"Commander, your instructions, please."
"Hm, you're not busy now, Xiao Xue..."
The voice on the other side paused briefly before continuing, "It's not that busy now..."
"Come home for a meal in a couple of days."
"Why?"
"Your brother and Fang Bai will be back soon."
There was a long silence on the other end of the communicator before Xiao Xue replied.
"Okay, Dad."
After ending the call, Lin Haifeng sighed. He then glanced around, picked up the plan on the table, and began to read it carefully.
Busy work can heal pain—even if no one knows whether Lin Haifeng is in pain or not right now.
But how could the sorrow of an elder burying a younger member of the family be as easily borne as Lin Haifeng made it seem?
Indeed, traditional Cathayan education often addresses the conflict between devotion to the 'greater collective' and the 'smaller family unit.' Yet, when faced with the choice between them, who can definitively say which should take precedence?
