A Thousand Ways to Offend Your Lord

Bai Su looked in surprise toward the direction the woman had left.

"You mean her? But she wasn't..."

Gu Chi didn't answer directly. Instead, he asked Bai Su, "General Bai, after hearing her elder sister's story, did you feel sorry for her?"

Bai Su nodded. "Of course I did."

She'd had a bitter life, and her end had been so tragic.

She said with feeling, "...Another lovesick soul."

Bai Su had a soft spot for people who loved with all their heart and soul.

Gu Chi responded with a sneer. "Even General Bai feels sorry for her. Then what should I, Gu, feel? I was once betrothed to her, and years later, I heard that she'd loved me for years and treasured the tokens exchanged between our families, carefully preserving them. What should I feel?"

He looked Bai Su in the eyes and asked, "Should I, Gu, regret missing out on the Lady of the Feng Family? Feel sorry for her? Grieve?"

Bai Su thought it over seriously for a moment but didn't answer.

Gu Chi said, "I do regret that she died young, and I feel sorry for her tragic background. But that's all. If this story were about any woman from any family other than the Lady of the Feng Family, I'd feel sorry for her all the same. But that isn't the kind of sympathy her younger sister wants."

"What she wants is for Gu Chi to regret missing out on her elder sister."

"What she wants is 'Gu Chi's compassion.'"

"But the Lady of the Feng Family's life was bitter because of her biological father and her husband. It had nothing to do with me. Yet the six lives in my Gu family were very much connected to hers. At a time like this, she tells