"How dare this person act so unbridled in my city that I'm just a lowly functionary in?! He actually killed an assassin sent to collect his head! How dare he!"
Xianxia always makes me wonder. With all the shit that 'courting death' is the answer to, I have to wonder if these people would sit still and allow themselves to be killed rather than fighting back against arrogant young masters who attack them, or assassins who try to kill them. Would they allow their women to be snatched just because someone has a higher status? Are they all literally cucks?