37. Spare My Life (I)

Feeling a little bit down, Yu Qingqing suddenly remembered that she was wrapped in full white gauze and her face was a total mess. “Ah, Ah” She screamed. She almost let her senior fellow brother Ming Qingyu see her messy appearance.

Crying without tears, she said, "It's me, Qingqing! Yu Qingqing!"

"Yu Qingqing? Oh, I see, you are the student of my 12th uncle master! Then you can't be counted as my junior fellow sister. We have different masters. You cannot call me that, it is not right!” Ming Qingyu explained in a serious manner, then he looked away, focusing on Ye Lan again.

"I..." devastated by Ming's behavior, Yu Qingqing nearly cried, "No! It can't be like this!” She worked so hard to get to know him and was able to see him off when he left. How could he forget about her only after three months?

"Pooh, haha!" Finally, some bystanders couldn't help themselves and burst into laughs.

Yu Qingqing was still shedding tears and weeping. But, even without her pretty face, her voice was still affecting, making people wanting to care for her. The law enforcement elder was so angry that his beard was shaking with his body. He soothed his chest and turned to Ye Lan and Ming Qingyu. He sized them up, seeing that they were both in fancy clothing, and the girl was even wearing yamamai silk, which was even more expensive. Judging from her clothes, he thought she was just a girl relying on family wealth and some brute power with no regard to any regulations. He was not afraid of her. With a second thought, he believed that if he scolded them, their family would know and disciplined them, and maybe they would come and apologize with gifts. Then, he would have both fame and wealth. Thinking of this, adding to the weeping of Yu Qingqing, student of his academy, he got more irritated, shouted, "How dare you wound the student of Fengtian Academy in broad daylight and in such an arrogant way! Do you really think the academy has no powerful elders left?"

Just after his angry words fell, he concentrated all his spiritual power to hit upon Ye Lan. Ye Lan sensed the change of air pressure immediately. Seeing the elder swung his huge sword on Ye Lan, Ming Qingyu shifted positions with Ye Lan, protecting her with a shield formed from his spiritual power. However, he was too weak. Even the elder withdraw half of his force right away, realizing Ming was taking the hit, the force could still shatter the shield. Ye Lan stepped up and blocked the force just before his shield shattered. As she never let off any of her hurters, she infused all her power in the shield, turning it into a gold foil and struck to the law enforcement elder. The elder was never her opponents. Within minutes, the gold foil under Ye Lan's control, captured the elder, with bursting spiritual power left still vibrating. "Ah." Shocked by the bursting power wave, the elder spat out blood, greatly wounded. Libao frowned and thought, "she cannot go too far here, otherwise how could she be a student here in the future?!”

Thinking about this, he flew forward while fanning, pulled Ye Lan into his arms, and then raised his hand to flick on her head. "Enough! Do you still want to study here or not?!"

"Now that plan has shrunk by four folds!" Ye Lan did not get angry, withdrawing her power along with Libao. Knowing the fact that a little girl spared him, the elder was much ashamed and embarrassed. Before the fight, he had once thought of fame and wealth, but now it's good not to be disgraced!

Ming Qingyu struggled to take three strikes from the elder, then was wounded and vomited a big mouthful of blood. Retreating from the fight, she landed to the ground, frowned at his injuries, and thought, "he had made no progress in his power!” Ye Lan never gave mercy to her hurters, but she would never stop protecting her supporters. She liked to protect her people. The stronger the protection, the more valuable the person was to her!

Taking out her homemade wet wipes from her sleeve, she gently wiped the blood from Ming Qingyu's mouth and frowned.

Stunned by her power, Ming Qingyu was still thinking of her fight. Anyone could see that if not for Ye Lan's retreat, the Law Enforcement elder would be lying on the ground, same as these coke-like corps.

Though she was not weak last time he saw her, now, she was getting stronger! Ming Qingyu was annoyed by his stupidity that he had no breakthrough in his cultivation till now!

Ye Lan pulled several pills out from her personal space, offered it up to his mouth and said, "Open your mouth!" watching this young lad's dull eyes and knowing he was clearing wondering about something.

Confounded for a second, "Huh? Oh!" Ming Qingyu submissively opened his mouth, feeling the medicine that Ye Lan threw directly into his mouth melted right away. Ye Lan made these medicines of supreme quality in her personal space. Such functional quality medicine was nowhere to be found on the open market, even with loads of money.

Ming Qingyu could sense the heat rising from his Dantian (the core to his strength), and the chest pain was largely relieved!

"Thank you."

"Don't be. I never owe others. You took the hit for me just now, so you deserve it.” Ye Lan liked to make everything clear. But Ming Qingyu was too obsessed with her to listen to her words.

"Elder. You've had your turn of fighting and scolding. For my sake, just let today's unpleasant incident slide.” After witnessing the whole incident, he knew that it was partly Ye Lan's fault, but he still stood firmly beside her, telling everyone that he was on her side.

Ye Lan turned to look at Ming Qingyu.

"Ming Qingyu, do you know what she has done? How can you defend her like this?!” The Law Enforcement elder asked indignantly, raising his shaking hand to point at all the injured. "Look! Open your eye and look carefully! All these injured were her victims. She viciously hit our people right in front of our gate. Did she think that the Fengtian Academy can be pushed around?"

