Ch180 - Some things were now thoroughly differen (2/2)
Xue Ling did not mind this at all. He had originally planned to apply for this transfer test, and it was not advisable for him to rely on Yin Jia’s power alone for promotion. In this world where strength crushed everything, he could only avoid criticism when he had enough strength to make these people look up to him.
Because of Xue Ling’s insistence, the Dean agreed to his application for a transfer test, and then because of the cold aura that was coming out of Yin Jia, the Dean set the date of the test to one month later, giving Xue Ling enough time to regain his spiritual strength.
Even so, he did not think that Xue Ling would be able to successfully pass the transfer test.
Having settled everything, Xue Ling planned to go back to class, but Yin Jia brought him away instead. He told him that he would invite special teachers for him over the course of the next month, and he would not need to come to school during this period. Learning in class would only disturb his studies and give him no benefits.
Xue Ling couldn’t exactly laugh evilly and tell him, ‘dear, you are still too naive, I have a plug-in’, and could only let himself be brought away.
What he didn’t know was that someone put together a post about what happened at school that very night and posted it on the Star Net.
This post was originally written by a poster in the College forums, but someone sent it out from the College’s internal network and shared it on the Star Net. The Lord Marshal’s public appearances were pitifully few, and the dazzled fangirls never expected that they would one day be able to see their Marshal at their very own school dealing with his child’s problems.
Story translated by Chrysanthemum Garden.
Wasn’t this too damaging to his image???
That wasn’t right!!! The Marshal wasn’t married, where had this child come from!!!
That night, the fans on Star Net stayed up all night, and dug up everything about Xue Ling’s identity and past history as well as what had happened in recent days, and his success in becoming the Young Master of the Marshal’s Palace.
Countless nurturers howled online, asking if the Nurturer Protection Association needed to be so fierce, directly making someone into the Young Master of the Marshal’s Palace?! They wanted that to happen to them too!!! They were also unhappy at home!!! Marshal, please adopt them!!! Marshal, please send them to school!!! Let them also hug that big thigh!!!
Photos of Xue Ling getting off the airship and getting brought away by Yin Jia blew up over the internet. Even in places far away from the Capital Star, there were countless people who had seen his appearance and knew about his good fortune. While they sympathized with his terrible past, they were more envious and jealous of his new identity.
Many people expressed that they also wanted to be adopted by the Marshal. Could their mom and dad please give them a slap in the face!
Some ambitious people expressed, “What are you all crying for? There’s such a good opportunity, don’t you guys understand how to grasp it? The Lord Marshal seems to really care about this little nurturer. If you can please this little nurturer, you’ll be pleasing the Marshal!!! You fools, your goals should be to become this little nurturer’s other parent!”
There were some more self-aware people that said it much more simply, “I’m not asking for anything else, but I’m begging to become the Marshal’s adopted son. I’ll definitely be good and obedient and won’t make trouble for Marshal daddy. I’ll indulge and flirt with little boy toys all day. I won’t need to go to school at all, and won’t need Marshal daddy to stand up for me at school!”
Xue Ling felt a rather bad after spending time browsing the Star Net that night, because many people had already begun to study his preferences and were ready to become his father or mother.
The system also went around to gather together a bunch of gossip, looking through it as it said to Xue Ling, “Relax. It’s just a bunch of people that can only talk on the internet. Nobody can actually give you any competition. Work hard, host! First come, first served, and rabbits like to eat grass close to their nests; quickly work to reel your dad in! Let that group of scum understand what it means to be both a lover and a baby!”
Xue Ling: “Get lost.”
System: “… What did I say wrong? …I didn’t say anything wrong… Isn’t that your goal?”
Xue Ling snorted coldly. Based on his understanding of the man through so many worlds, the man currently only thought of him as a child. He had a lot of goodwill towards him, but had not thought in that direction at all. It could be seen that the man had none of those emotional intentions towards him, which meant that what those people were saying about becoming another parent for him, was still a possibility.
After all, the Lord Marshal was right there. As long as they had the guts, anyone could come up with a strategy.
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Xue Ling had no time to deal with these people right now. What he needed to do was complete the transfer test so they didn’t start clamouring that he wasn’t a good match for the Marshal in a few days. Things like public opinion were too easy to sway; Xue Ling had fought too many public opinion wars. Suddenly becoming popular or something like that did not affect his upcoming plans at all.
Yin Jia called him to his study that night for no other reason than because he felt like it was very necessary to have a proper discussion with his little nurturer about today’s affairs.
He was someone who did as he said, and Xue Ling was a person who had his own opinions. Yin Jia was used to speaking without asking others for their opinions, because others were always required to execute his words to the letter. The decisions he made were never wrong, so he never needed to hear other people’s doubts or objections to his orders.
This was a problem that only someone who had absolute confidence and a good dose of arrogance would have. He had no intention of changing it, but he had now run into Xue Ling. He was not someone who would simply do as he said, and while he didn’t appear to resist the things that Yin Jia had arranged for him, even going so far as to look cutely obedient and making no rebuttal, in fact, he had his own private thoughts and would say one thing while doing another, completely unafraid of Yin Jia’s temper.
He appeared to be the wronged character in today’s play, but when one looked back, they would find that he was the one who caused trouble in the first place.
When Yin Jia adopted him back then, he already had a detailed understanding of his life, but it was unexpected that he still could not figure out what this child had planned.
He looked like a little sheep, but hidden under the sheep’s skin was a big fox’s tail.
Story translated by Chrysanthemum Garden.
“Father?” Seeing that Yin Jia had called himself in but didn’t speak, Xue Ling interrupted his thinking and said, “If father doesn’t need anything, I’ll go back to study first.”
Yin Jia raised his head, and once again looked the child over carefully from head to foot, but found that he still did not understand what he was thinking. At first, he just thought that this child was on guard against him, and thoughtful, but not a bad child. Now, it seemed that he also schemed deeply and acted nothing like an immature child.
“You already have a good grasp on the recovery of your own spiritual power.” He spoke an affirmative sentence. Although the person in front of him did not seem to have any offensive power, Yin Jia subconsciously felt that the person was very capable of making an attack.
Xue Ling narrowed his eyes slightly. His lips curved as he raised his gaze and replied, “How could that be? I just believe that I must have inherited my mother’s talent. She was such an amazing Sculptor. As her child, I’ll naturally not lose to her.” When he lifted his gaze, the corners of his eyes were slightly uptilted. A fierce light flashed across his gaze for just a moment, so quickly that Yin Jia felt that it must have been an illusion.
The two of them stared at each other, and saw something that should not exist in each other’s eyes. Then, they both looked down, as though nothing had happened during that brief exchange of looks…
But Yin Jia knew very clearly that some things were now thoroughly different.
He was afraid that he could no longer treat this child as an ordinary, simple child.