Chapter 27: The patriarch actually cares!?
"Sigh..."
Patriarch Bai closed the doors to his study room with a heavy heart. The scent of pine oil, and mind cleansing incense filled the room yet, none of it calmed his thoughts.
He sat slowly behind the lacquered table, his eyes falling on the cracked jade sigil of their Bai lineage.
"A fool donkey falls alone, but a fool sheep takes its entire herd," he murmured bitterly.
How fitting.
Because Bai Long, the previously praised grandson, the bloodline of Bai family, was no longer just a small fool. He had become a danger to the Bai bloodline.
One might excuse arrogance in youth. Even cruelty could be molded with discipline. But stupidity paired with power? That was fatal, not only to the Bai Long, but to everyone bearing the Bai name.
"That damned child... what did you think would happen? Playing with the daughter of the Xia family like some low brothel girl?"
His fists clenched. The Xia Clan of Hiddenmist Valley... their ancestors and elders were said to have broken through the golden core realm and above.
If this had truly been enraged the Xia family, then their Bai family was just grass waiting to be cut. How can Bai Long be so blind not to see a vast sea before him!?
Not only that, even their relationship with the powerful families of Jadeleaf expansion has been ruined. Headache after headache... The legacy of the Bai Family might end due to a sinful child.
"How could I have let things go this far? I should have sent him to a remote area long ago... even if a beast had eaten him, that would save some trouble," he said, his voice heavy with regret.