Chapter 79: The Girls Quarreled

Ye Wangxue’s words were like a stone dropped into a calm lake, causing a thousand ripples.

The entire classroom erupted.

Everyone had either read the newspaper this morning or heard from their friends and classmates. Coupled with Hall’s absence, they had all assumed that Hall and Ye Wangxue’s marriage was off.

But now you have the fiancée jump out and say that you’re very much in love?

They couldn’t quite accept it, but Ye Wangxue’s smile was so generous and beautiful, making one feel as if bathed in a spring breeze.

She didn’t at all seem like the resentful woman who had been abandoned by her fiancé yesterday.

So their gazes shifted to Leticia. She was the other party involved.

They wanted to know if Hall had spent yesterday with Leticia or with Ye Wangxue.

“Seventh Princess Ye, what are you saying here?”

The rose-colored girl stood up from her seat.

Confronting Ye Wangxue.

She was so unconvinced. What did Ye Wangxue mean?

The intelligence had clearly indicated that this person was here to break off the engagement, yet she was putting on such a show today.

It was just as she had feared in the worst-case scenario. Ye Wangxue had also come…

Everything she had done last night was not in vain.

“I am stating the facts, Princess Leticia.”

Seeing Leticia stand up, Ye Wangxue also entered a state of combat readiness.

‘A confrontation it is.’

‘You lured my fiancé away yesterday, and you think I’m afraid to face you?’

Himan was very anxious. She didn’t know which side to help. Helping Leticia would be a slap in the face to Ye Wangxue, who had just been calling her “cousin.” It was not appropriate.

Helping Ye Wangxue, then how would the engagement be broken off?

But she didn’t understand why Ye Wangxue would say such a thing.

Her brain kind of shut down, and then she glared at Hall.

The meaning was probably, “Look at the mess you’ve made. Now an Eastern princess and a duchess are arguing over you in public. You’re not proud of yourself, are you?”

Hall ignored Himan. He only knew that he was caught in a battlefield.

Although it seemed Ye Wangxue had deliberately made this confusing statement, Ye Wangxue definitely knew the meaning of such a statement.

He didn’t understand what she was trying to do, but Hall did not fall for one of the ten great delusions of man: “she likes me.”

Wasn’t that ridiculous?

Including the time in the Underground Street, the total time he had spent with Ye Wangxue was no more than three hours.

That wasn’t even long enough for some short films.

But he didn’t dare to speak either, and planned to observe the situation first.

“What facts are you stating? Seventh Princess Ye, from eight-thirty yesterday morning, Hall and I were together. He didn’t go to the engagement ceremony, nor did he go to pick up your carriage. He doesn’t like you at all, don’t you understand?”

Leticia was really angry.

She hated Ye Wangxue for twisting the truth about Hall.

She had tried so hard yesterday.

Even if the Great Xia embassy had not accepted the negotiation terms, Ye Wangxue should know by now, right?

She clearly knew, yet she still opposed her.

She clearly didn’t know anything about Hall, yet she was clinging to him and provoking her.

Leticia was angry. She was rarely this angry.

So her attack became very strong.

This left the class advisor stunned.

In his eyes, the princess of the Howard family was low-key, quiet, gentle, and kind, and spoke in a soft voice.

This was actually the impression most people in Saint Louis had of Leticia.

But now…

What was this situation? If this great benefactor of the school was unhappy, he might even lose his job.

The atmosphere in the classroom became even more heated. Because of Leticia’s statement, Ye Wangxue had become a clown, which was in line with the values of these Western noble children.

Setting aside how jealous everyone was about whether Hall liked her or not, the issue of East-West ideology had to be put aside.

Hall was very afraid that Ye Wangxue would turn dark just like that. After all, she had lost a lot of face and had been crushed by Leticia.

So he planned to be a peacemaker and say, “Ladies, let’s call it a day. We can talk about this in private later.”

But Ye Wangxue directly retorted Leticia.

“Leticia, you don’t seem to know my dear fiancé very well.”

As a princess of Great Xia, who had trained hard for three years and had even done intelligence work, she did not fight unprepared battles.

So she just smiled.

“What do you mean?”

“He can be with another woman yesterday, but that doesn’t mean he won’t step up to defend his fiancée today. I think Princess Leticia should understand the meaning of this sentence.”

Ye Wangxue’s statement stunned Leticia for a moment.

Then she followed up with a finishing blow, “Yes, he was with you yesterday, that’s right. But he also came to save me today. The fact that he was with you does not mean that our engagement is off. I am still his fiancée, and he is still my fiancé. If things go smoothly, we will be married as scheduled, and I will become Mrs. Hall. As for that sentence just now, it was his original words. If you don’t believe me, you can ask my dear fiancé.”

Hall was really put on the spot.

What should he do?

He felt that even a master of balancing acts couldn’t balance this situation today.

Two heroines. Choosing one would probably make the other turn dark.

Although Leticia was indeed very cute, Ye Wangxue was also very dangerous.

Silence first. Silence was his right.

“Hall, did you really say that to Princess Ye?”

At this moment, Himan’s soul-searching question made him want to just give up completely.

‘You guys chat. I’m going to the rooftop for some fresh air.’

