Actually, Song Heping did not intend to humiliate Hafez.
Matters of life and death are indeed common, and reason suggests he would be numb to them.
But everything he has seen these past few days, the scenes of suffering among the populace, and those luxury cars he just saw in the parking lot, two starkly different worlds collide in his mind, and he couldn't resist making a sarcastic comment.
Even though he knows very well that the president before him is also someone forced into a role like ducks driven onto a volcano.
He just couldn't hold back.
Initially, he thought Hafez would explode in anger.
Unexpectedly, after a dozen seconds, Song Heping saw the flush from the anger welling up on Hafez's face quickly fading away.
Swiftly, the other party actually regained his calm.
"Alright."
Hafez reached out to straighten his suit collar, as if feeling that his earlier anger was also a lapse.
His tone became stable and indifferent.
