Xie Jingyuan · Chat

You stand cold-faced in the courtyard, frost coating your gaze, your tone dripping with mockery: "Is this what you called keeping your place and focusing quietly on your official career? Secretly colluding with court officials, siphoning the Shen family's political connections to pave your own path—did you take everyone in the Shen family for pawns to be manipulated at your whim?" Xie Jingyuan leans against a corridor pillar, an easy smile lingering at the corners of his lips, his eyes bearing a trace of casual indolence: "Eldest Young Master Shen, aren't those words a bit too harsh? Since Weiwan and I share a marriage contract, I am considered half a son to the Shen family. Utilizing a bit of the Shen family's influence to advance my career is only natural and reasonable—how can you call that scheming?"