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"You...you disrespectful brat, what do you know?!"
Faced with this public trial that felt like being skinned alive, Yu Xiaogang's stiff face instantly turned a deep liver color.
Decades of humiliation, escapism, and the current feeling of utter shame intertwined, causing him to completely lose his mind.
He suddenly jumped up from his seat, roared angrily, and raised his withered hand to slap Ning Rongrong's delicate cheek hard!
"Rongrong, watch out!"
Everyone present was stunned.
No one expected that a grown man in his fifties would actually attack a little girl in a fit of rage after his cowardly nature was exposed!
However, something even more surprising happened.
Ning Rongrong neither dodged nor flinched at Yu Xiaogang's haphazard slap.
A cold glint flashed in her eyes, as if she had anticipated this, and she suddenly flipped her wrist.
"Smack!"
A crisp, loud slap echoed through the cafeteria.
Ning Rongrong's movements were swift and decisive.
Her fair and slender hand precisely intercepted Yu Xiaogang's wrist in mid-air, and she delivered a powerful slap to Yu Xiaogang's face!
Ning Rongrong used her soul power in that slap.
Yu Xiaogang was already a useless person below level 30, and coupled with years of lack of training, he couldn't withstand it.
He screamed, spun halfway around, and was knocked to the ground in a sorry state, a trickle of blood spilling from the corner of his mouth.
"teacher!"
Tang San, who was sitting at another table, changed his expression drastically.
He instinctively jumped up from his seat and rushed to Yu Xiaogang's side to help him up.
Seeing the clear red finger mark on Yu Xiaogang's face, Tang San's protective instincts instantly overwhelmed his reason.
He abruptly turned his head, staring coldly at Ning Rongrong, about to question her: "Ning Rongrong, you've gone too far! Even if..."
"What do you mean, 'even'? Tang San, you'd better open your eyes and see clearly!"
Tang San had barely finished speaking when Ning Rongrong interrupted him coldly and without any politeness, her aura even stronger than his:
"So many eyes saw it all. Yu Xiaogang got angry and tried to hit me first!
Did you expect me to just stand there and take this piece of trash's beating?
I was just acting in self-defense!"
Ning Rongrong pointed down at Yu Xiaogang, who was being supported by Tang San, her tone filled with undisguised contempt:
"Furthermore, Yu Xiaogang is an old man in his fifties who claims to be a teacher and a role model.
After his shameful deeds from back then were exposed, he not only showed no remorse but also tried to hit women, including a defenseless young girl like me!"
"Absolutely shameless! Coward!"
These two words were like two mountains pressing down on Yu Xiaogang's head, making him feel ashamed and indignant, yet he couldn't utter a single word in rebuttal.
Tang San opened his mouth, but for a moment he was speechless.
Although he was protective of his own, the teacher had indeed struck first, and logically, he couldn't offer any defense for Yu Xiaogang.
Seeing Tang San's discomfiture, Ning Rongrong felt incredibly pleased, and she decided to be blunt:
"Tang San, back in Soto City, didn't you always wonder why Xuan Hao and I disliked you, our so-called teacher, from the very beginning, and why I even argued and confronted him face to face?"
Ning Rongrong sneered repeatedly: "Didn't you also always wonder why, back in that small restaurant on the outskirts of the Star Dou Great Forest, Brother Xuan Hao didn't give your teacher any face at all and directly slapped him across the face in front of so many people?"
She pointed to the disheveled Yu Xiaogang on the ground, "This is the reason!"
"A coward who knows how to run away like an ostrich when faced with problems, leaving all the mess and gossip to a woman!"
"A piece of trash who doesn't even have the most basic manly responsibility and doesn't dare to take the slightest responsibility!"
"This kind of person doesn't deserve to swagger around with the halo of 'master' and swindle people.
He even has the audacity to point fingers at us!"
"Does he deserve it?!"
Tang San felt his face burning with embarrassment after being mercilessly berated by Ning Rongrong.
Out of respect for his teacher, he instinctively wanted to say a few words in defense of Yu Xiaogang and save face.
