Xing'er did not interact with people much and had no idea how to persuade her. In her panic, she could only continue, "Senior Sister Rujin... but Master really is a good person..."
"You're not me! How would you know what it was like for my father to be absent from my side all year round? He never even celebrated a single birthday properly when I grew up, and he never took part in any of the important things in my life! He sacrificed his life for the Nine Heavens! But did he ever spare a thought for my mother and me?" Rujin gritted out. It seemed she was saying this to me, for tears shimmered in her eyes, as though they might fall at any moment.
I sighed quietly in my heart. It was true. Not even for the smallest thing had I been by her side, watching over her.
"I... I don't have a father..."
Yet Rujin's hysterics brought her nothing. Xing'er's timid reply made the tears that had just fallen from Rujin's eyes lose all meaning in an instant.
The lake water, which had roared with the earlier shouting, suddenly fell silent as though it had died.
Seeing that Rujin no longer spoke, Xing'er hugged her knees and sat down on the grass beside the lake as well. She was only two or three meters from Rujin, but I knew that this child's heart had grown terribly cold. That sorrow was something no ordinary child could compare with.
"I was born in Unity of Heaven... My father died before I was born. My mother told me that he was a hero, just like Master... Although my father's identity, status, cultivation, and everything else were all inferior to Master's, Mother said he was still a hero..." Xing'er said quietly,