The news that the former Prime Minister Xia Shanhe’s entire family had been wiped out exploded in Yanjing like a thunderclap.
Everyone was convinced that Chu Xuan, this nobody who had emerged from the south, had completely lost his mind. Yuan Batian, as the Yanjing Battle Guards Commander, held a position of considerable status, but compared to Xia Shanhe—a veteran of three dynasties whose protégés filled the imperial court and half the military, and whom even the Lord of the State addressed as "Teacher"—he seemed insignificant.
People could scarcely imagine what kind of audacity and hatred would drive Chu Xuan to slaughter the Xia family.
Chapter 113