Chapter 56 (1/2)
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.