These words left the gathered prodigies humiliated and enraged.
If it had been ordinary rumors or slander, they could have ignored it. But the problem was that they really had eaten grilled meat with Mo Hua.
And right in front of Mo Hua, they truly had not dared utter a single hard or harsh word.
Lies did not wound people. The truth was the sharp blade.
"Bullshit!"
"I ate grilled meat with Mo Hua to give him face."
"If Mo Hua hadn't begged and invited me, I couldn't have been bothered to go."
"Exactly, exactly!"
"Come to think of it..." someone asked in return, "were you there too? Did you eat Mo Hua's grilled meat too? Otherwise, how did you know we were eating grilled meat with Mo Hua?"
That person sneered. "How could I possibly eat grilled meat with Mo Hua?"
"Then how did you know we were eating grilled meat with Mo Hua?"
His tone dripping with mockery, the man sent a message: "I was nearby and saw it with my own eyes. You so-called favored sons of heaven crowded around Mo Hua, drinking and eating meat, currying favor and clinging to power! What you did was truly contemptible!"
Someone cursed back, "You were watching from afar? So you didn't even dare sit in front of Mo Hua?"
"It's not that I didn't dare," the man stubbornly retorted. "It's that he didn't invite me, understand? If he didn't invite me, why would I go over there to eat grilled meat?"
"If he invited you, then you would've gone?"
"How could that be? Mere Mo Hua—if he invited me, I still wouldn't go."
"No matter what, eating grilled meat with Mo Hua makes you guilty of a monstrous crime!"
"What was I supposed to do? When Mo Hua called