On the other end of the phone, a commanding elder hesitated for a moment, seemingly suppressing his emotions, "A brat like you still knows to call his grandpa, huh? Hmph, ten years have gone by without a single call. Are you holding a grudge against me?"
What Grandpa Chen Tang spoke of was naturally the matter of the Lin Family's exile.
At fifteen, as a core disciple of the family, where he should have been enjoying privilege and comfort, an order was issued, and he was exiled by the family, even inexplicably pursued for assassination, teetering on the brink of life and death, yet Grandpa did not mobilize any help.
Because this was also part of the family's assessment.
Lasting for hundreds of years, big families had their own set of operational laws. The struggle for the family's heir was by nature a competition; whoever survived and grew stronger proved to be the better candidate as heir.