"If you were Jiang Wang, how would you break this deadlock?"
In the bamboo house, Granny Bizhu tore off little pieces of meat to feed the fish as she asked and answered her own question.
"Unless Qi State sends an army to demand their release, there's no way to break into Sea Prison and rescue the prisoner. He's already seen how heavily Sea Prison is guarded. He won't come looking for death."
The bloody pieces of meat dropped into the fish tank and were devoured in an instant, without even a trace of blood left behind.
"So he really has no choice but to find a way to rely on someone with power inside Sea Fishing Tower—that is, me. He hopes to use me to sway the rules of the Sea Sacrifice. That's why he's contacted me again and again."
"In Qi State, he's just a lowly baron with an hereditary fief, ruling no more than a single town. There's little he can offer. But he's sworn friends with Chongxuan Sheng of the Chongxuan Family. How many resources can Chongxuan Sheng call upon? How much would the Chongxuan Family be willing to sacrifice for this? That's the key question."
Granny Bizhu continued, "But the boy's position is perfectly clear, too. He's willing to spare no expense to save Bi Qiong. But if he truly can't, all he hopes is that Bi Qiong's final stretch will be comfortable. That attitude rests on his knowing this is almost impossible. So I should give him a little hope."
Her withered fingers slowly tore at the fresh meat, and blood naturally stained her palm red.
But she didn't care in the least.
"Of all things in this world, 'love' is the hardest to unravel. And yet young people never seem to understand it; they