Dai Luoli looked at Dai Hao and said earnestly, "I want to acknowledge you as my father, but it seems that you do not particularly want to acknowledge me as your son."
"Come to think of it, with two outstanding legitimate sons like Dai Yueheng and Dai Huabin, how could you possibly think highly of an illegitimate son of humble birth like me? You do not even know who I am, much less remember what I look like."
"Now that I think about it, Brother Guang and my sister were right. You never truly cared about our mother, much less us. Perhaps to you, our mother was merely an accident, and we were merely the products of that accident."
"No, it wasn't like that! Of course I cared!" Dai Hao said abruptly. "After your mother disappeared a few years ago, I mobilized the White Tiger Family's forces to search for her, but..."
"But you did not find her, right?"
The disappointment and resentment in Dai Luoli's gaze as he looked at Dai Hao had vanished, replaced by the same mockery Qian Chaoguang wore.
"My mother never disappeared. I merely brought her to live in the Eternal Hall. Mother left you a handwritten letter beneath her pillow!"
"In that letter, Mother said she was returning to her family home for a while. If anything urgent happened, you only needed to go to Shrek Academy and mention my name."
"Clearly, you never saw that letter, not even to this day."
"You did not even summon the maids and servants who had always attended to my mother to ask them."
"When my mother left the mansion, I specifically instructed them that if you asked about her, they had to tell you where she had gone."
"For that reason, I placed a restriction in