0060 Muzzle Release (2)

It's a familiar place, but I can't call it home.

Guan Kai hurried upstairs in his leather shoes, his steps revealing his anxiety.

Guan Fei said that Guan Yue had come to the family home, but when he opened the door, he realized that he had been too hasty and reckless.

After Guan Yue was released from prison, he made a living on his own and had no intention of returning to the Guan family. The Guan family members were overjoyed and determined to keep this tainted grandson far away; they would never easily bring him back here.

He couldn't get angry at his half-brother because his grandfather was sitting there behind him.

Guan Li's hair was completely white, and he was dressed in a dark-colored Tang suit. The right sleeve was empty, as his arm had been severed during an attack in his early years of war.

This elderly man, who in his younger days commanded respect and authority over his family simply by sitting at the dining table, is now in his eighties and can no longer even recognize people.

"I'm Xiao Kai, Grandpa!"

Guan Kai put his face close to the old man's ear and shouted loudly.

Guan Li simply nodded, saying, "Yes, yes." It was unclear whether he had heard her or recognized her.

Guan Fei opened the door to the inner room, his tone cold and disgusted.

"Alright, let Grandpa rest for a while."

Guan Kai adjusted the old man's outer coat and followed Guan Fei into the room.

Guan Fei's voice rang out the instant the room door closed.

"This matter ends here."

Guan Fei looked out the window with his back to him. The family compound had been there for decades. He had grown up here with his grandfather when he was young.

But the scenery outside the window has changed completely.

He heard Guan Kai sneer behind him, and felt a surge of disgust.

It wasn't just disgust for him—the son born to his father's mistress, a son who should have been kept hidden—but also disgust for himself. Could blood ties truly overcome all moral and ethical constraints? Because he discovered that at this moment, his heart was filled with a burning anger at his son's perceived lack of ambition.

"So the reason you insisted on coming here to talk was to use my grandfather to pressure me."

Guan Kai sat down in the chair and crossed his legs.

This is Guan Fei's childhood room, and on the desk is his MIT graduation photo.

A graduate of a prestigious university, dashing and debonair, with a radiant and generous smile on his face.

"This is the real Guan family," Guan Kai thought to himself.

But it's not only those with such status and position who are entitled to a glamorous life in the world.

Guan Fei hated his nonchalant attitude the most. He turned around and glared at him: "Good thing you know! Grandpa is getting old and can't take your nonsense!"

"you?"

"..."

"So you finally acknowledge Guan Yue's existence?" Guan Kai's voice suddenly turned violent as he stood up and questioned the man before him. Guan Yue was like a ticking time bomb to him. "Seven years ago, when you personally sent him to prison, why didn't anyone treat him as a member of the Guan family?!"

Guan Fei suppressed his anger; he didn't want to fall out with Guan Kai so soon. This wasn't his ultimate goal.

"Grandpa's outside, so keep your voice down. You know that Guan Yue was the one who made a mistake seven years ago..."

"Ha!" Guan Kai interrupted him with a cold laugh, pointing towards the door.

The door was tightly closed, yet he seemed to be pointing at the old man outside through it.

"You know Grandpa's out there! You know better than I how Grandpa lost his arm! Our Guan family did the Wan family such a huge favor, and they repay kindness with enmity! They're ungrateful! I'm just..."

"Shut up!" Guan Fei almost threw a punch at him, but he held back.

He felt a burning fire in his heart, wondering how long he could squander this "favor" that his grandfather had almost risked his life for.

But he already knew from that accident seven years ago that it wouldn't be long.

My grandfather lost his right arm in the war four or five years ago. When the shells came, he desperately protected his superior, Chen Ping, and his right arm was blown off on the spot.

No one could deny that their grandfather was a hero, but they also had to admit how much the Wan family had done to repay this life-saving debt.

In the 1960s, Wanqi Shouque sacrificed his own son to save Zheng Li's life, preventing him from being labeled a "reactionary." At that time, two of Wanqi Shouque's four children had already died due to stigmatization. When it was Guan Li's turn to be criticized and denounced, the youngest child stood up and said, "I'm young, I can withstand it. Let me take the punishment in Uncle Guan's place..."

They hadn't had a hot meal in so long that they were all emaciated, and indeed no one recognized the person who had died tragically in the street as just a sixteen-year-old boy, not Guan Li.

It was Wan Qishouque who secretly carried the frail body away in the middle of the night. No one knows whether this still-young father shed tears on the withered wheat field. All he knows is that when Wan Lao saw his grandfather later, he laughed heartily as if nothing had happened and called out, "Old Guan."

No one in the Guan family has entered politics or the military, yet they are still respected in the capital, all thanks to the kindness and favor shown to them by the Wan family.

Wanqi Shouque regarded Guan Li as a brother who had shared hardships with him.

Kindness should be repaid in the way the Wan family does, and human relationships should not be desecrated in the way the Guan family does. He had to admit that none of the Wan family members were incompetent; the Wan family respected the Guan family, while everyone in the capital laughed at the Guan family.

There was no such thing as Guan Wanzhi's kindness; it was just that a family that valued loyalty and righteousness encountered those who devoured human flesh and blood.

How could he possibly talk to Guan Kai, who had only come to the Guan family at the age of ten and knew nothing about all of this, let alone had any understanding of it?

He could only give him one last push: "This time, even Grandpa can't save you."

P.S.: Starting today, updates will be sporadic!

I originally wrote this just for my own enjoyment, hehe, but I feel like I don't get much feedback each day, so every time I finish writing and check for comments, I'm disappointed (of course, it's because I'm not popular and my writing is bad, I don't mean to complain). So from now on, I'll focus more on the real world~

You won't have to wait for updates anymore! (Probably not, hahaha) I'll let you all know on Weibo if there are a lot of updates or if it's finished, then you can check back then! Love you all!