"What do you want, then?" Ye Lanyu asked unhappily. In her view, since her little brother had apologized, the girl should accept it.
Ye Lanyu's attitude made the girl's anger rise another notch. She had already been furious after having juice splashed on her, being peeped at under her skirt, and then hearing him announce it so loudly.
All of that had driven the girl's fury to unprecedented heights, and now it climbed another floor. With her rage bursting through her mind, she said something she would regret for a long, long time.
"Hmph! What do I want? Lick all of this clean, and I'll let it go."
"Do you want to die? If so, I'll grant your wish! Little brother..." Ye Lanyu said coldly. Likewise, the Seventh Princess and Tiger Girl were indignant. This was an utterly thorough humiliation.
In truth, the girl regretted saying it a little after the words left her mouth. She should not have said that. But before she could think of what to do, something happened that she could never have anticipated.
"Ah!" the girl cried out.
"Ah..." Everyone's mouths fell open as they stared blankly at the scene before them.
A small young boy had stuck out his tongue and was licking the incomparably delicate face of a girl. Her face was now frozen in shock and blank stupor.
Telling someone to lick something clean was indeed an insulting thing to say, but what if the other person actually did it? Few people had likely ever considered that, and even if they had, they would never have done it.
Yet Thirteenth Young Master Ye was a very unusual person. He really did lick it, and he was extremely focused.
The girl felt the wetness on her face, the numb tickle there, and it spread from her face into her heart, then through her whole body...
"Ah!! You... you..." The girl snapped awake as if from a dream and shoved away Thirteenth Young Master Ye, who had been diligently licking her. One hand covered the cheek he had licked as she stammered, unable to form a sentence.
How was this situation supposed to be described? To say Thirteenth Young Master Ye had flirted with a girl in public? It seemed she had asked him to do it herself.
At that moment, Thirteenth Young Master Ye said something that made the entire scene even stranger. "How can I lick it if you push me away? There's still a lot on you."
Those words made everyone look at the stains of juice on the girl's clothes, especially those on her chest, which now seemed particularly conspicuous.
"Ah, don't lick there!" Startled, the girl immediately shielded her chest with both hands.
"..." Silence.
"Little brother, that was brilliant, haha..." Ye Lanyu laughed. She had originally wanted to teach that girl a lesson, but there was no need now. Her silly little brother's actions were better than any lesson.
"Pfft..." Tiger Girl and the Seventh Princess could not help but laugh softly.
The male students present wished desperately that they were in Thirteenth Young Master Ye's position. At the same time, they secretly swore that if any girl ever told them to lick something in the future, they would absolutely not hesitate.
The girls present, however, all came to the same realization: they could never casually say such angry words again. Otherwise, if they met someone like Thirteenth Young Master Ye, not only would they fail to punish him, they would be taken advantage of instead.
This incident also created a phenomenon: the boys of Royal Academy would intentionally or unintentionally spill juice, wine, and other drinks on girls, while the girls trained themselves into experts at dodging.
"Hmph!!" The girl stamped her foot viciously, then ran away with her rarely seen face flushed red, her head lowered.
"Don't run! There's still some on you. Actually, you don't need to lick it off. You can use a Conversion Array to get rid of it," Thirteenth Young Master Ye shouted after her. The more he shouted, the faster she ran.
"It really can work, Tiger Girl. She doesn't seem to believe me."
"Young Master..."
"Haha... All right, let this matter end here. Little brother, don't do this again. You do whatever people tell you to do—what if you run into bad people someday?" Ye Lanyu laughed as she scolded him, taking the chance to remind her little brother.
"Exactly. You're my fiancé—how can you lick other girls?" the Seventh Princess added, making a small joke.
"Then I'll only lick you from now on." Thirteenth Young Master Ye nodded very seriously.
"Uh..." The Seventh Princess fell silent.
"By the way, who was that girl just now? Why have I never seen her before, or even heard of someone like her?" Ye Lanyu asked in confusion.
With that girl's beauty and bearing, she should have been a famous figure throughout the academy. How could no one have ever mentioned her?
"I don't know. I haven't heard of her either. Oh, I remember. Recently, we've been holding an inter-academy exchange with Violet Academy of the Aila Empire. It seems some students came from their side. She might be one of them," the Seventh Princess guessed.
"That's right, she's from Violet Academy. Her identity is no small matter. She is..." said someone well-informed. But before he could reveal her identity, Thirteenth Young Master Ye had already run off, so he never learned who that snow-like girl was.
Actually, even if he had heard it, he might not have remembered it. Or rather, he would not have taken it to heart, believing that he would never have another chance to meet her.
And indeed, after this exchange, that girl returned to Violet Academy and swore that she would never come to the Xiangkong Empire again in her life—especially not this Imperial City, this Royal Academy. Even more, she never wanted to see a certain person again!
She wanted to forget this incident, and even more, forget that certain person!
Everyone had things they wanted to forget in life, but how many could truly forget them?
A few days later, Royal Academy held a series of entertaining events for Violet Academy's exchange delegation. They served as both a welcome and a farewell, since the visitors would be leaving in a few days.
Thirteenth Young Master Ye did not participate in these events. It was not because he lacked the qualifications; in the earlier preliminary events, he had won with a result that was somewhat unexpected, yet somehow entirely unsurprising.
But considering his unpredictability, the academy decided to give him a few days off for the time being and let him go wreak havoc on other people.
Even so, those preliminary events left behind plenty of gossip. For a long time afterward, the people who had "dueled" Thirteenth Young Master Ye at the time became a lasting joke for everyone.
This was also what made them regretful. They had gone to every effort to make Thirteenth Young Master Ye participate. With Thirteenth Young Master Ye's personality, how could he possibly attend such events? If it had been an exhibition fair, he might have gone. This was merely a talent show, quick-witted question-and-answer contests, and the like.
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