Ch. 19
Chapter 19. The Moment the Yanhuang Team Called Him Boss, Lin Wan Was Stunned Senseless
The outrageous words Jiang Yichen had just spoken
turned the previously lively venue into still water. It became so silent you could hear a pin drop.
Down below, Jiang Feng and Ye Chengyu were completely dumbfounded.
This was not how the script was supposed to go.
Principal Zhou Mingyuan’s brows knitted tightly as well. “How did this happen?!”
He looked up toward the high stands of the venue. At that moment, both Jiang Zhentian and Su Zhan wore expressions of utter shock.
For the past four years, both of them had known exactly how many humiliating things Jiang Yichen had been willing to do for a woman like Lin Wan.
And yet today, right in front of the entire school, he had slapped Lin Wan and declared that Su Linyu was his girlfriend.
“Jiang Zhentian, you didn’t conspire with your son to put on this little act for me, did you?”
Su Zhan turned to stare at Jiang Zhentian. He had come to watch the graduation ceremony this time to give the Jiang family one last chance.
If Jiang Yichen was still hopelessly attached to Lin Wan, then the Su family would completely cut off its cooperation with the Jiang family and instead grow close to the Zhou family.
Jiang Yichen had always avoided his daughter in the past, yet today he had suddenly changed his ways. No matter how one looked at it, it seemed deliberate.
“You’re giving me too much credit, Old Su. If I could actually persuade that little bastard, would I still have had to swallow four years of frustration?”
Jiang Zhentian shook his head and slowly took a sip of tea, inwardly letting out a long breath of relief.
Thank goodness. He had no idea why that little bastard had suddenly changed, but this move of his had at least helped the Jiang family.
“You’re sure you didn’t tell him I’d be coming to the graduation ceremony?”
“Old Su, you’re overthinking it. If my tyrant of a wife hadn’t forced me, I would never have had the face to come watch that brat’s ceremony.”
At that, Su Zhan gave a slight nod. He had been comrades-in-arms with Jiang Zhentian for many years, and he knew that Jiang Zhentian cared deeply about saving face in public.
He had always been deeply disappointed in Jiang Yichen. If he were not afraid of his wife, he would not have come at all.
Then why had Jiang Yichen acted like this?
Suspicion surfaced in Su Zhan’s eyes as he looked down toward the stage again.
On the stage,
Lin Wan stared fixedly at Jiang Yichen, unable to believe this was real. Only the burning pain on her left cheek kept her conscious.
No! How could this be? Jiang Yichen should have been apologizing to me and begging for forgiveness.
Shouldn’t he have been desperately explaining himself and drawing a clear line between himself and Su Linyu?
How dared he say such things? How dared he hit me?!
Lin Wan glared at the two of them, clenched her fists, and said angrily, “So that’s how it is. Just because she’s the Su family’s daughter, you abandoned me and now you’re even hitting me!”
“I worked hard for four years for your sake just to get into the Yanhuang Team, and this is how you treat me? You’re not even human!”
As long as she kept acting, it did not matter what Jiang Yichen did. The crowd’s spit alone would drown him.
Jiang Yichen, I’m going to make you pay for what you did.
And just as she expected, the audience flew into a fury and began throwing things onto the stage.
But at that very moment, five crimson figures leaped onto the stage and stood protectively in front of Jiang Yichen.
The five of them activated their Spiritual Energy, forming a barrier in the shape of the Yanhuang emblem that blocked the slippers, underwear, and other things the audience hurled at them.
At once, when the audience saw the Yanhuang Team come onstage, delight spread across their faces.
“Everyone, look! The Yanhuang Team is here to seek justice for Lin Wan, their reserve member.”
“Haha, the Yanhuang Team is Huaxia’s number one battle team. Of course they wouldn’t ignore one of their own. Jiang Yichen, you’re finished.”
“Yanhuang Team, beat this scumbag to death! Lin Wan gave so much for him, and he still dared abandon her. He’s not even human!”
“...”
Listening to the cheers around her, Lin Wan looked at the Yanhuang Team and smiled as well.
She hurriedly bowed and introduced herself. “Lin Wan, reserve member of the Yanhuang Team. Please uphold justice for me.”
Jiang Yichen, you’re finished.
“Reserve member?” Captain Jiang Feng of the Yanhuang Team walked up to Lin Wan and spoke coldly. “Heh. Not anymore. Your guaranteed spot has been revoked.”
The moment those words fell, Lin Wan felt as though she had been struck by lightning and froze in place.
The audience below exploded into an uproar as well.
Re-revoked?
