Accidentally dressed as an empress

Yunxiu carried Zhong Yi down from the carriage. She carried Zhong Yi back to Zhongxiu Courtyard and then returned to the study.

Yunxiu read the book for a while, and Su Qing said, "Your Highness, a maid said she has something important to report."

A woman dressed in a maid's uniform entered and knelt down, saying, "Your Highness, I am a former student at the Yubi Academy. My friend at the Imperial College risked his life to deliver a message to me. A murder has occurred there, and the Dean has sealed off the academy, forbidding students from leaving. I beg Your Highness to seek justice for the deceased."

The Dean of the Imperial Academy? She seemed to have heard of him before.

System reminder: [The Fifth Prince is betrothed to the daughter of the Dean of the Imperial Academy.]

How can such a hypocritical scholar raise a good daughter? If Yun Jue married into such a family, who knows what kind of suffering she would have to endure.

This time, she helped Yun Ji and disrupted Yun Jue's marriage.

Yunxiu said to the maid, "Get up."

Yun Xiu donned his sword and said, "Saving people is like putting out a fire. There's no time to lose. Su Qing, take her to the Internal Affairs Office to report to the authorities. I will personally go to the Imperial Academy."

As Yunxiu walked out of the mansion, she saw the quiet Third Princess's residence. Yunxiu went forward and knocked on the door next door, shouting, "Yunji, let's go to the Imperial Academy!"

"Yun Ji, it's time for you to go to school!"

"Yun Ji, skipping classes is not allowed!"

Yun Ji in the room heard the guard's message and became uneasy.

"If you don't open the door, I'll have the servants in the mansion shout, 'It's time for Yun Ji to go to school.'"

With a creak, the door opened.

Yun Ji looked unhappy. Behind her stood two men of foreign race, dressed as guards.

Yunxiu raised her arms with all her strength and linked her arms around her shoulders. "Let's go, let's go to Taixue College."

Yun Ji looked resistant and asked, "What are you going to do?"

"To uphold justice," Yunxiu said, "You have your sword with you, right?"

Yun Ji nodded.

Yun Xiuqiang forced Yun Ji to get on her carriage. The carriage drove for a long time before stopping at the gate of Taixue College.

Taixue Academy, with black tiles, white walls, dark columns, and a dark ochre gate that is tightly closed.

Su Qing and his men directly broke open the gate, and Yun Xiu and Yun Ji walked into Tai Academy together.

Yunxiu showed off her white jade phoenix pendant, and no one dared to stop her. Yunxiu and Yunji split up, with Yunji going to rescue the imprisoned students and Yunxiu heading straight to the Dean's residence.

Yunxiu stepped into a small courtyard and walked into a room. She saw the courtyard head Sun Ying sitting leisurely at the desk. She said, "Your Highness the Third Prince has been absent from school for so long. Is he finally willing to come to school?"

Yun Xiu said with a cold face, "Look carefully, who am I?"

"Oh? It's His Highness. What can I do for you, Your Highness?"

"A student committed suicide by hanging himself, and as the Dean of the Imperial Academy, you kept it a secret. What crime should you be held responsible for?"

"I have done nothing wrong, what crime have I committed?"

Yunxiu almost laughed out of anger, "Huh? You didn't do anything wrong?"

Sun Ying sat at the desk, calm and composed, and asked, "Heaven, Earth, the Emperor, Parents, and Teachers—could Heaven and Earth be wrong? Could the Emperor be wrong? Could the Teacher be wrong?"

"Of course it's wrong! Heaven and earth are unkind, treating all things as straw dogs. Sages are unkind, treating the people as straw dogs. Teachers are unkind, treating students as straw dogs." Yun Xiu said in a resounding voice, "Using power to oppress others, using authority to force others, and taking their lives, this is a serious mistake!"

"Su Qing!"

Su Qing understood and grabbed Sun Ying's collar like a chicken, lifted her up from her seat and threw her in front of Yun Xiu.

Sun Ying looked a bit embarrassed, but she still said stubbornly, "The student hanged himself, what does it have to do with me?!"

Yunxiu drew his sword. Su Qing kicked Sun Ying. Sun Ying rushed over and quickly stabilized her body, but her hair was still cut off by the sword tip. Yunxiu squatted down and looked at Sun Ying lying on the ground. "The sword tip is here. You bumped into me yourself. What does it have to do with me?"

Sun Ying was sweating profusely and shouted, "She kicked me!"

"Oh? What kicked those students? Why would they hang themselves?"

"Shouldn't they be punished for not completing their studies?"

"They are overloaded with schoolwork and can't finish it at all. Shouldn't the teacher be punished?"

"Because you have absolute control over everything at the Imperial Academy, indiscriminately inflicting corporal punishment and allowing teachers to inflict violence and torture on students. Imperial Academy, the highest institution of learning in Yun Country, has produced a group of servile yes-men who flatter their superiors and bully their subordinates. This is all your fault, the headmaster of the Imperial Academy!"

Li Xian arrived with people from the City Patrol Office, and she, as the Internal Affairs Minister, was really busy.

The Third Princess found a group of students locked up in the backyard, carrying brooms, and said to them, "You can go out now!"

A group of white-clad scholars rushed out of the room, shouting and beating the Master with brooms. One of them shouted, "Let's go outside the palace gates and appeal for justice! Your Majesty, please grant us justice!"

They all rushed out from the back door, just avoiding the patrol officers guarding the main gate.

On the street, the two dead bodies were pushed on carts by scholars. A hundred or so people were walking towards the palace gate. The common people, who rarely saw such a lively scene, followed them and walked on the street together.

At the palace gate, a large group of scholars wearing white cloth on their heads carried the dead body, blocking the palace gate. The people who came to watch the excitement surrounded the group of scholars, making it impossible for them to get through.

The scholars shouted in unison, "Grandmaster Sun of the Imperial Academy is taking human lives with such reckless abandon. Your Majesty, please intervene!"

"One hundred students have signed a blood oath, accusing Cantai Academy's Sun Yuan of abusing corporal punishment! Your Majesty, please understand!"

After hearing Cui Ti's report, Yun Se realized that the palace gates had been surrounded by scholars. His temples were throbbing. "Great! One by one, they're all trying to poke a hole in the sky!"