I Became the Eye Candy: Four Bigshots Claimed to be My Dad?

"You are instructors of the academy. If you leave, what will happen to all the students? As role models, how can you act so rashly?" Dean Chen scolded.

"Dean..."

"An instructor must shoulder an instructor’s responsibilities," Dean Chen said before anyone else could speak. "Beili’s next generation depends on you."

Instructor Zhang pressed his lips together, and the other instructors exchanged glances.

"Go back up the mountain. Remember the rules of Lou Mountain, and do not meddle in the affairs of the Capital City."

Instructor Zhang glanced at the coffin. "Then... we’ll escort our Little Martial Sister out of the city tomorrow."

"You cannot..."

"Dean, please just let us see our Little Martial Sister off."

"Dean, we want to do something for her too... Please don’t send us away."

"Yes, Dean."

Dean Chen scanned the group and sighed softly. "Very well."

"Thank you, Dean."

The instructors’ tense hearts eased. Tomorrow, they would send their Little Martial Sister out of the Capital City in a grand procession. They wanted the people of the Capital City to see. They wanted the imperial family to see.

’Even if our Little Martial Sister isn’t from Beili, and even if Dean Chen has been stripped of his citizenship, so what? The Dean is still the person we respect most on Lou Mountain.’

From outside the door, the head of the Qian family, Qian Yunting, walked in. Behind him, seven or eight men carried a crystal-like coffin.

Dean Chen walked out the door.

"Dean," Qian Yunting said, bowing.

Dean Chen nodded, his gaze falling on what was behind him. "Is it ready?"

"Yes. Time was tight, so the workmanship is a bit rough, but it’s suitable for an ice seal. Once the lid is on, it can preserve the body from decomposing for half a month." As Qian Yunting spoke, he raised his hand, signaling for the craftsmen to set the coffin down.

Zhan Yi, Madam Zhan, and their party walked forward to take a look. They reached out to touch it, feeling its cold, smooth surface.

"As long as it holds until we are out of Beili, that will be good enough."

"It’s best to change the ice every twelve days. I’ve already marked all the icehouses along the route on a map. As long as the journey proceeds without incident, we can definitely get my little niece’s body out of Beili intact." Qian Yunting hadn’t been too shocked to learn that the Qian family had been stripped of their citizenship, but he was stunned to find out that the dead girl was Qian Fanji’s daughter.

Once he understood the full story, before Qian Fu could even make arrangements, he had already gathered the men from his escort agency to secure the journey. He had also commissioned someone to work through the night to build the ice-sealable coffin.

Luo Wen, Du Yi, and Ying Ge stood in the back, gazing at the enormous crystal coffin. Their stern expressions were tinged with sorrow. They hadn’t protected their Young Miss.

’We were incompetent. We failed to protect the one we were sworn to protect, and instead became a burden on Four-direction Mountain.’

Luo Wen’s hands clenched into fists, filled with regret and remorse. ’If only I had been stronger, the Young Miss wouldn’t have died under a hail of arrows...’

’Ye Qianning never thought she would get to see the aftermath of her own death in this lifetime. It had to be said, so much of it moved her deeply. Even though she had never acknowledged the Zhan family, the Qian family, or the Gu family, every single thing they did for her after her death far exceeded her expectations.’

’For such prominent and noble families, the death of a single child should be insignificant. For them to go to such lengths meant that she held a very important place in their hearts.’

’Only in death can you see people’s truest sides. Their good and bad qualities are laid bare for all to see.’

’The Zhan family, the Qian family, the Gu family, the Helian Royal Mansion, the Changyang Prince Mansion, the instructors, the concubine mothers... All who came to mourn her—she would remember their kindness in her heart.’

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「At the crack of dawn.」

The General’s Mansion was surrounded by common people and guards.

The Old Prince of Helian and the people from the Changyang Prince Mansion also arrived at the General’s Mansion early in the morning. Most court officials had already gone to the morning court session; only a select few had taken leave to come to the General’s Mansion.

To come to the General’s Mansion today, defying the Emperor’s pressure, was a testament to a bond that ran deeper than life and death.

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