Chapter 5
The most immediate example was he.
His soul's time travel was partly because of Miss Lin.
Three days ago, after hearing about her foppish brother's bad behavior, Miss Lin came back from the Royal War College in the imperial capital. She hung Lin Beichen on the beam and beat him severely. Pain and shock led to his death. Although the priest of the temple cured him of his flesh wound, his soul didn't come back. In the end, his body was taken up by Lin Beichen from the earth.
With this tough girl, no one dared to provoke him in Cloudy Dream City.
As if remembering something, Steward w.a.n.g hesitantly said, "Er... there's something I forgot to tell you, Young Master. Between three to five o'clock in the afternoon, I received news that Miss Lin had been attacked by a large group of fierce beasts on her way back to the Royal War College. Now her whereabouts are unknown. She's pretty much doomed..."
What?
Lin Beichen's expression froze for a moment.
"Besides, Young Master, the news has reached the whole city. On the way here, I dimly saw a lot of your enemies with swords and knives, toward the Third College. They blocked the school gate and claimed that they would chop you to death if you walked out of the college," Steward w.a.n.g added.
Lin Beichen's mouth twitched at his words.
Then, to the amazement of the cla.s.s, something happened.
In the same bright early summer suns.h.i.+ne, Lin Beichen kicked away Steward w.a.n.g, who was holding his thigh, carefully arranged his school uniform, smoothed his hair, and rubbed his stiff face. Then, he forced a smile, got out of his seat, approached the old teacher Ding Sans.h.i.+ and bowed respectfully to him.
"Mr. Ding, I want to cultivate."
His eyes were full of innocence!
His expression was filled with the desire to cultivate!
At this time, Lin Beichen was reverently like an excellent student who was obsessed with cultivation.
The teacher Ding Sans.h.i.+ was stunned.
There was such a brazen person in the world?!
Who just now made such an impa.s.sioned statement that even if he starved to death, and died outside, he could not cultivate?
Could he be more shameless?
At that moment, there was a sudden noise outside the cla.s.sroom.
Vaguely, it seemed that some students were shouting, "The Mansion of Heaven-fighting Marquis has been sealed up. The little b.a.s.t.a.r.d Lin Beichen has no support. Get your revenge. If not now, when..."
Then, a flood of footsteps came in the direction of Cla.s.s nine, Grade two.
Lin Beichen gave a fright.
d.a.m.n it! It could not be...
Did the men who struck him when he was down come so soon?
The teacher Ding Sans.h.i.+ turned pale and rushed out to block the crowd.
After all, Lin Beichen got a lot of hate. If no one stopped the crowd outside, he would probably be blocked in the cla.s.sroom and beaten to death by the excited students.
Soon there was a loud voice from Ding Sans.h.i.+ outside, but it didn't seem to
The students roared with rage like flames rising higher and higher.
"Lin Beichen, come out."
"Let's go in and beat him to death."
"Lin Beichen, you're going to pay for your bad behavior..."
"When your father, Lin Jinnan, committed a heinous crime, he dared to shrink away from it. Your Lin family is the sinner of the empire..."
"Mr. Ding, don't stop us, or we'll be rude to you."
"Drag that trash out, and let's burn him."
The anger of the students seemed like water bursting a dam, which gradually got the situation out of control.
Outside the cla.s.sroom, the old teacher Ding Sans.h.i.+ was about to fail to stop those angry students. Steward w.a.n.g s.h.i.+vered in the cla.s.sroom.
He stared at Lin Beichen, rolling his eyes, wondering if he would try to calm the crowd by pus.h.i.+ng out the culprit if things really got out of hand. Anyway, Lin Beichen could die, but he couldn't.
Lin Beichen suddenly walked out of the cla.s.sroom on his initiative.
At the door, he looked back at Steward w.a.n.g.
When their eyes met, the two in the heart at the same time scolded each other, "You fool!"
"This fool offered to go out. Is he ill again?" Steward w.a.n.g wondered.
"This fool isn't going outside yet. If they block him in the cla.s.sroom and close the door, he won't be able to escape," thought Lin Beichen.
As soon as he got outside the cla.s.sroom, he saw a crowd of people blocking the door.
They stared at Lin Beichen, and their eyes seemed to be breathing fire.
After a brief silence, the angry crowd had a tendency to explode. The students, red in the eyes as if they had seen the man who had killed his father, rushed madly toward Lin Beichen, gnas.h.i.+ng their teeth.
Ding Sans.h.i.+, the old teacher, was as helpless as an elephant against an army ant. His obstruction had no effect.
Just as Lin Beichen was about to be hit in the head, an ethereal voice sounded in the crowd.
"Wait a minute."
As if enchanted, the crowd instantly paused and fell silent.
The ca.s.serole-sized fists were about to hit Lin Beichen in the face but halted.
"Listen to me, everyone."
A young girl in a cyan swordsman robe came out.
Her words, as an imperial decree, made all the students, no matter how angry they were, retreat obediently and make way for a clearing.
Lin Beichen's eyes naturally fell on the girl.
In his mind popped out of a word— "she's so d.a.m.n beautiful."
This was a girl who was a little too beautiful to be true.
Dressed by her, Lin Beichen, standing in the ordinary cyan swordsman robe, was like the most fas.h.i.+onable dress of the season in Cloudy Dream City. She was just like a princess walking in the world, s.h.i.+ning all over sunset, had an impulse to raise his hand to his eyebrows to protect his eyes.
Her eyebrows looked as if they had been painted on, and her skin was as fine as bitty cream.
And her ponytail added to her an air of uncommon gallantry.
"She's too stunning," Lin Beichen couldn't help admiring.
Then he felt a pang of pain in the heart.
It was harrowing, because a memory suddenly burst out like a flood, surging in his mind.
This extremely stunning girl was Mu Xinyue, who ranked first in the 'List of Beauty' in the Third Provincial College, and second in the 'Talent List'. She enjoyed great popularity throughout the college and was known as the "Civilian Princess", and the perfect lover for countless young students.
Her influence even went beyond the college, radiating to the whole Cloudy Dream City.
Of course, she had another ident.i.ty.
She was the previous Lin Beichen's ex-girlfriend.
If the previous Lin Beichen, who was called a scourge in Cloudy Dream City, once sincerely cared for a person, then this person must be the Civilian Princess, Mu Xinyue.
In the past year, in order to please this girl, Lin Beichen had done a lot of wrong things, offended a lot of people and spent a great deal of money. In the eyes of others, he had done many absurd, bizarre and foolish acts of black sheep, but he had done most of them silently for the sake of the girl.