Debt and Deception
The Lester family arrives at the Hart residence to forcefully collect a gambling debt from Dan Hart, Clara's cousin, which has been inflated from twenty thousand to two hundred thousand taels. When Clara refuses to hand over the family's precious Poweroot, a vital cultivation resource, Ben Lester threatens Dan's life, revealing a past plot where Dan was supposed to drug Clara for Lester's benefit, but she ended up with Mackie instead.Will Clara surrender the Poweroot to save Dan, or will the Hart family stand their ground against the Lester family's threats?