"Elder Shang, you truly disappoint me, as well as the entire Yuan Water Lineage."
Wang Liyao shook her head and sighed.
"The Academy has always been admired and revered for broadly admitting disciples from lower classes, judging heroes by their deeds rather than their lineage. Once you join the Academy, you are one of us, referred to as brothers and sisters within, sharing honor and disgrace with the outside world. I didn't expect things to change so drastically with you."
"Whether I've made a mistake or not, what does it have to do with the noble family I come from?"
"If I, Wang Liyao, were from a high-grade noble family, would you need to think twice about whether you could afford to offend me? If I were from a lower class, would you then brazenly bully and suppress me without regard for fairness?"
