When you hesitate to do what must be done, you only invite trouble.
The Ou Family Head's inaction was the key reason things had come to this!
If the Ou Family Head had shown a firm hand from the very beginning, then even if Nanmang Branch Pavilion had been determined to keep infiltrating and sowing discord, it wouldn't have been so easy.
Nor would so many people have ended up defecting to Nanmang Branch Pavilion by now.
If the Ou Family was to remain stable, all those who had already turned against them had to be put to death. Otherwise, trouble could arise at any time in the future.
"No matter what, they're still members of the Ou Family. If..."
Before the Ou Family Head could finish, Chen Changan cut him off.
"You're the Ou Family Head. You have to take responsibility for the entire Ou Family."
"You want to show them mercy, but have you thought about what will happen to those who are wholeheartedly devoted to the Ou Family and support you?"
"Are you going to put them in danger just to spare these traitors?"
"Perhaps you're worried that killing them will weaken the Ou Family as a whole."
"But are they really the strength of your Ou Family, or the strength of Junxin Pavilion?"
Chen Changan's words left the Ou Family Head deep in thought. There was no denying that Chen Changan had made a good point. If the Ou Family was to prosper in the long run, its ranks had to be kept absolutely clean.
Many lineages had slowly declined, and the root cause had been internal strife.
"Who are you?"
"What gives you the right to spout off here? This is the Ou Family's business. It's not your place, as an outsider, to give your