Even so, the school would still have confiscated half. There was absolutely no way it would let him take them all away. That was out of the question.
But this fellow was so devious that he had actually held an auction right here!
He had broken the nine White Tiger cubs up into individual lots, with nine girls each carrying one out. This was far harder to deal with than Zuo Xiaoduo alone: they had paid for them, acquired them through a transaction, and every sale had fetched an astronomical price!
You wanted to confiscate them? Where in the world was there any justification for that?!
If the school really dared to do that, wouldn't it amount to outright plunder?
Doing that while they were in Zuo Xiaoduo's hands would have been easy enough to justify. They could even have given him a beating and confiscated them, and that would have been that. He was a boy; no big deal. Besides, it had been a business venture with no capital invested. Leaving him three or four to sell or do whatever else with might not have been entirely proper, but it was still standard practice.
But now that they were in several girls' hands, what could you do?!
Not only would they cry right in front of you and fight you for all they were worth, but the Lineages behind each of them would immediately come knocking too.
"Oh... how could you bully our Nannan like this..."
"Oh, come on, it's just one little White Tiger..."
"Has your Hidden Dragon High Martial perhaps... gone mad from poverty...?"
Everyone could already imagine those snide remarks, along with the personal standing of all those important figures that had to be considered!
So these little White Tigers could no longer be touched. They