But Bai Yulan's analysis was not wrong.
From the start, Jing Zhengwei had the idea of "the mantis stalking the cicada".
Neither refusing, nor taking initiative, nor admitting, Jing Zhengwei wanted to gain all the benefits while maintaining a facade of virtue; one could say he was an old capitalist. He was like a group leader who didn't do his homework, waiting for his deskmate to finish copying, and then reported to the teacher to seize the deskmate's notebook to copy for himself.
From the beginning, when Jing Zhengwei realized Bai Yulan was colluding with the fleet, he had already sentenced Bai Yulan to death, with no intention of sparing him. But as the saying goes, use everything to its fullest, don't relieve oneself unless absolutely necessary; in any case, whether Bai Yulan the pig is killed early or late, it's going to be killed, so why not fatten it up before slaughtering?
