Sullivan?
If Sullivan is the troublemaker arranged by Anna, then him deliberately saying, "The issues of the Northern Border should be solved by the people of the Northern Border themselves," in public is exactly to induce me to think about going to help Anna Cross Tribulation; behind this is actually Anna's own intention.
The reason she does not tell me outright is probably to maintain her initial impression towards her: a simple, straightforward Northeast girl without too many schemes.
But think about it, in the past life, who was capable of commanding the Amur Witch's Group and such a vast territory of the Northern Border, and whose position was unthreatened for decades (on the contrary, the Southern Border has been changing Witch Kings frequently), could the Eclipse Queen really be that kind of guileless white lotus?
Thinking of this, Yan Yu has already begun to sneer in his heart.