Chapter 534: Pull the trigger, then take aim

It was good if one had intelligence and keen foresight. Besides that, though, one still had to have a sufficiently strong heart. Otherwise, just making a few of those hard decisions would pretty soon send one to meet their maker.

Such people were actually not cut out for these kind of decisions. After hearing out old Mr Fang’s heartfelt words, Xu Tingsheng’s first thought was: I’m not cut from this kind of cloth.

What this meant was that if he were in his shoes, he would never be able to steel his heart like this however pressing the situation.

Now that he thought about it, before the old man had pulled the trigger on those five brats from the families of his old war buddies that year, he must have been conflicted too. Still, in the end, he had steeled his heart and resolutely pulled the trigger.

Before a battle’s victory and defeat, what were five mere lives amidst the bloodied struggle of tens of thousands?

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