Cheng Guzhi looked at Cheng Xiang, and from him, he saw the difficulties that the Cheng Family had endured for decades to maintain their status. He had always been afraid that the Cheng Family would be destroyed in his hands, and indeed, it had been destroyed in his hands.
If, decades ago, the breach of the Heilong River had not been concealed, and the loss of many of the Cheng Family's descendants had been made public, then perhaps the Cheng Family would not have been able to recover its vitality for decades and would not have regained its status as the leader of the ten great families of the Northern Region, but the crime that warranted the extermination of nine generations, which had accumulated to this day, could not have been greater.
