Pei Xuanjing understood that forcing Shen's Business Association to cooperate in eliminating the Liu family was profitable for him and carried no risk. However, it might not necessarily be the case for Shen's Business Association.
In previous life simulations, there were situations where Shen's Business Association and the Jin family teamed up with him to ambush the Liu family. But Pei Xuanjing was no longer daring to stake everything on this, for in subsequent simulations, the interactions between him, Shen's Business Association, and the Jin family seemed to have vanished, causing him to question.
He was accustomed to preparing a back-up plan, which was the Prefect.
According to several simulation results, his collaboration with the Prefect had been successful, with no major conflicts arising between the two.