Claudius raises an eyebrow. "Never has a man so swiftly gained my sympathies and lost them in the same story. Jin Guangshan ..." He shakes his head. "So much of the fault for this lies at that man's feet. And whatever my former God may've said ... I don't believe the children should suffer for the sins of the fathers. I cannot fault Jin Guangyao for who he fell in love with. But in killing his son, he simply made one more child suffer for his father's indiscretions. In covering those sins, he only passed them onward."

With a final scoff, he says, "And to think this man slandered Mo Xuanyu for being a cut-sleeve."