This Orderer named Qi Yuan, who bears some resemblance to his own daughter... yearns to be valued.
Even though he is mature in age, even though he is more calculating than anyone else, even though he sees things more clearly than most people, humans, as creatures, are inherently contradictory, with various possibilities of knowingly making mistakes and deliberately acting wrongly.
Li Xiaoyu couldn't answer Qi Yuan's increasingly sharp questions, she just stated that she would look after Qi Yuan.
But there were still some questions she answered.
"Because people change, and between people, there are inherent differences. I used to be very assertive, like this in front of others, but in front of Tang Xian, I can't be assertive."
"I thought I understood humans enough."
"If you want to become a human, you'll find you can never truly understand them. If you merely want to be an Orderer above humans, perhaps everything will become clear to you," Li Xiaoyu said, with some risk.
