223: Poked _1
"In 'The Great Treasury of the Dharma,' the Buddha Sakyamuni said: There are Eight Sufferings in life: birth, aging, illness, death, hatred, separation from love, pursuit without attainment, and the five skandhas.
Emotional separation, unfulfilled desires, and death — at this moment, Henry Wood is experiencing three of these sufferings.
And these three have become the insurmountable abyss of his lifetime.
The atmosphere in the wedding venue was as vibrant as the desolation outside on the lawn.
"I told you, it's more exciting here than at the wedding," Antony Brown said as he looked at Christopher Robinson's bodyguards, and the man sandwiched between them, from a platform in the hotel.
John Brown, though a member of the rich second generation, hasn't yet mastered his elder brother's ability to mask his emotions behind an impenetrable façade, and struggles to hide his feelings.
"Why? What kind of grudge does Translator Wood hold against President Robinson?"