Chapter 124: Zhuge Xiaoyu
“What is your name?” Ye Wuchen stepped down from the platform and walked towards him with a face full of smiles.
The person stood up and sneered, “You better firmly remember this name, my surname is Lin, and I am called Lin Yu!”
Lin Yu, son of Lin Zhan, Lin Xiao’s younger brother. Ye Wuchen had not heard anything about him yet, though according to the rumors, compared with his older brother, he was completely an arrogant, domineering, and useless person.
“Lin Yu? Very well, you may go now.”
Ye Wuchen proceeded in front of him, hands coming out like a lightning to grab his neck. Lin Yu was used to being an arrogant person due to his family’s power. In ordinary days, he pushed people around, yet he had never come across any outsider who would dare to attack him. Now, due to panic, he immediately used his hands to resist, but his meager cultivation simply could not be compared to Ye Wuchen’s. Ye Wuchen grabbed his neck with no difficulty, scampering the few steps as he was being dragged to the doorway. In the middle of all the people’s stupefied gazes he was being thrown out like a chick.
With a miserable shriek, Lin Yu’s neck felt like it was being snapped off under the energetic force. His body was swung into a perfect curve out of the room. Behind him. the door of the art studio was closed shut by Ye Wuchen loudly.
“That was awesome!” wishing the world into chaos, Long Huang-er excitedly clapped her small hands. The expression of the girl beside her was even utterly different though. Her eyes were almost like two small twinkling stars, staring at Ye Wuchen without blinking, and her mouth constantly murmured, “So handsome…”
Ye Wuchen claps his hands, returned to the platform, then gently said, “Who else wants to go out? If there’s none, we may now start the lesson.”
“Wait, teacher, I object! Objection!”
The girl beside Long Huang-er yelled while raising her hands. This girl had an oval face, her nose was exquisitely elegant, sleek lips, wide set but alert eyes, thin brows curved like moons, pet.i.te build, and slim limbs that were extremely fresh and delicate. Her agile shape was exquisitely delicate like round pearls and glossy jade. Although her beauty fell short of Ye Shuiyao’s elegance, her beauty still warmed the heart and delighted the eye.
What caught everyone’s attention was her body which contained a heroic spirit that could not be found in ordinary women, as well as the profound stubborn, crafty, and unruly att.i.tude. Ye Wuchen had also noticed this girl when he entered the room—because her gaze could not be ignored. Her exaggerated level of excitement and wildness was just like a big bad wolf seeing a small fat sheep.
“All right, what objections do you have?” Ye Wuchen asked. He somehow could not look straight to her eyes.
“Because I have so many things to tell you, I shouldn’t be forbidden to speak!”
“... What’s your name?”
“I am Zhuge Xiaoyu!” The girl answered, the excitement on her face was uncontained. Because this was her first time to speak with Ye Wuchen, her happiness almost caused her head to spin.
Zhuge Xiaoyu… Hearing this name, Ye Wuchen almost wanted to abandon everything and escape.
When Ye Wuchen and Lin Xiao competed and received too much attention from the numerous single ladies and caused them to be astonished as if he was a heavenly being, there had been a moment when countless people approached him to propose marriage. All of them were turned down gracefully, since, for the woman’s side to take the initiative was considered abandoning their reserved nature. If they still insisted after rejection, they would be looked down by people, not to mention other daughters of influential families, so that noisy disturbance seemed to have completely settled down. After being turned down, at most they would just persist one more time, afterwhich they would no longer mention it anymore, except for the Zhuge Family, and especially Zhuge Xiaoyu.
Her father, Zhuge Wuyi, had payed visit to the Ye Family at least once a day. For the first few days, he had come with his face beaming, but as the days pa.s.sed, his face almost seemed like he was crying. He visited the Ye family for the same reason every time and that was to propose marriage for his one and only daughter, Zhuge Xiaoyu. From forming a relationship, to coaxing and pestering, and finally he almost kneeled in front of Ye Wei. General Zhuge had countless military expeditions, with blood contaminated all over his body, he was a valiant man, yet all the people in Tian Long City knew of his even more valiant daughter. It seemed like this Major General was not afraid of losing face as he went to propose marriage everyday, proving that he had the most valiant daughter of all.
The statement that Zhuge Wuyi made was, “... My daughter Xiaoyu is just too stubborn. No matter what she does, she surely will not give up easily. The things that she cannot achieve easily are things that she was most interested in. General Ye, please make your son accept my Xiaoyu. Even being his concubine will do! Or else my body will suffer greatly from her torment…”
Today, Ye Wuchen had finally met this Zhuge Xiaoyu, but based on her delicate and pleasant physical appearance, no one will ever believe that she possessed such incredible determination.
“... What would you like to ask me?” Ye Wuchen asked probingly, even though he knew that this Zhuge Xiaoyu would surely ask some weird questions.
“I want to know why you refused to marry me!” Zhuge Xiaoyu’s lips slightly pouted, asking somewhat unhappily.
Silence. Total silence. The entire crowd within the studio was stupefied. Although they had some ideas about this Zhuge Xiaoyu’s att.i.tude, as nearly everyone in the Tian Long Imperial Inst.i.tute had heard about her threat that she would not marry anybody aside from Ye Wuchen of the Ye Family. For this woman to directly ask this question in front of everyone, how will they manage it?
