"Could we accuse Fang Yun of chasing profit?"
"Idiot! The Ritual Hall had been wondering how to guide the people, and now Fang Yun had given an old man's entire family a prosperous, peaceful life. This is 'Treat the elders of others as you would your own elders; treat the children of others as you would your own children.' What happened to Liu Yu was tantamount to telling the entire Human Race: it doesn't matter if you suffer a little in your youth. So long as you devote yourself wholeheartedly to the nation and the Human Race, your children and grandchildren will surely live prosperous lives in the future! The Ritual Hall will certainly learn from this method and use it to inspire young scholars of the Human Race to strive forward. And you still dared to accuse Fang Yun of chasing profit? Who gave you the nerve?"
"Then... should we leak it ahead of time and let the other Palace Examination Metropolitan Graduates steal the credit?"
"Get out! Idiot! You were my pig teammate once—did you want to be one a second time? This was a Palace Examination with three Half-Sages serving as examiners. Fang Yun had already said those words in public, and the three sages had all remembered them. You wanted me to leak it to the other Palace Examination Metropolitan Graduates? Did I dig up your ancestral graves or smash your ancestral hall, that you wanted to harm me like this?"
As Shen Ming read the words in the message, Ji Zhibai's twisted expression seemed to rise before his eyes. He was both ashamed and furious, yet rather than reflect on his own shortsightedness, he vented every bit of his resentment onto Fang Yun.
"Though I cannot access the Literary Ranking, I already know my name