"So, you once hated me?"
Chen Yi asked, though he already knew the answer.
The An family's lineage had been destroyed by the Western Jin Chen family. The Empress intended to make him a blade, to make the world believe he was one of the Western Jin Chen family. Because of this, she too once hated him as if he were truly one of the Western Jin Chen family.
The Empress turned her face aside, her gaze drifting elsewhere, and spoke slowly:
"I am in my thirties now, childless beneath my knees, except for you, Yi'er. How could I possibly hate you anymore? Even the Tushan Clan doesn't hate you, do they?"
Perhaps intentionally, perhaps unintentionally, she had acted in ways to resemble the Tushan Clan... Chen Yi pondered for a good while before replying:
"I know the feeling of hating someone.
That feeling is intense,
that feeling... nothing you do could ever compensate for it."
