"You've been acting like this the whole time. What, does someone owe you something?"
When he had faced this situation back then, he had already said that he would not react too strongly to it.
But from beginning to end, he had only thought that way to express his feelings.
"Since you think these things are fake and don't matter anyway, presumably no one else will have anything to say."
Jiang Lan knew that for Shen Qingqiu to step forward and say this on his own, he must have been furious.
"All right, since even my aunt has said so, rein it in. If those connections aren't there, don't insist on talking about them. I never said I wouldn't help."
Whatever attitude the people at this base took, he could not possibly refuse to get involved, or have some kind of simple reaction just because of this extremely isolated reason.
"I thought you knew, but after all that, apparently not. That's fine. Ultimately, something really is still missing."
His expression remained unchanged. When he had been agonizing over those connections back then, his expression had been utterly serious.
"Then I won't say any more. It's not as if he's stepped forward to explain anything now anyway."
"Since you're aware of it, the others certainly can't have any sort of normal attitude anymore either."
Several of the base's old-timers had known back then that once Jiang Lan joined, all of this would change.
Now they knew that all of this was true, and that Jiang Lan really was formidable. What could they resolve themselves?
"Don't overthink it. Ultimately, these things only happened because the situation afterward wasn't right."
If they really had any connections, this would have been dealt with long ago.
"Then I'd really like to know: from making a