Because he could not predict the future and did not know if he could rise again, he only saw himself living a life like an ordinary neighbor, slipping by unnoticed.
Those powers would ultimately vanish like a fleeting cloud, thoroughly receding from him.
Perhaps during this period, any remaining thoughts Qin Huizhi once had about serving the country after reading the classics of the sages completely evaporated.
He instantly sank into the mires of power, beginning to understand that power was everything, and so-called political ideals, national sentiments, and resisting Jin to restore the country... were all nonsense.
He eventually transformed from an Imperial Censor — someone who was good at guessing the emperor's wishes, catering to the emperor, and perhaps occasionally displaying some scholarly pride — into a traitor bureaucrat who, for his own power, deceived superiors and subordinates alike and sought glory by betraying his country.
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