Chou Bai stepped forward and bowed to me. Since my teacher was standing beside him, I knew she had already been working very hard on my behalf. How could I add to her troubles? Besides, letting him die was an easy matter; there was no need to rush. What I wanted was the destruction of his entire country. He who cannot endure small trials will spoil great plans—I knew that well. Right now, his death would not benefit our future plans; keeping him alive was of the utmost value.
I immediately heaped praise on him. "Look at student Chou Bai," I said. "This is what having vision and a broader perspective looks like! Unlike the rest of you, none of whom have any sense of the big picture."
Yun Wan immediately stood up and said, "I was backing up my sister, and that's not wrong. Besides, you've said before that the main purpose of my raising an army is to protect my sister. I could see that those fellows harbored ill intentions toward her. If I didn't deter them, it was inevitable that something would happen to her."
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