Chapter 40: MingHao's Decision

They couldn't fight back since the chains binding them were made with a special formation that prevented them from using any Qi. 

MingHao started walking slowly toward them; when he got close, he froze again. 

Seeing his cousins' expressions filled with fear, tears, and snot, his heart began to falter. 

They started begging him to spare them. 

"Don't kill us, please. No matter what, we are still family." 

"Yeah, we will sign a slave contract. Just spare us." 

"We will be more useful to you if you let us live." 

MingHao turned his gaze to his sister, but MingYue didn't move, only sternly glaring at him. 

He sighed, knowing that meant his sister wouldn't compromise. 

In MingYue's eyes, they were just useless; they had too much ego, to the point they couldn't even use their brains correctly. 

Even with a slave contract, the normal commoner was more useful than they were.