"What?" Just now, he was only focusing on the fight and was overwhelmed by the joy of seeing Ye Lan. He did not have the time to look around. It was then that he found several injured lying on the ground, suffering lightning injuries, and also the victim-Yu Qingqing, lying in the doctor’s arms covered in full white gauze.

Realizing that Ming Qingyu had looked her way, Yu Qingqing huddled into the doctor’s arms, with a pitiful and helpless look on her face, sobbing in tears, "Brother Ming, look at that vicious woman! She hurt my friends and me. We were just suggesting to her that she may need more practice to enter the Fengtian Academy. Who knew?! Who could expect her to be this angry to hurt us like this! Ooooh!" She kept wailing.

Everybody who had witnessed the scene would say that there was more lies than truth in Yu Qingqing's words. Maybe the only truth was the "suggesting" part, and even the so-called "suggesting" was just a vague or "distorted" fact.

Ye Lan thought with these victims and Yu Qingqing's accusation; Ming Qingyu would doubt her or at least ask her what happened. Yet, he just turned to look at her, reassured her with a gentle but firm look. Very surprised by his trust, she did not say a word. Libao, at this time, came forward and whispered to her ears, "I wonder what is in that woman's head. How could she distort the facts like this! I wish I could kill her!"

"Killing her solves nothing," Ye Lan said in disappointment, "Maybe half of the students and teachers here are peoples like her. I do not wish to attend the Fengtian Academy anymore."

Libao responded to her wishes with blunt fact, "But the old man wouldn't let you. He must have important plans for you here; otherwise, he would not ask you to come."

"That's right, or else I would not have wasted my time on the bunch of losers!" Ye Lan replied carelessly.

Ming Qingyu slowly stepped forward, walked in front of Yu Qingqing, squatted down, and reached for Yu Qingqing's hands.

Yu Qingqing was so flushed that she even stopped weeping, and said with her attentionally blinking eyes, "Brother Ming!"

Ye Lan couldn't help but feel sick. She thought, “Ew! A minute before he was senior fellow brother Ming, and now he is Brother Ming? Well, she certainly shifts her identity very fast.”

"Brother Ming..." Just when Yu Qingqing was about to continue, Ming Qingyu stopped her and said, "Stop talking, I am trying to check your injuries."

"Oh, Brother Ming..." Yu Qingqing was deeply touched by Ming Qingyu's thoughtfulness. But she wouldn't know that this was just a courtesy gesture for Ming Qingyu, which means nothing to him. Ming Qingyu, as the royal blood of the Beiming Kingdom, was raised in aristocratic education. His manner and education asked him to always preserve a lady's dignity even in great anger, and this was why Ye Lan thought highly of him.

Gently unraveling the white gauze on Yu Qingqing's arm, he noticed that the wound was already blurred by flesh and blood. He, then, slowly wrapped up the white gauze again and turned to the doctor, "This wound is from a whip with barbs, right?"

Though his sentence ended with a question mark, he was already sure of it.

Amazed by the accurate judgment of the prince, he answered in awe, "True! And the whip was coated with poison."

"Poison?" Ming Qingyu frowned, "There is poison on the whip?"

"Exactly." The doctor nodded respectfully. But Ming Qingyu was more and more puzzled. She was wounded by a barbed whip with poison, but the whip belonged to her, and the poison was also hers. Unless somebody took her whip, she would have to use her whip to hurt herself to have this wound.

"This poison is..." said the doctor.

"Shut up!" The doctor's words were abruptly interrupted by Yu Qingqing's screaming. She screamed and reached for Ming Qingyu's sleeve with a pitiful look, "Brother Ming, you have to save me! Not only did she hurt me, she also poisoned me. You have got to save me. I'm so scared."

"Tell me the truth!" Gentle but forcefully, he pulled Yu Qingqing's hand off his clothes, then turned to the doctor. Under the tremendous royal pressure, the doctor bent his back unconsciously and said, "Uh, yes. It's the signature poison of the Yu family."

As soon as this remark came out, people who knew what happened all drew a deep breath. No wonder Yu Qingqing was fine until now. The poison was hers; then she must have the antidote. Thus, she shouldn't be afraid of anything.

People who knew about this poison said, "The poison is named Rosemary Powder. Don't underestimate this poison just by this romantic name. It was great to cover one's tracks. If you spill the powder on flesh wounds, a person will be melted into liquid within half a day. This poison wouldn't even save the corpse for your relatives to bury."

"That is so cruel."

"So cruel." people stood around said.

"You think this is cruel? This is just the beginning of its cruelty. If the poison gets on your bone, then you will be torture by the extreme pain all over your body like worms eating you alive piece by piece. You would have to suffer for months until death relieves you. That is literally being tortured to death!”

The man who spoke of this, hissed, drew a deep breath and then went into silence. But his silence did not stop people from whispering. People on the scene were all talking about this.

Yu Qingqing couldn't sit tight now.

With the doctor's words, the witnesses were all clear about what had happened. This was just a bully from a wealthy family who was taught a lesson by the bully target. But, even after her weapon was taken and wounded, she tried to frame others for it. What a shameless girl!

Hearing people's whisper, Yu Qingqing was overwhelmed with thought rumbling in her head, "Oh! I am finished, finished!"

But still, she attempted to pull Ming Qingyu's sleeves and made her last try, "Don't listen to them, Brother Ming. Look at my injuries and then look at her, all well and sound. I am so miserable." However, Ming Qingyu already knew what happened. Leaving her no chance of begging or pulling again, he stood up and walked to those black coke-like people on the ground.