Hu Chen Wuding slowly turned around and stared at the figure by the courtyard gate. "Even if everything you said is true, so what? If you did not have the ability to protect your own woman, then you should not have married Mother. If you did not have the ability to protect your own child, then why did you have him at all? So Mother and son could hide from place to place?"
"I came back this time to let those who humiliated me know that even if I had survived in disgrace, the position of Heir of the Lineage was not something they could take merely because they wanted it."
"None of this is for you, nor is it for the Hu Chen Lineage. I could even discard the Hu Chen surname after all this is over. And when everything has ended, I want to travel to the ends of the earth with Uncle Sang, truly free of all ties."
As Hu Chen Wuding spoke, he enunciated every word, each one delivered with extreme slowness.
Hu Chen Wandong, however, felt as though he had been struck by lightning. Especially Hu Chen Wuding's earlier words: "If you do not have the ability to protect your own woman, then do not marry Mother. If you do not have the ability to protect your own child, then why have him at all?"
From them, he heard a hatred that towered to the heavens.
Then, upon hearing the final two sentences, anger instantly surged onto Hu Chen Wandong's already pale face. "You..." He raised a hand and pointed at Hu Chen Wuding, but when he saw Hu Chen Wuding's indifferent, utterly emotionless eyes, then saw the familiar contours of that face, Hu Chen Wandong found himself unable to continue.
Zhuo Lingfeng, who had