In that world, the most painful thing for the living was not the death of a young family member but the death of a young family member who had massive debts.
The dead would stay dead while the living had to live with the deceased's leftover problems.
When the old man was younger, he was a fearsome general. He was arrogant and unyielding, and he got to live to his old age. It was fine that the Qian family was destroyed, but the incident had also incurred a large amount of debt that he could not repay.
Other members of the Qian family had died, but Qian Yunen could no longer return to the country, and there was no way he could repent.
As the only member of the Qian family, the old man could only use that method to atone for the sins of the Qian family.
He was old, and it was not until he was old that he realized that living sometimes required courage.