However, when Tang San opened his mouth, he found that he had no way to refute it.
Based on the facts revealed by Ning Rongrong, Yu Xiaogang is not only completely in the wrong in this matter, but can even be described as despicable and cowardly.
For a grown man to desert his post, leaving a woman to face public condemnation alone, is despicable by any moral standard.
Tang San took a deep breath and could only cast a hopeful glance at Yu Xiaogang beside him:
"Teacher, there must be some other hidden story or hardship involved, right?"
Yu Xiaogang's face was swollen on one side from Ning Rongrong's slap, and he felt extremely aggrieved.
He looked around.
At this moment, both the teachers of Blue Tyrant Academy and the students of Shrek Academy were staring at him with strange, suspicious, and even contemptuous eyes.
Yu Xiaogang knew very well that if he bowed his head and admitted defeat today, letting Ning Rongrong label him a "coward," he would never be able to hold his head high again in this academy!
Even more fatal was Tang San's reaction.
Yu Xiaogang knows his direct disciple all too well.
Although Tang San appears sensible on the surface, he is actually an extremely stubborn and inflexible person at heart.
He places particular importance on words like "responsibility" and "duty," especially when it comes to romantic relationships and those close to him, where he exhibits an almost demanding protectiveness and sense of responsibility.
If he cannot provide a reasonable explanation for what happened today, Tang San will definitely develop an indelible estrangement and disappointment towards him as his teacher in the future.
Tang San was Yu Xiaogang's last and only hope to turn the tide in his life!
As long as Tang San can become a talent and become famous throughout the world, all the rumors, ridicule and contempt that once surrounded him will instantly disappear as he is the "theoretical master who has cultivated an unparalleled genius"!
But if Tang San harbors resentment towards him because of what happened today, or even disowns him as his teacher, then Yu Xiaogang's life will truly be over.
Thinking of this, a resolute glint flashed in Yu Xiaogang's eyes.
He raised the back of his hand and fiercely wiped the blood from the corner of his mouth, forcing himself to stand up straight again, adopting a haughty and insulted posture:
"Ning Rongrong, this is a private matter between the three of us. It's none of your business to interfere!"
"Huh? It's not my turn?"
Ning Rongrong sneered: "Master, if you are really just passersby, I naturally wouldn't bother with your trivial matters. I'd rather not waste my breath on you."
Moreover, everyone present knows that I have always wanted to represent the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile School in establishing a cooperation with Tang San on hidden weapons, and Tang San values you as his teacher."
Ning Rongrong pointed at Tang San, "I've made such a fuss here today, even slapping you in public, which is practically the same as offending Tang San to death!
This deal is completely ruined!"
"However, in order to seek justice for Dean Erlong, I, Ning Rongrong, will have no regrets today!"
Ning Rongrong stepped forward, pressing him relentlessly:
"Furthermore, Master, since you say I have no right to criticize you, fine!
As long as you can give a sufficient and justifiable reason in front of everyone today for your cowardly act of abandoning women back then, I, Ning Rongrong, will kneel down and kowtow to you on the spot to admit my mistake, let alone apologize!"
"But the problem is... can you even bring yourself to say those filthy thoughts out loud?!"
Faced with Ning Rongrong's aggressive demeanor, Yu Xiaogang took a deep breath and tried to make his voice sound sorrowful and helpless:
"Ning Rongrong, you are just a young girl, used to a life of ease and comfort.
How could you possibly understand the hardships I went through and the helplessness I had back then?"
"I am just a Great Soul Master with insufficient innate soul power, not even level 30!
And back at the wedding, it was my second uncle, Yu Luomian, who personally stepped in to stop it!
You all know Erlong's temper; she has a strong personality.
For my sake, she even threatened to sever her father-daughter relationship with Yu Luomian on the spot!"
Yu Xiaogang's voice suddenly rose, as if he were the victim who had suffered a tremendous injustice:
"If I hadn't left immediately, given Erlong's stubborn nature, she would never have given up so easily!
In that case, my second uncle, who was completely enraged, would have really killed me on the spot!"
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