Chapter 76: This Engagement is So Hard to Break Off

“Is that Eastern woman planning to come to school?”

“Of course she is. I heard that scoundrel Hall ran off to find Leticia during his own engagement ceremony yesterday. And yet, she’s not breaking off the engagement and is even going through with the enrollment procedures. Could she really be in love with Hall?”

“Damn, I’m so envious and jealous! What does Hall have that makes so many girls like him? If I could get into that woman’s bed today, I’d accept any bad reputation.”

“Forget it. He’s the son of a duke. What are you? Even with a bad reputation, women will still chase after him, kissing his feet. Who wouldn’t want to be a duchess?”

“That’s not for sure. Maybe their marriage won’t be a happy one.”

“This time, the engagement is definitely off. Hehe, a few young ducal masters are waiting for this result.”

“What, are they planning to pursue Ye Wangxue too?”

“Not really. An Eastern princess is just a country bumpkin, and she might attract suspicion from the College of Cardinals. As long as she can’t become Mrs. Faxtius, it’s fine.”

“How about this? I have a job for you today. Want in?”

“A job?”

“Yeah, called for by the Howard young master. Just show up, and you’re his brother. There’s money to be made.”

“What’s the job?”

“Help block Ye Wangxue.”

Similar conversations were happening all over Holy Light University this morning.

Hall had slept soundly last night.

Ever since he had the thought of regaining his memory last night and experienced a sharp pain in his heart.

Even though that warm current had helped soothe the pain, he still felt extremely tired.

When he woke up, it was not too early.

If he went to school now, he would definitely miss the first class.

But whatever, skipping class was skipping class. His credits and GPA were still fine.

Then, he ordered breakfast at the Child hotel and had the waiter bring him a few of the more popular newspapers in Saint Louis to see the public opinion.

“Wow, as expected of top-tier journalists.”

The moment he saw the newspaper headlines, he almost spat out the milk he was drinking.

Because the headlines of these newspapers were glaringly written.

—Shocking! Duke’s Fiancé Absent on Engagement Day, Already Cheating with Another!

—Duke’s Fiancée Spends Engagement Night Alone, Fiancé in Another’s Bed!

The general meaning was that he, Hall, had not attended, had not returned last night, and had slept with Leticia.

But because of the Child family’s influence, they didn’t dare to explicitly write Leticia’s name, only using “a certain noble duchess in Saint Louis” as a substitute.

But there were only a few duchesses in Saint Louis, and most of them were old.

One could easily figure out it was Leticia by process of elimination.

Slander is easy, but clearing your name is hard.

However, the accounts in these newspapers were a bit contradictory.

Some said Ye Wangxue wanted to break off the engagement with him, while others said Ye Wangxue had fallen in love with him and still didn’t want to break it off.

“The second one is complete nonsense. How could she not break off the engagement in this situation? I don’t believe it. They’re writing a novel here.”

After giving his sharp critique, Hall planned to finish his breakfast and then go to the school to check the situation.

If Ye Wangxue hadn’t gone through the enrollment procedures.

He would have won.

“Perhaps the second one is the real situation.”

A voice suddenly came from his ear.

Hall glanced to the side and saw Moyel.

“Why are you here?”

“I’m here to deliver a message to you on behalf of my lady.”

“Oh, go ahead.”

He continued to eat.

Moyel looked at him eating here, and then thought of yesterday…

‘And everything Leticia had done for this young man,’ Moyel thought, feeling angry.

“This engagement is not so simple to break off.”

“What do you mean?”

“You must come forward yourself to break off the engagement. The Emperor of Great Xia’s attitude is very firm. Even when I brought a sky-high check, the Great Xia embassy had no intention of negotiating with me at all.”

This couldn’t help but make Hall remember what Leticia had said to Himan yesterday.

“Do you know how large the number on that check was?”

“It could have fully funded a medium-sized war.”

She hadn’t expected the number to be so large before she opened the envelope containing the check.

But this made Moyel understand that Leticia had truly fallen in love with Hall. That price was almost the highest amount Leticia could directly control.

Any higher, and the Child family’s cash flow might have been a bit difficult.

In Moyel’s view, the young lady was very sensible. The young lady had always known that her current position was entirely due to her late master.

She would not touch the foundation of the Child family that her master had left her.

In other words, that check was everything Leticia had now.

She intended to use everything she had now to buy Hall, to buy the boy she liked.

“Forget it, I won’t say more. Even if it’s just to not make my lady sad, I hope you can break off this engagement.”

