The smile had completely vanished from Mu Fan's face. He stared at the refined, sharply featured colonel before him. "Nuonuo never told me about this."
"This had not happened before she went to Taoyun Academy." Wang Lingfeng raised his teacup and drained the scalding tea in one gulp.
"So that was why I was invited here today."
Mu Fan's hands had already left the tea table. Though he remained seated cross-legged on the tea platform, his gaze was completely different from when he had first entered.
His upper body was taut and straight!
Mu Fan's voice was calm and steady, without the slightest hint of disturbance. This made Wang Lingfeng regard him a little more highly.
"I am her father. Some things are cruel for Nuonuo, in my opinion, but you are different. You have experienced far more than she has."
"This matter is not merely my personal will. It is the will of the entire family. Many young people, at the age of twenty, believe that once they love someone, no one can care for that person better than they can. But the truth is often..."
"Time will tell them that not only are there people better at caring for their beloved, but there are quite a few of them. The cruel truth... is that more often than not, it is merely our own wishful thinking."
"As compensation, you may make your request. This time, you can save yourself twenty years of struggle."
Wang Lingfeng spoke calmly, with his distinctive measured rhythm that always made listeners unconsciously choose to trust him. Throughout the entire conversation, he had not mentioned the Bauhinia Family even once. Such a comparison was simply unnecessary.
The Wang family, along with the reborn Luoqi Heavy Industries, were both things the Bauhinia Family could casually crush