Though they escaped without physical harm, Xu Linhai and his wife were nonetheless shaken to their core by an unprecedented terror and both fell violently ill, completely stripping away their former arrogance and overbearing demeanor.
As the couple lay in their respective beds recuperating, they knew perfectly well in their hearts that this calamity had been brought upon them by their younger son Xu Jian’s unbridled words and actions. Yet seeing that Xu Jian had suffered a disaster even worse than their own—one that had nearly cost him his life—they could no longer bring themselves to blame him. Instead, their pity for him only deepened, and they worried day and night over his health, for Xu Jian was far sicker than they were.
In the couple's eyes, it was a stroke of good fortune that a kind-hearted passerby had saved Xu Jian; otherwise, father and son, mother and son, would have been separated by the veil of life and death, never to meet again in this lifetime. The mere thought of it filled them with blazing fury. They shifted all their hatred and resentment entirely onto that threatening letter, secretly vowing that one day they would unearth the person pulling the strings behind it, fight them to the death at any cost, and thoroughly vent the bitter rage pent up in their chests.
Chapter 502