(Continued from the previous news report)
In this report, the Daily Horn Newspaper provided few details. One was that Councilwoman Su had served as the thesis advisor for the You Zui Hunting Team during this year's School Hunting Meet qualifiers (a hunting team captained by student Zheng Qing, which had participated in the Black Prison Battle; regarding this incident, a former Danhaag judge had once published an article in this newspaper listing the legal violations involving this young wizard.2).
The report relied on various anonymous or wholly unconvincing sources. One source claimed that this exposure had greatly increased Zheng Qing's fame.
"We don't know how he did it," the paper quoted an unnamed source as saying. "He's a flirt, with ambiguous relationships with so many witches... Councilwoman Su must have been deceived!"
Image: Zheng Qing at the School Hunting Meet finals (second from left). The witch on the far left came from the Zhongshan Jiang Clan, the wizard on the far right came from the Tianmen Zhang Clan, and the wizard second from right was the obscure illegitimate son of the O'Brien Family and the Black Family.
Did Zheng Qing acknowledge his relationship with Councilwoman Su?
On Monday, the Jiuyou Academy Student Union stated that it would not pry into students' private lives and prohibited any off-campus observers from approaching enrolled students. Xiao Xiao, spokesperson for the You Zui Hunting Team, stated that Zheng Qing and Councilwoman Su had a relationship of mutual appreciation between teacher and student. During routine questioning, Xiao Xiao insisted that the report was "nonsense," saying, "Some people can't stand the You Zui Hunting Team's outstanding performance in the School Hunt Competition. Those results were achieved under Councilwoman Su's guidance."
Previously, Xiao Xiao had drawn criticism from off-campus ethics observers after publicly confessing his love to