"To gain something, one must lose something."
Chen Ping's expression remained unchanged, and he shook his head.
He certainly knew that for this children's rhyme to spread so quickly across the southern State Prefecture, there must be some great force, or even multiple great forces, pushing it forward.
The aim was to incite a sense of shared enmity and strangle him in the cradle before Chen Ping could grow and gain momentum over the long term.
The opponent's methods were extremely skillful, calculated so that even if he knew there was something amiss, he couldn't trace the rumors back to their source and cut them off at the root.
As the saying goes, "It's easy to start rumors, but hard to dispel them."
If he were to arrest and harshly interrogate everyone who spoke or heard the rhyme, creating a bloody mess, then the opponent would surely make him experience the consequences of "fearing the people's voices more than floods."
