Chapter 14 - Sleeping Together

Everyone from the class were struck dumb. What direction was this going to?

“Hurry up and let go.” Because the procession was constantly moving forward, Song Xiao couldn’t stop, and could only quietly protest.

Yu Tang acted as if he didn’t hear it, and still held on. The both of them thus fought while running, and two laps were quickly completed. After running, everyone dispersed there and then, but Yu Tang still didn’t intend on letting go, impassively pulling him towards the classroom.

“Your Majesty…” Song Xiao whispered. Pulling him while running was still fine, it could still be counted as a class monitor helping a weak-bodied classmate, but pulling while walking was too unreasonable.

“What?” Hearing that familiar address, Yu Tang felt his heart move, and his voice also couldn’t help gentling a few degrees. Last night they had mutually acknowledged each other, he hadn’t dared to ask or say too much, terrified that Song Xiao would turn over old accounts. However, up until now, Song Xiao didn’t have the slightest intention to hate and blame him, letting him feel delighted.

Song Xiao wanted to say something, but suddenly was pushed down by someone, immediately staggering and falling to the side. Yu Tang felt the hand in his grasp suddenly tighten, and automatically reached out, embracing him.

Dugu An, who had been following behind them, immediately shot out, and in a chain of actions he had caught them, pressing them to the ground in two or three seconds.

“Ah!” Someone had seen Dugu An’s skill, and cried out in surprise. The tide of students heading to class immediately stopped, turning to their direction to watch.

Yu Tang looked over Song Xiao, and after ensuring he wasn’t hurt, he then pulled him behind his back. Looking at the person whom Dugu An had suppressed on the ground with a frown, it turned out to be a girl!

“Wu… What are you guys doing…” That girl had triangular eyes and looked very fierce, but clearly hadn’t gone through any combat. Her arm was twisted by Dugu An, and she immediately was frightened into tears.

“Why did you push him?” Yu Tang coldly asked. Besides the sports field and driveway, the school campus was filled with scenic areas. They were walking on a graveled path, and the surface had protruding pebbles, If Song Xiao had fallen here, he definitely would’ve been hurt.

“Where did you see me push him?” The girl was frightened by Yu Tang’s imposing manner, and she immediately denied it without thinking. She was still pressed onto the gravel path, and it was particularly painful, so she could only think of running away quickly.

“Feudal residual poison, what’s wrong with pushing him?” The other girl who was with her lightly snorted.

“That’s right, repeatedly calling a concubine, does he think himself as a great official of ancient times?” Once other people heard that sentence, they began to go along with it. At this time the people who were watching the liveliness could recognize Song Xiao as the person in yesterday’s tabloid.

High school life was quite banal, even a geography magazine that was incredibly boring could be flipped through a few times, let alone a tabloid with explosive new articles, so of course it would be spread around the whole school.

The people standing around and watching were increasing, and soon had encircled the four of them in the middle.

“Bullying girls, what sort of skill would this be considered?” Some people began to reproach loudly.

Yu Tang raised his chin, indicating for Dugu An to let go of the girl. Once he did, that girl instantly began to cry even harder, feeling that she had never experienced such grievances.

“I’ve noted your student number.” Yu Tang frowned imperceptibly, looking at that girl’s name tag.

The girl snorted, thinking that Yu Tang meant that he would later find her to compensate her, but nearly fainted at his following words.

“If something happens to my classmate in the future, we’ll go to your form teacher.”

The crowd was shocked into silence by this astonishing sentence. Why was it that he was the one bullying people, but still wanted the victim to compensate him…

Taking advantage of the brief silence, Song Xiao looked at the few girls who were being the noisiest. “These students, to be so interested in my family matters, surely you must be empathizing with my family’s concubine and shu child. I didn’t mean to humiliate…. mistresses and illegitimate daughters, I ask everyone to be magnanimous and forgiving.”

After a pause, he remembered the correct labels that Liu Lu had told him. The women that fathers had found outside of marriage were called ‘mistresses’, and shu daughters born outside of marriage were called ‘illegitimate daughters’.

Yu Tang looked at Song Xiao who was sincerely apologizing, and pressed a fist against his mouth, covering up the laugh on his lips. He knew that his family’s empress was speaking the truth, and truly hadn’t meant to curse them back.

