Despite the element of government control, such an ending was heartbreakingly bleak.
Lu Mingfei and the others still remembered Chu Tianjiao saying that Sasha had a sister—a girl with a somewhat tarnished reputation in her daily life—as well as Sasha's mother, a woman hospitalized with Alzheimer's disease who needed expensive surgery.
This man's life had already been difficult enough; his unhappy childhood had gone unhealed, yet he had steadfastly supported a family that was long since falling apart, only to meet no happy ending in the end... Sasha was by no means a good person in the worldly sense; even his complicity with Vincent on the *Yamal* amounted to assisting an evildoer. But who had the right to demand that he be a good person when life had never once treated him kindly?
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