail that he was just lying weakly on the bed now.
"Tsk, I'm not dead yet. What's with that expression on your face?" snapped Peter Pan when he saw the look on Jiang Ning's face.
He struggled to sit up, to find that his arms weren't strong enough. The expression on his own face slowly turned grim as a look of disappointment and helplessness flashed in his eyes.
"You feel it now?" Jiang Ning laughed bitterly. "You've got to admit that you're growing old now.”
Peter Pan didn't say anything.
He just lay there and closed his eyes, as if he was slowly taking in the changes in his body.
"Oh dear." He finally opened his eyes again after a long while. The disappointment in his eyes were apparent, and there was some self-deprecation in them too. Tve really grown old."
"So I've already reached the limit." He gently shook his head. "What a pity, what a pity. I'm not able to wait until my disciple has grown up and teach her everything that I know. What a pity."
Jiang Yao was only three, and she could start learning some martial arts already, but Peter Pan refused to teach her anything because he felt bad for making a tiny little girl go through so much hardship. When she was a baby, he had confidently declared that once Jiang Yao could start walking, he would teach her martial arts.
But she was already three and he was still so indulgent towards her.
He refused to let Jiang Yao do any basic martial arts, and didn't even let her do anything that seemed remotely tiring or anything that would hurt her. Even if she accidentally hit a stone, Peter Pan would turn that stone to powder.
Jiang Ning could tell that even if Jiang Yao grew old enough, Peter Pan would never force her to do anything. If Jiang Yao didn't want to learn martial arts, Peter Pan would never bear to let her suffer at all.
"How much more time do you have?" asked Jiang Ning.
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