Yun Yun's expression changed.
"Yanran, you... what have you heard...?"
She had barely set foot outside lately. Apart from Gu He dropping by to taunt her now and then, Yun Yun had no idea that rumors were already sweeping through the entire Misty Cloud Sect.
Nalan Yanran lowered her head, tears streaking her face.
"T-Teacher... they said... you..."
Nalan Yanran choked up.
"Tell me! What are they saying about me...?" Yun Yun looked anxiously at the stammering Nalan Yanran.
"They said you... you were forced by someone from the Snake-People Tribe..."
"And... more... more than once..."
After saying this, Nalan Yanran turned away, unable to meet Yun Yun's eyes!
Yun Yun's lovely face changed. Her chest heaved, and her slender legs weakly carried her several steps backward!
"What... what else did they say...?"
"They said... Teacher... you... you might already be pregnant... with a Snake-People Tribe bastard... and in the future..."
"What about the future?" Yun Yun closed her eyes and collapsed weakly into her seat, all color long since drained from her beautiful face.
"In the future... the position of Misty Cloud Sect Master... would pass to the Snake-People Tribe..."
"Bastard... Gu He... you shameless scum..."
Yun Yun rose to her feet, her chest trembling, its two surging waves swaying dizzyingly.
"Teacher, tell me this isn't true! They're all spouting nonsense, aren't they...?"
Nalan Yanran grabbed Yun Yun's hand and cried out until her voice grew hoarse.
"Please tell me it isn't true! You weren't defiled, you weren't raped... and you aren't carrying a Snake-People Tribe bastard, right?"
Yun Yun said nothing. After standing dazed for a moment, she lightly straightened her dark hair and took a sword from her Storage Ring.
"Yanran, listen to me... it's false. All of it is false. I'm fine. I have never suffered