Urban Genius Divine Doctor

Chapter 244: Chapter 244: The Unprincipled Thief

At 10:30 PM, a pinned notice was sent in the exchange group’s main chat, announcing the next day’s schedule.

Tomorrow, all members would go to Seoul University for a cultural exchange visit.

In the chat group for the delegation’s group leaders, a more detailed notice was posted.

The person in charge told each subgroup leader to gather their most outstanding students and young talents for the next day’s exchange activities. He also added a special reminder:

"In tomorrow’s exchange and competition with the Seoul University students, we absolutely cannot lose!"

In truth, even without a special reminder from the head of the delegation, Zheng Chusheng, everyone knew they couldn’t afford to lose.

Even if they couldn’t win, they had to at least secure a draw.

So, Wang Chenning instructed Wu Jingyi, Zhang Manxin, Lin Qingyan, and the five students from the University of Traditional Chinese Medicine to join him in the university student subgroup’s activities the next day.

The traditional medicine subgroup had no scheduled activities for the morning, so its members were free to do as they pleased.

「The next morning.」 Over forty members of the university student subgroup, led personally by Zheng Chusheng, took a bus to visit Seoul University.

Yang Xiaofu was naturally delighted to see that Wang Chenning was also participating. She immediately ran over to him, unceremoniously shooed away a male student in the front row, and took the seat in front of Wang Chenning.

"Brother Ning, I had a feeling you’d join our subgroup’s event today," Yang Xiaofu said with a grin. "Seoul University’s medical school is very strong, so I bet they’ll try to stir up some trouble. They probably think our university subgroup doesn’t have any talent in that area. When the time comes, you have to show them what a true medical authority looks like!"

Wang Chenning glanced at Yang Xiaofu. She was dressed in a very pure and pretty style that would make any man’s heart flutter. "Are you planning to show off a little?"

’This woman... she even has her hair in two braids. The combination of her innate nobility, her student-like outfit, and the innocence of her braids is pure poison for any man.’

"When it’s time for me to take the stage, I will gladly do my duty!" Yang Xiaofu declared, looking smug.

She could see the jealousy in the eyes of Wu Jingyi, Zhang Manxin, and Lin Qingniao, who were standing next to Wang Chenning, and she felt even more pleased with herself.

But to her surprise, Zhao Xiao’an, who was sitting in front of them, showed no particular reaction. She just glanced at them with a deadpan expression before turning her eyes forward again.

She couldn’t help but wonder, ’Don’t tell me those two went out on a date last night?’

’Otherwise, how could Zhao Xiao’an see me being so friendly with Wang Chenning and not react at all?’

Soon, the bus arrived at Seoul University.

Seoul University is South Korea’s most prestigious university and one of the most famous in the world. It has produced many famous figures in politics and economics; the head of the UN and several of South Korea’s leaders have graduated from here.

The Vice President of Seoul University, Pu Zhenghe, gave a brief welcome speech. On behalf of Seoul University, he warmly welcomed the students and teachers from Huaxia and expressed his hope that this visit would promote better exchange between the students and faculty of both sides.

Afterward, he gave a detailed introduction to the history of Seoul University.

Seoul University has many renowned departments, with its history department being particularly outstanding. Many well-known scholars who have authored numerous monographs have emerged from this department.

Pu Zhenghe went to great lengths to introduce their history department. He then invited the Huaxia students and teachers to visit their history department’s teaching and research group.

When the exchange delegation members arrived at the history department for their tour, a class of third-year students was in the middle of a modern history lesson. The teacher at the podium was lecturing about the history of Huaxia’s Ming Dynasty period.

The most awkward thing for the South Koreans is that their history is inextricably linked to Huaxia. After all, for most of the past few millennia, the land of Liaodong was under the direct or indirect control of the Central Dynasty, and all of their historical records were written in Chinese characters.

However, the South Koreans are famously thick-skinned; they are capable of historical negationism.

Just like in this lecture, the influence of the Great Ming on the peninsula during the Ming Dynasty was reduced to nothing, and the resistance against the Japanese pirates was portrayed as their unilateral action.

When the members of the Huaxia delegation arrived, simultaneous interpretation was enabled so that everyone in the delegation could understand the content of the lecture.

After listening for a while, a male student raised his hand. "Teacher, I have a question!"

After receiving permission, the student asked a very pointed question: "During the Ming Dynasty, the Great Ming was the suzerain state to many vassals, including the regime on the peninsula. At that time, the king on the peninsula was only considered legitimate after being officially invested by the Great Ming court. Later, when the peninsula was invaded by Japanese pirates, the Great Ming, at the request of the peninsular royalty, dispatched troops as reinforcements and ultimately helped the royal family defeat the pirates’ attacks. These are clearly recorded historical events. Why does your history curriculum erase these true events?"

"We have not altered history!" the teacher replied in a contemptuous tone. "At that time, we were not only resisting the Japanese pirates’ invasion, but also the aggression from Huaxia. Huaxia’s millennia of aggression against the peninsula are sins too numerous to count. The people of South Korea relied on themselves to defeat countless foreign invaders. South Korea has never been a vassal to any other country. The history in our textbooks is the true history! What this student from Huaxia said is truly shallow and ignorant."

The South Korean teacher’s words thoroughly enraged the students and teachers of the Huaxia delegation.

The student who had just spoken immediately retorted, "That’s laughable! Why don’t you even have the courage to face your own history? Do you think that by denying these real historical facts and abandoning Chinese characters, you can sever yourselves from your past? Go look in your libraries and see what language your history was written in! The whole world knows that for the past few thousand years, you were nothing more than a splinter local regime. Your true history is barely a hundred years old!"

"We would never tamper with history," the South Korean teacher said, suddenly switching to Mandarin. "And we were not a local regime. We have always been the orthodox Eastern culture. Our heritage has been continuous, never broken. All we are doing now is improving upon it to better suit the times. But you people? How much of what your ancestors left you have you actually inherited? The queue hairstyle and change of dress made you completely lose your heritage. The culture of the Great Tang is in Japan, and the culture of the Song and Ming is in South Korea—this is a fact even your own historians admit. You abandoned your heritage, and thus you lost any claim to orthodoxy."

He said it once in Mandarin, then repeated it in Korean, immediately earning thunderous applause from the South Korean students in the classroom.

At this moment, Wang Chenning stepped forward. His voice was strong and resonant as he said, "I never imagined that South Koreans could be so ignorantly arrogant, so content to be frogs in a well, with forgetting their ancestors written into their very blood. Countless pieces of historical evidence prove that modern South Koreans are descended from the Huaxia people of the Central Plains. After all these years of development, we Huaxia people remain humble gentlemen who do not deny history, facing both glory and humiliation head-on. Yet this branch of our people on the peninsula has become so narrow-minded.

"Tell me, what gives you the gall, what gives you the right to claim orthodoxy? Do the Yangtze and Yellow Rivers belong to you too? How thick-skinned must you be to say such things? Thievery itself is a dishonorable act—do you feel no shame?"

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