"On this path, the national character is manifested as cowardly, lazy, yet cunning. Day by day, people are self-satisfied and in doing so, they decline, yet they feel they are more glorious by the day. In fact, when the nation falls, it simply adds a few loyal martyrs; later, there's no desire to restore what was lost, but only to praise those few loyalists. When disaster strikes, it creates a group of unshamed heroic women; and after the fact, there is little thought of punishing the criminals or self-defense, only to sing praises of that group of heroic women... Naturally, nothing more can be done here, because we've already gained the highest glory through the dead."
The gold-plated pen left the paper, he put away that exquisite ivory craft, and after a few seconds of silence, Li Lin tossed the freshly-inked document into the shredder.
