Since they had already decided to accept Su Xin as a hanger-on of the Chu Family, the people of the Chu Family weren't stingy, and they immediately commanded a grand banquet to welcome and cleanse Su Xin of his journey's dust.
However, Su Xin did notice an interesting situation at the banquet, where the Chu Family was clearly divided into two factions. One was led by Chu Jingtian, the Radical faction, which displayed hostility towards the Zhou and Wang Families, seeking to use violence to thoroughly conquer them and restore the former glory of the Chu Family.
The other faction, led by Chu Lintian, believed that after so many years, the Zhou and Wang Families had become completely independent and were no longer branches of the Chu Family. How easy could it be to conquer them completely at this point?
