The Indestructible Mountain Lord
Chapter 809

0966: A Smile at Meeting Erases All Grudges, Everything Goes Without Saying (Bonus Chapter)

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A great hero now told his former rival that he would no longer be a hero, no longer fight for power and profit, and only wanted happiness.

Was that not laughable?

It was.

But those who truly understood would naturally understand what it meant.

Jiang Dali naturally understood as well, because he had long since found his own answer.

Happiness—what was happiness?

He could not answer, but he knew that a person's true happiness was usually something they had yet to obtain, or something they had lost long ago.

He knew this, and so, when he saw the light in Zhu Wushi's eyes as he looked at Suxin—burning with the innocence of a child, radiating profound emotion—he understood that Zhu Wushi's happiness had indeed arrived, while his own had not.

An era belonging to a great hero had ended, but his own era had not.

Because he was still searching.

A person like him would never bury his head beneath his backside like an ostrich, telling himself to accept whatever came and then forgetting where he had truly come from.

Before he was certain why he had been reborn, before he found out whether his other self in the real world existed and whether that self was safe, he would never abandon this ultimate goal and become someone who muddled through life in a daze, fleeing from reality.

No one could control his fate!

Only he himself could!

Thus, he understood Zhu Wushi's current state. The other man had already achieved the ultimate goal of this life and had become free of all desires.

The two of them, once formidable rivals, clasped hands tightly at this moment amid circumstances no one else could understand. They laughed heartily, filled with a different kind of emotion.

All grudges vanished like smoke between

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