I watched the child suddenly say those words, and my expression froze for a moment. "Why?"
"He's committed every evil under the sun and acts viciously. Every time, every single time, he hurt my mother... Ever since I was little, he never cared what others thought of me, my sister, or Mother. He only cared about himself... He never once thought of us. So I... hate him..." Xia Xiaoyi said painfully.
"Since you hate him so much, why did you still learn from him?" I already had the answer in my heart, but hearing it from his own mouth was different.
"At first, I didn't want to learn from him... Even when I discovered that he was my father, I refused. I even hated him so much that I wanted to chop off my own hands..." Xia Xiaoyi shook his head bitterly, the sword in his hand trembling faintly.
"At first, you didn't know he was your father? But you still followed him and began learning from him, didn't you?" I asked.
Xia Xiaoyi nodded. "When I was little, I hated him to the bone. Everyone else had fathers, while mine was notorious. He was the fiend known as the Xia Sword Demon. Even though my mother held a position of great honor, she ultimately wasn't the leader of the Jie Cult. So my father's ridiculous reputation meant that, from the time I studied in the Jie Cult and Sky City as a child, I was treated like a rat crossing the street and bullied by all my peers. They hit me, cursed me, humiliated me, and spat on me... At least after leaving Mother, there wasn't a single day when I was truly happy..."
I was stunned for a moment as I looked seriously at the child, speechless inside.