Affection
Mao Jixue shuddered at that notion. Perhaps she didn't really think Xu Rouguang would be glaring at her all this time because of her actions regarding the secret death of her father, the Emperor of Heaven. The Emperor of Heaven was the biggest backbone of the Imperial Mao, and now that he was gone, the family was afraid that some big family would try to snatch their title as the highest family in Heaven.
She didn't let a lot of people know that the Emperor was actually dead for a very long time now; even her closest friends from different races and families weren't aware. All they knew was that the Emperor of Heaven was already too old to manage everything on his own so Mao Jixue had become his Regent and facet.