"This second daughter of the Kang Family really is just as you said: swift and decisive, aggressive and overbearing, not even caring about the dignity of the great families."
In the little courtyard of White Jade Pavilion, Wu Ming sincerely marveled at this payoff to a setup laid sixteen chapters ago.
Back then, he had thought her disregard for the dignity of the great families meant that she acted ruthlessly and showed no mercy. Now, it seemed she had meant an entirely different kind of disregard for dignity...
Liu Sanlang gave a helpless, bitter smile. "That's why I said she's extremely difficult to deal with. If she were the sort of villain or petty scoundrel, it would actually be easier—we could simply break cleanly apart and fight to the death. But Senior Sister Kang... though she often puts people in difficult positions and often comes up with wild ideas, I truly can't regard her as a bad person."
Zhang Miao, however, was somewhat dissatisfied. "If she hadn't tattled and brought the True Person in charge of discipline here, Yi Yi and the others..."
Wu Ming shook his head. "There's no need to lay this matter at her door. The moment Brother Yi and the others resolved to prepare for this, there was no chance it would end well. If we must blame someone, blame my method of clearing the trial for making them itch to hunt after what they saw."
Liu Sanlang added, "At least Kang Yunshu went and reported it properly. She didn't use any underhanded tricks... Honestly, it's hard for me even to imagine someone like her being associated with such dirty methods."
Seeing the two youths before her refute her in unison, Zhang Miao unusually did not wear an expression of enjoyment. She still seemed to be