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Song Zhen: "I know, I know, it's all right, it's all right."

After soothing her, he poured Gu Xinzhou a cup of hot water.

He watched carefully as she drank it down and earnestly promised, "I won't let anyone take Qiao Yi away, rest assured."

Gu Xinzhou felt distressed inside: "Why does Cassie have to do this? Qiao Yi is already my daughter, and Cassie and I could be considered comrades-in-arms through life and death. Why does he want to take my daughter away?"

Song Zhen was not as agitated as Gu Xinzhou.

Because he saw the bigger picture: "Zhouzhou, put yourself in Cassie's shoes. As a man, as an uncle, as the heir of a family, could he stand idly by and watch his own family's granddaughter be left to fend for herself outside?

That is absolutely impossible!