Golden Flower Bandits
"Borrow strength to strike strength, borrow a knife to kill the donkey?"
Shi Lin stood there dumbfounded, stunned for a long moment.
She was intelligent as well. It was not that she could not see the tricks within it, only that she could never bring herself to engage in such schemes and calculations.
Back then, when she had thought of going to the Hundred Treasures Lotus Pavilion to steal something, it had been out of sheer desperation—a near-do-or-die gamble, like smashing a broken jar because it was already broken.
"To strike a snake, you must strike seven inches from its head. A scheme, too, must land on the crucial point," He Ping explained. "This plan can keep the Lone Yang Shi Family safe, and the Hundred Treasures Lotus Pavilion will be too embarrassed to retaliate against you. At the same time, it can expose what the Fang Family of Lone Yang City has been doing. Once their collusion with the Golden Flower Bandits comes to light, those several hundred members of the Fang Family likely won't be able to keep living in Solitary Yang City~"
This method was truly seasoned and ruthless. Just who was this senior, to be so intimately familiar with intrigue and calculation?
And if things went this way, the Fang Family might very well be left with their household shattered and their people dead. No one in the entire family might escape unscathed.
"Otherwise, what other method do you have to resolve the Shi Family's crisis? The Fang Family is as fierce as tigers and wolves; they truly intend to swallow your Shi Family whole. At this point, do you still intend to dwell on such things...?"
He Ping's voice turned cold. "Your several elder brothers were originally the pillars of the Shi