Gentle, kind, loving... Huo Yun'er possessed so many wonderful qualities. She was strong, hardworking, and uncomplaining. Even when the Duchess oppressed her most severely, she still did everything she could to give the young Huo Yuhao the best possible life.
Huo Yuhao was deeply grateful to the woman who had given him a mother's love, but that did not contradict his inability to understand her. In fact, many of Huo Yun'er's decisions left him frustrated.
Huo Yun'er had never resented her beloved White Tiger Duke, who had forgotten her. She had even repeatedly urged Huo Yuhao to try to understand this father of his in name.
Whenever the other servants bullied her, she simply smiled it off, casually wiped her wounds, and went back to work, telling Huo Yuhao that she was fine.
But the observant Huo Yuhao always noticed that her joints often trembled uncontrollably as she worked.
He had always firmly believed that Huo Yun'er had every right to seek revenge and harbor resentment. Yet she had never shown even a trace of those negative emotions, only occasionally shedding tears in secret when Huo Yuhao pretended to sleep.
Huo Yuhao no longer wanted to criticize Huo Yun'er with harsher words. She was gone, and all his grievances with the White Tiger Duke's Mansion could finally come to an end.
He picked up the White Tiger Dagger again and wiped away every trace of blood.
Watching Huo Yuhao stand silently before the grave for a long time, the Ice Empress asked in confusion.
"Yuhao, there's something I don't understand. Taking revenge is very simple. With your current abilities, if you wanted to assassinate someone, no one in this Imperial Palace could stop you. Even that strongest human probably wouldn't notice a thing."
"Since that's the case, why did you