@Kaarme If a person gets injured by being stupid at, let's say the Eiffel Tower, does anyone get upset? No one gets upset unless and until the actual structure is put into danger. If it's a person being disrespectful and stupid, there will obviously be criticism of them, but if there's no real danger to the structure itself, then no one is concerned about the building. It could be the same with the sword. If Mo Yan had no reason to believe that Xuanyuan Yu could ever do any harm to the sword, then no, he has no reason to be upset that she would use or touch such a treasure. It's a magic sword, after all. Perhaps it is basically indestructible. We saw that it withstood whatever magic use Mo Yan himself had employed it in, and it came out no worse for wear.

And yes, I agree with you regarding the horrible stepmother and those issues, but that doesn't necessarily make Mo Yan so incredibly stupid as you had previously said.

@givemersspls Concerning the fame of the weapon, if it was widely known the Mo family has a super weapon (like Excalibur, the most famous sword in the world), then it would be somewhat reasonable Mo Yan would be angry Xuanyuan Yu just went forward and tried to use, or even touch, such a treasure, even if nobody had specifically introduced it to her. As it is, she simply had no idea. Even the witch aunt didn't bother to mention there's a hands-off weapon lying on the altar in the temple where she locked Xuanyuan Yu in.

Well, to be reasonable, the dude was only angry at Xuanyuan Yu because he didn't like how she got hurt. But being tsundere, he expressed it by being angry at her.

They are all adults and highborn to boot. Xuanyuan Yu married into the family for political reasons. In my opinion it would be prudent to educate her quite a lot about the matters and customs of the family. In a sense the witch aunt seemingly tried to do it, but we all know she's a baba yaga who only wanted to make Xuanyuan Yu's life miserable any way she could, so she wouldn't have provided her with any kind of useful information. I again say it was Mo Yan failing his responsibility to make sure his wife could work as a lady of the house by allowing her to know everything she should know. Mo Yan apparently couldn't imagine the ogress might have any malicious intentions, so he was willing to leave it up to her.

@Kaarme Regarding the Excalibur issue, you're arguing backwards. You're basically saying because she didn't recognize it, it must not have been well-known. That's literally the issue, though. That's like saying I went into the private, restricted area, so I must be allowed to be there and then I provide no proof that I had permission. That's not the best example, but hopefully that gets my point across. Just because she doesn't recognize it doesn't mean that's her excuse. The issue is whether she should've recognize it in the first place.

It's his fresh wife towards whom he doesn't have any romantic feelings (so far). It's his fresh wife with whom he had an agreement to put up appearances. That means he also expects her to play a part. That would mean fitting into the family. That would mean learning things that need to be learned. A major point of this series is that the marriage is something neither wants. He respects her privacy and she his. There's no expectation of a deep caring and love.

And on the weapon, you can at least see my point, even if you disagree. And that's all I need to prove. I'm saying he could be scolding her for the reason I gave. Even if you disagree, that doesn't make him so stupid as you previously said.

@givemersspls


She didn't recognise it, didn't even suspect it's something fancy, so it's not. That in itself is the evidence. If the Mo family had an Excalibur equivalent, she would have known there's such a thing. When the sword rejected her, she would have finally recognised it's that very weapon, most likely. But no such thing happened. So, no, it's not me, it's this manhua. Argue against it if you want.



It's his fricking fresh wife we are talking about. He just might want to make sure it's happening by himself. It's only so nonchalant you should be about your one and only wife. If the husband doesn't give a shit, why on Earth would anyone else? If he wants someone else to educate her, then see to it that it's happening. This most definitely doesn't support your point, it supports my point of suspecting the dude isn't the sharpest sword in the armoury.



I don't know about you, but I'd rather have scarred hands than lose my life. If nothing else, she could have blocked the demon's weapon with the "useless" sword. In that job not being able to draw it from the scabbard wouldn't matter.

@Kaarme It seemed like you took things seriously when you made your first comment here. I was just replying.

Who the hell says it's not Excalibur? You? Maybe it actually is very well-known or supposed to be well-known. There's no evidence either way.



That just proves my point. Maybe the male MC expected her to have been taught by someone. Anyone. She is a member of the household now. He had no idea his stepmother was being hostile to her. This supports my point.

And finally, a weapon that you cannot use is useless. A weapon that you cannot use that ALSO hurts you is worse than useless. It is literally horrible. So what if it's shaped like a sword and usable as a sword by other people? She physically cannot use it as a weapon to defend herself. Keeping hold of it when you can literally feel your flesh burning is the height of foolishness.

@givemersspls Have people ever told you that you take things too seriously?

But fine, let's look at your points:


It's unreasonable to expect she would beforehand know about a sword in the Mo family's possession. It's no Excalibur, obviously. Their families are distant enough that Mo Yan didn't even know what she looks like, at all. Furthermore, you'd actually think it would be the Mo family who would educate her about such a thing, like tell her not to touch the dangerous sword when she visits the ancestral temple since she's the one who didn't grow up in the house and is thus ignorant. She did spend a long time in the temple, but she has high upbringing and isn't thus likely to snoop around and touch everything lying around, like a child or a thief.



Yeah, because you definitely throw away your only weapon when a demon is standing before you, trying to kill you.

The dude should have realised all of this. However, he hasn't really shown splendid intelligence in the earlier chapters, like I said already.

@Kaarme Yeah, because you're so definitely and totally right.

I'll make my statement clear. You could be completely right. Or you could be completely and utterly wrong. I gave fairly plausible explanations, and you did not dispute them. I could still be wrong and you right, but you act like your answer is so obvious, that the Mo family is so clearly stupid. That's why what you said is bad. No, you don't know for certain, so don't act like you do.

@givemersspls The correct answer is that he's stupid. Because he is based on the earlier chapters. He's accusing her of not knowing something she couldn't have known. That's exactly something stupid people often like to do. That degenerate Mo family desperately needs Xuanyuan Yu's genes. She seems to possess more wits than the Mo family members combined.

I don't like him

So was she also mistreated in her main family as well seems both main characters are black sheeps of their respective families.

@shinsenryuu and @luelluna Two possibilities. Either she's supposed to have known given that she had a high profile marriage into the Mo family or the fact that she spent a decent amount of time inside the ancestral temple (he doesn't know she was locked in there against her will), or he's saying she should've realized it sooner, when she first tried to grab the sword, and if she had let go immediately, she would've sustained no injuries or only light ones compared to what she actually has.

Those are just guesses.

how could she know it was a sword only accessible to the Mo family ?!?!?!

Thanks for the chapter!

what the heck, how was she going to know, she only saw a sword to defend herself, she can't know everything about the Mo family -.-'

I'm guessing he's being all tsun tsun but still

anyways, thanks for the translation! can't wait to see what happens next now that the demons are gone