Chapter 365: Negotiation
People were destined to never truly understand one another.
Some liked peaceful, tranquil years and believed that living safely was what mattered most. Others insisted on taking the unconventional path, believing only a spectacular life could do justice to their existence.
Most people hovered somewhere between the two, sometimes yearning for peace and sometimes dreaming of adventure.
Lu Boyi was left speechless by Feng Ling's words.
He took a deep breath and demanded of Feng Ling, "Have you ever seen all the young people in an entire village go to war, only for the elderly and children to be left behind? If you had witnessed that kind of tragedy with your own eyes, would you still so easily tell them to go die?!"
Feng Ling genuinely could not understand.
If she had been an eighty-year-old who had lost her family, perhaps she would have empathized with Lu Boyi's words. But she was only in her twenties, young and hot-blooded, and her Card had just advanced into its Completed Form. She was at the height of her arrogance, so she truly, truly could not understand.
"What exactly are you trying to say?" Feng Ling asked him in confusion. "Are you saying the young people who went to war suffered terribly, or that the elderly and children left behind suffered because no one cared for them? So the young people should stay in the village to look after the elderly and children, and then no one will suffer?"
Lu Boyi was getting angry. "Don't twist my meaning!"
Feng Ling refused to reflect on herself. "Your ability to express yourself is the problem, not me twisting your words."
Lin Pengpeng was becoming irritated by their argument. "What's there to argue about? Protecting our homeland is the duty of every Lorias