When i read the part where the children is kidnapped, I realized this is murim version of John Wick story.
After his wife died, she give him something precious to keep him living, but bad guy take it away from him, so he dug out a weapon he buried inside his house that he intended to never wield again and proceed to kill the bad guy.
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