In his childhood, although Ye Tian had memorized the lines, "Once in the mansions of Wang and Xie, swallows now wing through ordinary homes," he had merely committed them to memory by rote at the time. He did not really understand the story behind "Wuyi Lane," and as far as he understood, the Wang and Xie families were just ordinary aristocratic clans.
It was only later, after reading history books, that he truly understood how powerful the Wang and Xie families had been, especially during the Eastern Jin dynasty.
The Wang family of Langya aided Sima Rui in founding the Eastern Jin, earning the historical description of "the Wangs and the Sima ruling the world together." Later on, not only were their disciples and former subordinates found everywhere across the realm, but they also produced a total of eight empresses.
Chapter 390