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She buried her head into the man's chest, wanting to cry, but the tears simply wouldn't fall.
Perhaps it was because she lacked a profound father-daughter connection with Qin Anshun that she wasn't particularly distraught over the ordeal?
The man felt a twinge of heartache and softly patted her back, whispering, "Don't be sad anymore. Didn't you say that once his leg was healed, you'd owe each other nothing? Not only did you heal his leg, but you also gave him more than a year of peaceful life. That's enough!"
"If I had known that healing his leg would send him to the battlefield to die, I would rather not have healed it at all!" Xiao Ruo muttered in his embrace.
She did say that once his leg was healed, they would owe each other nothing. Though she may have fallen short as a daughter, she had sincerely tried to be filial to her father. She wasn't truly heartless; how could she remain indifferent to her father going to war?