Had the old scoundrel captured Su Ziyao instead, his plan might have succeeded. Unshaken by a drastic upheaval, Leng Lingbi would have remained the righteous, upright, and famously trustworthy Young Master of Jinghong Manor.
Knowing that the Sword Pavilion had seized someone on his account, he would have willingly gone to ransom the captive himself, refusing to implicate the manor.
His righteousness bordered on the absurd.
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