Shangyan caught Jingting's hand before they entered the house. He turned his husband's palm upward and pressed a kiss to it, his gaze lingering on Jingting's face.
"From now on, we'll handle everything together. No more hiding the truth from each other, and no one will decide what happens to our family without answering to us first."
Jingting closed his fingers around Shangyan's hand. After everything they had endured, he wanted nothing more than to protect the family they had finally been reunited with.
By the time they entered the house, Shangyan had already begun arranging the next steps.
He ordered his men to secure every photograph, recording, and document connected to his return, then instructed them to investigate the elders summoned to the ancestral hall. He wanted to know who had called the meeting, who had agreed to attend, and which of them had been in contact with Mingzhan beforehand.
