Chapter 158

Huo Yuhao lowered his head, his fingers already silently digging into the dirt. His nails were packed with dark-brown grit, his knuckles had gone white, and the veins on the backs of his hands pulsed faintly.

Only one wife? Very self-disciplined when it came to women?

Then what was my mother?

Before she died, his mother had still been tracing that man's outline, still saying, "The happiest thing in my life was being with him." And that man? In all his self-discipline, had he ever, even for a moment, thought of the woman in that broken little courtyard?

After Dai Yaoheng said those words, the hatred in his heart deepened by another degree. It had not been ignited—it had already been burning. Now someone had simply added another piece of firewood. Huo Yuhao pulled his fingers out of the soil and wiped them on his pant leg, moving very slowly, as if suppressing something.

Perhaps he was a hero, a good marshal, a commander who filled the Star Luo Empire with awe. But he was absolutely not a qualified husband, much less a qualified father. If he had intervened even a little, even just sent someone with a bag of rice, even just asked once, "Are you doing all right?" how could Mother have...

He closed his eyes.

Ma Xiaotao smiled, her tone as casual as if she were talking about the weather. "Just asking. Can't I be curious?"

Dai Yaoheng glanced at her and did not press further. He did not quite believe her, but he was not going to get hung up on something like this either. He turned to Xue Lingyun and changed the subject.

Dai Yaoheng suddenly shifted the conversation and asked casually, "By the way, have you ever been to this side of the Star