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"Brother...Brother was killed in action."
The Duchess felt her mind go blank. She took several steps back and slumped in her chair.
The mother and son are connected by heart. When she heard from Dai Huabin that Dai Yuheng had died on the battlefield, her heart ached as if it was cut by a blunt knife.
The Duchess burst into tears: "My dear Heng..."
After she cried for a while, Dai Huabin said hesitantly: "Mother, I will be going to the battlefield soon."
The crying Duchess was struck by lightning. She quickly grabbed Dai Huabin's hand in fear and said in a pleading tone: "Huabin, please don't go, okay?"
She had already lost her eldest son, and would never allow herself to lose her only child.
But Dai Huabin still said firmly: "Mother, there is no way to hide. The Sun-Moon Empire has already captured several cities in Xingluo. As the son of the White Tiger Duke and the next White Tiger Duke, I cannot be a deserter."
The Duchess continued to cry and begged, "Hua Bin, mother begs you to stay in the rear and don't go to the front line again."
Her pleading failed to keep Dai Huabin. He left with a determined look in his eyes, just like his elder brother.
The Duchess cried bitterly in the palace, counting the days in agony, waiting for the next time the gate would open.
The door opened for the last time, and the familiar figure who came in at the beginning came in.
Tall, majestic, with cold eyes, it was the Duke of White Tiger.
Perhaps it was because he had just experienced countless bloody battles, and there was still an indelible fishy smell and murderous aura on his body.
The Duchess seemed to have guessed something. She looked directly at Duke Baihu with all her courage and asked directly, "How is Huabin?"
Duke White Tiger slowly uttered three words.
"Died in battle."
The Duchess nearly fainted.
Duke Baihu said coldly: "But his sacrifice was very valuable. He led a special force to raid the rear of the Sun-Moon Army, and we were able to defeat the Sun-Moon Army on the front battlefield."
"The Sun-Moon Empire is now severely damaged. It has used up all the resources it has accumulated over the years and is no longer able to launch another war."
The Duchess did not listen to what he said next, as she had only one thought in her mind.
Both of her sons are dead.
"You have lived in the palace for so long and have suffered so much. Please accept this."
Duke White Tiger placed an exquisite gift box on the table.
"Your Majesty has something important to ask me, so I won't stay long."
The Duke of White Tiger's tone was very cold, and he was unwilling to stay for long. He came to say a few words and then left.
The Duchess once again sat slumped in despair, her pale face devoid of any color. The sudden bad news left her without the strength to shed tears.
The two brothers Dai Yaoheng and Dai Huabin died in battle one after another, and as a mother, she was so sad that she was speechless.
"Madam, don't you want to see what the Duke left behind?" The maid Ling'er suddenly reminded.
The Duchess' voice was hoarse, and her eyes were bloodshot: "What else can it be? What else can he give me at this time?"
She roughly smashed the box left by Duke White Tiger against the wall.
The gift box broke, and the things inside fell to the ground with a crisp metallic collision sound.
The Duchess' pupils suddenly shrank and she stared in horror at the object that fell to the ground.
It was a sharp short blade, and the thin blade exuded a chilling chill that made the Duchess tremble a few meters away.
What gift did the Duke of White Tiger give her?
It's a knife.
So what is the purpose of giving this gift?
The Duchess took a few steps back, knowing what was going on.
To some extent, she also contributed to the war, and the deaths of her two sons in the war were also the result of her actions.
Now, being able to understand herself is her last bit of dignity. Anyway, her two sons are dead, and there is no meaning for her to live in this world.
"Hehe, hehe..."
The Duchess collapsed on the ground and laughed strangely a few times, her tears already flowing uncontrollably. Then she staggered over, picked up the dagger on the ground, and tremblingly pointed it at her heart.
"Dai Hao, I hate you!"
She uttered the last words through gritted teeth, and the next second, the sharp White Tiger Dagger pierced her heart.
Hot blood gushed out and splashed onto the White Tiger Dagger in her hand.
The Duchess chose self-understanding.
……
Outside Xingluo City, in front of a tomb.
Huo Yuhao used the blood-stained White Tiger Dagger to gently scratch Huo Yun'er's tombstone. The still warm blood left a red line on the tombstone.
The Duchess can be said to be the culprit of Huo Yuner's death. If she had not been suppressing Huo Yuner all the time, she would not have become ill from overwork and passed away early.
Everything that just happened was a nightmare he had constructed for the Duchess using his mental illusions and spiritual sensitivity, causing her to spend the last moments of her life in fear and anxiety.
And in the end, it was the Duchess herself who killed her.
Huo Qiuer stood nearby and said with emotion and admiration: "It's really hard to think of such a revenge method that tortures others mentally unless you have suffered from mental illness for a few years."
Huo Yuhao said nothing.
Huo Qiuer asked again: "After all, she is the mother of your two brothers. Is it appropriate to kill her like this?"
