Why would she say that?
Suddenly, a sharp pain pierced Lin Fu's mind. She instinctively furrowed her eyebrows, desperately holding it back, but more and more memories surged like a tide.
She remembered now; it was her father who had said this.
Her father used to love taking her to the Imperial Palace when she was little. There, he would tell her many things, including a warning to never treat the Guardian Family as mere servants, no matter how loyal and obedient they appeared.
Beasts merely retract their fangs; it doesn't mean they aren't dangerous.
At the inception of the Empire, the Mecklenburg Family and the other Seven Great Families had established a pact. There were no records of the pact contents; it was a top secret, known only to the heads of each family.
If the Mecklenburg Family ever truly treated the Seven Great Families as servants, that would surely be a path to their demise.
