She had been wrong to seize someone else's opportunity, but given another chance, she would still have done the same. Very few people knew about it besides her master and the Yuanji Sect's higher-ups, and those two did not know what was inside the Demon-Suppressing Bracelet either.
Even if Xue Fuyao had taken it, without knowing what it contained, they should at most have felt some resentment. Surely that was nowhere near the bone-deep hatred they had shown earlier.
As for what had happened in the Qingfeng Secret Realm, that had even less to do with her. After all, they had provoked the Golden Bees themselves. At most, she had merely refused to save them.
But then again, those were Golden Bees. Anyone with a functioning brain would have chosen to steer clear of their sting.
And even if those two attacked her, why had they attacked Gu Nian too?
Hearing this, Elder Cong glanced at Xue Fuyao and said, "They seem to have blamed you for everything that happened to them."
"Me?"
Xue Fuyao pointed at herself, her face filled with disbelief.
In truth, Elder Cong was utterly speechless too. Who was Xue Fuyao? A Heavenly Spiritual Root, Elder Lingmu's only disciple, a true daughter favored by heaven. She and those two did not even belong to the same world. What did they have to hate her for?
Still, Elder Cong had lived a long time and seen much. He had encountered situations like this before. Some people's hatred had no reason behind it.
"Their faces were treated by someone from the Corpse-Stitching Sect. They called it treatment, but really, they just gave them different faces."
"No wonder they looked so awkward. But why did they attack me?" Gu Nian asked.
"Because you stopped them from taking revenge, so