"Although this sounds a bit harsh and somewhat unfair to the common people, the truth is the truth. In the entire Shenzhou, with the exception of your Lin family, there isn't a single family that dares claim they are clean from top to bottom, and that naturally includes the Ye family. Given this reality, as long as people don't cross the red line, the problems are mostly limited. That is why I have turned a blind eye with as much of a troubled conscience as I could muster, as long as they knew when to quit while they were ahead!"
"Perhaps it is precisely because I turned a blind eye and failed to properly discipline the Ye family that they all began to think I have grown senile and muddle-headed. Take Xu Jia's arrest this time—not a single soul in the upper or lower ranks of the Ye family gave me a heads-up, and Chengying even played dumb with me. That alone speaks volumes. Someone within the Ye family has been dragged into this mire by Xu Jia, and they are mixed up pretty deep in the muddy waters between Hengda and Xu Jia!"
"Otherwise, they would never have gone to such lengths. I suspect they knew just how severe the nature of this was, and that if I rooted them out, my wrath would be thunderous, which is why they deliberately kept it from me? Yes, those unfilial wretches must have done just that!"
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