If Commander Qin Qianshan's warm welcome had already stunned everyone, what happened next left them speechless.
Seven or eight generals, their General's Stars gleaming, gathered around a young man like stars around the moon. They chatted with him, asked after his health, and treated him with a warmth that defied almost everyone's understanding.
What did this mean?
Any one of these generals was powerful enough to shake an entire region with a stamp of his foot!
They represented the Dragon Kingdom's mightiest military forces!
Yet they were treating a young man who looked barely twenty with such warmth, even with a hint of... respect?
Was it because he was the grandson of Elder Xu's old comrade-in-arms?
Impossible!
Absolutely impossible!
Even Elder Xu's own grandson might not have commanded enough respect to make so many Military leaders come forward and greet him!
A storm raged through Su Guohua's heart.
For the first time, he took a serious look at the young man he had never thought worth noticing.
He realized he had never truly understood him at all.
"Fake... It's all fake... I must be dreaming..." Su Guohua's lips trembled as he muttered to himself.
He could not accept what he was seeing.
The young man he had looked down on for so long, whom he had called "a criminal's son," "the bottom of society," and "a worthless nobody," was someone even a Military Region Commander greeted with a smile?
It hurt worse than being killed outright!
Jiang Lan clamped a hand over her mouth to keep herself from crying out.
Tears filled her eyes, and her body shook with emotion.
She did not know exactly who Xiaofei was now. She only knew that he had made something of himself!
He was no longer the child who needed her protection and