Public Opinion, Influence, Pride, and Utter Shock! (Extra Update for Mid-Autumn Festival~)

P.S. A surprise extra update! I gave up the Mid-Autumn Festival gala and earned a protest from my wife, but surprises are still the most important thing, right~~

Zhao Wan's choice wasn't all that surprising.

Li Zongxu was worried about it, but there was nothing he could do.

Tuoba Kuohai was colluding with the Three Harmony Group and harbored ill intentions toward Zhao Wan.

That was just their guess.

And it hadn't happened yet.

The fact that Zhao Wan's side was willing to believe them instead of dismissing their claims as nonsense already showed that they weren't unreasonable people.

Put yourself in their shoes.

On one side was a contract carrying penalties they couldn't afford to pay.

On the other were threats from the Three Harmony Group and Tuoba Kuohai.

Zhao Wan really was caught between a rock and a hard place.

Coming up with a win-win plan that used the pressure of public opinion to protect herself was already above average.

But compared with Li Jinghua's gamble,

Li Zongxu was more inclined to follow the way things were done aboard the Sky Peng Horizontal: cautiously.

He believed

that although the contract was troublesome and breaking it would come at a steep cost,

as long as they returned safely to New Song Kingdom,

there would always be a way to resolve it.

But entrusting their safety to the hope that Tuoba Kuohai would bow to public pressure

was far too passive.

At least Li Zongxu himself would never handle things that way.

"Ultimately, it's a woman's narrow view.

She doesn't understand how cruel real political struggles are, or how much nerve it takes to emerge victorious.

A little public pressure—what does that amount to for someone like Tuoba Kuohai?

She also fails to grasp just how ruthless and decisive the