Chapter 903: Passing by Each Other

Now, the Cui Family stands at a crossroads. Aligning with Liu Bei—does it count as delivering the knife to Yuan Shao or stepping towards another peak? Even Cui Yan himself cannot see clearly; Yuan Shao and Liu Bei are too powerful—so powerful that he can no longer discern their true nature, relying only on intuition and speculation to distinguish between them.

This is actually the sentiment of most aristocratic families. The question of whether Yuan Shao or Liu Bei is stronger carries immense implications. The judgment they rely on is the old metric: whichever side has more aristocratic families, that side is stronger.

In this era, aristocratic families represent knowledge, money and grain, and population. Therefore, in the eyes of most families, Yuan Shao seems slightly stronger. However, to someone of Cui Yan's stature, there is already a vague sense of some underlying clues—a faint awareness of things that don't seem right!