How dare you!? 成何体统

Chapter Five: A Night Meeting with Prince Duan

Hearing Xiahou Dan's call, she put on the fox mask she had prepared and gracefully walked over to Xie Yong'er, speaking in a muffled voice, "Ma Chunchun, how have you been?"

Xie Yong'er, already sitting on the ground, hiccupped and asked, "Who are you?"

Yu Wanyin squatted down and looked at her, as if making a prank call, "You don't remember me?"

Xie Yong'er stared at the mask for a while, then seemed to understand, "You know my name, so you must be the author of 'The East Wind Night Blooms a Thousand Trees,' right?"

Yu Wanyin was shocked: This girl has quite an imagination.

She went along, "Yes, I didn't expect you to stir up so much trouble in my book..."

Xie Yong'er suddenly interrupted, "How are my parents?"

Yu Wanyin: "..."

Yu Wanyin: "They're fine. You should worry about yourself. I didn't expect you to stir up so much trouble..."

Xie Yong'er interrupted again, "What place did my idol end up getting?"

Yu Wanyin turned to Xiahou Dan for help.

Xiahou Dan mouthed, "Say what she wants to hear."

Yu Wanyin: "First place."

With a crisp sound, Xie Yong'er angrily threw the cup, "Impossible! That damn platform would never treat people fairly, you're lying to me!"

Yu Wanyin: "..."

This character, even as a paper doll, seems a bit too well-developed.

Yu Wanyin composed herself and deepened her voice for authority, "Let's get to the point. I didn't expect you to stir up so much trouble, fooling Prince Duan and messing up the plot. How will you take responsibility?"

Xie Yong'er spat, "If I followed your plot, I'd just be a cannon fodder, dying early."

Yu Wanyin patiently explained, "You shouldn't have revealed those failed examinees' names to Prince Duan. While protecting them from injustice, you deprived them of the opportunity to grow through trials. As they say, 'Heaven will assign great responsibilities to those who...'"

Xie Yong'er angrily interrupted, "Stupid author, do you think I don't remember the original text?"

"What about the original text?"

Xie Yong'er: "In the original, after Li Yunxi and Yang Duojie exposed the villain's cheating, they were beaten to death in a sack as soon as they left the exam hall; Erlan, disguised as a man, was humiliated and expelled from the capital, eventually committing suicide in despair; and..."

Yu Wanyin frantically gestured to Xiahou Dan: 抖阴社区 this down, write this down!

Xiahou Dan: Already doing it.

Xie Yong'er listed five or six names in one breath, "What great responsibilities? They're all just cannon fodder you created and killed off casually. Aren't we allowed to resist?"

However, Yu Wanyin was no longer listening to her impassioned speech.

Yu Wanyin leaned over to Xiahou Dan, looked at the names he had just written down, and said with satisfaction, "Yes, it's them. With these talents, Yan can yield 1,800 mu of millet per acre, and neither drought nor inflation would be a problem."

Xie Yong'er sat drunkenly in place, shouting, "Stupid author! Out of words now?"

Xiahou Dan said, "But these ambitious scholars must hate the foolish emperor. Otherwise, Prince Duan wouldn't have so easily recruited them. We need to figure out how to deceive them into working for me before the imperial examination."