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Chapter 164: Chapter 160: Paying Homage to the Mountain Gate

Often, people are like this. After living a life of plenty, they tend to stop striving. The so-called pursuit of success is no more than indulging in lustful fantasies once their basic needs are met.

If this conversation had taken place twenty years ago, when Gong Zheng was a ruthless, penniless young man, had a woman appeared before him, he would likely have simply sold her to a brothel. There would have been no love, no marriage, no children.

Material wealth shapes the contours of emotion.

As these people grow wealthy, some of those who gained their riches through cunning tactics begin to recapture their conscience. They selectively bestow their kind-heartedness upon a select few, such as their kin or lovers.

So even a despicable villain can be seen as a loving father in the eyes of his child. There’s no contradiction between these two identities coexisting in the same person.

Tang Luo smacked his lips, pleased with the subtle bitterness of his tea that left a sweet aftertaste. He maintained a frown as he watched Gong Zheng sobbing and prostrate on the ground. Setting down his cup, he critiqued, “I’m teaching you how to make a comeback, and this is the face you wear?”

“Does making a comeback mean abandoning my wife and child?” Gong Zheng, his eyes rimmed red, raised his head in defiance, a ferocious glare briefly passing over his face.

“It’s better than losing your life,” Tang Luo quipped, leaning back in his chair, toying with his tea cup in a carefree manner.

“Why are you telling me all this?” Confusion and pain etched across Gong Zheng’s face as he asked Tang Luo.

“Heh.” Tang Luo casually placed his tea cup on the table with a “clink”.

“Just thought you didn’t consider it, so I’m suggesting it. Why not give it a try?”

Tang Luo’s provocation only intensified Gong Zheng’s pain. While anyone would choose life over death, few could casually accept the cost of their revival to be the suffering or even death of their wife and children.

Gong Zheng’s internal struggle was written all over his face, his expressions ranging from indignation, pain, fury, determination, to gentleness. These contrasting sentiments sent his facial muscles into a spasmodic twitch. Nonetheless, his eyes remained clouded in confusion.

He found himself torn between making a comeback and protecting his family, his resolution wavering. As Tang Luo mentioned, he could start anew if he escaped Xiling. Staying, on the other hand, was tantamount to choosing death.

a new city didn’t seem such a bad idea. But the vision of his daughter reaching out with tiny hands and calling

such monstrous thoughts was none other than the so-called Pride of Xiling, the scion of the Tang

Powerless, he balled his fist and

“Oh, by the way.”

Ying should be returning soon. Time is not on your side,” Tang Luo reminded him casually, raising his

sudden rush of inexplicably

there would be no other opportunities. As this voice slowly shook his resolve, tempting him to

Enough! Just Stop!

himself hard in the face, accompanied by a

his own punch, exposing his white bones beneath the torn flesh. Blood flowed

made up your mind?” Tang Luo asked

of his face stained red with blood, Gong Zheng could only open his right eye. Meeting Tang Luo’s gaze with an infuriated look, he said, “What’s the point of making a comeback if

ultimate decision, Tang Luo’s previously excited face faded into a calm expression. In a flat tone, he

leaving behind Gong Zheng,

into the street, he walked straight into Lao Ying, who had just

upon facing him,

asked, his eyes sparkling

and

didn’t do anything else?” Tang Luo walked around Master Xu, clicking

scent of rouge from the brothel women, so he probably wouldn’t lie about that.

dragged him out this morning, he should have had 9999 (12856) points

(12857), and all he did was visit

a way of naturally increasing spiritual power or

was able to reach such a level at just twenty

not the same thing. A secret technique or a combat skill can significantly increase

Tang Luo’s question very strange, so he replied, “What

Tang Luo chuckled, his eyes shimmering curiously as a