Chapter 732: You’re All Still Young

Lan Qing heaved a sigh, staring at his father on the screen for a long while. He offered a firm nod. “I understand.”

“Then do what you need to do.” Jue Di waved his hand in dismissal. Lan Qing cut the connection.

“Father.” Lan Jue called to him for a third time.

At last, Jue Di looked his way and smiled. “I’m old, you’re all still young.” He patted his sons’ shoulder with a calloused hand, then left his side.

Lan Jue felt he saw a slight stoop in his father’s back [1. You know that picture you see all the time in Chinese/Japanese shows? The infinitesimally small Asian man or woman stooped so low they look like they’re bowing with their hands behind their back? That’s about right in real life. I also saw many people, women mostly, with severely bowed legs. I believe I read it was due to rickets and malnutrition. During the famines and wars at the early onset of modern China, people were eating bark to subsist in some places.]. Jue Di’s persona was as iron-hard as ever, but Lan Jue knew his father was getting old.

His lips tightened in a hard line, and his...