Moyel had wanted to say that from now on, she would no longer obstruct him and her lady.

But she didn’t say it. She already understood that Leticia’s love for Hall was irreversible.

If Leticia’s happiness had to be him.

What was the use of opposing it?

She thought of the matter between the old master Child and Leticia’s birth mother.

She just felt that perhaps it was some kind of fate.

“Alright, the Emperor of Great Xia’s side will not break off the engagement. That princess certainly can’t make the decision either. You have to find that princess yourself and have her break off the engagement.”

“Is that so?”

Hall didn’t know how large the check was.

But there was one thing he was very clear about: the emperor of Great Xia’s attitude was very firm.

‘Ye Wangxue, can she really only escape the marriage as in the game’s plot?’

The ink-colored carriage moved slowly along the main road of Saint Louis’s Sixth District.

It didn’t look too conspicuous.

It finally stopped in front of the main gate of Holy Light University.

The maid, Lov, who was walking in front of the carriage, turned back to look at Xiao Lu, who was sitting in the driver’s seat.

“We’ve arrived, Miss Xiao Lu. Please have the madam get out of the carriage and go to the administration office of Holy Light University to handle the procedures.”

“Okay.”

Xiao Lu pulled open the curtain and said to Ye Wangxue inside, “Princess, we’ve arrived.”

Ye Wangxue nodded and got out.

It was her first time seeing Holy Light University. Compared to the universities in the East, it looked more vibrant.

The students passing through the school gate were also wearing strange clothes compared to those in the East.

She remembered when she was young, the boys and girls under the Grand Tutor’s tutelage all had uniform attire, and would be accompanied by a study companion and an attendant.

Here, it was not the case.

Earl Lied was also standing at the school gate at this moment. As the vice-principal, he still had to personally receive this future Mrs. Faxtius.

Originally, when he had just learned that Hall hadn’t gone to the engagement ceremony yesterday, he thought he wouldn’t have to show up today.

But early in the morning, he had received a message from Xiao Lu personally, saying that she needed to handle the admission procedures, so he still came.

However, the accompanying entourage was average. He didn’t want to be labeled as being close to the East either.

“Oh, my dear Seventh Princess Ye, I am one of the vice-principals of Holy Light University, Lied. I welcome you as the first Eastern royalty to study at our school. We are greatly honored by your arrival, and today will be a day recorded in the history of Holy Light University.”

“Hello, Principal Lied. My name is Ye Wangxue.”

Ye Wangxue returned the courtesy and said with a smile, “It’s an honor to meet you.”

Earl Lied, who didn’t want to be seen as giving Ye Wangxue the cold shoulder, could still sense a bit of enthusiasm from her.

Then Earl Lied said, “The admission procedures are actually very easy to handle. It mainly depends on which class you choose.”

“Which class is my fiancé in?”

“I see. Is the princess planning to be in the same class as her fiancé?”

This question was also asked deliberately by him. From this question, he could judge Ye Wangxue’s attitude towards Hall.

And Ye Wangxue just nodded in response.

“Alright, the procedures will be handled for you later. It won’t trouble the princess. Please follow this old man to the academic affairs office. It’s still early, you can walk around the campus with your servant to familiarize yourself. This is a detailed map of the campus, please have a look.”

After a brief introduction to Ye Wangxue, and completing the one-stop service, Lied left first.

After receiving the map, Ye Wangxue began to observe it out of her past spy instincts.

Holy Light University was larger than she had imagined. The Theology Faculty, the Magic Faculty, the Economics Faculty, the Political Science Faculty, the Mathematics Faculty, the Literature Faculty, the Arts Faculty, the Military Academy, the Engineering Faculty, and the Swordsmanship Academy where she would be studying.

Each faculty’s area was almost equivalent to the university she had studied at when she was young.

Plus the campus administrative agencies and infrastructure.

“Is this the best educational institution of the Westerners? No wonder my father has been promoting educational reform since he came to power.”

She couldn’t help but feel a little worried.

“Princess, don’t worry. Whether it was the large-scale war a hundred years ago or the small frictions in recent years, the people of the Western Continent haven’t gained much of an advantage over us. Besides, isn’t one of the reasons you stayed to understand the West?”

Ye Wangxue didn’t answer immediately. She was just wondering where Hall had gone.

Would he come to school today?

And would he meet her?

Although she had confirmed yesterday that she would make Hall fall in love with her and then break off the engagement,

Ye Wangxue was still a little nervous about the moment they would meet again, not knowing what to say.

It might be very awkward.

