Factually inaccurate.
We went after YR because the grinning moon quest. It was necessary for our continued growth.
My statement was, actually, factually accurate. Here's why
Ahh Gan Guangli, don't you know? The time we do the most damage to our enemies is when we are the most thoughtless and engaging in bouts of whimsy. After all, look at what we did to Yan Renshu! We stole everything from his money making facility in a bout of whimsy and because we didn't think of the consequences, and so we then went after him directly so that he didn't have time to respond.
An opponent of Cai destroyed in a single night because of whimsy.
They aren't defects, they're features.
Let's break it down.
Was Yan Renshu our enemy? Yes. He had aligned himself with Sun Liling and against Cai Renxiang when we had aligned ourselves with Cai Renxiang and against Sun Liling. We were on opposite sides of a conflict. Additionally, he was the one behind the frame attempt against us, meaning he had taken personal action against us, personally. Even if we didn't know it was him who did the frame attempt at the time, an unknown enemy is no less an enemy.
So, he was an enemy at the time we destroyed him in a single night. Now... did we destroy him because he was an enemy? No. You are correct in that we went after Yan Renshu because of the grinning moon quest, but I never said that we went after him because he was an enemy. I never specified why we went after Yan Renshu at all, merely that we stole everything from his money making facility in a bout of whimsy. Which is accurate, and something that Ling Qi regretted after the fact because it would alert Yan Renshu that his bases had been uncovered.
It was because of our bout of whimsy that we were forced to either complete the grinning moon quest that night or have him move and double down on security. So, we choose to do the grinning moon quest that very night, so that we would not have to face the consequences of our bout of whimsy.
So, because of a bout of whimsy, we destroyed Yan Renshu in a single night. The initial looting of his stockpile was a whimsy of our's, and that whimsy had the cascading effect of having us loot his primary base that same night. Because we looted his primary base and stole off with the stuff we needed for the grinning moon quest, he had to retaliate and that decimated his forces. His decimated forces and the information we uncovered brought his faction down. A faction that was opposed to Cai, or in other words an opponent of Cai's.
