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'It's not... that the Snake Father never trusted me. What he needed was just a tool, and as long as the tool was handy, he would bestow favors upon it. But if one day the tool broke, he would simply replace it.'
'Just like my own father.'
'Emperor Qian, the Lord of the Endless Abyss, the Snake Father, oh, to make the three of you fight amongst yourselves, I would reap the benefits of the fisherman.' After being abandoned by the Snake Father, She Xi understood this principle very well.