So even though Earl Lied’s map had marked the location of Hall’s classroom, she didn’t go there immediately.

She just took Xiao Lu for a walk around the campus first.

Whether she went to class or not, she didn’t really care.

She wasn’t interested. She often skipped class when she was young.

So annoying.

Ye Wangxue’s heart was not calm.

But she ran into a large group of people at the corner of a road lined with birch trees on both sides.

The group of people quickly formed a human wall, blocking her and Xiao Lu from continuing forward.

It was obvious that they had ill intentions.

The blond young master at the head of the group was none other than the Howard young master.

When Ye Wangxue’s carriage arrived outside the campus, the person he had sent to wait at the campus gate had already reported the information to him.

Then he had been observing the movements of Ye Wangxue and Xiao Lu, looking for an opportunity to block them.

And at this moment, it was class time, and this place was relatively remote, with no other passersby.

For these noble young masters and ladies of Saint Louis, skipping class to block someone was normal. Plus, there was the money and protection promised by the Howard young master.

They weren’t afraid at all.

The law does not punish the masses, let alone them.

Some of them had long wanted to bully the princess of Great Xia to satisfy themselves.

The Howard young master was very satisfied. He took a step forward from the crowd and said.

“Isn’t this the Seventh Princess of Great Xia? What, you’ve married into our Papal State, and yet your fiancé didn’t even show up yesterday? Do you understand now, Eastern princess? There is absolutely no place for you in the West.”

He went straight for the soul attack.

He wanted to make Ye Wangxue unhappy. If Ye Wangxue was unhappy, she would resent two people.

The first was him, which was fine. This showed his loyalty to the College of Cardinals.

The second was Hall. Who told Hall not to attend yesterday?

“Who are you, you little shrimp?”

Xiao Lu spoke up, she was so angry.

Why were the people of the Papal State all like this? Did they all think Ye Wangxue’s status was not noble at all? These arrogant Westerners, she hated them to death!

And Ye Wangxue knew that the other party’s status was not low. She had learned Western etiquette and knew that these people’s attire was that of nobles.

For this blond young man to be able to lead so many noble children, he was probably the son of a duke, just like Hall.

So she hadn’t spoken yet.

“It doesn’t matter who I am. I only know that someone got engaged yesterday, but their fiancé didn’t show up. I heard that in the East, a woman abandoned by her husband is not worth a piece of waste paper.”

The Howard young master spoke slowly, focusing only on this point.

When he finalized this plan last night, he had analyzed it with the direct descendants of his family.

He knew that saying anything else was useless. This sentence was real damage to Ye Wangxue, who had still come to school today and seemed to still have hope for Hall.

“You…”

Xiao Lu was furious.

But this was the truth. In the Eastern Continent, this was a very serious matter. If Ye Wangxue had married a feudal lord or a prince of the Eastern Continent, and the man dared to do this.

Then that would be great, they would just send troops to wipe you out.

But this was the Papal State. A war with the Papal State, if not won, would be a loss to the national strength of Great Xia.

In the past three hundred years in the Eastern Continent, the only time a rebellion had occurred in Great Xia was during the war with the Papal State.

“What, did I hit a nerve? Can I, on behalf of the noble young masters and ladies of Saint Louis, ask you how it feels to be abandoned by your fiancé?”

The Howard young master was very pleased. The script was going according to his plan.

What could Ye Wangxue and Xiao Lu, this pair of orphaned girls abandoned by their fiancé, do to resist him?

He just had to humiliate them like this, but they couldn’t vent their anger. They could only transfer their anger to Hall, to this unpleasant marriage.

“You, say that again if you have the guts?”

Ye Wangxue suddenly said coldly.

“What, does the Seventh Princess Ye still have a temper? But if you have a temper, why don’t you go to your fiancé who was absent yesterday? Venting your anger on me…”

As the Howard young master spoke, he felt a chilling gaze pierce through him.

It was Ye Wangxue.

She was really angry. She could see that this guy was just planning to use her and provoke her again and again.

She, Ye Wangxue, had never tolerated such things.

So she was going to duel him.

But just as she was about to exert her strength, she felt her body go weak. In the air, there seemed to be some kind of powder floating.

Soon, she could see a smile gradually appear on the Howard young master’s originally somewhat frightened face.

She had been set up!

Ye Wangxue thought to herself that this was bad, but her pride would not allow her to back down.

And just at this moment.

A clear, cold, and familiar male voice came from behind.

“Young Master Howard, could you please stay away from my fiancée, and then apologize to her?”

Almost everyone present was surprised that he would actually come.