"..."
Hearing her father, Yue Buqun, repeatedly question and ridicule her, the frightened Yue Lingshan didn't dare argue back.
She hurriedly lowered her head and fell silent. Tears began to well in her eyes, then quickly streamed down her cheeks.
After thinking it over, she also felt that her father had a point.
If she hadn't insisted on disobeying orders and going down the mountain, Annie definitely wouldn't have caused such a huge commotion. And Zuo Lengchan really wouldn't have had enough of an excuse to call a martial arts assembly. At most, he might have denounced her eldest senior brother and demanded an explanation from the Huashan Sect?
So the more she thought about it, the more frightened she became. Her body trembled harder and harder, like a startled fawn. She knelt on the ground with her head lowered, shivering and not daring to say a word.
"!!"
However, Yue Buqun had no intention of letting the matter drop.
He paced quickly back and forth across the flower hall several times, then paused before stopping and continuing his reprimand:
"Do you understand how serious this is?"
"Look at what's happened!"
"Zuo Lengchan of the Songshan Sect seized the opportunity to slander our Huashan Sect. He's even sent out invitations to hold a martial arts assembly by West Lake and attack us. The reputation our sect has worked so hard to build over the years has been utterly ruined by your antics!"
As he spoke, his voice took on a note of sorrow and indignation.
"Ha!"
"Do you remember what your father used to teach you?"
"How many times have I told you..."
"You must be careful with your words and actions and not go looking for trouble!"
"But look at you!"
"You've all treated my words like wind in