Step aside, let me take charge!.

Summary

Shen Tang reflects on her relationship with Zhai Le and the motivations behind recruiting Xia Hou Yu and another individual into her fold. Their conversation shifts to Qu Qing Shu Yuan, an academy with a monopoly on fifty quotas for the Sacred Land of Mountains and Seas. Zhai Le explains the academy's origins and its evolution into a powerful institution that has inadvertently created an academic aristocracy, where graduates dominate positions of power. Shen Tang acknowledges the complexity of the situation but believes it can be managed, given the academy's ties to the royal court. Zhai Le shares his plans to confront the academy's president, suggesting that the academy's influence must be curtailed for the benefit of the state of Qu. The chapter concludes with a warning to Xia Hou Yu and Gu De about revealing their identities as students of Qu Qing Shu Yuan.

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