Chapter 36: Chapter 32: So Annoying!!!

Faced with this soul-piercing question, anyone who hears it would feel a pang of conscience!

Indeed, the mother and daughter in front of us are so vulnerable, as if a gust of wind could scatter them. Their eyes are filled with tears, obviously terrified yet stubbornly refusing to bow their heads. This is the strength of a mother!

What have they done!

The crowd, who had stood by during Song Yun’s ordeal, all bowed their heads, their eyes filled with an apology to this mother and her child.

Only Shen Jingxian remained unrepentant, looking confidently at this “weak” yet strong mother, “Why are you so fierce? I didn’t do anything.”

Shen Jingxian indeed did nothing.

She was merely bumped into, and things inexplicably spiraled out of control from there.

Do you believe it if I say I didn’t utter a word just now?

Obviously, this beautiful concubine didn’t believe her and said to Shen Jingxian the classic line used by overprotective parents, “Why are you treating my Yunyun like this? She’s just a child!!”

With the resentful gaze fixed on her, Shen Jingxian suddenly felt this concubine wasn’t very bright. Anyone with a bit of sense would know the last person you should cross here is her.

Moreover, she herself is just a child!!!

“I never thought that the students of Imperial College would bully a child so, if I hadn’t come today, who knows how you would have bullied my Yun. Do you have no sense of shame!!”

Song Yun cooperatively began to cry softly, which irritated Shen Jingxian.

She knew Shi Wang had long wanted to make a move, but was only holding back because she was gripping his sleeve.

Originally, Shen Jingxian wanted to avoid the troublemaker, but now they were dancing on her head, and it annoyed her not to respond.

Let her think, how to respond to both hit back at the enemy and not lose the face of a Princess.

Got it.

“Just now you said you came here looking for your sister? What’s your sister’s name?”

Song Yun didn’t want to answer, but Shi Wang’s dangerous gaze forced her to reply softly, “Song Yan.”

Shen Jingxian gave a faint “Oh”, glancing over, her gaze lightly landed on Song Yun with an aura resembling the Empress’s usual majesty, “Crying without rules, disrespecting your superiors, ugly, you are not at all like your sister.”

Song Yan, hiding behind the rockery, was stunned upon hearing this.

However, Shen Jingxian hadn’t finished, after criticizing the younger she proceeded with the elder, “Domineering, shameless, distorting right and wrong, pretending, you are not at all like the Duke Mansion’s mistress.”

As her words fell, Shen Jingxian saw the face of the beautiful concubine before her suddenly change.

Song Yun’s mother, named Yin Ling, wasn’t born from a high status, just the daughter of an ordinary merchant, but she had been beautiful from a young age and very skilled in handling men, always swearing to marry a man of high status and power, and ultimately she did.

And she was greatly favored.

At the Duke Mansion, the Duke pampered her to the skies, to the point that even the legitimate wife had to avoid her edge, which gradually led Yin Ling into an illusion.

As if she truly was the mistress of the Duke Mansion.

But Shen Jingxian’s words just reminded her of her true status and that she originally should not have appeared here.

Yin Ling couldn’t help but suspect if this peculiar young girl had guessed something.

But she wasn’t too alarmed, having climbed to her current position from the daughter of a merchant, relying not only on acting pitiful.

“I don’t know what wrongs my daughter and I have committed for the noble woman to degrade us so, isn’t the importance of Imperial College about right or wrong rather than status? It’s said that scholars are not afraid of authority and dare to speak up, but today my daughter and I were humiliated here with no one to help, is it pathetic or laughable! Anyone with even a bit of conscience here should reflect on their words and actions!”

Shen Jingxian raised an eyebrow, well said!

It reminded her of when she used to be forced to reflect on social media.

The people of Continent F suffer daily from hunger while you laugh at silly memes, why can’t you reflect?!

Beautiful Country declared war on Carter Country, people were displaced, why aren’t our citizens reflecting?!

Shen Jingxian was unpleasantly reminded by this flood of forced reflection coupons.

Reflect?

I reflect your mother.

Shen Jingxian didn’t want to argue with this green tea’s mother, she was going to show everyone today that a princess, could do as she pleases.

Seeing some of the young faces around starting to show unease, as if actually reflecting, Shen Jingxian spoke first, “If speaking facts counts as humiliation, then Madam, you are too lacking in virtue. Your daughter bumped into this Princess, that already is disrespecting your superior, and not admitting wrongdoing but throwing counter-accusations, what’s the logic in that? If you can’t even self-reflect, how do you expect others to?”

“There are several students from Imperial College here, yet not a single one speaks for you two. It’s so obvious, how can Madam still think she is right?”

Shen Jingxian’s words made the people present come to their senses, indeed! They were not wrong!

It was the little girl who bumped into the princess, wasn’t an apology due.

Yet, this woman, without considering the cause and effect, insulted Imperial College, truly tyrannical! They even felt wrong just now!

Wrong, for what wrong? They were not wrong!

Seeing that everyone understood, Shen Jingxian proceeded with her “speculation”, “The Duke Mansion’s madam wouldn’t say such demeaning words, you… could you be impersonating?”

Yin Ling bit her lip lightly, inwardly astonished, could this really be that Princess, how did Yunyun offend such a person.

Yin Ling didn’t respond, looking very pitiful, as if utterly disappointed with the coldness around, but Shen Jingxian knew this was just Yin Ling’s act of thinking; she couldn’t give Yin Ling time to think.

“What’s your name?”

“You won’t say?”

“Then you mustn’t be the madam of the Duke Mansion.”

“Brother Shi Wang, could you bring Song Yan over, let her see which gods these two truly are.”

Shi Wang agreed, yet before moving, Song Yan stepped out from behind the rockery herself.

Seeing Song Yan appear, Yin Ling’s pupils shrank sharply, no, she must not be exposed as a concubine here, or the Duke will be disappointed in her.

“Yan’er, the Duke specifically sent your mother here today to see how hard you were studying, yet we didn’t expect our identity to be doubted. Please explain to this… Princess, for a fair explanation to mother and sister.”

Yin Ling used the Duke as leverage, hoping Song Yan would understand and not expose her at this time, or it would only disgrace the Duke Mansion.

Song Yun nestled in Yin Ling’s arms, no longer fussing.

She realized this situation was different from any before. She couldn’t hold her mother back, only hoping her mother would quickly teach a lesson to those who bullied her, she truly detested them, everyone not speaking for her deserved to die.

Hearing the words, Shen Jingxian suddenly said to Song Yan, “Forget it, you don’t need to say anything, these two made this princess upset, self-important, slandering Imperial College, disrespecting your superiors, clashing with the Imperial Family…”

“If they are Duke Mansion’s people, then let the Duke come to the Imperial Palace to claim them today, if not, this princess will throw them into the Ministry of Justice.”

“Hmm… let them be held for 10 years.”

Yin Ling widened her eyes in disbelief.

Song Yan also felt something strange in her heart.

Shen Jingxian is this… not wanting her to be troubled so not letting her speak? Helping her? Why?

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