It turned out his boasting had gone too far, and that Monkey Head simply refused to play along with his act...
In this situation, seeing the awful look on General Shen's face, they all felt inexplicably delighted.
In their eyes, General Shen was nothing more than a nouveau riche who had risen to prominence because Niangniang Shen Jiang had attained the Dao, lifting even her chickens and dogs to heaven.
They were all spoiled young masters from the Heavenly Realm and the Infinite Primordial World. They could also be said to come from prestigious families, though they all behaved badly and lived recklessly.
As a result, they did not fare particularly well within their respective families and factions.
Every one of them was a classic wastrel, which was why they could hang out with a braggart like General Shen, who loved boasting whenever he had nothing better to do!
If he had been a man with serious business to attend to, he would never have wasted time with them for no reason and gotten nothing useful out of it.
They had neither enough shared interests to bind them together, nor sufficient goals to determine their respective futures, nor even the same values or common aspirations.
Forcing themselves to stay together, they could do little more than create chaos and kill time.
The moment they truly encountered any difficulty, they would immediately scatter like monkeys when the tree fell.
They might even take advantage of the trouble, kick a man when he was down, and watch the chaos without caring how bad it got!
At this moment, General Shen had completely lost even the slightest expectations of these fair-weather friends.
There was no way these bastards could empathize with his current predicament, much less show him any pity or sympathy!
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