Patriarch Wan shook his head. "It's already too late. If the Imperial Court hadn't issued a national policy, Princess Shaoyi might have accepted it if we had gone to show our loyalty to her. But now…" He shook his head again, his expression not looking too good. "With the national policy, the lives of the scholars are in Princess Shaoyi's hands. If Princess Shaoyi is dissatisfied with the crime of complying on the surface but disobeying on the inside, do you think the Imperial Court will believe in the scholars or Princess Shaoyi? Do the commoners believe in the scholars or Princess Shaoyi?"
The atmosphere darkened again, and the family heads regretted it greatly.
If they had known this would happen, they wouldn't have done it back then.
