"You stand before me, spouting grand statements. Are you trying to accuse me of incompetence, or are you suggesting that I don't care about Shujun's safety?"
"Liang Yuening, Shujun is your third brother, but he is also my third brother! Your pain is my pain too! His death means that I, as his eldest brother, have failed. I have let down our father's last wishes! He entrusted me to take care of our family, to look after my younger brothers, yet now I'm forever parted from Shujun under heaven. Even if I died, I would have no face to meet our father!"
"Why can't you think properly with your brain? Is it just for show? Is it all filled with grass?"
Liang Yuening's face turned pale. In his memory, his eldest brother had never been this angry nor had he ever erupted with such rage.
The eldest brother had always been steady and calm, the pillar of the brothers, the major source for calming down turmoil at home.
But now...