"Today I came to your door for no other reason than to ask that, for the sake of our time as colleagues, you preserve the lives of my entire family."
Shi Chibao possessed Sixth Grade martial cultivation. With the power of life and death usually in his grasp, he had naturally cultivated an imposing air.
Whenever Su Che had seen this judicial captain before, he had always felt that a keen light lay hidden in his eyes, and that his entire body seemed to possess inexhaustible strength.
Yet under this pressure, he now resembled a candle flame wavering amid raging wind and torrential rain, his eyes filled with nothing but ash-gray defeat.
Su Che looked at Shi Chibao, and a sudden feeling of melancholy rose within him.
Though he had known this Captain Shi for a long time and their relationship could be considered decent, he did not even know how many people there were in his household.
Although he knew where Shi Chibao lived, he had never once paid him a visit.
Though the two were colleagues, one principal and one deputy, working together in mutual support, Su Che had always felt mountains and rivers lay between himself and Captain Shi. Their lives had never truly intersected.
Su Che listened closely and committed all of Shi Chibao's worries to heart.
Such was life.
As the thought flashed through his mind, Su Che looked at Shi Chibao before him.
He wondered what lofty spirit Shi Chibao had possessed when he attained the Sixth Grade of martial cultivation all those years ago. Looking back now, people would surely have praised him as a peerless genius favored by heaven.
Yet he had entered the mortal world just like that. Now, because of an affair wholly unrelated to him, he had been implicated,