The family had reunited after ten long years.
These past ten-odd years, spanning both the current Age of Strange Nights and the distant Crimson Nether Era, had always made people feel the oppression and despair of the Strange Nights.
For everyone else, surviving beneath the Strange Nights was simply too despairing.
For Lin Yan, hope remained slim in the face of the Strange Nights, but at least he had the right to draw his blade.
Yet precisely because he possessed that right to draw his blade, he could only sink into "slaughter."
After so much slaughter and bloodshed, tonight's family feast was all the more precious.
Especially after Duke Lu's passing, which had inevitably added a touch of sorrow to their hearts.
Only at this moment did they feel a trace of warmth.
"A'Yan..."
His brother-in-law raised his wine cup, his expression respectful.
He was now the head of the Yu Family.
The Yu Family was only a small lineage, but in recent years it had been treated with considerable courtesy. Besides, he had never been one of the outstanding direct descendants of the Yu Family.
He had become the family head entirely because of Lin Yan.
"This is a family feast. There's no need for so many formalities."
Lin Yan smiled faintly. Looking at his nephew, he said, "You've done pretty well these past few years. You've reined in your temper quite a bit."
This little nephew had been rather proud back then, so Lin Yan had specially instructed the Heavenly Supervision Department and the Prefectural Governor's Mansion to give the Yu Family a warning.
Now, looking at the youth, Lin Yan felt that he had indeed been shaped into something worthwhile. He held the rank of school captain in the City Guard Army.
His eldest brother had emerged