73 Owing an Apology (2/2)
What about him? After being suppressed by Mei Chao Bing for years, he had finally managed to achieve the greatest heights. He was the most respected disciple of the younger generation of the Teng Yong Sect. He was the most morally upright cultivator, the most eligible bachelor, the one most people would want to ask questions about cultivation since he had the highest cultivation base among the youth.
So why was he being reprimanded? Shouldn't the Elder encourage him to continue on the way that he had taken? Why did they have to listen to something like this? He didn't want to acknowledge it. He wouldn't acknowledge it!
Unfortunately for him, Baili Chao hadn't forgotten about him yet. ”Yang Wu Huang, didn't you hear what I said? Don't you feel that you owe Mei Chao Bing an apology?”
Yang Wu Huang gnashed his teeth but with Elder Baili insisting and all these people watching, he couldn't get around this. He turned to Mei Chao Bing and forced himself to smile while he glared daggers at him at the same time. ”Senior martial brother Mei, I'm very sorry. I shouldn't have doubted you. Regardless of how the situation was, I should've given you the benefit of the doubt.”
Mei Chao Bing lowered his gaze, his lips curving into a smile. Ah, he had never really taken this guy seriously. And since everybody knew now that nothing had happened to Yun Bei Fen, there wasn't any harm done.
The others already hadn't trusted him originally. That wasn't Yang Wu Huang's fault even though he had made use of that. From now on, these people might think at least a moment longer before they judged somebody. If that was the outcome of the situation, then maybe he actually had to thank Yang Wu Huang for making such drama.
”Junior martial brother Yang, it is nothing. You had your doubts about me. That is a little sad but it can't be changed. What has happened, has happened. Let's not dwell on it any longer. Maybe in the future, we'll be able to react to things differently.”
The disciples around them couldn't help but whisper. ”Who would have thought! That Mei Chao Bing actually isn't that troublesome to get along with!”
Mei Chao Bing's gaze flickered. He still knew most of these disciples from the time when he had still been Elder Feng's disciple. Hearing such things from them now … He really didn't know what to say about that.
Hadn't they known him quite well back then? Had he ever been difficult? But now they actually made it sound as if he had made trouble for them in the last years. It was actually kind of funny if he considered that he had been in closed-door cultivation for most of the time to get around meeting these people and getting strong enough so he wouldn't let Yun Bei Fen and his Master down.
Well, he would have to live with it. Even if he found their behavior insincere, that was still much better than letting Yun Bei Fen see each day how he was slandered. As long as they treated him like a stranger instead of an outcast, that would already be very good. He wouldn't ask for more. Not now, anyway.