Jin Fan shot to his feet at those words.
"I'm a member of the Jin Family too. What gives you the right to cut off my resources?
"Other people have made mistakes. When have they ever been punished this harshly?"
Jin Fan argued back.
This punishment would shut down his entire future.
To Jin Fan, it meant he had no future at all.
Jin Fan had been so spoiled that he had always believed everyone in the Jin Family looked out for him and cared about how he felt.
But in truth, only Jin Lou and Ding Xiaoyue cared about him.
The rest of the Jin Family, especially the younger adults, had always been his rivals.
Ever since Jin Fan was injured, many of his cousins had been secretly delighted.
"It's true that no one else has had their resources cut off, because they never received much to begin with.
"The Jin Family only has so many resources, Jin Fan. How much was taken from your peers to support you all these years?
"To put it bluntly, their shares suffered even when they'd done nothing wrong.
"Now you're injured, and you've dragged the Jin Family into a mess. What's wrong with cutting off your resources?"
The Jin Family elders had prepared their answer long ago.
Jin Fan had consumed so many of the family's resources, only to end up like this. Everything invested in him had gone to waste.
And he had dragged the family into trouble. Why shouldn't they punish him?
As they spoke, several of his peers from the Branch House stepped forward to support the elders.
"Cousin, when we were teenagers, the most we got was one bottle of A-grade Nutrient Fluid a month. We scraped by and struggled to get where we are today.
"The family