"What happened?" Yang Qing softly asked.
Xia Fang smiled bitterly. "The same thing that happens to most other organizations…"
"We angered someone we shouldn't have, and we've been paying the price ever since," she added, the bitter smile tugging at her lips.
She took a few breaths to calm herself before continuing. She hadn't been alive back then—neither had her grandfather—but every Xia clan member, because of the suffering they had endured since, likely replayed the memory of those years in their minds constantly, all imagining the same thing.
How would things have turned out if that incident had never happened?
The shame, the indignation, the endless struggle—they might have never known any of it.
Xia Fang would likely not have been born into an environment where fear, worry, and anger were her constant companions—emotions that weren't just hers, but ones shared by almost every member of the Xia clan.