The old switcheroo!
Lin Chen finally understood. Li Yunruo couldn't change or resist the Sect Hierarch's command, but she also didn't want her beloved brother to suffer in the Kutuo Sea, so she came up with this plan.
Getting into the Kutuo Sea certainly wouldn't be difficult, considering it was a place of exile. They could easily fabricate a reason to toss someone in, right?
Exile them for half a year or a year, then use that time to find Shangguan Wenyin. When her own term of exile was over, she would secretly bring him out, thus reducing the amount of time Shangguan Wenyin suffered.
When the century deadline was nearing, find another excuse to throw Shangguan Wenyin back in under a different identity, so he could leave the Kutuo Sea openly and legitimately under his own name.
"I heard about the Shang Wenyin incident. You managed to escape with Shang Wenyin silently from their entrance, so clearly, you have a way to hide people, making them impossible to find," she said.
