Under pressure from Old Lin, he had previously been forced to submit and enter into a mutual life-and-death contract with Meng Fan.
Moreover, this contract was completely one-sided: if Meng Fan died, he died; but if he died, Meng Fan would remain perfectly safe.
He had originally thought that by doing this, he could gain the boy's trust, making his own future days a bit easier. As it turned out, the boy's mind was unfathomably deep; he had never truly trusted him, and had never once considered him one of his own!
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