Qi Xuansu was looking at the Yinglong Warship from a distance. What he did not know was that he had caught the attention of his other future mother-in-law.3

In their society, masters were almost as important as parents, especially when many did not marry or bear children of their own. Thus, the relationship between masters and their disciples was comparable to that between biological parents and their children. A disciple betraying his master was worse than being unfilial to his parents. He would be spurned and despised by everyone.0

In many cases, the time that masters and disciples spent together was far greater than the time parents spent with their children. So it was also common for children to be closer to their masters than to their parents.0

Some children took their parents’ generosity as a matter of course, while they would seek to repay their master’s kindness. In a sense, this was the case...0