Chapter 236 – Target (1)

Time travels fast, gossip even faster.

Be it because the young miss of the noted Huang Family was famous in the academy, or for the sheer incredulity of the incident, the matters of Class B’s Archery Class spread like wildfire.

The news had reached Qi Jin’s ears within moments of her arrival at the academy. At first, she was taken aback, however, she knew better than anyone the kind of tales tongues could weave. She had as soon questioned a few people including one of the two chief characters Lu Yaoyao, in order to get the real story.

So now, inside the headmaster’s office, as the ‘victim’ poured out her grievance between sobs and cried injustice, making for a perfectly pathetic sight, Imperial Physician Qi was neither touched nor moved. If anything,

this

last round of ‘interrogation’ had served as proof that Teacher Tu and Huang Fuxiang were spinning lies.

In her harried and aggrieved state, Huang Fuxiang had cleverly omitted the part where she was the one who had first shot the arrow from the back and started it all. Instead, she had painted Lu Yaoyao as the villain in vivid colors and with such flair that if Qi Jin hadn’t investigated the prior to arriving here, she would have certainly sided with her just like the headmaster was now.

Seeing how this young girl was unabashedly concealing her own faults and righteously hailing the other as the evildoer, Imperial Physician Qi was rather disenchanted. Such a young age and such a scheming mind, dead set on ruining another’s future without remorse, inside the academy and not the inner palace, was truly desp