Reborn Divine Doctor: The Abandoned Girl's Legend
Chapter 144 - 14 Top-grade Prodigals

Chapter 144: Chapter 14 Top-grade Prodigals

"The troublemaker was a young man of about sixteen or seventeen. He was handsome and upright, dressed meticulously.

This person was none other than Yu Zhao, the eldest son of the Minister of the Ministry of Personnel. Several young martial artists followed him, all sons and daughters of third and fourth-grade officials in the court.

Most of these people were intermediate martial students, as Feng Xue had mentioned earlier, with cultivation levels ranging from Postnatal Small Success to Postnatal Great Success amongst them, with Yu Zhao having the highest cultivation.

Taking advantage of his father’s position as Minister of Rites, who managed the transfers and promotions of officials below third-grade, Yu Zhao has always been arrogant in Hongwu Hall.

He was the type who bullied the weak and feared the strong. He had previously made some lewd comments upon seeing Feng Xue’s beauty.

But just happened to run into Liu Cheng, who had grown up with Feng Xue since childhood. Liu Cheng, not much of a martial artist, had a sharp tongue and humiliated Yu Zhao with a barrage of classical allusions, earning his enmity.

After arriving in Hongwu Hall, Yu Zhao would pick on Liu Cheng every few days, but Feng Xue had intercepted him every time previously.

Today, upon arriving, he saw Liu Cheng surrounded by Feng Xue and another unfamiliar-looking young woman. Both women were attractive and graceful, igniting Yu Zhao’s jealousy.

Why should a nobody like Liu Cheng, who wasn’t Postnatal, be favored by women?

’Feng Xue, you and the new girl had better mind your own business. I’ve lost my purse, and Liu Cheng has been acting suspiciously, following me around since I entered. I suspect he stole it. Everyone knows the Taishi Family is very poor,’ Yu Zhao’s eyes emitted a cold sharpness as he glared at Liu Cheng.

’Nonsense, I... I didn’t steal your purse,’ Liu Cheng turned red with anger when he heard the accusation and was about to argue with Yu Zhao.

But Yu Zhao, who had trained from a young age, was bigger and stronger. Like an eagle catching a chick, he lifted Liu Cheng, kicked him a few times, slapped his face, and was about to search him.

Feng Xue wanted to intervene, but Yu Zhao’s companions surrounded her.

However, nobody expected the new female martial artist standing behind Feng Xue and Liu Cheng to step forward just in time to position herself in front of both Liu Cheng and Yu Zhao.

As she raised her hand, Yu Zhao felt something brush his wrist, a numbness spread, and he unwittingly let go of Liu Cheng.

There was now someone in front of him—that woman wore a light lotus-colored martial robe, her skin was very white, and her distinctively clear New Moon Eyes made her seem clever.

’Hold on, who are you to search him?’

Seeing a newcomer daring to intervene against Yu Zhao, the other martial artists were more than surprised and started to whisper amongst themselves.

’Who are you, to meddle in my affairs? Don’t think that just because you’re new and a woman, I won’t teach you a lesson,’ Yu Zhao said to the woman, who was not only attractive but of unknown identity, so his words were somewhat restrained, and he didn’t take action.

’Who I am is none of your concern. Do you think you’re a government officer or a guard of the Imperial Army? According to the Daxia Laws, only these two are entitled to search and interrogate at will,’ Ye Lingyue spoke coldly as she stared at Yu Zhao.

Yu Zhao was left speechless by her question."

"My father is the Minister of the Ministry of Personnel, who do you think you are? This young master’s affair is none of your business, get lost." Yu Zhao waved his hand, attempting to push Ye Lingyue aside.

"Liu Cheng, don’t you dare lay a finger on her. She is the Second Miss of Lan Residence, Ye Lingyue. Aren’t you afraid Lan Cai’er will make trouble for you?" Feng Xue, worried that Ling Yue couldn’t handle it, blurted out and dashed in front of Ye Lingyue, hoping to protect her.

"Lan Residence? So that’s where this stray dog came from. It turns out to be the newly acknowledged Second Miss of the Lan Residence. No wonder. Lan Yingwu is just a crude fellow; how good can a daughter he produced be? Your elder sister just got kicked out of Hongwu Hall. You wouldn’t want to be kicked out on your very first day too, would you?" Yu Zhao and his companions, all young masters and misses from noble families of Xia Capital, had their own special channels to inquire into the secrets of various officials’ residences.

Regarding the Second Miss of Lan Residence, there had been rumors that she wasn’t actually born to Lady Lan but was instead the bastard child sired by General Lan in his drunken stupor in some remote city with another woman.

No one knows what the story is this time, but General Lan stumbled upon her again and recognized her as his own.

A bastard child, whose father is but a commoner General who has just been reassigned to Xia Capital, and whose own cultivation seems nothing special, these heirs of hereditary nobility don’t take Ye Lingyue seriously at all.

Little did Yu Zhao know, before he could finish speaking, his vision blurred, and that "bastard" he was looking at kicked him squarely in the chest.

"Bastard, you dare to strike me." Yu Zhao could only then see clearly that the one who had kicked him was Ye Lingyue.

"Why wouldn’t I dare? How audacious of you. What are you to dare insult my father? My father is the eminent Third-grade Invincible General, honored by the Emperor himself with Third-grade Merit. You, just the young master of a Minister’s Family, with neither military achievements nor noble rank, dare to utter such nonsense and insult my father. Believe it or not, I will go to the Ancestral Affairs Office and file a complaint against you," Ye Lingyue’s voice was forceful, resounding across the drill ground.

The officials’ sons and daughters who were previously looking down on Ye Lingyue’s status all fell silent.

Even Yu Zhao, who wanted to retaliate, did not dare make a move.

They thought a bastard would be weak and subservient; little did they know that this newcomer, the Second Miss of the General Mansion, had a disposition and means similar to her elder sister, Lan Cai’er.

Setting aside her cultivation, her sharp tongue was even fiercer than Lan Cai’er’s. She truly resembled the daughter of a Third-grade official.

"You!" Yu Zhao wanted to explode but dared not, "It was clear that I misspoke earlier, but the matter of Liu Cheng stealing my money pouch cannot be left at that."

"You keep saying that Liu Cheng stole your money pouch, where is your proof? And if he didn’t steal it, what then shall you do?" Ye Lingyue retorted with a cold laugh, her tone exuding an aura that made others instinctively step back.

"Whether he stole it or not, a body search will reveal the truth." Just as Yu Zhao hesitated, someone else walked in.

The moment this person entered, he drew all attention like the stars surrounding the moon.

The newcomer was an elegant youth, dressed in ice-blue Frost Silk and with a top-quality white jade hairpin in his hair.

Accompanying the

elegant young man were a pair of beautiful almond eyes and a slightly delicate complexion. He glanced at Ye Lingyue and Liu Cheng with a flash of obvious disdain in his eyes, as though they were something filthy.

"This is bad, it’s Hong Yulang." Feng Xue became even more anxious when she saw the noble young master.

Ye Lingyue, however, had a stern look in her eyes. Hong Yulang?