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"Pfft—"
Ning Rongrong was so angry at his words that she almost laughed until tears streamed down her face: "So what?
Just because you were afraid your second uncle would kill you, you didn't hesitate to leave Dean Erlong alone at the wedding and run away like a stray dog?!"
"I'm not afraid of death!" Yu Xiaogang shouted, his neck red.
"I can stay, I can even die for her! But if my second uncle really kills me at the wedding, what will happen to Erlong?!"
Yu Xiaogang looked around at everyone, feeling more and more justified as he spoke: "Given Erlong's temper, if I died in front of her, she would absolutely go insane!
She would turn against her own father, and it might even escalate into a tragedy of father and daughter killing each other!"
"Furthermore, have you considered what would happen to my father, Yu Yuanzhen, if my second uncle really killed me?"
He is not only the leader of the Blue Lightning Tyrannosaurus Clan, but also my biological father!
If I die at my second uncle's hands, the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan will inevitably descend into chaos.
Wouldn't that put my father and Erlong in the same predicament?!
Yu Xiaogang's "eloquent speech" plunged the entire cafeteria into a deathly silence.
Ning Rongrong was utterly shocked by this shameless and sophistry.
She pointed at Yu Xiaogang's nose, her fingers trembling slightly, speechless with anger, unable to utter a single word for a long time!
How could someone so easily disguise and glorify their desertion and cowardice as enduring humiliation for the sake of their lover and the greater good of the sect?
How could there be such shameless and utterly deceitful people in this world?!
"You...you are utterly shameless!"
Ning Rongrong's eyes turned red with anger, and she rolled up her sleeves, ready to rush up and give this shameless old man a few more slaps.
Xiao Wu, who was standing to the side, reacted quickly and grabbed her tightly, whispering, "Rongrong, calm down!
You can't fight anymore, or we'll go from being in the right to being in the wrong."
Ning Rongrong's chest heaved with anger as she gritted her teeth and growled, "I'm so angry!
If I had known this old bastard was so good at arguing, I should have dragged Brother Xuanhao over too!
To deal with this shameless scoundrel who spouts sophistry, we need a villain like Brother Xuanhao who has no sense of martial ethics to teach him a lesson!"
The other teachers present also remained silent.
Although everyone could tell that Yu Xiaogang's words were a complete fallacy of sophistry and unreasonable argument.
However, if you insist on refuting his logic literally, it seems that you really can't find any absolute flaws.
After all, if Yu Xiaogang had really stayed back then, and Yu Luomian had actually killed him to save face for the sect, then Liu Erlong and Yu Yuanzhen would indeed have been in a dilemma.
Although this guy ran away because of cowardice, he insists that he did it for the greater good and sacrificed himself.
On the surface, you can't completely refute his logic.
However, Yu Xiaogang's shameless sophistry completely exhausted the last bit of sympathy everyone had for him.
Actually, if Yu Xiaogang hadn't refuted and had openly admitted his cowardice, people would have found reasons to defend him.
After all, he was just a Great Soul Master with a mutated martial soul and the lowest combat power.
Faced with the oppressive aura of a top-tier expert like Yu Luomian, and the suffocating pressure from his family, it was understandable that a weakling like him would choose to flee out of fear.
Although it was dishonorable, it was only human nature and there was nothing wrong with it.
Most of the teachers present were quite old, having spent half their lives in the world of Soul Masters, and had seen all sorts of ups and downs.
In their youth, they had also seen couples who were willing to risk everything for love and live happily ever after;
I have also seen people who, faced with life-or-death crises and family pressure, ultimately chose to compromise or eke out a living.
They have long since passed that hot-blooded age of black and white thinking, and no longer react with the same strong moral condemnation as young people would to the latter's retreat.
On the contrary, they can understand the helplessness and powerlessness in the adult world.
To die for love?
This statement sounds easy to say, but it also sounds very dramatic.
But in the face of harsh reality, most bystanders would think that someone who risks their life for so-called love is too naive and irresponsible.
However, Yu Xiaogang's mistake was that, in order to rationalize his escape and to save face, he shamelessly resorted to sophistry!
This despicable act of wanting to have your cake and eat it too has completely shattered any remaining tolerance and understanding in people's hearts.
Although Yu Xiaogang felt the increasingly cold gazes around him, he knew that by doing this, he had blocked his way out and his popularity in the academy.
But he had no choice.
Ning Rongrong clearly wasn't going to let him off so easily.
If he had chosen to back down and use his weakness to gain sympathy, given Ning Rongrong's relentless nature, she would have definitely continued to dig up more old grievances to humiliate him!
He had no idea how much leverage this girl still held against him.
Therefore, even if it's just sophistry and unreasonable arguments, he has to use a set of grand and righteous rhetoric about "considering the overall situation" to forcefully shut Ning Rongrong up.
Moreover, at this moment, Yu Xiaogang no longer cared about what others thought.
As long as he can keep Tang San's mind at ease, and as long as Tang San doesn't doubt him because of this, then all the price he pays will be worthwhile.
He knows Tang San very well.
Tang San is indeed very principled when it comes to responsibility and commitment, but at the same time, he is not the kind of person who is completely driven by emotions.
After hearing his own elaborate explanation of his "good intentions," even if others thought it was just sophistry, Tang San, from the disciple's perspective, would largely choose to believe and understand his teacher's "helpless move."
That's enough.
Just as Yu Xiaogang secretly breathed a sigh of relief, feeling that he had finally managed to win back some ground in the debate and was preparing to leave the scene, he realized that...
Na'er, who had been sitting quietly in the corner like a delicate porcelain doll, suddenly put down her teacup and slowly stood up.
"You're quite good at using sophistry."
Na'er's voice was ethereal and cold, lacking Ning Rongrong's intense anger, yet possessing a penetrating power that struck straight to the soul.
Those clear purple eyes calmly gazed at Yu Xiaogang:
"Unfortunately, your sophistry contains too many fatal flaws that cannot be reconciled."
Yu Xiaogang paused, his expression turning grim once more.
Na'er ignored his reaction and began to analyze on her own:
"You said you were afraid that if you stayed, Sister Erlong would risk everything for you and make a terrible mistake, and then Yu Luomian would kill you in a fit of rage?"
"Okay, since you're so worried, why didn't you explain the whole story to her face-to-face when you ran away?"
Na'er tilted her head slightly. "These kinds of emotional matters are actually very simple.
As long as a man can give an absolutely resolute attitude and answer without leaving any room for doubt, as long as this woman truly loves this man, she would never completely ignore his feelings, much less push him to the brink of death just to satisfy herself."
"Unless this woman doesn't love him at all and is just satisfying her own morbid possessiveness."
Na'er turned her gaze to Yu Xiaogang, her voice rising slightly:
"But, Master, ask yourself honestly, Sister Erlong waited for you for decades, and back then she was even willing to sever ties with her own father, Yu Luomian, to protect you... Doesn't she love you?
She was willing to give up everything she had worked so hard to achieve for you, doesn't she love you?"
"Since you know she loves you, if you really think that Sister Erlong will go crazy, act recklessly, or even disregard your life and death... then it can only mean one thing."
"That means that deep down, you don't trust her at all.
You even instinctively feel that Liu Erlong is a crazy person who will do anything once she's blinded by love! You're afraid of her, aren't you?"
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