Yet as soon as it involved innocent civilians, his deeply ingrained modern mindset bound him tightly, making it impossible for him to turn a blind eye.
Back in Qingzhou, he could have chosen to protect only himself, but instead, he saved over twenty thousand civilians. Even though he knew that few would likely remember or appreciate his efforts in the future.
Still, he saved them in the end.
Perhaps, in his past life, he was just an ordinary civilian, and that lingering sense of compassion remained.
At this moment, hearing Xiao Lingqiu suggest sending innocent civilians to their deaths left him undeniably uneasy.
This is the distance between him and Xiao Lingqiu.
A distance not born of status, but rather of their fundamentally different values and outlooks on life.
In their earlier days, when the two faced hardships, they relied on each other for survival—carrying one another through challenges, with few barriers between them.
