"That was just my personal oversight." Yuan Shu said apologetically after a moment of silence, then directly retreated and sat back in his previous spot.
Chen Xi glanced at Yuan Shu in an odd manner, not expecting him to retreat so easily. Unbeknownst to him, after witnessing the prosperity under Liu Bei's rule, Yuan Shu felt utterly disappointed in his own rule. It seemed that the aristocratic families had indeed blocked the wheels of history.
Has the time come for the aristocratic families to withdraw from history? Yuan Shu felt an immense bitterness. They were once so glorious, and now they had fallen to this extent.
With Yuan Shu acting this way, Chen Xi lost the mood to continue criticizing the aristocratic families for their ineptitude and immediately got to the point.
