When Chu Jingtian heard that someone had paid Fan Tuxiao to kill him, his expression immediately changed.
As a core disciple of the Chu Family, he knew there were many who wanted him dead—his esteemed elder brother among them, as well as people from the Zhou Family and the Wang Family.
As the Chu Family's heir, though he was not the eldest son, he was valued by his father and qualified to contend for the position of family head.
His elder brother belonged to the conservative faction, advocating reduced friction with the Zhou Family and Wang Family. In the end, they would join forces with the three Dragon-Breaking Islands, form an alliance, and take turns holding power.
But Chu Jingtian was an ambitious young man. In his view, the Wang Family and Zhou Family had once been vassals of the Chu Family. If not for the Chu Family, those two families would likely have perished long ago amid the chaos of war in the Central Plains.
Yet not only had those two families failed to show gratitude, they had actually turned around and bitten the hand that fed them. When the three families split apart, they had taken quite a few resources and people from the Chu Family.
What the Chu Family needed now was not compromise, but to steel themselves and work hard, build up their strength, and turn the three Dragon-Breaking Islands into the Chu Family's sole Dragon-Breaking Island!
It was precisely because of Chu Jingtian's ideas that he had quite a few supporters within the Chu Family. Of course, those same ideas had also made him a thorn in the flesh and an eyesore to his elder brother and the others. They were already almost as incompatible as fire and water.
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