No one is all bad or all good. Some people are far more bad than good, and some are far more good than bad. The good doesn 't absolve the bad, nor does the bad negate the good. It 's much easier to understand this when dealing with a person who does their best to be genuinely good. It proves far more difficult when faced with a person who spends their life only causing harm.

It was something Jinshi found himself contemplating as he stood in the doorway of the room where his father had spent the end of his life. The previous emperor had been a vile, twisted creature. He had spent nearly his entire adult life harming little girls. There was no official record of how many victims he 'd had, but one only had to look at how large the rear palace was to know that the number was significant.