How Can a Soldier Be So Fair? (Completed Main Story) - Chapter 117

For over twenty years, Kim Tae Seok had lived as a dog for Min Sang Ju and the Queen.

He had never hesitated to carry out any filthy or hideous deed for the Min clan.

That path alone was the only lifeline available to him—a bastard son with no backing—to climb the ranks.

The more vicious and perilous the task, the sweeter the reward. But by the time he realized something had gone wrong, it was already too late.

Defying Min Sang Ju meant certain death. Moreover, by then, Kim Tae Seok had people he needed to protect.

His wife, who had endured hardship with him since their poorest days, and his beloved late-born son, so precious he could not bear to blink if the boy were placed in his eye.

His family was his everything—the foundation that had kept him going through his rough life.

The more he had to protect, the more he had to endure and swallow his pride.

Min Sang Ju seized his family as leverage and blocked every possible escape route, leaving Kim Tae Seok unable even to contemplate running away.

Then, when danger struck, Min Sang Ju cast Kim Tae Seok aside like a disposable game piece, thrusting him into mortal peril.

He could have tolerated that much. Compared to the sins he had committed up to now, it might even have been considered a light punishment. But it was different when his family became involved.

He had endured everything up to this point solely to protect his wife and child—he couldn’t possibly lose them all so senselessly.

There was nothing he wouldn’t do to safeguard his family.

The prison cell was bitterly cold, chilling him to the bone.

Gripping the bars, Kim Tae Seok desperately pleaded to Geon, who stood above him looking down.

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