Chapter 1152: Add Insult to Injury
The atmosphere at the banquet table was far from harmonious, but Little Yin paid no mind to any of that. She focused solely on eating, devouring everything before her. More than half the dishes ended up in her stomach.
Xie Jiaofeng could see that both Chief Deputy Qi and Second Deputy Zhang truly adored this little girl. Thus, he seized the opportunity to cater to her tastes, constantly ordering more dishes for her.
More than an hour slipped by just like that.
At one point, Qi Xuansu set down his wine cup and sighed. “To stand firm in the Daoist Order, being good or bad doesn’t actually matter. If you want to be proud, aloof, and eccentric, then stay that way to the very end. If you keep the same attitude even on the execution platform, then no one will dare look down on you. But if you want to enter the bureaucracy, then you must lower yourself and set aside your pride. Don’t set yourself on a moral pedestal. What’s truly sickening is being neither here nor there, and ending up a joke in the end.”
Wang Danqing’s face darkened instantly.
Even a fool knew who Qi Xuansu was talking about, yet Wang Danqing had no way to refute it.
His very act of coming to beg forgiveness was equivalent to throwing away his former aloof pride. Yet even after discarding that pride, he could not truly transform himself in such a short time. He was neither here nor there, pleasing neither side. He had lost his lofty dignity, yet he could not adopt a genuine apologetic attitude. He was still trying to maintain his pride. This was exactly what Qi Xuansu described.
Qi Xuansu glanced at Wang Danqing, feeling somewhat disappointed.
He had changed his mind earlier because he wanted to hear what Wang Danqing had to say. Rather, Qi Xuansu wanted to hear what Wang Jiaohe intended to say through his son.
Qi Xuansu had even imagined the possibility that Wang Jiaohe might order his son to counterattack with a self-sacrificial ruse to preserve himself.
However, Wang Danqing had merely circled back again and again to apologize, so it seemed nothing more than a stalling tactic.
Did Wang Jiaohe truly think that Qi Xuansu was a child who couldn’t see through it?