Qi Lin fell silent upon hearing this.
Gu Shengyin did not urge her but simply stood there quietly waiting.
After a long while, Qi Lin let out a cold laugh, "Mother?"
There was endless loathing in her tone, "If it weren't for my mother, I probably wouldn't despise your Galactic Empire so much."
"When my father was still alive, they would often argue. My mother was particularly domineering; she wouldn't allow my father to speak a word in favor of the Federation, and she especially loathed me, her daughter whose heritage lay with the Federation."
"Until now, I still don't understand why two people with such differing thoughts ever got together in the first place, or why they had me? After my father died, she became even more unhinged. She wasn't saddened by my father's death at all, especially despising me, this 'Federation person'."