Lu Ge Wei looked at the resolute expressions on Kelan and Duke Cecilia's faces and suddenly burst out laughing. "I knew it. You've never seen me as family. You're always so high and mighty. No matter how much I tried to please you, it was useless. How can your hearts be so hard, so cold? All my years of devotion—does it all mean less than what that girl has done?"
With red-rimmed eyes, Lu Ge Wei glared at Admiral Kelan. "Tell me, when have you ever come back that I haven't performed Spiritual Soothing for you? If it weren't for me, would you even be standing here in one piece? What other noble lady in the entire Empire does as much as I do? And yet you don't have a single shred of gratitude!"
"And you, Duke Cecilia! You make it all sound so noble, but what do you really care about? Nothing but Lu Xiao's usefulness! If she had no value, would you be standing here today, saying all this? You're the height of hypocrisy!"
