Duke White Tiger Dai Hao looked at Huo Yuner's expressionless face, feeling somewhat puzzled in his heart.
The expression on Huo Yuner's face was completely different from what he had anticipated.
In Duke White Tiger Dai Hao's imagination, Huo Yuner should have been teary-eyed, should have thrown herself into his arms, and should have cried while saying that he still remembered her, that none of this was his fault, and that she had waited bitterly for him for many years before finally seeing him again.
After all, back then, Huo Yuner had deep affection for him; even though he was not home year-round, she had never uttered a single word of complaint.
But now...
Huo Yuner stood there with a face as calm as water, as if Duke White Tiger Dai Hao's apology was not meant for her at all.
Duke White Tiger Dai Hao's brows furrowed slightly.
Could it be because she hadn't recovered her wits after resurrection? Could she not recognize him?
However, that didn't really matter.
Duke White Tiger Dai Hao comforted himself in his heart. He knew that Huo Yuner loved him the most; perhaps this was just a side effect after resurrection. Once the side effect ended, Huo Yuner would definitely fall in love with him again.
Just like how he had fallen in love with Huo Yuner back then.
There was still an emotional bond between the two of them; that connection could not be easily erased.
Duke White Tiger Dai Hao took a deep breath, then moved his gaze away from Huo Yuner and let it fall onto another direction of the spectator stands.
His gaze penetrated through the crowd, accurately landing on Huo Yuhao.
"Yuhao."
Duke White Tiger Dai Hao's voice carried a kind of gentle intimacy, as if this was a father calling out to his own son.
When Huo Yuhao heard this call, his body suddenly stiffened.
His gaze intersected with Duke White Tiger Dai Hao's in the air, and the ice-coldness within those eyes did not recede in the slightest, instead becoming a bit more intense.
The next instant, Huo Yuhao's figure vanished directly from where he stood.
He appeared on the competition stage, standing opposite Duke White Tiger Dai Hao, with the distance between them being no more than a few zhang.
"Do not call me so intimately."
Huo Yuhao's voice was ice-cold, and his tone could be said to carry full of killing intent; he would absolutely never forgive the man before him. It was because of his negligence and indifference that his mother was left to be bullied by the people of the White Tiger Duke's Mansion and then died.
"You have no right."
When Duke White Tiger Dai Hao heard these words, his expression couldn't help but stiffen slightly, and a flash of complicated light crossed those eyes.
He had long anticipated that Huo Yuhao would resist, but when he truly heard Huo Yuhao say these words, an indescribable bitterness still surged into his heart.
"Yuhao, I know the misunderstanding between us father and son is very deep."
Duke White Tiger Dai Hao's voice lowered, carrying a kind of helplessness and sincerity.
"Over the years, it is indeed I who have failed you mother and son. If it wasn't for that vicious woman deliberately concealing it, I wouldn't have known at all that your mother suffered so many grievances, nor would I have known... that I still have another son."
When he uttered the two words "vicious woman", his tone carried an undisguised aversion.
The White Tiger Duke's wife was hiding in a certain corner of the Star Luo Empire, watching this scene through the light screen. When she heard Duke White Tiger Dai Hao refer to her as a "vicious woman", her entire body couldn't help but tremble all over.
She had long known that Duke White Tiger Dai Hao might turn hostile, but she never expected that Duke White Tiger Dai Hao would turn hostile in the blink of an eye. The two of them as husband and wife had spent such a long time together after all; even without great achievements, there was still the credit of hard work.
A hundred days of grace for a single day as husband and wife.
How could he, Duke White Tiger Dai Hao, be so heartless?
The White Tiger Duke's wife's teeth were clenched so tightly they clicked, her chest heaving violently, as if her entire person would explode at any moment.
Especially when thinking of the situation the two of them were in, it was even more so: she was being hunted down by the servants of the White Tiger Duke's Mansion, while Duke White Tiger Dai Hao was performing the farce of acknowledging relatives in that Shrek Academy in the Sky.
It was truly quite disgusting, quite sickening to herself.
At this moment, the White Tiger Duke's wife wished she could go straight up and slap Duke White Tiger Dai Hao across the face.
Within the Divine Realm, Dai Mubai listened to the sound coming from the light screen, and couldn't help but nod.
"Duke White Tiger Dai Hao is right. Rather than marrying an unworthy wife, it is better not to marry at all."
"This White Tiger Duke's wife caused the two father and son to become so estranged; it is indeed quite wrong, and Duke White Tiger Dai Hao doing this can also be considered cutting his losses in time."
Dai Mubai paused at this point, a sharp glint sweeping across those tiger eyes.
"However, making a cut-off now is easy to talk about. When that day arrives, and they truly encounter the White Tiger Duke's wife, I hope Duke White Tiger Dai Hao will make the cut face-to-face. Only in this way can he prove his sincerity; otherwise, this damage will probably be very difficult to make up for."
His tone deepened a bit, carrying a hint of danger within his tone.
"It is best... to let that woman pay some price."
Rong Nianbing to the side heard these words of Dai Mubai, and couldn't help but sigh.
"When all is said and done, it's still because Duke White Tiger Dai Hao didn't balance his marital relationship well. If he could do as I do, then things wouldn't have turned out like this."
Hearing this, Dai Mubai couldn't help but smile. In the Divine Realm, who didn't know that Rong Nianbing had many wives? However... what he said indeed had no flaws. If Duke White Tiger Dai Hao could be like Rong Nianbing, then there wouldn't be so many problems.
"It is indeed true that Duke White Tiger Dai Hao campaigned year-round and neglected his family."
Of course, right now was not the time to fuss over whether Duke White Tiger Dai Hao could handle inner palace issues, but rather to distinguish the responsibility of the chief culprit.
"However, the most important thing is still that the vicious woman is ruthless. If she had a kind heart, she could equally well handle interpersonal relationships."
With just a few breezy words, Dai Mubai shifted the blame off Duke White Tiger Dai Hao. No matter what, this Duke White Tiger Dai Hao was his own descendant, so as the Old Ancestor, he naturally had to absolve him of blame.
Right at this moment, three figures suddenly appeared on the competition stage.
The three figures appeared on a platform not far to the side of Duke White Tiger Dai Hao, their bodies covered in disarray and wounds.
The one at the very front was a woman with a dignified yet disheveled face, who was none other than the White Tiger Duke's wife. Her clothes were messy, her hair bun had fallen apart, and her face still bore a few bloody scratches, making her look quite miserable overall.
Behind her were two more figures. Unlike the standing White Tiger Duke's wife, these two were lying down, and their appearances looked even more wretched than the White Tiger Duke's wife.
Judging from their appearances, it was easy to tell that these two were the White Tiger Duke's two sons, given their iconic golden hair coupled with that state.
One of them had a broken leg and was covered in wounds—it was none other than Dai Yueheng. At this moment, he was still unconscious, but from his body, one could tell what he had previously experienced.
The other was Dai Huabin with a severed arm. His Aura could be said to be even worse than Dai Yueheng's; the whole person looked as if they had been roasted, and faintly released the Aura of Evil Fire from his body.
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