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Lmao give Mother of the year award to her 😂

To be fair her daughter does things like:

- pretend to murder a maid in front of her suitor

- been selling her deadly inventions to shady people

- tries to run away from a marriage issued by imperial decree

For instance, we are past the half point of the story, but Xiao Wuyi never stops being the ruthless, bloodthirsty lunatic he was at the beginning of it. Flaming spear, sword or no sword, this man is a killing weapon made flesh. Other male leads would be mellowed down and softened by now.

When he almost kills his imposter uncle with his bare hands, there is no reason left in his eyes, just violence and madness of a man who has been killing since childhood and bathed in more blood than water. He never changes, except for some softening around the edges, because the world doesn't allow him to change. Changing himself would off him even sooner than his injury would. Even the FL can see that.

On the other hand, Xie Jiayu truly changes (for the same reason he can't, to survive, in her case not changing would kill her) and grows, especially her world view. She hated killing and loathed Wuyi for it, but now she accepts the world needs a perfect killer like him to strike fear into the hearts of the enemies and eliminate them.

I particularly like the paralell of her watching him kill another man for the first time, fake fainting to avoid the sight of the body and admonishing him for it later, to how she can't take her eyes off him when he fights for her and his life in the cell, having complete trust in his ability to kill and basically praying he would.