Chapter 475: No Comparison (1/2)

The more Lan traveled with Xue Wei, the more puzzled he became. Although he had a lot of prejudice towards him, he had found that it was actually not true.

While Xue Wei was indeed very talented, he was also unfortunate. He had experienced many things which would break any average person, but he had persevered.

While he was talented, he did not get anything easily. He had to fight for everything he had, and he always had to walk forward, or he would have been killed long ago by the men in the Chang'an Continent.

Li Zhiqing might not have been very talented, but she had been lucky. Not only had she found the lake, and later met Lan, but she had also been happy and content with life.

Xue Wei could not be together with the woman he loved, he could not slow down, or he would get defeated by all the other geniuses. The stress he was under was something that Li Zhiqing never had to experience.

In many ways, Lan was already aware that Li Zhiqing was satisfied with the life she led when they were together. She never complained, and her smile displayed her undisguised happiness.

Even if she had been immensely talented, would she really have been able to handle the stressful life? Would she have been happy?

When he began thinking like this, Lan was suddenly scared by his own thoughts and shivered.

He had always been blaming Xue Wei because of his innate talent, but thinking about it, Xue Wei had also paid a hefty price for his talent.

His mother had died while giving birth to him, his uncle had killed his father right in front of his eyes, he had been chased and persecuted everywhere he went, and in the end, he had to flee his homeland.

While one could live a peaceful life, the other always had to struggle and fight for advancement.

He had never considered it before, but as he realized the differences, he also understood that his impression of Xue Wei was faulty.

Xue Wei had never done anything wrong. All he did was forced onto him by the circumstances, and done in an attempt to survive and reach a higher ground.

He never wanted anything else than to live life peacefully with his family, but the cruel world had shattered all those dreams. What one wished for was not always what one could get.

Now that he knew that he could only live if he advanced, he had given up many things in his life, but the only thing he could not give up was his friends and family.