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Anyone observing the large and well-dressed crowd tonight, the overflowing food and hoji, the gleam of jade on hundreds of wrists and necks, would think the No Peak clan was invincible. That was by design. There was an art to shaping people’s impressions—a small room could be made to seem big, flaws in a house could be transformed into assets.
A small thing like a ruined bicycle could change fate, just as a stone-eye could tip the scales in a clan war.
“Some people turn out differently from the rest of their family, regardless of blood or upbringing,”
“Sometimes I think liars are almost as bad as thieves,” he said through a tight jaw. “They steal away trust, something that can’t be returned.”
“I think maybe mistakes made out of love are the worst sort,
Children were easier to have difficult conversations with.
And it’s not always that people are bad in their hearts so much as bad in their decisions.
