Most students, when they saw an especially difficult "reading comprehension," "proof," "cloze passage," "genetic analysis," or similar question on an exam, probably wished they could dig up the question setter's ancestral grave.
Why don't we go kill the question setter and blow up the school while we're at it?—That was probably how everyone except Le Yu felt.
"Young Master Jing, you're quite amusing," Lan Jianbo said expressionlessly.
"Now that's a good one!" Luo Zhen gave him a thumbs-up. "I, Luo Zhen, hereby acknowledge you as the strongest! To actually say something like that in front of Ting Chaozao—I'm thoroughly outdone!"
"We're being serious. Young Master Wei, stop fooling around," Quan Xin said with a laugh.
Ting Chaozao showed no reaction. He calmly took a sip of tea. "The Nine Great Merchant Guilds alone aren't enough to destroy the Ting family... Of course, they can't destroy any other merchant guild either. Merchant guilds themselves aren't violent organizations."
Qin Leyin patted Le Yu on the shoulder and smiled. "Don't be so anxious."
"I'm not anxious. What would I be anxious about? I'm not anxious at all." Le Yu shook his head repeatedly. "But are you really not going to consider it? Ting Gu has set us a difficult question, and it might be a question that gets us killed or costs us our families."
"As long as we answer, there's a chance we'll get it wrong."
"But if we simply kill the question setter, then we definitely won't lose. Even if we do lose, the entire Silver Blood Society will lose together. We won't be the only ones facing annihilation—and whoever controls Dongyang will definitely need the Silver Blood Society. The only thing that changes is who holds the reins. We'll still be able to maintain our current position."
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