Chapter Twenty-three 

After half of the day has passed, Ying Zetian started to complain of boredom. Ying Zetian felt as if her hair will be growing hair soon if she still stays in her room due to her injuries. Since it was time for lunch soon, Tang Wudi carried Ying Zetian up in a princess hug and proceed to the food hall where all the students will gather for their meals unless there are special reasons.

Ying Zetian was fine with eating her lunch despite the many stares that she was receiving from other students of Hanlin when they saw that she was carried by Tang Wudi. Ying Zetian and Tang Wudi skin was naturally thick from their upbringing in a brothel so both of them could go about their lives even when other people are staring at them. But things changed when Nan Gong Jing placed his lunch beside Ying Zetian and wanted to sit down.

There was a sudden fight of chopsticks in front of Ying Zetian when Nan Gong Jing attempt to feed Ying Zetian. Ying Zetian hissed at Tang Wudi and Nan Gong Jing in a tone only they could hear and ask them to stop fighting as she do not want to be the headlines of Hanlin. Ying Zetian further told them it was because she wanted Shang Guan Liang to be the headlines if not her efforts will be wasted.

After all Ying Zetian knew that Ying one and Ying two will already have arranged for people in different parts of Changan to start spreading news about Shang Guan Liang early in the morning today. Ying Zetian still must thank Yang Liu Liu for looking down at her and causing her to be the first target that she seeks revenge on. Tai Ping is a strict society where females going out is frowned on, not to said males that like to dress as a female.

Nan Gong Jing and Tang Wudi glance coldly around them bringing the temperature in the food hall down immediately causing the students to shiver like as if it were winter now. It was only when the students immediately change their conversation topic to the hottest topic of the day that is Shang Guan Liang than the temperature started to raise. Both Nan Gong Jing and Tang Wudi have fearsome reputations that ensure the students do not have the further courage to talk about them. Students from the four gentry families fear Nan Gong Jing and the rest of the students fear both Nan Gong Jing and Tang Wudi.

Ying Zetian never expect that it was also because of Tang Wudi that the surrounding students changed their topic and just attributed it to the students fearing Nan Gong Jing. Ying Zetian grinned when they heard that the students was talking about the fact that they saw an imperial doctor going into the Shang Guan family home.

The imperial doctor that was saw going into the Shang Guan family was the head of the imperial doctors in the palace and beside the Tang Emperor, this doctor only serves the head of each four gentry families. Ying Zetian this knew that the rumors that she gets people to spread in Changan is successful. Ying Zetian almost wanted to laugh out loud at the thought of how Yang Liu Liu will be tortured by the fact that there was not even a slightest chance that her son will be the next head of the Shang Guan family.

To Ying Zetian, if not for the fact that Shang Guan Yi and the Yang family caused the destruction of the Ying family. Ying Zetian will be perfectly fine with looking at how the children of the Shang Guan and Yang family destroyed the prestige of both families. From her information web, Ying Zetian knew that the younger generation of the head of Yang and Shang Guan family do not have a capable child that could be appointed as head of a family unless they wanted their families to be destroyed. It was just karma that all the capable children are born in the other branches of the Yang and Shang Guan family.