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He Lingchuan stared at the note, dazed, and a quiet warmth rose in his chest.
He did not need Hu Min to spell it out for him. He could understand what happened himself.
These were thank-you gifts from the families of the troops under General Nanke. If he had not risked his life in the Guizhen Stone Forest, blowing up the burrowing spiders’ den and drawing the greater monster Zhu Erniang away, then even if General Nanke had broken out, who knew how many of his men would have been buried in that forest.
Those lives were not numbers. Behind each one stood a wife and children, elderly parents, a family’s livelihood, as well as all the simple joys of the human world.
His one act of self-sacrifice had spared how many households the heart-splitting grief of a death notice? Human emotion could be plain and unadorned like this. Those who felt grateful to him sent him something to show him their gratitude.
“Surprised? Didn’t see that coming, did you?” Hu Min had kept quiet on purpose, saving the reveal for him to unwrap himself. “There’s quite a lot of stuff here. Let me help you move them in.”
Piece by piece, they hauled the presents into the courtyard until half the tiny space was gone.
As he moved the gifts, He...
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