Chapter 578: Settling All Scores

The An family's ancestral hall was a place of solemnity and history, its ancient wooden pillars seeming to absorb the very light and sound within its walls. Today, however, the air was not just solemn; it was suffocatingly heavy with dread. An Qiming, now reinstated as the undisputed head of the family, sat in the master's chair, his face a mask of cold, unyielding authority. Flanking him were the family elders, their expressions grim, their silence a testament to the gravity of the moment. Allen...