Jane Della left after introducing the situation, looking back expectantly before departing, as if pleading with him to clear the name of an old friend, so she can atone for her guilt.
Gongsun Ce felt a heavier responsibility on his shoulders, but more than that, he felt anger. He understood why people would think this way, and it was exactly such understanding that made him angry. It was the same back in Cangdu, where someone always spread rumors saying that Big Brother was trying to curry favor with the authorities, that he was doing all this to establish his high-pressure rule...
Fools always use their own prejudice and malice to speculate about those who are truly noble! That's why he played the ostentatious Daoist Master in Cangdu, to use deceptive words of Daoism to silence those base people. But in Supibia, the honorable knights were helpless against slander, and even some knights themselves held such thoughts.
