Watching Mr. Chen stride away, Zhao Qing realized his master was probably angry. He sighed inwardly, quickly hurried after him, and tried to comfort him with kind words.
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No one else came over to talk to him after that.
Lu Chang'sheng had more or less come to a decision in his heart.
These influential families had all made him roughly the same offer—clearly, they'd come to some private understanding.
Otherwise, if they fought each other over him, grudges would form, and for families at their level, such discord would be a huge obstacle to banding together.
So, letting this year's Child Scholar make the choice was a kind of fair solution that everyone could accept.
For the more powerful families, this was a concession; yet in exchange, they gained the privilege of making the first offer of support.
"So these few families are actually the strongest ones behind the Lin Family!"
