So that's how it is. As it should be. Fortunately.
Although, ever since Granny spoke those words to me, I had already felt at ease. No matter what kind of collaboration the ancestors of the Hu Family had with this State Preceptor, it would no longer affect my decision. But only after hearing the State Preceptor voice his hatred for the Hu Family did my heart finally settle. The people of the Hu Family truly hadn't disappointed me, their descendant. And it was only now that I finally, thoroughly understood the answer I had most wanted to find on this journey.
Among the three people at the origin of the plan, if two wanted to keep the third in the dark, then those two must have partnered up. For the State Preceptor, one of the plan's initiators, to be fooled meant that the Hu Family and Lao Junmei had joined forces even earlier.
Therefore, the Hu Family hadn't betrayed their own descendants just to become immortal, as I had thought.
