Chapter 1586: Playing Along
Those words were a little too harsh.
They linked the Shen Family Disciples' educational problems to the earth-shattering assassination attempt against Shen Yuanbao.
It was practically a declaration that Shen Yufeng had been eliminated early from the contest for the next head of the Shen family.
Shen Yufeng's face instantly turned deathly pale.
Her entire bearing changed from rounded and polished, graceful and dignified, to flustered and gloomy.
Still, she had weathered great storms and towering waves.
In any organization, those responsible for rewards and punishments, evaluations, promotions, and demotions were always the most tactful and socially adept people.
Shen Yufeng needed only half a second to regain her calm composure.
First, she admitted her mistake without servility or arrogance.
Like Shen Yuhe, she was willing to bear all responsibility for her mistakes.
Shen Yufeng said that since the Monster War ended a year ago, everyone in the Shen family, like the other Transcendents of Dragon City, had suddenly relaxed nerves that had been stretched to the breaking point through decades of bloodshed and savage winds.
This had led to restless minds, lax discipline, and even a series of incidents caused by post-war trauma.
She truly had failed, as the eldest sister, to fulfill her management responsibilities and set an example amid all this disorder.
A thousand faults, ten thousand faults—it was all her fault.
However, no matter how Father wished to punish her, she did not care. Even if she risked provoking Father's even fiercer wrath, she still had to say a few fair words for her younger brothers and sisters, and even for the Shen family's third generation.
Certainly, after victory in the Monster War, quite a few Shen family members had grown proud, swollen with arrogance, and begun throwing their weight around or