Among the people you've reported, even if you randomly pick one of them out, it'll cause a stir. Which one of these people doesn't have roots? how can it be so easy for you to touch them?"
How could Xia Anlan not understand what he was saying? he knew better than anyone else the stakes involved. If one wanted to climb higher in their career, they could never be alone. There were all sorts of relationships between teachers and students, nepotism, superior-subordinate relationships, and marriage relationships. If you touched one person, you would be touching all of them.
Xia Anlan had thought it through before he did this. He was not a rash person.