Vice Dean Xuan had been splashed with all this mud by Xu Yi, and nearly all of it stemmed from those three incidents.
Otherwise, given her status, beauty, and noble identity, no male cultivator could have sparked such a sensational scandal just by running his mouth.
It was because none of those three incidents could be explained.
If she and Xu Yi had nothing going on, why had she gone to such lengths to make things difficult for him? It made no sense.
That hint alone was enough for a scandal to take root.
And on top of that, the scoundrel had added those heartbreaking lines of poetry, fanning the scandal's tiny spark until it became a raging blaze.
Xu Yi said, "For the first incident, we can find someone to take the blame. Supervisor Hong will do. He already dislikes me, and he's a witness, too. Given Your Excellency the Vice-Dean's reputation, he'll surely be glad to help."
Vice Dean Xuan snorted. "Go on. A man's mouth can tell two different stories. I'm seeing that for myself today."
Xu Yi cupped his hands. "You flatter me. For the second incident, I'll say that I made an indecent gesture toward you during class, which was why you called me out. As for the third, those were poems I wrote in private for the one I love. I agonized over them for years."
"At the time, I was panicking when I heard that Your Excellency the Vice-Dean was going to give me a Major Demerit. Humiliated and angry, I deliberately made up those lines to slander you."
"That explains all three incidents. What do you think, Your Excellency the Vice-Dean?"
Vice Dean Xuan snorted. "I think it's terrible!"
Xu Yi said, "Scandals are like that: the clear-minded see clearly, while the