Kang Chen promptly countered, "I won't choose either of these two options."
The elder asked, "Then, how do you intend to proceed?"
Kang Chen declared, "I have my methods. Father, I look to you in hopes that you will converse with Bai Wen Zheng once more. Initially, it was you who prompted me to leave a lifeline for him, which I did. Now…if he seeks his own death, he cannot fault me."
The elderly man sighed, "Even if you hadn't mentioned it, I would have sought out a meeting with him anyway. Despite his broken pretenses, our Kang family cannot shy away like cowards."
Although the patriarch became somewhat soft-hearted following his retirement...
At his core, he was still a soldier.
No one could tread on his bottom line, or the interests of the Kang Family.
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