When had things started to spiral out of control?
Tang Fei didn’t discuss this topic with him, didn’t ask if he had known about his identity long ago, didn’t ask if he was the planner or participant, didn’t ask if he had any regrets...
He had given him his final dignity.
"Dean Shang, I’ve already communicated with Dean Yan, and he personally made a video to help speak on our behalf. Yan Jinnian is currently in contact with the people involved, and I’m sure our older brother and sister will be fine," Tang Fei said respectfully.
After Tang Fei left Yan Wenli’s side, he immediately rushed to Shang Xiulin to bring the good news.
The old couple had been taken to the Phoenix Palace, but their sons and daughters working in other regions were all taken away by the Monitoring Bureau’s people, surely leaving them anxious and distraught.
His arrival was to allow the old couple to put their minds at ease, no longer needing to worry or be upset about this matter.
In addition, it was also a chance for him to take credit.
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"That’s wonderful, really wonderful," the old lady said with tears rimming her eyes, thanking him repeatedly: "Xiao Tang, I really can’t thank you enough. Without you, we wouldn’t have known what to do."
The old lady had prepared herself to face the consequences with her husband, and she didn’t think it was something she could easily accept.
But the children... they were still young, and there were grandchildren...
They were too pitiable.
Hearing the news that they were taken away by the Monitoring Bureau, her heart shattered into eight hundred pieces, and she felt as if she had fallen into an icy cave.
Now, hearing that the children were okay, she was overjoyed.
There was no better news than this.
Tang Fei glanced at Shang Xiulin and said with slight embarrassment: "Madam, please don’t say that; it makes me feel unworthy."
"If it weren’t for me, you would not have encountered such misfortune... To speak the truth, I’m the one who has wronged you."
"The older brother and sister are fine, the kids are fine, and that makes me happy. When Little Fatty and I first arrived in New Star, you treated us both as family; from now on, we are even more so."
"Yes, yes, we were family before and we certainly are now."
The old lady thought Tang Fei meant they would treat each other like family in the future.
But Shang Xiulin clearly heard a deeper implication.
Frowning slightly, he looked at Tang Fei and said, "Do you think we did all this just so you could reap the rewards after succeeding?"
"Dean, I don’t have that issue at all," Tang Fei quickly ’denied,’ and said aloud: "Dean Shang is honorable and upright, a man of unyielding integrity; how could you care about such things?"
"If you wished to be an official, you could have easily taken up the position of Minister of Education, even the Minister of Culture was within your reach... But you declined again and again, and that’s why you didn’t take office."
"I just feel that the older brother and sister have suffered so much injustice, almost... encountering such great danger, because of me."
"If I can somehow make amends and allow them to fulfill their filial duties before you and Madam... my heart would also feel a bit more at ease."
Because of Shang Xiulin, all his sons and daughters were assigned to work in other regions, which is why the Monitoring Bureau had to take people from afar.
Thus, after this incident, Tang Fei was determined to find a way to transfer them back to Phoenix City.
He couldn’t let them face any more danger.
Otherwise, he would not be able to repay the help and care Dean Shang extended to him and his brothers.
"Dean, I didn’t do this for you; I did it for myself."
Shang Xiulin saw the sincerity in Tang Fei’s eyes, heaved a light sigh, and said, "Let’s not talk about this for now, I have some questions for you."
"Tang Fei, what exactly do you want to do?"
"Seek revenge and restore honor," Tang Fei said firmly.
"The revenge, you have already achieved. Zhong Daolong now lies in your hands, his life or death is at your whim."
"And now it’s time to restore honor," Tang Fei said solemnly: "The Tang Family was slaughtered for the crime of treason, subjected to universal condemnation and scorn, nailed to the pillar of shame in history..."
"What do you want to do?"
Tang Fei knelt down to the ground and pleaded, "Please, Dean, have mercy, and restore the innocence of the Tang Family."