A House Divided

"Ah?"

Hearing Mu En's order, Xuanzi's face immediately filled with bitterness.

He was supposed to apologize to an ordinary student, despite always loving to throw his seniority around and thinking highly of his own status?

He found it rather difficult to accept for the moment.

"Mu En, could this matter perhaps..."

"No. There is no room for negotiation."

Before Xuanzi could finish speaking, Mu En cut him off directly and said coldly.

"Either you are stripped of your status as a Sea God Pavilion elder from this day forward, or you apologize to her. Do you understand?"

Mu En was not doing this because he felt that Xuanzi had wronged Xiao Xiao.

If this matter had affected only Xiao Xiao, Mu En would never have gone to such lengths.

Nor would he have forced Xuanzi to apologize. He would most likely have handed down some token punishment and let the matter pass.

But the problem was that this matter did not involve Xiao Xiao alone.

Huo Yuhao, Ning Tian, Jiang Nannan, and the others had voluntarily withdrawn from the team one after another, showing that they cared deeply about this matter as well.

That changed the nature of things.

Ning Tian, Jiang Nannan, and the others were one thing.

Shrek Academy would try its best to win them over if it could, but would not force the issue if it could not.

But Huo Yuhao was different.

He was a future target whom Sea God Pavilion had already decided they absolutely had to win over.

He was also the opportunity Mu En believed could bring Shrek Academy to even greater heights in the future.

Because of Xuanzi's actions, Huo Yuhao's impression of the academy's upper ranks would surely have plummeted.

That was detrimental to their efforts to bind him to