Bai Yunfei could see it now.

The Cheng knew they couldn’t use their status to try and force Bai Yunfei to do anything, so they opted to swap to a more cunning strategy to take revenge for Cheng Xin. By issuing a ‘challenge’ they’d be able to take back the face they had lost.

Comparing notes was a theoretically safe sparring session, but neither the leg or arm had any eyes, and so injuries were often very hard to avoid. If they could have Cheng Yao—who was from the same generation as Bai Yunfei—fight and win against Bai Yunfei, not only could they reclaim the face they had lost ‘fair and square’, they could also use it as a way to mask their intentions of teaching Bai Yunfei a lesson.

The fact that Wu Hong was silent was proof enough that he was agreeing with this plan, or at the very least didn’t have any other way to mediate this conflict. The son of a minister had been severely hurt, after all, and no matter who was right or wrong,...