"I'm the one who insisted on helping them," Feng Luotian said. "No one came asking me to raise their cultivation during the break. I offered, and they accepted. That part was my choice."
Although he stepped in and defended them from Ying Lizhua's harsh evaluation, the rest of the team hung their heads down.
They had been taking advantage of his kindness and generosity without holding themselves back or thinking more about the consequences.
They had been thinking along the lines Lizhua described. Whenever they reached another bottleneck, they had planned to come back to Luotian for help.
That was harder to dismiss than the harsh way Lizhua had put it.
None of them had demanded the help he gave during the break, but they had already begun treating it as an answer they could rely on next time. His willingness had made it easy to look ahead to another breakthrough without considering how that expectation might change their own effort.
