Chapter 72
"Hang up those words, go kneel in the corridor for an hour, and reflect on what you have done . "
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Just when Xu Ke thought he might get away with the incident, Jiang Pengji suddenly reprimanded him . He froze .
Xu Ke was indignant as he held onto the paper, but his posture was still polite when he replied, "Yes . "
Taxue, on the other hand, kept her calm .
Xu Ke may have outshone those young masters at the assembly, but what was the point?
"Let today be a lesson to you . Don't think that you know everything . You'll cause trouble for the young master," Taxue said the moment she was beside Xu Ke . She raised her eyebrows and wore a stern expression . "Any of those nobles at the assembly could easily ask for your life . "
Xu Ke pursed his lips and quietly rebutted, "They were after Langjun . A pity they weren't capable…"
"Were your actions truly to defend Langjun's honor, or were they for you to show off?" Taxue frowned and coldly replied, "You and I both know the real reason . Do you really need to find excuses? There were many ways to defend Langjun, yet you chose the worst possible one . If you weren't trying to show off, that Zheng Langjun wouldn't have even bothered with a servant…"
Xu Ke started feeling guilty under Taxue's gaze .
Taxue was right . He had two other perfect ways that would have defended Liu Lanting's honor without embarrassing the other Langjuns . So why did he choose to do what he did? It was all because he could not accept his current status as a servant .
He turned his head away from Taxue's gaze .
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"Since you think of yourself as a well-read noble and virtuous person, do you know what it means to 'die before letting your master be humiliated'?" Taxue replied vehemently .
In the current era, wealthy families had the right to own their own private armies . That was why they had such high social statuses; they could even become a threat to the imperial court .
Liu Lanting and the Lius may not have been much compared to the other distinguished families of Dongqing, but in Hejian County, they were pretty significant . Liu She's name, however, was well-known throughout all of Dongqing . Even the emperor loved and dreaded him .
Xu Ke had practically slapped all the nobles who were at the assembly . It was something Jiang Pengji would have been proud of, but it had caused some grudges . He had made the worst possible decision and had needed Jiang Pengji's help . If his young master had been anyone else, Xu Ke would definitely not be alive today .
As he thought about his narrow escape, he turned pale, and the freshly bandaged wound started throbbing .
Taxue and Xu Ke had their own opinions, but each was restrained by the era's common logic .
Jiang Pengji had made Xu Ke kneel, but she felt that the punishment was not severe enough . She would need to control him better or else he would continue with his reckless behavior . Not all Langjuns were as courageous as her or had the ability to save the day .
If Xu Ke were in Corps Seven, he would not be just kneeling for an hour . He would have had to face hell and endure a one-on-one training session with a devil commander . It would have ensured that he would always remember his mistake .
Young men were prone to rash decisions, so they had to be controlled .
Jiang Pengji closed the stream and was lost in her thoughts as she stared at the plan she had made .
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"Those guards in the ranch can start their training early . I should give Xu Ke something to do to help him control that temper of his . "
Xu Ke was a diamond in the rough . If he could not control his temper, he would not shine later . And Jiang Pengji had plans for him to take over the bookkeeping .
As she thought about what to do, she took a look at her stream account's Popularity Points .
The channel had been full over the past few days when she had been streaming . There were still people lining up for their turns to enter her channel . With the random Likes and accumulated Points, her account was looking pretty good . According to the agreement, the Points she had earned would need to be split evenly with the System .
In the end, she had 10,034 Popularity Points .
She studied the agreement that the System had given her . A level one streamer's channel could have up to 3,000 viewers at any given time . If she wanted to increase that capacity, she would need to raise her streamer level . A level two streamer's channel could have up to 10,000 viewers, but she would need to pay 10,000 Popularity Points .
10,000 might seem like a lot, but at the rate the stream was going, it would not be difficult to raise her channel's level .
The tough part would come after she leveled up . The difficulty would double as it progressed, and each level would need large amounts of Points . It was like feeding a bottomless pit .
The mall was another problem . It contained many tempting offers and items .
With such a System in her head, the word "buy" kept flashing through her mind .
Any regular person probably wouldn't have been able to resist temptation, and they would have spent whatever Points they had . Other people might also try tactics like asking their viewers to spend more points in order to increase their channel's capacities . But that was beneath her dignity .
She lived by the principle that there was no such thing as a free lunch . All free lunches had strings attached to them .
One should not lower their threshold . It's like an addiction . There will always be a second and third time .
Jiang Pengji opened the profile and statistics screen and was rendered speechless by the information before her .
Name: Jiang Pengji (Liu Xi, AKA Liu Lanting . Base Strength: 5 . Strength Fusion +30) .
Sex: Female (Masquerading as male . Replacing her late elder brother, Liu Lanting) .
Age: 41 (12), Born in the third year of the Tianwu Flower Festival .
Birth: Hejian County . Liu family's second son (eldest daughter) .
Fiancée: Wei family's second eldest daughter, Wei Jingxian (betrothal canceled) .
Abilities: Six Arts of Rites (Elementary), Combat (Expert), Analysis (Expert), and others (tentative) .
Attributes: Charisma (hidden:25), Appearance (75) .
Channel: Stream (Unlocked), Streamer Lv . 1 .
The "analysis" statistic had changed from "tentative" to "expert," and "charisma" had changed from "21" to "25 . "
All this information was nothing to her . She was only interested in the "Strength Fusion +30 . "
People can only depend on themselves .
Jiang Pengji narrowed her eyes and said, "System . When you linked yourself to me, I heard an electronic voice talk about the fusion progress . Because the host did not have enough Points, the fusion stopped for a while, so the current fusion is only at 0 . 3% . . . "
"Yes," the System quickly replied . "There were insufficient Points, so we could not finish the fusion process . "
Strength Fusion was the digitized fusion of a soul's strength from their previous life into the current host body . Jiang Pengji's soul and strength would always be her best assets .
The condition of Jiang Pengji's body from her previous life could not be expressed with numbers .
"So can I use my Points to continue the fusion?" Jiang Pengji asked .