"Back then, I forced them to kill their own friends with their own hands."
"Though those people had indeed done wrong, they were still their friends in the end."
"But aside from Ma Ling'er, none of Su You and the others chose to show restraint."
"From the standpoint of right and wrong, Su You and the others did very well. They successfully sacrificed relatives for justice."
"But from the standpoint of human sentiment, what they did was too heartless."
"Now that they faced the same situation again, choosing feelings would drag down the people around them, while refusing to choose feelings would resolve things neatly."
"How they chose back then was how they would choose now. That was what it meant to say that it was hard to change one's nature."
After hearing Chen Changsheng's words, Qian Ya lowered her head slightly and said, "Sir, were those children truly that terrible?"
"I never said they did poorly. On the contrary, they did very well."
"If everyone in the team had Ma Ling'er's personality, then that team would be unable to accomplish certain things."
"On the other hand, if there were no one like Ma Ling'er in the team, they would indeed handle matters cleanly and decisively."
"But such a team would have no human warmth at all. They would be nothing more than a group of cold, lifeless puppets."
"Since you arranged the team so well, why did this situation still arise?"
"Was it because everyone had changed?"
Qian Ya spoke with low spirits.
Hearing this, Chen Changsheng shook his head and said, "They were still themselves, and I was still myself. No one had changed."
"The only thing that changed was time. Time had moved us from our original positions to different ones."
"In the past, Ma Ling'er was