When he left, he had promised He Yuncai that he would get Dong Tianyue out first. He had originally hoped Shen Yue would help pull some strings, but now that Shen Yue herself had been dragged in, things had gotten complicated.
Dong Tianyue's financial issues were minor; the main problem was the incident at Lake-Heart Pavilion. As long as it could be proven that he had nothing to do with those skeletal remains, he would be clear. Therefore, finding the perpetrator behind the Lake-Heart Pavilion case was of paramount importance.
Although Zhuge Qing hadn't answered whether Lake-Heart Pavilion was truly their doing, Xu Wuyan had an intuition that if White Snake had really done it, she wouldn't have had that expression. Yet to say it had nothing to do with them? He didn't believe that either.
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