Zhou Huai'an was an old hand, after all. He grasped Chi Wan's meaning almost instantly.
Chi Wan was suggesting that their primary target had always been Song Yangming. The only reason they went after the Chi Family was to make sure no one could lend him a helping hand.
He looked at Chi Wan as if she were some kind of strange creature. "You're just a young girl who hasn't seen much of the world. How did you manage to piece this all together?"
If nothing else, Zhou Huai'an had always been rather confident in his judgment of character—not just anyone could earn his respect or be treated as an equal.
Having spent some time with Chi Wan, he had come to see her as a smart, candid, and determined young woman.
For someone like Zhou Huai'an, who had met countless people, this was high praise indeed. After all, he had seen far too many "clever" people with cunning and calculation gleaming in their eyes.
