As Lin Mengjie said, Ye Qing dared to kidnap Zhou Hongbin because he had backing; he wanted to lure out the old man Hong Tianxiang.
And his purpose for luring out Hong Tianxiang wasn't a personal grudge but for the incident at the school that Lin Peng had mentioned.
A female student was forced by Vice Principal Wang to jump from a building, and the incident was spun as the student going to the principal's office to steal something, attempting to flee out of fear of crime and accidentally falling from the building. Such a big incident could not possibly be settled by Vice Principal Wang alone. Without Hong Tianxiang pulling the strings, it would have been impossible.
Hong Tianxiang actually managed to paint such a sordid affair white, which made Ye Qing feel that there was no longer any need for Hong to keep sitting in his position. So, he wanted to blow this matter up and to draw out Hong Tianxiang.
