“…Intelligent child that he was, Bai Ruyi knew by that point exactly why he’d been so unceremoniously abandoned—why he’d been ripped so cruelly from the beautiful and carefree life he used to live… “But he’d always been kind. Despite the wounds and the trauma that the sudden reversal of his fortune had caused him, he remained as he was. In fact, you might say that he became even kinder, because his eyes had been forced open to the harsh realities of the world. “Always, he was conscious of the fact that even though things might have become bad for him compared to before, he still had it better than so many other people. All his needs were taken care of. He never had to do a day of work yet he would still never go hungry. “When the Emperor’s illegitimate son was brought to his home, Bai