Chapter 367 The True Purpose Behind the Lantern Festival Competition
Lin Wenqian's side ———
During their time together, Lin Wenqian, perhaps overwhelmed by sympathy, couldn't help but focus his attention on Li Muqing, whose background was pitiful.
Today happens to be the Lantern Festival. Seeing the beautiful lanterns all over the streets, he thought about finding the most beautiful lantern to win the smile of a beautiful woman.
Holding Li Muqing's soft hand, Lin Wenqian, his heart fluttering, became even more determined to find the most beautiful lantern for Li Muqing.
The two walked and stopped, looking at the lanterns on both sides of the street, when they heard someone say that a wealthy merchant was holding a lantern competition ahead.
Whoever wins the lantern at the top of the flower tower can not only take home the most beautiful lantern on the entire street, but also a prize of one thousand taels of silver.
However, there is a condition: the contestant must be an unmarried man.
Lin Wenqian didn't think much about it at the time; he just felt that having colorful lights and making money was a rare and wonderful thing.
Seeing so many people climbing up the flower lighthouse, he arranged for Li Muqing to stay in what he considered the safest place before joining the competition with the other participants.
The climb went smoothly at first, but when they reached the top, a scene of intrigue and backstabbing began to unfold.
Those competitors at the same height began to use underhanded tactics to target the competitors around them.
Lin Wenqian is skilled in martial arts, so he is naturally not someone that the other contestants can handle.
While dodging the sneak attacks of those people, he quickly climbed upwards.
Those contestants felt it was incredibly unfair that Lin Wenqian, who actually possessed martial arts skills, was even participating in the competition.
The group exchanged glances, each seeing the malice in the other's eyes. They then drew their weapons in perfect unison and began hacking at the wooden supports of the flower tower.
With a few swift strokes of their knives, the wood was chopped down, and the flower tower instantly tilted to one side. The candlelight inside the lantern also tilted, causing the lantern to catch fire.
The fire quickly spread to the wood of the flower lighthouse, and soon the top of the lighthouse was ablaze.
Standing below, Li Muqing saw Lin Wenqian's dangerous moment on the lighthouse and quickly covered her mouth in fright.
Not wanting anything to happen to Lin Wenqian, she immediately ran towards him.
She didn't want the lanterns anymore; she just wanted Lin Wenqian to be alright.
"Sister-in-law, wait here, I'll go and bring my brother back."
At this moment, Lin Luoning and Lin Luoting, two girls who seemed to have appeared out of nowhere, wanted to rush up to help Lin Wenqian.
But when Lin Luoning caught sight of her frail sister-in-law, Li Muqing, out of the corner of her eye, she quickly stopped Li Muqing from running towards Lin Wenqian.
Lin Luoting was instructed to stay here and watch over Li Muqing to prevent her from running around, while she herself flew forward to join Lin Wenqian in dealing with the other contestants.
Lin Wenqian's body also swayed violently due to the tilting of the flower tower, and he tried to find a point of support.
But the other contestants weren't going to let Lin Wenqian off so easily, especially when Lin Wenqian was looking for a foothold.
Those people reached out, trying to tie Lin Wenqian to the flower tower and burn him along with the flames on the tower.
"You're asking for death!" Lin Wenqian saw through their vicious intentions to harm him, so he didn't hold back and fought back directly.
The group fought fiercely on the Flower Lighthouse, but in the end, the fire on the lighthouse forced them to stop.
"Get out of the way!" When the sisters Lin Luoning and Lin Luoxi arrived, the Flower Lighthouse was already in imminent danger.
The onlookers below, not wanting to miss out on the excitement, stood there watching the spectacle even though they could clearly see the lighthouse already engulfed in flames.
Enraged, Lin Luoxi and Lin Luoning yelled at them, and only then did the onlookers realize the seriousness of the situation.
Seeing that the lighthouse was about to collapse, the onlookers panicked and scattered.
But there were too many onlookers, and the crowd began to riot. Some of the weaker people were even knocked down by those who were fleeing.
"Little sister, go over there and save that child..."
Lin Luoxi, with her sharp eyes, noticed a child being knocked down on the street to Lin Luoning's right, and then trampled by those cowardly people.
"Okay!" Lin Ruo, you know this is not the time for hesitation. She flew over and picked up the little boy.
Lin Luoxi went to the other side of the street to help clear the way for pedestrians and prevent a stampede.
The people fighting on the Flower Lighthouse saw the panicked escape below, looked up, and saw the lighthouse swaying precariously, realizing the seriousness of the situation.
They put aside their scheming and worked together, using their arm strength to support the stakes that had been cut down.
Even when the fire was less than a meter away from them, they gritted their teeth and stubbornly held on.
Only after they saw that there were no pedestrians on the street below did they let go and jump down together towards the place where there was no fire.
"Wenqian, are you alright!" Li Muqing, who was watching from below with her heart pounding, rushed over anxiously when she saw Lin Wenqian safely land and gave him a big hug.
"I'm fine, it's just that I didn't win you that pretty rabbit lantern." Lin Wenqian, who had survived the ordeal, also generously hugged Li Muqing back.
While fighting those people up there, Lin Wenqian could only think about Li Muqing.
Thinking that he couldn't die here, he had already planned to confess his feelings to Li Muqing when he won the lantern.
Fortunately, at the crucial moment, those people still had a conscience and didn't fight him to the death, so he came back alive.
"Warriors, our master invites you..."
The men on the lighthouse had just landed safely when a man dressed like a butler walked up to Lin Wenqian.
"No need, I have no interest in your master." After getting off, Lin Wenqian seemed to have figured something out.
Without even giving the butler a second glance, he gently embraced Li Muqing and prepared to leave.
"Young master, you just participated in our lantern competition. Everyone who participates must be present..."
The men looked at Lin Wenqian, who was handsome and talented, and they had just witnessed his incredible martial arts skills.
Only a man like that is worthy of their young lady.
"If you don't want your family to be completely wiped out like the Nangong family, then keep stopping us."
Lin Wenqian looked coldly at the man blocking his way and said calmly.
"This, this..." Upon hearing Lin Wenqian's words, the man looked at Lin Wenqian with a ghost-like expression.
Seeing that Lin Wenqian didn't seem to be joking, he quickly ran away in fright.
No matter how outstanding or excellent a man is, he still needs to be alive to enjoy it!
Nangong Tian was the governor of Youzhou, yet his entire family was wiped out. His patriarch was just a wealthy merchant; for him, crushing them was as easy as crushing an ant.
"Big brother, you really have guts." Seeing the man scared away by Lin Wenqian's two sentences, Lin Luoning couldn't help but laugh.
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