Chapter 44: No Proof

Lin Zhen took the first word, and the first word was an apology.

"I would like to ask your forgiveness again, son. I failed to protect you a second time, and the second time you were closer to my hand than the first."

The look on his father’s face came in a register Lin Xuan had not catalogued before, a thin defeated sag at the corners of the mouth that no patriarch of any sect on the continent had the right to wear in front of his own son. Lin Xuan saw it, and decided in real time that he was not going to let it stand.

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