Yi Qiuguo

Even though the only two attribute boosts he had ever received came from Yu Xunge, he knew she must hate him. If she could, she would surely have excluded him from this list.

He had actually sensed it long ago. After being bound by Black Jade's contract, when Yu Xunge clearly had the ability to help him live a better life yet turned a blind eye, he had sensed it.

He simply had not wanted to believe it then, nor had he dared to. He still needed to borrow Yu Xunge's influence to make his life under Black Jade a little easier.

If he had merely suspected it before, then after Yu Xunge appeared on the Zaijiu Announcement several times, he could be certain that she hated him.

Even if she could not force Black Jade to dissolve his contract with him, she could still have made his life better.

Given her contributions to Zaijiu, she would not even have needed to show herself. All she had to do was say a word or convey her intention, and Dinghai would certainly have negotiated with Black Jade for her, ensuring her biological younger brother no longer had to be Black Jade's slave.

But Yu Xunge had not done that. She had even allowed Dinghai to lock Yu Qingshan and Yi Qiuguo up here as well.

Dinghai could not possibly have gone against Yu Xunge's wishes. That left only one explanation: after reading Yu Xunge's thoughts, Dinghai had taken it upon themselves to solve her troubles for her.

He had considered thousands of possibilities. He thought about it whenever he had nothing to do, and he thought about it while scrubbing Black Jade's scales. Why did Yu Xunge hate him so much?

Their relationship had clearly been so good. During the game's