But Himan’s words were just a small interlude. It was Leticia’s sincere gaze that he couldn’t stand.

‘Hall, is it true?’

“Darling, quickly tell Princess Leticia the answer.”

The three young ladies looked at the black-haired young man.

Everyone in the classroom also looked at the black-haired young man.

Even the class advisor, who had been frozen for a long time, had his gossip soul ignited.

He was determined to see who Hall would end up with today.

But the black-haired young man was silent for another moment before he answered.

“I did say that, because that’s my personality, Leticia. You know that, right? Similarly, Seventh Princess Ye, you also know that, right?”

Hall began to perform. He had no choice.

If he didn’t act, he would be the protagonist of a battlefield, the favorite whetstone for a cleaver.

Without waiting for the two girls to answer, he continued, “How should I put it? Actually, I don’t have much of a concept of the word ‘fiancée.’ I think everyone has known what kind of person I, Hall, have been for the past three years. My heart won’t stop for… that person is my fiancée.”

It seemed like an admission, but after these words, Leticia was much more relieved.

That’s right. For Hall, a fiancée was not special.

In their concept, a fiancée was very special, but in Hall’s concept, it was not.

In other words, she felt that Hall was not a philanderer, but then again, Hall was not a philanderer, yet he used a philanderer’s persona to put off Ye Wangxue.

Didn’t that also mean he was protecting her?

At this point, Leticia’s mood had improved a lot.

Ye Wangxue, on the other hand, was indignant. She knew Hall was playing word games.

But in her understanding, this statement was not particularly biased towards Leticia.

At most, it was a fifty-fifty split.

And Hall’s statement further strengthened her current conviction.

‘You think I’m not special, right?’

‘I will definitely find a way to make you think I’m special in the future.’

It wasn’t for the sake of winning, but for the sake of pride. She, the great princess of Great Xia, how could she be inferior to a Western woman?

She would prove to the world that Eastern women were more excellent!

“Alright, Hall, that’s enough. Class is about to start.”

Himan was very annoyed.

She hadn’t been able to get a word in from beginning to end, and she felt like she was an invisible person.

What was even more fatal was that she remembered what Leticia had said to her last night, and remembered Leticia’s figure in the heavy rain.

So brave, so brave that it even made her heart stir a little.

“Ahhh, what am I thinking? It’s just a childish crush. I don’t know why Leticia has to have this philanderer, Hall.”

Returning to her seat, Himan opened her book but had no mood to read.

She just rested her head on her right hand and would occasionally glance at Hall on her left, and Leticia, who was even further to the left.

“No, I have to instill correct values about love in Hall!”

After being annoyed for a long time, Himan directed her anger at Hall.

But she blamed him.

The morning classes were not quiet.

Leticia sat to Hall’s left, and Himan to his right.

Ye Wangxue was behind Hall, constantly poking his back with a pen.

Occasionally, she would also kick his chair.

He couldn’t stand it, he really couldn’t stand it.

Hall spent the whole time thinking about how to successfully escape from Saint Louis under the current circumstances.

The engagement didn’t seem so simple to break off.

Maybe he shouldn’t break it off for now.

Anyway, she was just a fiancée, not yet married. He could just take a dispatched mission and leave.

So the problem still lay in.

Whether the College of Cardinals still suspected him.

But he remembered last night, the situation when Mandosha Flower had come to find him.

Before his amnesia, he was connected to the Salvation Church.

Could it be…

First, he ruled out the possibility that he had deliberately sought death before his amnesia.

Then he must have sought the power of the Salvation Church to resist his fate of death.

According to the description in the late stages of Christine’s route, the Holy Church was too dark inside. It was unlikely that his past self would have joined forces with the Holy Church.

After all, in the late stages of many heroine routes, they had to fight against the Holy Church. Joining the Holy Church was equivalent to suicide.

“Perhaps the reason I’m being investigated is because of my connection to the Salvation Church back then?”

A chill ran down Hall’s heart.

If so, and if the Church found evidence, he would be a full-fledged heretic and would be sent to the stake.

“In other words, the Church probably doesn’t have any key evidence.”

And the move I used to defeat Ye Wangxue came from the Demon God’s Black Blade sword system. In the game routes, Hall didn’t come with the Demon God’s sword skills, which means my past self had also been in contact with the Demon God’s legacy…

If I had been in contact with the Demon God’s legacy, from the perspective of substituting into the heroine.

That would mean I had lived until the very late stages of the route.

Unless he had been in contact with that heroine whose unlock difficulty was equivalent to Christine’s route—the Demon God’s daughter.

In Saint Catherinesburg.

After returning to the capital of Cateline after the swordsmanship exchange competition, Tarasha had been relentlessly checking the texts between the intelligence department and the Salvation Church.

But she found no major discrepancies.

“The information about Hall should be true… he lied to me, and he also deceived Her Majesty. He even tried to drive a wedge between us, Cateline, and the Salvation Church.”

Tarasha put down the documents, a little angry. She suddenly felt that Hall was a very great threat.

The cooperative relationship between the Salvation Church and the Kingdom of Cateline could not be exposed now. Any insider should keep their mouth shut.

“I have to report this to the Salvation Church. If it’s really necessary, I’ll have to ask them to find a way to get rid of Hall.”