Lu Ying said, "I know you hate Shen Xinglei, but taking a life should be a swift matter. Why go to such extremes?"
Shen Yinning lowered her gaze, toying with the leather belt fastened at his waist. "Taking a life swiftly—whether that holds depends on who is being killed. Someone like Shen Xinglei, who not only falsely accused my father and brother of embezzling military funds but also beat his soldiers to death without cause, and worse still, used his position as a general to lead his men in massacring borderland herders, tormenting civilians for his own amusement. The innocent people who have died under his blade likely far outnumber enemy troops.
