After sending off the Li Mu Yang siblings, Lin Zhengyin returned to the study and gazed at the calligraphy on the desk, sighing softly. "It's excellent calligraphy—vigorous and powerful, upright and imposing. It looks like it has a solid foundation. But the content... there's still resentment in his heart."
"It's my responsibility." Zhao Mingzhu hurriedly apologized to Lin Zhengyin. "When Li Mu Yang was bullied and ostracized by his classmates, I also failed in my duty as a teacher. If I had stood up and spoken for him then, perhaps things wouldn't have turned out like this today. Those children went too far. If the principal hadn't distinguished right from wrong, and if that crane-riding youth hadn't delivered the good news in time, Li Mu Yang probably wouldn't have made it through today."
Lin Zhengyin waved his hand. "Enough, enough. Why bring up what's already past? But from now on, we have to pay more attention to students like Li Mu Yang—never judge a hero by his grades. Many of the Empire's heroes never studied or attended school at all."
"Yes. I'll learn from this lesson and treat all students equally from now on." Zhao Mingzhu bowed as she promised.
"That will be the school's good fortune, and the students' good fortune as well," Lin Zhengyin said.
Zhao Mingzhu looked at the strange couplet on the desk. "Principal, these two lines—are you really going to have them carved onto the school motto stone at the school entrance?"
"How can I go back on my word once it's been spoken?" Lin Zhengyin said with a serious expression. "But for now, carve only the first line..."
"Only 'Walk with the Wise'?"
"Yes. The sentence is simple and plain, yet it contains great wisdom about life. Putting it on the motto stone also