Huo Yuhao said coldly: "Why didn't she consider that someone else could be the mother of her child?"
The atmosphere fell silent again.
The figures of Tianmeng and Bingxue Emperor appeared.
Tian Meng said with some doubt: "Yuhao, didn't you avenge your mother? Why are you unhappy?"
Huo Yuhao’s tone was somewhat melancholy: “Although I have taken revenge, I know that if Huo Yun’er knew all this, she would definitely not agree.”
Bingdi asked in confusion: "Why?"
"She was such a submissive person. No matter what kind of oppression she suffered, she never thought of revenge. Even every time I wanted to stand up for her, her first reaction was to stop me and persuade me to swallow my anger."
Huo Yuhao's calm words conveyed his confusion and anger towards Huo Yun'er.
"She has always been like this. No matter how much suffering she has endured, she would just cry silently and not get angry at all, as if all this was what she deserved."
Xue Di said calmly: "Don't you humans have a saying that only those who endure the most hardships can become the best?"
Huo Yuhao said: “She suffered so much, but when it was her turn to enjoy happiness, she was crushed to death by those sufferings.”
He gently placed the blood-stained White Tiger Dagger on the ground in front of Huo Yuner's grave.
"Besides, Xue Di, you are wrong. No matter how much you suffer, you will never become a superior person."
Xue Di asked back in surprise: "Then how can one become a superior person?"
“What you eat replenishes what you gain.” Huo Yuhao’s eyes flashed with a cold light, and he said grimly, “If you want to become a superior person, you have to eat people.”
(End of this chapter)
Chapter 473 Yi Lao wakes up
Gentle, kind, loving... Huo Yun'er possesses many good qualities. She is strong, hardworking, and willing to work hard. When she was suppressed the most by the Duchess, she still did her best to provide the best conditions for the young Huo Yuhao.
Huo Yuhao was full of gratitude towards the woman who gave him maternal love, but this did not conflict with his inability to understand Huo Yun'er. In fact, many times, some of Huo Yun'er's decisions would make him very annoyed.
Huo Yun'er never resented the lover, Duke White Tiger, who had forgotten him, and even repeatedly advised Huo Yuhao to try to understand this nominal father.
Every time she was bullied by other servants, she would just smile it off, casually wipe the wounds on her body and continue to work, and also told Huo Yuhao that she was fine.
But Huo Yuhao, who was a careful observer, could always find that Huo Yun'er's joints would often tremble uncontrollably when she was working.
He always believed that Huo Yun'er had the right to revenge and resentment, but she had never shown any negative emotions like this, except that she would occasionally shed tears when Huo Yuhao pretended to be asleep.
Huo Yuhao was unwilling to use harsher words to accuse Huo Yun'er. That person was gone, and all the grievances between him and the White Tiger Duke's Mansion could come to an end.
He picked up the White Tiger Dagger again and wiped off all the blood stains on it.
Bingdi looked at Huo Yuhao, who had been standing at the grave in silence for a long time, and asked in confusion.
"Yuhao, I am a little confused. Revenge is very simple. With your current ability, if you want to assassinate someone, no one in this palace can stop you. Even the strongest human being may not be able to detect it."
"In that case, why did you go to so much trouble to make that human commit suicide in such a roundabout way?"
Bingdi expressed the doubts that had been in her mind for a long time.
Huo Yuhao thought for a moment and said, "I never thought that revenge on someone is an easy thing."
"Why?" Bingdi frowned and asked, "Is it because you are not strong enough? Or are you worried about being discovered by others?"
“Neither.” Huo Yuhao paused and solemnly corrected, “What you are talking about is assassination, not revenge.”
Bingdi was stunned for a moment: "Is there any difference?"
“Killing someone is easy, just die and be done with it, but… don’t people all die?” Huo Yuhao breathed a sigh of relief, his tone lost, “She is dead, but how can I make up for the pain she brought to the living?”
Huo Yuhao looked at the White Tiger Dagger in his hand again.
"This is one of the few ways I can think of to really make her suffer."
Huo Yuhao doesn't like to torture others, his fighting style is almost always a quick and clean end. He prefers to torture his enemies mentally, just like his innate spiritual attributes.
He looked up at the sky again.
The Duchess, who had brought many persecutions to Huo Yun'er, was also a mother. Apart from the Duke of White Tiger, the things she cared about most were naturally the two brothers Dai Yueheng and Dai Huabin.
In fact, if you think about it carefully, you can find that there are many unreasonable aspects in the illusion created by Huo Yuhao. For example, the flow of time is not normal, the war ended too quickly, and so on.
But the Duchess was so lost in the illusion that she did not realize the irrationality of the illusion, and ended her life in extreme grief and despair.
Just as Huo Yuhao was lost in his reminiscence, an old voice that had not been heard for a long time sounded at the right time.
"I'm back here again, Yuhao. Every time I come to your mother's grave, I have a different feeling."
Huo Yuhao was stunned and blurted out subconsciously: "Master Yi?"