"I understand what you're asking for, Nephew," Su Jixin said, stumbling slightly over addressing the young man as 'nephew.' If he stepped back and applied a Scholar's reasoning to it, he had to acknowledge that Wu Ling's arguments made sense. He could even acknowledge that no one got to pick their relatives and he didn't entirely have to like his niece's sworn brother to accept that he was family. "I promise to listen. More than that will depend on your offer."
"Uncle is being entirely reasonable," Wu Ling said with a smile. Carefully, he folded up the letter he'd written and sealed it in wax, pressing his identity jade into the soft wax to mark the seal.
