After successfully entering the Wanqi Family, Yunxi had been pondering a question. Given the predicament she and the other eight had been in, the Wanqi Family could have easily taken them all in one sweep and then forced them to become the most advantageous witnesses against the Jin Family for illegally excavating immortal stone veins.
Yet Wanqi You had chosen to accept the deal she proposed, having Young Master Wei send Haoran and the others back to Wantu Immortal City while keeping only her behind as the sole witness.
At the time, she had believed the Wanqi Family must already possess irrefutable evidence. Having her testify was merely a formality, while letting her companions go would better reassure her and help the Wanqi Family wring the greatest possible benefit from the Jin Family.
However, ever since moving into the small courtyard, she had successively been poisoned and attacked by a female attendant arranged by the Wanqi Family. All of this proved that the Jin Family did not want her, the sole witness, to remain alive. At the very least, it showed that her testimony could play a major role.
But the female attendant's attack had forced her to prove her innocence by revealing her trump card. Using the Imprint Jade Earring, she had thoroughly nailed the Jin Family—or rather, Jin Lai—for his transgressions, and had successfully made enough of a commotion to bring the matter before the City Lord's Mansion, allowing the Wanqi Family to receive compensation openly and aboveboard.
Yet when Wanqi You had pushed her forward at the end and made her state her demands to the Jin Family, it was to better lure her into voluntarily boarding the Wanqi Family's great ship. Whether she made demands or asked for nothing at all, she would become a thorn