Before Ye Wuchen could answer, the door was suddenly kicked wide open, violently breaking the silence inside the room.
Standing by the doorway was an old man, full of white hair and a beard, his face was full of anger and prestige. Behind him, was Lin Yu with a b.l.o.o.d.y nose and a swollen face, staring at Ye Wuchen with bitter resentment.
When Ye Wuchen threw out Lin Yu, Hua Buhao had already known that the situation would get worse. Lin Yu was already used to tyrannically abusing people with the use of the Lin Family’s power. How could he stand being bullied and humiliated? On ordinary days when Lin Yan, the princ.i.p.al, came to visit, he was usually alarmed. This time, he did not have a slightes feeling of joy and he dashed forward to hurriedly say, “Princ.i.p.al Lin, what an honor to have you here today.”
Lin Yan did not look at him, as his gaze was fixated at Ye Wuchen standing on the platform. As if he had been reminded of something, his facial muscles twitched, and his gaze swept through the entire room., “What happened here? Why are there so many people present here in this beginner painting cla.s.s? Please explain it to me!”
“Hey! Princ.i.p.al Lin, why are you being so furious? We just came here to learn painting, are we not allowed? We are allowed by our teacher and teacher Hua, so we didn’t violate any rules of the inst.i.tute. Everyone, am I correct!?” Before Teacher Hua could answer, Zhuge Xiaoyu had responded bluntly. In the entire Tian Long Imperial Inst.i.tute, or even in Tian Long City, only a few would dare to talk to Lin Yan like that.
Those latecomers responded the same way. Although they were fully aware that their reason to learn painting was fake, their want to witness a talented person was real.
Lin Yan furrowed his brows, smiling insincerely at Hua Buhao and said, “Master Hua, with so many people coming to specially attend your beginner painting cla.s.s, perhaps being a teacher of a beginner’s painting cla.s.s is really tiring for you.”
Hua Buhao was greatly confused. He twisted his lips because of his inner fear, yet he could not say a word.
“Master Hua, what happened to my grandson? Being treated like this in your painting cla.s.s, can you explain this?”
Lin Yan turned to face Lin Yu who was badly battered and exhausted, resisting his anger which nearly faced its eruption.
“This…..”
“Hey! Princ.i.p.al Lin, the first rule in the rules and regulations of the inst.i.tute states that the teacher should treat students equally, whether he is a prince or a commoner. The students should completely obey the the teacher, or else the teacher should impose punishments. Personal interest and discrimination are not allowed. This Lin Yu not only caused trouble by disobeying the teacher’s request, but he spoke out to provoke Teacher Ye. Teacher Ye is just punishing him, isn’t that allowed? And Princ.i.p.al Lin, you came here because of a minor concern, isn’t that your personal interest or what? Don’t tell me that though you are the princ.i.p.al, you have already forgotten the rules of the inst.i.tute?”
Zhuge Xiaoyu opposed him again with equal harshness. At that time, she had personally been witness to the conflict between Ye Wuchen and Lin Yan. She had seen that Lin Yan was certainly aiming at Ye Wuchen, so she automatically came to defend him.
“Girl from the Zhuge Family, you are not qualified to meddle with the affairs of our Lin Family.” Lin Yan said in a deep voice.
“Oh! You are involving your Lin Family now. Is this the Tian Long Imperial Inst.i.tute or is this the courtyard of your Lin residence? Princ.i.p.al Lin, as the princ.i.p.al you don’t follow the rules of the inst.i.tute, I am advising you with good intentions, yet you use your Lin Family to threaten a girl like me, are you not ashamed?”
Ye Wuchen’s heart was overjoyed, and he was beginning to like this little girl. Shoving false arguments down people’s throats, distorting the implications of the words, this kind of ability was surely great.
Zhuge Xiaoyu was famous for her clever and eloquent talents. Lin Yan was surely not her match, for a moment he laughed instead of being angered, “Teacher Ye?” He ferociously turned around to stare at Ye Wuchen, “Who gave you the authority stand here? Did I permit it?”
“Oh, thanks for reminding me, Princ.i.p.al Lin. This is the area of Princ.i.p.al Lin, I should not be standing here without your permission. If that’s the case, I will just step down.”
After speaking, Ye Wuchen stepped down from the platform. He agreed easily and caught Lin Yan caught unprepared, giving no reason for Lin Yan to vent out the anger that had been acc.u.mulating inside of him.
“All right, I have followed Princ.i.p.al Lin’s instructions not to act as a teacher anymore. In that case, can we now switch to a different topic?” He observed Lin Yan from head to toe. That was a kind of observation that the older generation used on the younger generation. After that, he shook his head disappointedly, “Ai! You have a very low ability to retain memory. I remembered that Princ.i.p.al Lin had agreed to a bet in front of the Emperor before. I’m so sorry, but Princ.i.p.al Lin, you have lost your bet, and the outcome of losing the bet was to call me grandpa three times every time you see me. Did you already forget?”
Lin Yan’s face momentarily became gloomy. He obviously remembered, but he did not expect Ye Wuchen to actually remind him in the presence of so many people, completely disregarding his reputation.
Translated by: Fatty_Uncle
Edited by: seriouspotato and patrick_father_of_dragons