Chapter 6: The Handsome Man on the Rooftop

Thinking this way, Tang Wan poked her head out from behind the stone pillar again. Squinting her eyes, she saw Tang Xin pulling Tang Yue out of the water, while Tang Yue was furiously scolding Tang Xin. Tang Wan curled her lips into a smile, moved her hand, and shot the slingshot toward Tang Xin again. Yes, a hit again!

"Ah!"

Tang Xin had just pulled Tang Yue onto the boat when she felt a sudden, inexplicable pain in her leg. Her body tilted, she crashed into Tang Yue, and with a *thud*, both of them fell into the water together.

Having fallen into the water for a second time, Tang Yue had just surfaced from the lake when she swung a heavy slap at Tang Xin, who had been splashing around for a moment before getting up. Tang Xin clutched her face: "Third Sister, why... why did you hit me?"

"I hit you on purpose! You pushed me time and time again—don't you know the Crown Prince and Father are coming? Do you insist on making me lose face? Do you think that if I'm humiliated, the position of Crown Princess will become yours?" Tang Yue was so angry she was incoherent, raising her hand to swing another slap.

Tang Xin hugged her soaking wet body, also lost in a haze of anger: "Someone else pushed me too, I didn't do it on purpose! What right do you have to say that to me?"

"Who pushed you? A ghost? Is there anyone here?"

"I... I..."

"I think you just wanted to harm me! To think I usually take such good care of you!"

As she spoke, Tang Yue swung her hands, hitting her repeatedly in the face and head. Tang Xin was also fuming; she quickly raised her hands to push back, and the two of them began brawling in the lotus pond, completely disregarding their dignity.

Tang Wan almost burst out laughing watching them. She urgently lifted her head to see if the Crown Prince and his party had arrived, but she saw that they seemed to be heading in a different direction. That wouldn't do; the more people who saw the two young ladies of the Tang Clan fighting so undignifiedly, the more lively the scene would be.

Her beautiful eyes shifted slightly, and Tang Wan crouched low to move forward. She picked through the ground and gathered many small vines, skillfully twisting them. Tsk tsk, they looked quite like little snakes.

With a forceful movement of her hand, the small vines were whipped toward the two young ladies fighting in the lotus pond.

"Ah! Snakes, snakes..."

"Snakes my ass! Are you a pig? Is this a snake? Open your dog eyes and look closely!"

Tang Yue was truly about to cry from Tang Xin's stupidity. It was just a few vines, yet she was wailing as if the heavens and earth were falling, keeping her eyes tightly shut and screaming at the top of her lungs, completely ignoring Tang Yue's words: "Ah, snakes! I'm most afraid of snakes! Help! Help me..."

This scream caused quite a stir. The Crown Prince's party, who were originally about to head in another direction, heard the cries and began walking toward this side. Tang Yue froze, hurriedly reached out to cover Tang Xin's mouth, and pulled her down to hide in the lotus pond.

But Tang Xin was truly terrified by Tang Wan's little wooden vines. She desperately tried to scramble out to get away from the "snakes." Seeing Tang Yue covering her mouth, Tang Xin angrily shook her hand off and began digging through the water like a dog crawling on all fours, screaming for help even as she fled.

This made Tang Yue stomp her feet in anxiety. She hurriedly chased after Tang Xin, the two of them following one after the other in a particularly ridiculous manner.

Watching from behind, Tang Wan smiled maliciously. The straw in her mouth moved as she sat to the side like a rogue, swinging her legs and watching nonchalantly.

On the rooftop, Rong Yu sat leisurely in his moon-colored robes. His extraordinarily handsome face carried a faint smile, and his sexy, thin lips curled into a teasing arc. Those dark green eyes were as deep as a lake, bottomless, yet it was clear he was very interested in the situation before him. At the very least, it had been a long time since anything had piqued his interest like this.

Tsk tsk, it seemed that today's trip to the Tang Clan would yield some harvests after all.