Bab 309: Farewell (2)

Sun Gang drew himself up to his full height, his gaze sweeping over the assembled masses with a solemn intensity that seemed to command the very air around them into reverent silence.

"My grandfather was a force of nature embodied - powerful, indomitable, yet always guided by an unshakable moral compass," he declared, his voice ringing out with the unmistakable timbre of the Sun family's legacy. "In his youth, he clawed his way from the direst poverty to the heights of success through sheer grit and determination alone."

A low murmur of appreciation rippled through the crowd as Sun Gang paused briefly, visibly steadying himself against the wellspring of emotion straining behind his carefully sculpted veneer of dignity.