Ye Yun took it all in, gently patted Qian Renxue's hand, and spoke.
"Do you know why Bibi Dong hates you so much?"
Qian Renxue shook her head in confusion, then suddenly grew agitated. She crouched down, grabbed Ye Yun by the shoulders, and stared straight into his face.
"Can you tell me why? Was it really because of that worthless man?!"
"Yes, and no.
Back then, Yu Xiaogang had only half a level of Innate Soul Power and was permanently stuck at level 29, so he searched everywhere for a way to break through.
He set his sights on the ancient texts collected by Spirit Hall. But as the son of the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Sect Master, he would never have been allowed inside.
So he seduced the young and ignorant Bibi Dong, using her status as Spirit Hall's Holy Maiden to examine those ancient texts."
Qian Renxue felt her mind explode. In an instant, she thought of a certain possibility, and her hands began trembling uncontrollably.
"Bibi Dong loved Yu Xiaogang desperately and wanted to elope with him, but your father, Qian Xunji, refused.
After spending so many resources raising a Holy Maiden, only for her to be lured away by a worthless man, he was unwilling to accept it. So he drugged her..."
Before Ye Yun could finish, a cool hand with trembling fingertips tightly covered his mouth.
"Don't say it..."
Qian Renxue's gaze went hollow as she pieced together every cause and consequence from that year in an instant.
Yet no matter what, she could not believe that her usually gentle and refined father had committed such a sin.
At that moment, she finally understood the hatred her mother had harbored for so long. She also understood why every time her mother saw her, her