CHAPTER 381: CHAPTER 129: MAKING TROUBLE_3

"What’s with your stance? Are your bones growing crooked? Stand up straight!" Du Xixi repeated a line sent by Ke Lian. Her aura and tone were already strong enough, yet only a few students listened and adjusted their posture; most merely curled their lips, treating Du Xixi’s words as air.

Du Xixi: ...

Du Xixi felt she might have really been spoiled by Ke Lian and Chen Yin, her rising status making her temperament increasingly poor. At least at this moment, she truly wanted to hit someone.

Noticing Du Xixi’s slight smirk, Zhang Ye and the other three tacitly stepped back, leaving the "battlefield" to Du Xixi.

They hadn’t known Du Xixi for long, but they had gradually grasped her personality. Usually, when Du Xixi smiled so gently yet so falsely, someone was surely going to suffer!

But just as the four began to feel a bit of pity for the students, they saw several obviously well-born individuals curling their lips disdainfully, looking at Du Xixi as if she were nothing.

Their pity quickly faded. She was a dignified Imperial Princess, even Lin You had to show her three-parts respect, so where did these students, who might not even step through Blue Star University’s doors, get the nerve to be so rude to Du Xixi?

Let’s not forget, they were still standing on the plaza outside the main entrance, and to enter Blue Star University, they needed Du Xixi to lead the way. Whether they would be admitted to Blue Star University ultimately lay in Du Xixi’s hands.

"So not only are your bones crooked, but your ears have also disappeared!" Du Xixi coldly snorted. Without needing to act, several mechanical soldiers stepped forward, showcasing the weapons hidden within their mecha.

Sharp cold light targeted those who had shown disrespect towards Du Xixi.

"What arrogance!" A crew-cut boy scoffed, disregarding not only Du Xixi but also the mechanical soldiers tasked with her protection. "They’re just mecha soldiers. If you dare attack us, it would be an offense against citizens of the Blue Star Empire! Princess, you’d be sent to interstellar prison!"

"Really?" Du Xixi did not need to speak; the leading mecha among the soldiers began to voice out for her, "The orders given to us by Your Majesty are to protect the Princess’s safety. Even if Marshal Ke Lian were to act against the Princess, we are instructed to kill him on the spot!"

"We are acting under orders; the internal programs encoded with interstellar law allow us to do so. The Princess bears no responsibility." The leading mecha’s long sword was already pointed at the crew-cut boy, poised to pierce his neck should it move even slightly. "I wonder who stands behind this insolent citizen? Can your patron withstand Your Majesty’s wrath?"

Mecha soldiers rarely spoke; at least in their time with Du Xixi, she heard them speak fewer than three times, including this one.

Du Xixi lightly chuckled, standing fearlessly under the protection of the mecha soldiers. She glanced around at the crowd, seeing those students who had originally been dismissive of her now showing restraint, with hints of fear. Satisfied, she turned to Zhang Ye and the others with a questioning look.

Du Xixi is considered the anchor for Zhang Ye and the others, and this student assessment relied primarily on her observations. But clearly, Du Xixi did not need the remaining half-month of the assessment period; she had already decided on the students’ fate.

Zhang Ye and the others nodded to Du Xixi, evidently surrendering the decision to her.

Du Xixi smiled, using her slender jade fingers to point out a few students — those who had listened earlier — and told them to step out of line. Then she looked at the disobedient students and coldly said, "This assessment is over; you did not pass, and the Food Department’s doors will not open for you."

"Why!" A rather cute round-faced girl exclaimed, her voice incongruent with her appearance, "We did nothing wrong! You’re abusing your authority!"

Du Xixi turned her back on these indignant students, her voice cold to the extreme: "First of all, I am not abusing my authority. It’s quite normal for those who don’t meet the Food Department’s assessment criteria to be screened out. Secondly, even if I am abusing my authority, so what?"

Du Xixi slightly turned her face, her icy gaze sweeping across everyone: "I don’t know why you harbor such malice against me. But I am very unhappy, so you must pay for this."

There was no sudden affection nor inexplicable dislike. Du Xixi considered herself a competent Imperial Princess; at least until now, evaluations of her on the Star Network had been generally positive.

Yet these students, although Du Xixi was seeing them for the first time, showed terrible hostility towards her. And their attitude towards the mechanical soldiers... Du Xixi didn’t believe any sane person would provoke the Royal Family or the Imperial Guard.

These individuals were likely merely manifestations of those backing them.