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Zhou Shuren once said that once a book had been written, the right to interpret it no longer belonged to the author.

The same went for characters.

The recent lousy updates largely stemmed from this.

The directions the characters could choose when faced with major events clashed sharply with what Salted Fish had envisioned.

This had happened before.

Li Junwu's death was one such case.

At first, Salted Fish had envisioned it as one of the greatest climaxes of the entire book, with Prime Minister Xu, Xu Yinhe, personally coming to save the day—not her maternal uncle, Feng Jiuxuan.

Would that have been satisfying to write? Guaranteed.

This would have been the first time the strongest father in the entire book formally made his move.

But Salted Fish thought it over and over, only to realize that the man simply would not leave Di'an over this matter.

Because it was too risky.

What if the Western Pacification incident had been a scheme laid by the Sect Alliance to lure him into making that move? What if many Saints were waiting over there to surround and kill him? Even if he himself would not die, merely being trapped and unheard from for several months would bring the Prime Minister's Estate to the brink of total collapse.

So Xu Yinhe would not go.

To reach this point, he had already sacrificed far, far too much—his wife, his son, the friends of his youth whom he had killed, and more besides.

So even if Xu Yuan were mired in danger, even in a hopeless situation, he would not personally go to the Western Pacification Prefecture.

Because he understood that, at this stage, he was the absolute core of the Prime Minister's Mansion—not Xu Yuan, whom he wished to cultivate. Any accident befalling him