His pace was steady and unhurried. His clothes were neat. He wore a dark gray long robe with perfectly pressed cuffs, and not a hair was out of place. He looked extremely meticulous.
The moment he entered, his gaze fell upon the table in the center of the room, where he saw Fei Jin and Song Qingya sitting side by side.
"Fei Village Chief, Doctor Song," he said with a sincere tone. His voice was neither too loud nor too soft, just right for everyone in the room to hear clearly.
"I came today with the sincere intention of making friends. The things Wang Kang has done in the past stirred up a great deal of public resentment, and you may have misunderstood me as a result, thinking I'm cut from the same cloth. But I must be frank—I truly have no desire to follow his path. Cooperating with him was merely a matter of circumstance. Now that the time is right, I want to live differently."
