Ch. 40 Part 3

But they saw Xiao Ling knelt down on the soiled ground with his clean expensive robes and hugged the child looking hurtful. If they first thought that it was all fake, but seeing this now they believed in the goodness of the couple. No young master would do what Xiao Ling did, and if it was fake then Xiao Ling had really learn for years how to act and show patience in doing all this. Those hesitating no longer hesitated and with courage's decided to also swear their loyalties.

Xiao Ling hugging the child had look of helplessness and looked defeated, what the child requested he couldn't do. If it was the head of the royal families the child wanted, then he'd present them to the child on a silver platter. But what the child requests now, he couldn't do it.