"Please punish me, Master."
"Please don't punish Senior Brother!"
The two spoke in unison.
Cheng Xinzhan looked at Xinshu. He had been a little bewildered by the scolding his master had unleashed on him the moment he returned, but he quickly understood.
Yes!
He had been wrong!
He really had acknowledged this relative on his junior sister's behalf with the patriarchal mindset that an eldest brother stood in a father's place.
Over these past decades, it seemed his junior sister had done whatever he said. Although she always slacked off whenever cultivation was involved, she had never once said no. Perhaps she had grown used to having him make decisions, and he had grown used to making decisions for her.
He had taken it for granted that his junior sister, alone in the world with no one to rely on, needed such a relative, so he had agreed to the Dragon Lord's proposed family visit on her behalf.
But for something this important, he really should have asked his junior sister first.
Now that people from the Dragon Palace had already arrived, would his junior sister find herself riding a tiger she could not dismount? If she acknowledged the relationship, perhaps she would feel hurt and recall the past. If she refused, would it damage her reputation? Would it sour relations between the Dragon Palace and their school?
She must have been terribly conflicted.
Gu Xinshu, meanwhile, looked anxiously at her master, thinking, It's been years, and Senior Brother has only just returned. If he's punished with another few months of chiseling walls and copying scriptures, and then leaves again once he's finished, won't I barely get to see him at all?
Besides, it was not that she did not want to acknowledge her relative. She simply did not know