Translated by Mianbao
Edited by RED
“Everyone, I know you’ve always admired my Yunzi, and have heard many untruthful rumors. If you really admire her and respect her, please don’t listen to the filth being spread outside,” Zhu Minglang continued.
His tone was tone, his attitude sincere. Suddenly, the students who came to criticize him were at a loss.
“I don’t believe you. Why would the Crown Princess take a fancy to someone like you!?” The fair and handsome young master couldn’t take it any longer. He pointed at Zhu Minglang and said angrily, “You’ve tainted her name; we can’t forgive you!”
Seeing the fair and handsome young master flying into a humiliated rage, Zhu Minglang couldn’t help feeling amused.
“It is strange, thinking back. Over the past few months, Li Yunzi was slandered maliciously, both inside and outside Ancestral Dragon City State. Why didn’t I see you bunch of people filled with resentment coming together and supporting her case, criticizing those humiliating her with words?” Zhu Minglang rebuked him.
Some people were really hypocritical and ugly inside.
Zhu Minglang had lived in Ancestral Dragon City State for months now, and had heard the real people tainting her reputation on more occasions than he could remember, be it on the streets, alleys, inside and outside the Academy. He never saw anyone coming out to stop them, and these bunch of so-called admirers of the Crown Princess were nowhere to be seen!
When Li Yunzi recovered her status as the Crown Princess and was building her name from the eastern rebellion and western invasion, these people all jumped out of nowhere.
After learning that vagrant was Zhu Minglang, their arrows were all pointed at him.
Did they really support her, or did they have other motives?
“We might not have stopped them, but as long as a tumor like you exists, she’ll never walk out from this filthy trauma! If I were you, knowing my own lowly status, I’d have necked myself long ago!” the fair and handsome young master retorted, his face flushing with anger.
“That’s right! Someone like you doesn’t deserve to live in this world!”
“You’re a disgrace!”
“You’re cheap!”
The crowd soon found a common point to vent all their frustrations, coming up with all kinds of humiliating words they could think of to scold Zhu Minglang.
“Jealousy turns people ugly. I could still understand how you feel when you spoke nicely to me earlier. After all, my Yunzi is indeed the perfect combination of intelligence and beauty. It’s normal that you can’t accept that her heart belongs to someone else. But I’ve already told you the truth, and you people still came at me like mad dogs. As an upright man, I can’t endure this,” Zhu Minglang said calmly, maintaining his grace.
Not everyone in the lecture hall was a lackey of the young master. There were some who were watching this from the side objectively. They also felt that the young master’s group of so-called admirers of the Crown Princess were indeed going overboard.
Zhu Minglang had already made it clear. They were in love. Couldn’t the Crown Princess have a proper lover?
At this moment, a female upperclassman came out and said to the young master, “Yin Yaozu, Zhu Minglang has already made it clear. Why do you have to keep holding on to it? I think this is a good matter; at the very least, our Crown Princess doesn’t have to keep being tormented by those harsh words.”
Zhu Minglang recognized this upperclasswoman. She was with him on the trip to Glory Valley City. She had learned of Ke Bei and Duan Lan’s situation, and stood up for him and offered a fair word when she saw Zhu Minglang being surrounded by the Crown Princess’s fake admirers.
Yin Yaozu glanced at this woman, obviously not wanting her to jump out and poke her nose into this matter.
After Zhu Minglang saluted his senior with cupped fists, expressing his thanks, he raised his voice and said, “Since everyone is gathered here today, this one surnamed Zhu also has a few words for you. I hope everyone here, as well as those not present, will help spread the word.”
“Are you going to slice your own throat to pay for your sins?” Yin Yaozu demanded overbearingly.
“I don’t mind you people admiring her. After all, she is indeed very eye-catching, but please conduct yourselves with dignity in the future.
“Originally, my Yunzi reminded me time and again to try not to make this matter known. She was worried I would be harassed by you so-called admirers. Indeed, this one surnamed Zhu can be said to be blessed by the heavens to have such a goddess-like lady fall for me.
