189 Drunken Wisdom

"He wants to, but he can't," Jingwei said after a pause. 

"And why is that?" Xingzi asked curiously, pouring herself more wine. This story was getting interesting. "Is he getting blackmailed to keep his silence?"

"No," Jingwei said, her words shedding a hint of candlelight in the darkness of his mind. Shang Jing had technically threatened him to keep his mouth shut, but he had nothing on Jingwei - at least, nothing as incriminating as what he had on Shang Jing. 

"But their families are good friends and business partners, so he's afraid of the fallout that will happen if he does tell someone. And there's no guarantee that he would get any punishment, so he might be endangering everything for nothing."