Family Meeting

The next day, Ling Chen accompanied his mother to the family meeting, to discuss the revenge against Zhao family. Most of the family members felt pity towards him, while some schemed to steal away his position as the First Young Master.

The patriarch of the family, Ling Xiao was the father of Ling Xue. He doted on Ling Chen even though he had not shown any promising talent in martial arts or knowledge, it was okay for him as the kid was only 12 years old.

After everyone was seated, the discussion began. Some suggested directly demanding compensation, while others favored all out attack to retain glory for the clan. Everyone started promoting their own ideas and Ling Xiao sighed at the mess. He wanted a happy family but everyone eventually gets greed in their hearts.

All of a sudden, everyone heard a kid's voice "Just make a show of demanding compensation and then kill them all saying that they refused to pay. What's so hard about this?"

All the people in the hall turned to the directon of the voice, which was exactly Ling Chen. Fiddling with the ring in his hand, he looked up with an innocent expression as if he'd said something ordinary. Bursting into laughter they all said "Good, we'll do that then."

Just when all were happy, the fourth elder Ling Kun said "Even if we wipe out the Zhao family our name is still tainted. Hence I request patriarch to remove Ling Chen's status as First Young Master to calm the masses."

Suddenly the temperature of the room seemed to drop by several degrees. The next second, a blade was pressed against his throat making him unable to speak.

"YOU DARE SAY THAT AGAIN?" Ling Xue said, pressing the blade deeper til a line of red appeared. Everyone was startled as the noble woman turned into a ferocious warrior. No one was stupid enough to go against her as fear creeped up in their hearts and also because they felt Ling Kun had gone too far.

However Ling Chen's voive rang out in the room "Sure, do it. I don't care anyways.". The entire hall was dumbfounded, including Ling Kun. Quickly snapping out of it, Ling Xue walked to her son, pulled him up and said "Idiot! Do you rally want to do this?"

Ling Chen nodded.

Seeing that the decision was made, Ling Xiao made a sigh before announcing "Alright, then Ling Chen will be removed of the First Young Master title. The meeting has ended, lets-".

Before he could finish, Ling Chen should "Hey, wait wait I'm not going to throw away something good for free. Do you all think I'm an idiot?"

Everyone came back to their senses as they asked themselves - would you throw something good freely?. With a look of curiosity, Ling Xiao spoke "Name your conditions then, we'll fulfill it no matter what!"

Unfortunately for them, what came next was a tragedy as the little devil Ling Chen licked his lips.