Up on the rostrum, Principal Zhou Mingyuan saw that there was no longer any need for the plan to continue. He beckoned his assistant over.
“Why has no one come to maintain order in the venue yet? Where are the Student Union people? Are they trying to ruin the school’s reputation completely?”
“Principal Zhou, I’ll go take a look.”
“Go. After the ceremony ends, every single member of the Student Union will receive a disciplinary demerit,” Zhou Mingyuan said angrily.
The school leaders beside him were all startled by that.
A disciplinary demerit had an enormous impact on a student.
Not only would it affect military district internships after graduation, but none of Huaxia’s battle teams would accept a student carrying a demerit on their record.
It was practically the same as cutting off that student’s future.
This time, Principal Zhou was truly furious.
After giving his orders, Zhou Mingyuan rose to his feet and cast a dark look at Jiang Yichen on the stage.
Even if you’ve managed to escape this disaster, three days from now, in the graduation assessment, with your strength as a Second-Realm Martial Artist, Su Zhan will never marry his daughter to a piece of trash like you.
The break between the Su family and the Jiang family is only a matter of time. The Zhou family can afford to wait.
Zhou Mingyuan let out a cold snort and turned to leave the venue.
But the farce in the venue was still going on.
“What? The Yanhuang Team wants to revoke Lin Wan’s guaranteed admission? On what grounds? Shouldn’t they be seeking justice for Lin Wan?”
“Exactly. Is the Yanhuang Team blind? They’re even siding with Jiang Yichen, that heartless bastard. A team like that deserves to be called Huaxia’s number one?”
“I’m filming this and posting it online. I’m going to drag the Yanhuang Team through the mud.”
“...”
The audience all pulled out their phones, ready to record the Yanhuang Team’s shameless conduct.
Only Tang Long and Chu Xingchen looked on with disdain. Both of them knew perfectly well that the boss behind the Yanhuang Team was Jiang Yichen.
What puzzled them, however, was just how abnormal Jiang Yichen’s behavior had been tonight.
“No! On what grounds are you revoking my guaranteed spot?! I earned this through four years of hard work. What gives you the right to cancel it just because you say so?!”
Onstage, Lin Wan completely broke down and screamed her question.
A cold smile curled at Jiang Feng’s lips. He turned toward Jiang Yichen, then dropped to one knee and said sincerely,
“Boss, Jiang Feng, captain of the Yanhuang Team, requests that Lin Wan’s guaranteed spot be revoked.”
Boss!
Lin Wan stared at Jiang Yichen, her pupils violently shaking as her mind went utterly blank.
She stared at him fixedly, clutched her chest, and stumbled backward in disbelief. Then her legs went weak and she collapsed onto the floor.
“Boss? How is that possible?” she muttered, shaking her head.
Jiang Yichen’s face remained calm. He released Su Linyu and slowly walked over to Lin Wan. “Lin Wan, what I gave you, I can take back as well.”
“You mistook the help I gave you for your own ability. You really are hopelessly stupid.”
At those words, Lin Wan’s entire body began trembling. She clutched her head with both hands, her face twisting.
Her dream had always been to enter Huaxia’s number one battle team, so she knew the Yanhuang Team extremely well.
She knew that the Yanhuang Team was backed by Huaxia’s number one great family, the Jiang family.
Ji-Jiang Yichen! He was a young master of the Jiang family?
At that moment, the audience was stunned senseless as well.
Huaxia’s number one Yanhuang Team had just called Jiang Yichen bo-boss?
“I heard the Yanhuang Team is backed by the Jiang family, and Jiang Yichen’s surname is Jiang too. Could it be that Jiang Yichen is some young master of the Jiang family?”
“The Jiang family’s eldest young master is engaged to the Su family’s daughter. That means Jiang Yichen is the Jiang family’s heir!”
“What? Holy shit! So Lin Wan got her guaranteed spot in the Yanhuang Team because Jiang Yichen gave it to her.”
“That explains it. I was wondering how someone with only S-grade talent like Lin Wan could possibly get a guaranteed spot in Huaxia’s number one battle team. So everything Lin Wan has now was given to her by Jiang Yichen.”
“Damn it, I really thought Lin Wan had climbed to where she is through her own effort. Turns out she’s just a pretty vase with good packaging.”
“Pah! That bitch nearly got me to curse a young master of the Jiang family. If the Jiang family comes after us, I’ll be the first one to go after her.”
“Exactly. She rose to the top by relying on Young Master Jiang, then turned around and bit him. What an ungrateful bitch.”
“...”
In an instant, everyone understood Jiang Yichen’s identity, and the target of their verbal attacks immediately shifted to Lin Wan.