“How could I not know there are mountains of obstacles between us? But how could the most sincere love in this world be stopped by these common people?
“From now on, I alone will defend her name.
“You, Yin Yaozu, and you so-called admirers of the Crown Princess, please stop harboring unrealistic delusions for my wife!”
Zhu Minglang’s speech completely altered his previous frail scholar image. Standing in front of the crowd, his expression was now determined, his tone firm, and even exuded a faint hint of dominance!
He was announcing the Crown Princess was taken!
The crowd was stunned. They had originally thought there would be no one as shameless as Zhu Minglang in this world, but he had unexpectedly surpassed himself!
“Little Teaching Assistant, this senior sister supports you. Your speech is marvelous. I’m sure the Crown Princess would be touched if she heard you!” the upperclasswoman was the first to respond.
Zhu Minglang nodded, keeping his impassioned appearance, but praying silently, -Please don’t let these words reach Li Yunzi’s ears!-
“For the sake of love, you’re not afraid of the gossip, and don’t fear the obstacles. We support you too, Junior Zhu!” Several other upperclasswomen felt greatly touched after hearing his words, and expressed their support for Zhu Minglang.
Most of those who took it in were women, while most of those who didn’t believe him and rejected him with disdain were men.
Zhu Minglang understood that when all was said and done, jealousy made people ugly.
Li Yunzi was like the bright moon in the sky. The white moonlight lit up the hearts of too many ignorant and hot-blooded young men. In the end, they couldn’t accept a loser like him getting her, hoping from the bottom of their hearts that they would be the one in a million that won her.
There were too many rivals in love scrambling for her unobtainable heart!
Zhu Minglang didn’t really want to become a target of scorn. Rather than being crusaded after by people endlessly, he’d stomp them flat uprightly!
“You’re only a lazy silkworm farmer. You’re still acting so shamelessly after tainting the Crown Princess’s name, and even tried to spread such dirty and delusional words like being mutually in love with the Crown Princess. How despicable and lowly. The Crown Princess wouldn’t care to have anything to do with a trash like you! If you still won’t give up, then don’t blame us!” Yin Yaozu threatened him.
“This is the Academy. Why are you acting as rude and unreasonable as bandits, Yin Yaozu?!” the upperclasswoman shouted at him.
“He was the one who challenged every one of us. If he doesn’t dare accept, then nothing he says is worth believing! What’s wrong with us exiling a rotten citizen of Wutu like him from the Ancestral Dragon City State?” Yin Yaozu argued.
“And what right do you have to do this, Yin Yaozu?” someone else in the lecture hall spoke up.
“I’m sorry, I, Yin Yaozu, indeed have the ability to do so! My father manages the flow of people of the city state. He has the power to exile someone full of lies like him, not to mention someone attempting to taint the Crown Princess’s reputation!” Yin Yaozu laughed.
Those with power did as they wished, just like this! Did they really think he, Yin Yaozu, could do nothing against this disgusting vagrant?
If the Ancestral Dragon City State issued an exile order, not even the Dragon Tamers Academy could keep him!
“You have too many people. If all of you challenged me one by one…” Zhu Minglang started speaking.
“Hmph, against you, I alone am enough! You really think we’re as despicable as you?” This fair and handsome young master was the representative of the group of Li Yunzi supporters.
If they were going to fight, naturally he’d be the one up for it!
Not only that, Yin Yaozu would surely show no mercy. He’d cripple him even if he couldn’t kill him, and exile him after crippling him, letting him die in the wilderness!
Only by doing that would the thorn in his heart be pulled out slightly. Knowing this dog who slept with the Valkyrie in the same dungeon was still alive was no doubt torture!
“I don’t mean it that way. I’m saying, you have too many people. It’d be a waste of time if you came one by one. Please write a joint letter of challenge and have everyone here today sign it, then come at me together!” Zhu Minglang said evenly, but every word he spouted was filled with arrogance!