This is pure theory but i think the clearing shown in chapter 70 is where the annual holy ritual takes place. I feel like the author wouldn't mention that it was "more well kept than all the surrounding areas" if it wasn't important.
Since the path outside is right next to it, maybe the ritual involves the heir having to make a choice between staying with the Zhous or escaping to the outside world? I also still don't get why Xin was so freaked out when he saw that path, maybe he knew if they go outside through there the head family would get them? But that is contradicted by him & lau going out in this chapter… Idk
Also that whole thing with the phone booth is just such obvious foreshadowing that something will happen there. And did Xin and Lau actually go into the head family headquarters? The people there look shockingly normal, not cult like at all.
Idk what to think anymore man, I feel like the authors setting up something with all of these different places and they’ll be important to the main plot in the present somehow.
This is pure theory but i think the clearing shown in chapter 70 is where the annual holy ritual takes place. I feel like the author wouldn't mention that it was "more well kept than all the surrounding areas" if it wasn't important.
Since the path outside is right next to it, maybe the ritual involves the heir having to make a choice between staying with the Zhous or escaping to the outside world? I also still don't get why Xin was so freaked out when he saw that path, maybe he knew if they go outside through there the head family would get them? But that is contradicted by him & lau going out in this chapter… Idk
Also that whole thing with the phone booth is just such obvious foreshadowing that something will happen there. And did Xin and Lau actually go into the head family headquarters? The people there look shockingly normal, not cult like at all.
Idk what to think anymore man, I feel like the authors setting up something with all of these different places and they’ll be important to the main plot in the present somehow.