The Lovely Heiress Is Actually A God Beast

Chapter 71: Chapter 71 No Other Choice

Tao Ti pointed toward the emptiness, “There’s a young lady over there, covered in wounds; she’s his daughter, yet he can’t see her, and his heart must be in great pain.”

Tao Bin lowered his voice, “I know he has a daughter. It was after her death that he became a monk. Did his daughter die horribly?”

Tao Ti nodded, “Horribly.”

Tao Bin clenched his fists, “Those people are despicable, using his family to threaten him when they couldn’t deal with him directly. He’s not a good man either, actually abandoning his daughter…”

Through Tao Bin’s narrative, Tao Ti learned of Luo Hanchen’s past predicament.

Luo Hanchen was an undercover cop who had found the drug lord’s hidden stash of narcotics, but the drug lord had captured his daughter to threaten him.

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At that moment, he faced a dire choice: if he went back to report, his daughter would die; if he stayed to save her, he would give the drug lord time to relocate.

Ultimately, he chose to go back and report.

As a result, by the time the drug lord was caught and those narcotics that had caused countless family tragedies were destroyed, he saw his daughter’s corpse.

His daughter had died a terrible death, her fingers cut off one by one, and those severed fingers were all in his pocket, sent to him time and time again by the drug lord’s men to coerce him to return.

But he didn’t, he never looked back, until his daughter was dead.

Hearing all this, Tao Ti fell silent, and so did Hua Jinyan beside him, while only Tao Bin kept grumbling indignantly, “If it were me, I would have stormed in, rescued my daughter, and killed all those people, not giving them time to move, and burned everything! I could have done it all!”

Luo Hanchen heard Tao Bin’s words, smiled bitterly, his tears and laughter deeply contradictory. He looked at this naïve young man, “Who do you think you are? War God? Immortal Body? Have you watched too many cartoons, thinking that there are real superheroes in this world? I am human, a mortal made of flesh, and the choice I made at the time was the only choice!”

“The only choice?” Tao Bin didn’t understand.

The little girl with the hollow eyes was also puzzled.

She harbored deep resentment, not just against those people but also towards her father. The more she cared for and felt attached to her father, the less she could comprehend his actions. It became a vicious cycle that made her unwilling to leave, to stay by her father’s side, seeking an answer.

Why… did he abandon me at that time?

Luo Hanchen clasped his head as if on the verge of collapse, “What could I have done if I had gone back? Could I have really saved my daughter? Going back would have only led to another death! If I returned, I couldn’t have completed the mission, I couldn’t have gotten those lethal substances destroyed!”

“Those drugs were monstrously evil, enough to fill several train carriages, capable of destroying countless families, killing innumerable people!”

“Going back to save my daughter would have been a march toward death; they had set up a trap to catch me, and I would have been captured the moment I returned! Yes, I was skilled in martial arts, and I had good aim, but I was still a mortal, could I have resisted a bomb?”

“At that moment, I was eerily calm. I knew going back meant death, and I wouldn’t be able to save my daughter or complete the mission. Abandoning my daughter was my only choice. By giving her up, I could complete the mission. Once it was done, I planned to die, to go to my daughter. But they stopped me from taking my life, and later, I became a monk, yet I have never regretted that choice.”

“Because I am just a mortal, that was my only choice.”

“Perhaps, if I had gone then, the only thing that might have changed is that she wouldn’t have had to die so horribly.”