When Song Yaoyao asked this, the woman beside her involuntarily shrank back. Song Yaoyao immediately said:
"Don't move. I'll have your wound taken care of in a moment."
Seeing Song Yaoyao's serious expression, the woman struggled to move her lips before finally saying:
"Commandery Princess, aren't you afraid that everything they said is true?"
Without even raising her head, Song Yaoyao said:
"What? That you're a jinx?
I don't believe in any of that."
The woman had never expected Song Yaoyao to say such a thing. After all this time, she was the first person to say it.
Whether from gratitude or heartache, the woman burst into tears.
Someone in the crowd saw her tears but remained unmoved, instead saying to Song Yaoyao:
"Commandery Princess, don't let her tears fool you.
She and her child are both jinxes, both freaks!
Don't get too close to them, or their bad luck might rub off on you!"
Someone else chimed in:
"Exactly, Commandery Princess. Don't let her fool you."
Song Yaoyao raised her head, looked at the speaker, and said:
"Children are innocent. Don't you understand that?"
Under Song Yaoyao's gaze, the man retreated two steps and said:
"Commandery Princess, everything I said is true.
The child in her arms is a monster. His eyes are blue.
A woman who gives birth to a monster can't be any good either."
Song Yaoyao froze for a moment upon hearing this, then asked:
"Just because this child has blue eyes, you're calling him a monster?
And saying his mother is no good either?"
"Isn't that enough to prove he's a monster?
And that his mother is a jinx?"
Someone else chimed in:
"Commandery Princess, look at us normal people. Which of us has blue eyes?
If he isn't a monster, who is?"
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