“You…” The few girls were directly struck dumb. This way of cursing people without using obscenities, it was too ruthless, calling them mistresses and illegitimate daughters!

“What’s going on?” The disciplinary teacher heard that there was a student crowding around here, and immediately rushed here.

“Teacher, first year’s Class Eight student 20060108003 Ding Ning just attempted to murder him.” Yu Tang pointed to Song Xiao by his side, coldly saying.

“What!” The disciplinary teacher was taken aback. Murder? Did he hear wrongly?

“Teacher can review the security monitor,” Yu Tang said rather cordially, “He had just been discharged from the hospital and his cerebral concussion hadn’t recovered yet. If he fell on his head again, he could have turned into a vegetative state.”

Song Xiao blinked, looking at Yu Tang twist words and force logic, and couldn’t help smiling. When this person faces him, he was awful at talking, but was better than anyone when refuting guilt. If not, he wouldn’t have been able to defeat his numerous brothers for the throne.

The disciplinary teacher ordered everyone to disperse, noted down the four students’ student number, said they’ll check the security monitor then told them to hurry back to class.

“Class monitor, you were too handsome today!” Once they returned to the classroom, Hua jie moved closer to look at Yu Tang with a face of adoration.

“If you guys had met this kind of situation, class monitor would also step forward.” Song Xiao smiled, lightly kicking Yu Tang under the table.

“En.” Yu Tang replied perfunctorily.

“Wow, having this kind of class monitor is truly a blessing!” Hua jie was endlessly excited, then ran to Dugu An’s side, “Knight Dugu, how did you do that maneuver just now, teach it to me ba, I can use it to defend against wolves!”

“That’s right ah, that maneuver was so handsome!”

“Your surname is Dugu, is it that you know the Lonely Sword?”

“Is Dugu Qiubai your ancestor?”

The girls had very quickly surrounded Dugu An and asked him to perform those few moves. After Yu Tang and Song Xiao, Dugu An suddenly had an explosive popularity, becoming the most well-received boy in class.

Dugu An was at a loss.

He was a foreigner from northern China, he had a two character surname Dugu, what does this have to do with Dugu Qiubai?

Even though this morning’s farce had allowed the students in school understand his standpoint, a lot of students had also begun to think that what he said wasn’t wrong, especially those rich family’s children who had illegitimate siblings but publicly wasn’t known.

The internet had just begun to rise in China in recent years, no one had managed it, so there were Internet trolls everywhere. This entertainment news had become popular on the internet very quickly.

“Arrogant second generations, really can bully a woman!”

“Look at that son of a X’s dog manners, when he grew up he became a bully, why didn’t he just die in the hospital?”

“LZSB, evaluation complete!”

“Daring to scold my goddess, I’ll beat him until his mother can’t recognise him!”

“What era is this, still having such a feudal mindset, we really don’t understand the world of rich people.”

At night, Yu Tang was reclining on the head of his bed, holding his laptop and reading the news on the internet, scowling.

Song Xiao finished showering and came out of the bathroom, then saw Yu Tang looking at the internet as if he was reading a memorial, this image was really inconsistent, but what was more important was…

“Why are you on my bed?”

“Today is the fifteenth.”

Song Xiao was exasperated. On the fifteenth, when the moon was full, The emperor and empress must sleep together.

“This bed is too narrow…” Song Xiao tried to resist, this was school, and not the imperial palace, so what’s with sleeping together!

“No harm, zhen doesn’t care.” Yu Tang closed his laptop, shifted inside a bit, and patted the empty space beside him. “Come over.”

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Little theatre

First day

Fish Tang: Today is the fifteenth, come serve me in bed

Xiaoxiao: …Fine

Second day

Fish Tang: Today is the sixteenth, the moon is still full

Xiaoxiao: You win

Third day

Fish Tang: I remembered wrongly, it’s today that’s the fifteenth

Xiaoxiao: …Piss off!

Baobao Notes

I’ve decided to italicize the chinese words, so I hope you enjoy! I’ll be editing previous chapters when I’m free too.

Also, small warning, it seems that this novel does verge on racism sometimes, and I tend to try and tone it down when I translate, so if you happen to notice that my translation is a little different from the raws, please understand!