[Xion Valkyrie]

Originally Posted by Anh_Minh

She tried to kill him because her "subordinates" wanted him dead and put that as a condition of accepting her as leader. She failed/refused to deliver and the subordinates nearly got killed by Shioon's Sun Woo bodyguards. She interceded, which forced them to acknowledge her authority. In other words, she's the chief more or less because the Sun Woo clan say she is. As she explained/suggested, if the clan ordered her to serve Shioon in nothing but an apron, she'd have to comply.

Now, the more interesting question is why she goes out of her way to help Shioon, instead of the elders who're already pulling the Clan's strings. I think it's like this: right now, she's like a very junior affiliate of the Sun Woo clan. If she preserves the statu quo, she'll stay that way. But if she makes it so Shioon becomes the Head in fact as well as name, while having him owe her big time in the process, then she becomes an important and powerful figure in the murim world.

And if she can seduce him, then she can become even more powerful =P