From their first meeting, Zhou Ang had a consistently positive impression of the butler. This made him realize that in a traditional Eastern society rooted in scholarship and agrarianism, wealthy families, especially those with generations of scholars and officials, generally placed great importance on family traditions. While a large, established family might indeed produce a few good-for-nothing spendthrift offspring, the family's long-standing traditions meant that such individuals were destined to be a minority. These exceptional individuals might, with the indulgence of their elders, have some disreputable friends and keep a few arrogant and domineering servants, but a butler, representing the family's dignity, was certainly not someone who would merely accompany their fami

