The old woman was willing to risk her life to make her granddaughter happy, and wasn't that exactly what Ye Fei himself had always strived for?
He had even more people to protect—his daughter, his beloved mother, and all the women around him.
Wasn't the very purpose of his existence to ensure that each of them lived happily and without worries?
Beyond that, who cared how vast the sky was, how deep the earth was, or how insignificant he might feel?
As long as he could ensure their carefree and joyful lives, that was more than enough.
This truth was quite simple. Given Ye Fei's intelligence, he could have easily understood it at any time. However, that was precisely the terrifying nature of mental demons—they exploited moments of instability to trap people in narrow-minded thinking.
Even someone as wise as Ye Fei needed the old woman's actions to jolt him back to his senses.
