Douluo Continent: I'm writing a diary, and something's not right with you guys.

So when I say that Huo Yuhao is inferior to Dai Hao, it's not just a momentary impulse; it's a genuine feeling.

Dai Hao's mistake was negligence, and negligence can be remedied.

Huo Yuhao's mistake was indifference, and indifference is something that is difficult to make up for.

Because when a negligent person wants to make amends, their heart is warm, while a cold-hearted person has no intention of making amends at all, and their heart is cold.

Starry Sky Forest, Lake of Life.

The lake water shimmered with a silvery light under the moonlight.

Gu Yuena sat quietly by the lake, her silver eyes scanning every line of Lin Ye's words. Her expression was calm as still water, but her eyes, which had experienced many vicissitudes, were churning with unknown waves.

When she learned from Huo Yuhao's diary that he would establish the Spirit Pagoda, she had a very high opinion of him and even vaguely regarded him as the hope for peaceful coexistence between humans and soul beasts.

Ke Linye's analysis allowed her to see another side of this "hope".

Can someone who refuses to acknowledge their own bloodline truly understand the meaning of life?

In her view, bloodline is not a choice, but a responsibility.

You can resent your child's other blood relative, but you shouldn't transfer that resentment onto your child, because half of the blood flowing in your child's veins is exactly the same as your own.

"Huo Yuhao..."

She spoke softly, her voice as cold as moonlight: "You ended the human hunt for Soul Rings, but you couldn't end the indifference in your own heart."

You changed the landscape of the entire continent, yet you couldn't change your attitude towards your bloodline. This is your contradiction, and your tragedy.

The turmoil in her silver eyes gradually subsided, replaced by a faint, scrutinizing calm.

She began to reassess the weight of the name Huo Yuhao. He was still worthy of respect, but his brilliance was no longer as pure as before.

Huo Yuhao later inherited the position of the God of Emotions, and thus gained control over the emotions of all things in the world.

However, he himself showed the most indifferent and emotionally detached attitude when it came to his blood relatives.

What right does a god who is unwilling to even perceive the emotions of his own son have to control the emotions of all living beings?

This is a question that probably only Huo Yuhao himself can answer.

And that answer will most likely not be satisfactory.

Fortunately, Xu Yunhan's fate was not dimmed by Huo Yuhao's absence.

On the contrary, he grew up to be an outstanding person under the care of his mother, Orange, and even surpassed his father in some aspects.

But that's another story.

After Lin Ye stopped writing in his diary, Wang Dong'er, who was in the bed next to him, lay on the bed, tossing and turning, unable to fall asleep.

The diary entries had stopped, but the words were etched into her mind like a brand, impossible to erase.

She kept thinking about the name Xu Yunhan.

Huo Yuhao's son is named Xu Yunhan, and his surname is not Huo.

The choice of this surname itself reveals a lot. Huo Yuhao did not give him the Huo family surname, but instead gave him his mother's surname.

This means that the child is not recognized by the father and is not included in the father's family lineage.

Although the current Wang Dong'er is not the future Tang Wutong.

But he also understood how much criticism a child who was not favored by his family, a child who was not favored by his own father, would suffer during the process of growing from childhood to adulthood.

Huo Yuhao is like that; he has experienced the need to hold an umbrella for others.

But after weathering the storm and seeing the rainbow, he encountered another child who resembled him when he was a child, yet he was unwilling to hold an umbrella for him.

Chapter 297 Embodiment

Lin Ye went to bed very late and was woken up by the chirping of birds outside the window in the morning.

He rubbed his eyes, sat up in bed, yawned, quickly washed his face, ate a few bites of breakfast in the cafeteria, and then sat back down at his desk.

Today is the weekend, no classes, a rare day of leisure.

Wang Dong'er disappeared early in the morning, probably because she went to Shrek City with Ning Tian and Xiao Xiao.

I didn't see them when I went to the cafeteria. Where else could they have gone but Shrek City?

Lin Ye glanced at what he had written yesterday and felt that it was incomplete and something was missing.

The entanglement between Dai Hao and Huo Yuhao, father and son, goes far beyond the issue of an illegitimate child.

Their feud spanned two generations and involved far too many things.

Family ties, hatred, guilt, making amends, the glory and decline of a family—each and every one of these matters is incredibly complex.

