Chapter 21: The Message That My Death Brought (3) (2/2)

Someone with a clear voice suddenly asked, “Can you prove it?”

This voice belonged to someone that I knew.

Everyone looked towards where the voice had come from. Surprisingly, it was Song Hwa Rin.

Out of all these people, she was the one who spoke out against this man.

Everyone was dazed by her beauty.

Some recognized her, but it seemed that the person who had made the false claim didn’t know who she was. His only thought was, ‘How could such a beautiful woman exist?’

“Do you have any proof that he was extorting money?”

When he heard her question, the man became somewhat nervous

“Are you close to the Mengju?”

“No.”

“Then why are you complaining?”

“I just wanted to tell you not to spread false rumours without knowing the true nature of the one that you’re talking about.”

Her voice was calm yet dangerous.

“Let me ask you again. Do you have any proof of him extorting others?”

“I a…. it’s only a rumour that I heard.”

“Spreading false rumours about the Mengju is a crime. If I were to tell the Alliance, you could be taken into custody.”

The man got scared when he heard her. He had nothing else to say after she said that he could be taken into custody.

“I apologize for rashly speaking.”

Song Hwa Rin quickly sat down at one of the stalls, no longer minding the man.

“Excuse me, I make my order here?”

One of the waitress rushed over to her.

After giving her a final glance, most of the crowd dispersed. They didn’t want to cause trouble by staring at her for too long.

While all of this was happening, I sat on my stall with back turned to her so that she couldn’t see me. However, I was grateful since she had defended me.

After a while, her dishes came.

“Didn’t I only order noodles?”

She was confused when she received a dish with meat alongside her noodles.

The owner replied with a smiling face, “This is a special service that I’m giving you.”

“Why are you treating me like this?”

“Because I think the same thing as you, Lady. I think that the Mengju who pa.s.sed away was an honorable person. Because of him, we were able to live and prosper without fear. He brought peace to Kang Ho.”

“Oh, so that’s why. But I’ll have to apologize.”

She replied with something that took the owner by surprise, “I think you have mistaken me. I don’t like the Mengju who pa.s.sed away at all.”

“What?”

The owner’s eye became round. What kind of awkward situation was this?

“But didn’t you just defend him?”

“I simply don’t like people spreading false rumours about others.”

Now that I think about it, she hadn’t said a thing about whether or not she liked the Mengju.

“In fact, I rather dislike the previous Mengju.”

I decided to ask something.

“Why?”

She turned around to face me. She seemed surprised that I was even here.

“How long have you been here?”

“A long time.”

“Did you follow me?”

I shook the empty wine bottle in front of me.

“I could have. If I knew that you were coming here.”

She understood that I had come here first.

“I heard about the Yang Clan.”

“We were lucky to get out of it without spilling any blood.”

“I’m glad that all of you are alright.”

After our exchange, she turned back around.

I didn’t really want to extend our conversation, but I was still curious.

“Why do you hate the previous Mengju?”

This was something that I really wanted to know.

She turned back towards me, but didn’t tell me the reason.

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