The Processing Bureau, on the other hand, intended to use this incident to weaken or even shatter the tight-knit group of Recommended Students, thereby diminishing the influence of the powerful families over the academy.
But the prerequisite for achieving this was, naturally, to protect Chen Chuan and establish the legitimacy of his actions. Otherwise, nothing else could even be considered.
As for the numerous powerful families, their goal was the exact opposite. If they allowed the man who killed their children to be acquitted and walk away without consequence, it would not only be a great loss of face but also a tangible decline in their power. It would mean they could no longer maintain the old order.
In the future, they might even turn on each other to survive, and more and more people would join the ranks of those looking to tear them apart and devour them.
