Pei Yuanzhi seemed to have understood.
There were people outside who were watching them with ill-intent. Regarding the An Family issue, if they intervened, it was wrong; if they didn't, it was also wrong. Since that was the case, they might as well feign illness, letting An Yiqing do as she pleased, to exact revenge. After all, with Elder An, Ye Chenghong, and Old Master Gu around, neither An Yiqing nor Gu Yelin would commit excessive actions like wanton slaughter of lives.
In this manner, the An Family's anger subsided, others couldn't grasp anything to use against them, and they themselves comfortably escaped a disaster.
Pei Yuanzhi nodded with a smile, his interest in that little girl who had just returned to the An Family growing ever greater. He had a premonition that, in the near future, he and Hua Zhifeng would meet that An Yiqing.
...
