An Ran waited outside the door, but there was no response from Li Jing. Just when An Ran was about to give up, Li Jing finally opened the door and looked at An Ran standing outside and asked, "What's wrong? Is there something wrong?"
An Ran looked pitifully at the beautiful, gentle, dignified and generous woman in front of her, and said anxiously, "Sister Li Jing, can you let me in?"
Li Jing looked at An Ran's pitiful appearance, and her heart couldn't help but soften. This child must have been greatly stimulated. She slowed down her voice and said softly, "Okay, come in quickly!"
An Ran couldn't help but feel secretly delighted. She had just carefully observed the woman from outside the window for a while.
Just from her facial features, she knew that Li Jing was a woman with an extremely delicate and soft mind, so she thought of trying to get close to Li Jing by pretending to be weak. Unexpectedly, it actually worked! Li Jing really let her in!
An Ran followed Li Jing into the house and followed her closely with a pitiful look on her face. A few tears squeezed out of her bright eyes, which hung in her eye sockets, and she tried hard to hold them back, wanting to fall but unable to. People who saw her couldn't help but feel sympathy for her.
Li Jing looked at An Ran and quickly asked her to sit down. She poured her another cup of tea and sat opposite An Ran. She asked softly, "What's wrong? What happened?"
Listening to Li Jing's gentle and kind greetings, An Ran couldn't help but feel guilty. This Li Jing should be a water magician. She was so gentle and kind that it made people unable to bear to deceive her!
But... such a kind person makes people unable to help but deceive him again and again!
An Ran looked at Li Jing pitifully and said sadly, "Those people...those people came to find me. They...they threatened me and asked me to help them control Orr College!"
Li Jing looked at An Ran and comforted her softly, "Don't be anxious. Tell me slowly. Who are those people? How did they threaten you? Tell me one by one."
An Ran pulled out a handkerchief from her bosom and pretended to wipe her tears. A hint of sympathy flashed across her eyes behind the handkerchief. This Li Jing was really too unguarded, not even asking about her identity...
After wiping away her tears, An Ran said with some sadness, "Those people are from the Murong family. They asked me to be their spy in this freshman trial site, to separate all the students of Orr College one by one, and then eliminate them all in this freshman trial site!"
After saying this, An Ran silently offered her condolences to the Murong family. There was no other way. Of the four great families, only the Murong family was the one she disliked the most. Moreover… only the Murong family had a deep hatred for her…
Li Jing's expression suddenly changed upon hearing this. After all, she was also going to enter this new trial ground! This Murong family was simply going too far!
Do they think Orr College is their own backyard? Eliminating dissidents also depends on whether the Orr College instructors and their students agree or not!
Seeing An Ran trying hard to hold back her tears, feeling a little sad and a little anxious, she suppressed her displeasure and softly comforted An Ran:
"It's okay, the academy won't let them do anything wrong. Don't worry, the academy will definitely protect us!"
Hearing this, An Ran couldn't help but feel sympathy for Li Jing. This girl was simply too naive. She had spoken so bluntly, and yet Li Jing still believed that the academy would protect them? Why didn't she think about how the Murong family would dare to act so presumptuously without the academy's internal and external support?!
But it's not surprising that Li Jing thinks this way. After all, in the hearts of everyone in the Bert Empire, Or College is fair and reasonable. It has never been dependent on imperial power, nor has it been coerced by secular forces.
This idea was so deeply rooted that for a moment, it was hard to believe without solid evidence.
An Ran looked at Li Jing with tears in her eyes, and said indignantly, "It's no use. You don't know. They said that this matter was a collaboration between the instructors in the academy and the four major families in the imperial capital. We didn't have the chance to choose at all!"
Li Jing stood up in shock. She looked at An Ran in disbelief and asked, "Are you sure? Are you sure the instructor at Orr College is involved with someone from the four major families in the imperial capital? How could they tell you such an important thing?"
Uh... it seems like I've over-pretended. An Ran's mind was spinning rapidly, thinking of ways to deal with it!
She looked at Li Jing with tears in her eyes, and said inconsolably: "Sister Li Jing, you have to believe me, when I heard that the Murong family wanted me to be their traitor, I was extremely disgusted! I told them that the instructors of Orr College would protect us! But...but, they said that half of the instructors who went to participate in the freshman trial were bribed by them!
If I don't agree, it will be equivalent to making an enemy of the entire royal family and the four major families. They threatened me that my family and I would be displaced from then on and would have no place to stay in the Bert Empire!
I'm fine, but I have so many family members, including the elderly, the weak, the sick, the disabled, and pregnant women, and so many children. They are so innocent. How can I implicate them because of this?
But I don't want to agree to them. This Orr College is a sacred institution in the hearts of each of us. How can I bear to dethrone it with my own hands?
After this happened, I didn't know who to talk to. They came to me again today and asked me what I thought about it. I really didn't want to agree to them, and I didn't know who to talk to...
I remembered that you would be going to the Newborn Trial Ground with us, so I came to discuss this with you. What do you think I should do?
The displeasure on Li Jing's face was even more intense. She also had a family, a small family in a small city, with a lot of old, weak, sick, disabled, women and children in the family. What the Murong family did was too much!
She looked at An Ran with anger and said, "You're right. You can't agree to them. I believe there are still good instructors in the academy. No matter how powerful the four major families are, they can't bribe all the instructors in Orr Academy!"
An Ran couldn't help but secretly rejoice. It seemed that Li Jing had succeeded. She had already aroused Li Jing's dissatisfaction with the four major families! If anyone from the four major families approached her again in the future, they would probably be rejected!
Next, it’s time for the final step…
An Ran seemed to be encouraged by this. She looked at Li Jing and said seriously, "Sister Li Jing, I understand. I was afraid that the decision I made would be wrong and would harm my family. I have been worried and entangled. With your affirmation, I am no longer worried. At the very least, it makes me know that I am not fighting alone!"
(To be continued.)
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