The noise of children playing nearby sounded particularly grating.
If it had been before, he certainly would have noticed such a jarring sound, but today he stood right beside it without realizing it even once, the young man somewhat stunned in place, as if suddenly enlightened.
These days, he had grown accustomed to the noise of children playing near his ears.
It seemed like a normal thing.
Something that was absolutely impossible before.
The world was starting to change subtly, even managing to deceive him.
"What difference does belief or disbelief make,"
the young man murmured to himself, then looked up again at the long-lost smile on his father's face—the kind that had never been there, no matter how big a project they had landed.
But now.
Despite having entrusted all his family business to Chen Yi, the smile on his father's face had grown more frequent.
No longer did he have that somber look with a murderous aura from morning till night.
