The Prime Minister's Darling novel Chapter 851

Chapter 851: 390 Overbearing (Second Update)_2

That’s not right either!

Xiao Liulang had the audacity to use the late emperor’s name in creating the couplet!

He, he, he must have done it on purpose!

You, Xiao Liulang!

Yang Zhou, the Attendant Reader, was so angry he felt like his lungs were about to explode. At this critical moment, he couldn’t care less about the scandal of ghostwriting being exposed. He clasped his hands and said, "Doctor Han, I must confess, the eulogy was written by Xiao Liulang! He wrote many of them! They were all on my desk! If you don’t believe me, I’ll go and get them now!"

Having said this, he put down the eulogy and dashed off as if his feet had grown wings.

However, to his despair, the eulogies that had originally been on his desk were all gone!

He was completely panicked: "What’s going on? Where are the eulogies written by Xiao Liulang? Where are those thick dozens of eulogies? Where have they gone? Where have they gone? Where have they gone..."

At that moment, Changsui, the aide to Scholar Han, came over: "Attendant Reader Yang, Doctor Han wants you to confront Xiao Liulang."

"Xiao Liulang... Xiao Liulang!" Yang Zhou, grinding his teeth, made his way to Doctor Han’s office and upon entering, he lunged at Xiao Liulang, "Was it you? Was it you who did this!"

Whether Xiao Liulang was guilty or not was another matter, but the way Yang Zhou was acting like a mad dog lashing out was truly unbecoming of a Hanlin official.

Scholar Han frowned.

Xiao Liulang appeared very calm. Although he was the one with a limp among them, he stood erect, like a pine or cypress, exuding a remarkable aura.

By contrast, Yang Zhou seemed all the more disheveled.

Yang Zhou was an old Hanlin official; when he left the academy, he had been examined on the law and had done quite well, or else he would not have been retained at the Hanlin Academy.

He knew very clearly in his heart the grave sin of defiling the late emperor’s name.

He looked toward Scholar Han in terror: "Doctor Han! Believe me! It was he who sabotaged me! It was him! He’s to blame!"

Xiao Liulang said lightly, "I’m afraid I don’t understand what Attendant Reader Yang is saying. I have no grudge against Attendant Reader Yang, so why would I harm him?"

"Because..." Yang Zhou almost blurted out that it was because you were dissatisfied with me making things difficult for you, but he bit his lip hard, "I should have explained it to you clearly for this incident. I was thinking, since it’s your first time writing a eulogy, I wasn’t sure if it would meet Doctor Han’s expectations. If it didn’t, I’d take the criticism for you, but if Doctor Han truly liked it, I would then tell him it was written by you."

He was trying to explain to Scholar Han why he initially claimed that Xiao Liulang had copied the work.