This works too. I’ll be going to the Cloudriver Prefectural Capital soon anyway, so I’ll be able to visit Lingxue at Blueriver Sword Manor regularly… Su Yi suddenly relaxed significantly.

Qin Qing hesitated for a moment, her beautiful face suddenly solemn. “Su Yi, there’s something I’d like to ask you.”

“Say it.”

Qin Qing said, “In the year since your marriage into the Wen Family, have you… Have you ever resented us?”

Su Yi shook his head. To the person he’d become, no one in the Wen Family was worthy of his resentment.

What did it mean to resent someone?

It meant you couldn’t let something go!

This was something Su Xuanjun only felt when he encountered an enemy he temporarily couldn’t overcome. Only then would he carry resentment in his heart.

As for minor figures he could easily dispose of, people he could turn to ash in minutes? He couldn’t possibly resent them.

“You really don’t?” Qin Qing didn’t quite seem to believe it.

Su Yi sighed in exasperation. “I really don’t.”

This was what they meant when they said “Summer insects don’t speak of ice, and cicadas know nothing of spring or fall.” 

Qin Qing visibly relaxed. “If you don’t harbor resentment in your heart, you shouldn’t bring disaster upon us. After all, aren’t...