"Mm, actually, I was with your father mostly because of the affairs of our respective factions. We fought until things became irreconcilable, but there isn't much worth talking about. If you want to hear about your father, perhaps your mother will speak more fairly than I can. After all these years, she was the one who managed to hold fast to her original resolve. I deeply admire her for that, so what she says will be more worth considering than what I say." I smiled and declined Xia Xiaoyi's request. Have me talk about Xia Ruiz e's good points? What a joke. Although I had found some release at the very last moment, that did not mean I could simply stop pursuing everything Xia Ruize had done over all these years.
How many immortals had died because of his choices? How many had died because of his manipulations? Those were ironclad facts. They could not be completely erased by one or two casual remarks.
I did not want to ruin the harmony this family had finally managed to attain, so I claimed that I still had plenty of matters to attend to and left. Setting Xia Ruize aside, Yu Xiaoxue and the two children had suffered far too much over the years. Especially Yuxin and Xia Xiaoyi—they had been trapped in the mire Xia Ruize stirred up from childhood through youth, unable to escape, constantly enduring the prejudiced gazes of their peers. I had seen all of it.
Now, the greater circumstances had finally returned everything they had once been deprived of, and might even compensate them twofold. Why should I keep obsessing over right and wrong? Even if Xia Ruize went up there, I only hoped he would act as he had promised himself. Otherwise, I would tear him