One of the elders, an old man with kind eyes, had taken her hand with tears in his eyes.
"Boss Su," he had said, "you were like a blessing from the sky. We thought we were finished, but then you came. You gave us another chance. We don't know how to thank you."
Another woman, probably in her 50s, had nodded. "We trusted Leader Zhang for years… but now, I feel like he just used us. Always acting like a saint, saying he never wanted power."
A younger man nearby had added,
"You know, he used to go around saying he would never have a child. He swore it. Said he wasn't the true founder of Luna Moon Base and didn't deserve to pass the base to any child of his own. He promised all the elders that he would dedicate himself to leading, not building a legacy."
Su Jiyai had raised an eyebrow. "He said that?"