After thinking for a moment, Lin Ye prepared to start writing today's diary.

Yesterday I compared Dai Hao and Huo Yuhao, and the conclusion was that Huo Yuhao was more ruthless than Dai Hao.

Today I want to talk about these two people from a different perspective, not about how they treated their illegitimate child, but about how they treated the identity of "father" itself.

Both Dai Hao and Huo Yuhao became fathers, and both did so without their knowledge.

Dai Hao was unaware because the Duchess kept it from him, and Huo Yuhao was unaware because Ju Zi kept it from him.

The beginnings were exactly the same, but as time went on, their attitudes towards the role of father were worlds apart.

Let's start with Dai Hao.

You can say Dai Hao is careless, or that he neglected his duties, but you can't say he's irresponsible.

He may not have much affection for Huo Yuhao's mother, after all, it was just a fleeting relationship, but when he learned that Huo Yuhao was his son, his reaction was not to shirk responsibility or run away, but to acknowledge it.

He publicly acknowledged this son and had his name engraved in the genealogy of the White Tiger Duke's Mansion.

What is a family tree? A family tree is the foundation of a family. Inscribing a person's name on it signifies that that person is now part of the family, and no one can deny it.

Dai Hao will have to pay the price for what he did.

The White Tiger Duke's mansion doesn't belong to him alone; he also has a legitimate wife, his children born of the principal wife, and a whole bunch of collateral relatives.

By engraving the name of an illegitimate child into the family genealogy, he was essentially announcing to everyone: I, Dai Hao, have made a mistake, and I am now going to make amends for it.

This is not just a matter of his personal face; it also involves the inheritance rights, reputation, and balance of power among various factions of the White Tiger Duke's Mansion.

Dai Hao withstood the pressure and brought Huo Yuhao back into the family.

You could say this is belated compensation and worthless, but belated compensation is still compensation, and it's better than nothing.

Moreover, Dai Hao's efforts to make amends were not just empty words; he was truly taking action.

After engraving Huo Yuhao's name into the family genealogy, he expressed his approval and pride in this son.

At that time, Huo Yuhao was already the renowned Spirit Ice Douluo, and many people said that Dai Hao was benefiting from his son's fame, but Dai Hao didn't care.

He didn't care if others called him a snob, or that he only acknowledged Huo Yuhao because he thought he was powerful. He simply accepted it openly and honestly. This frankness is at least commendable.

Looking at Huo Yuhao from another angle.

What did Huo Yuhao do after learning he had a son? He did nothing.

He denies it, refuses to see it, and ignores it.

From birth to adulthood, Huo Yuhao never appeared in Xu Yunhan's life, not even for a single day.

At least Dai Hao publicly acknowledged Huo Yuhao after he became famous, giving him a formal status.

What did Huo Yuhao give Xu Yunhan? Nothing.

This raises a question.

What does the identity of "father" truly mean to Huo Yuhao?

Shrek City.

Wang Dong'er was with Ning Tianwufeng and Xiao Xiao at the moment. They had come to a dessert shop and were chatting by the window.

Sunlight streamed in through the window, falling on her long, light blue hair and casting a soft glow on her profile.

She saw the contents of Lin Ye's diary, especially what the identity of 'father' meant in Huo Yuhao's heart, and sneered inwardly.

What does "father" mean to Huo Yuhao? If this question were asked in the past, Wang Dong'er felt she could answer it for Huo Yuhao.

He hates Tang San to the core, so he would definitely say, "Being a father means responsibility, it means not abandoning one's own child."

But what's the use of saying nice things? When it came to his own turn, he did even worse than the person he hated.

Wang Dong'er recalled the things she had read in her previous diary.

She is the daughter of Tang San and Xiao Wu. Tang San arranged for her to be placed next to Huo Yuhao as a pawn in his plan to build the Douluo Continent.

What she thought was love, what she thought was fate, was all orchestrated by her aloof father.

Huo Yuhao is merely a piece in this game.

She no longer has any expectations of Huo Yuhao.

But she still couldn't help feeling ironic. Huo Yuhao had hated Dai Hao for half his life, constantly saying that Dai Hao was not worthy of being a father, but after he became a father himself, how was there any difference between what he did and what Dai Hao did?

No, he's even worse than Dai Hao.

Dai Hao at least made amends, but Huo Yuhao didn't even bother to make amends.