In terms of principles, the Sun family cannot surrender the jurisdiction of White Pebble Beach because this jurisdiction does not belong to the Sun family at all.
However, the main family has been absent for a long time, making it difficult for the Sun family to find someone to consult. Combined with the pressure from the two aristocratic clans, they indeed couldn't bear it and could only remain silent.
Thus, when the Pan and Wu families decided to gamble and settle things today, the Sun family didn't even show up to spectate—primarily because they lacked the ability to stop these two families from dividing White Pebble Beach. Since they lacked the capability, it was better not to show up to avoid ridicule.
Yet at the same time, the Sun family still wanted to know what was happening, so they sent a servant to observe.
