Chapter 103 - The Trials Ends
Many listened in on the words that Bai Rouyun said, their brows furrowed and their minds deep in thought.
Everything she said was correct. They were all aware that it was the Crown Prince who had suggested to use Bai Rouyun as a reward for Li Moyun"s successful war campaign, and it was also a fact that everyone knew of her previous difficulties.
No one with their right mind would touch someone who was mentally challenged and the fact that Li Moyun had not done so just installed more respect in everyone"s hearts.
At the same time, everyone began a.n.a.lyzing the words. If Bai Rouyun truly was a used shoe, as the Richu Empire people said, would Li Moyun truly have accepted her, considering that she was already meant to be an insult to him?
The more they thought about it, the more they suddenly realized that what they had thought to be the truth was likely someone using them like a blade against Bai Rouyun.
Many were disgruntled about being taken as a fool, but most did not care about it. When they found out that the rumors were likely to be false, they lost their interest.
Although no one apologized to Bai Rouyun, she was not holding a grudge. She knew that as long as the rumors would die out, she would be satisfied.
At the same time, she was also aware that now many would be extra alert around the Crown Prince, and not many would blindly trust him again.
Bai Rouyun was casual throughout the whole process, and her calm and collected way of solving the problem caused Qin Huiling to be astounded and full of respect.
Many others who observed her were also shocked by her calmness, and they felt that perhaps this woman, who had been given an invitation letter, was not as simple as she seemed.
Bai Rouyun smiled with her trademark smile as she walked around on the trial grounds. She did not need to walk for long before she felt a hate-filled gaze thrown her way.
Glancing towards the direction of the gaze, she saw the Crown Prince and all the other members of the Richu Empire staring at her with unrestrained anger.
Smiling slightly, Bai Rouyun nodded her head at them, greeting them as one would a friend, not caring about their enmity.
Many who saw them felt that Bai Rouyun was much more mature than the Crown Prince, that she truly lived up to the t.i.tle of Princess Yun.
Now that they knew that Bai Rouyun was a mature and stable woman, they saw her much more pleasing to the eye, but the Crown Prince"s face was dark as charcoal.
He did not believe that a fool had fooled him. He knew that Bai Rouyun was not the same person she had been when she married Li Moyun, but he never thought that she would become a challenge for him.
Now it seemed that Bai Rouyun was a figure that was hard to control. She had defeated them in the royal hunting feast; she had also gotten an invitation to the Blue Water Inst.i.tute.
Now that she was here, she was not being destroyed by the rumors. Instead, she had counterattacked and made the Crown Prince lose all his face in front of not only his own n.o.bles and the upper cla.s.s of Richu Empire, but the whole group of people who showed up at the Inst.i.tute.
Every step she had taken was done without making much noise. Although she had won the royal hunting feast, she had never celebrated or, and it had been extremely low-key.
Now that she had arrived here, she had also been low-key, but the Crown Prince had done all in his power to destroy her reputation, making her the center of attention.
After becoming the center of attention, she had merely said a few words, after which everyone was tilting towards her explanation as it had been extremely reasonable. If they thought things through, they could easily see that it was correct.
Her calmness was genuinely making the Crown Prince angry. He wanted to insult her and make her desperate, but she had handled everything so efficiently that it was not a challenge for her.
It seemed that she could not be treated as before.
The days came and went, and the many people who had appeared for the sake of trying the trials to enter the Blue Water Inst.i.tute were slowly being weeded out, and the strongest was picked.
Qin Huiling and Bai Rouyun were living in the mansion, but spend every day at the trial grounds to see who their new cla.s.smates would be.
Eventually, a thousand people had been picked, and the rest, which had no chance of being selected that year, started leaving Canglan City.
There was a week until the beginning of the school year, and both Bai Rouyun and Qin Huiling were having a lot of fun walking through the city"s busy streets every day.
They bought items, and while Qin Huiling preferred ornaments and jewelry, Bai Rouyun mainly bought herbs and herb seeds. The herbs and the seeds were given to Xiao Bao, who handled them well within the Primal Chaos PaG.o.da.
Bai Rouyun had not given up on her refinement of pills, and she was also still sure of having to sell her Marrow Cleansing Pills, but she could not do this as long as Qin Huiling was by her side.
Although she liked Qin Huiling a lot, she did not trust her wholeheartedly. If she showed what she had in her hands, anyone could become full of greed, no matter how kind and supportive they were.