Perhaps kungfu novels which depict how a student of one master who wished to follow another might be branded a traitor and become the victim of a "cleaning of the ranks," subtly reflect the state of the real world.
而武俠小說中，如果弟子要投靠其他門派，往往會變成「叛徒」，遭到「清理門戶」，或許也正微妙地反映出現實世界的情形。