After Tang Chen ordered the dishes, she and Wang Yanzhou sat in the lobby of Liuxiang Tavern and continued to discuss life. At this moment, she had no idea that the enemy was on their way, swords drawn.
"Tang, Chen!"
Hearing this, Tang Chen subconsciously stood up from the stool: "Here!"
Liang Shuyi threw the kitchen knife on the table. Seeing this, the diners in the lobby tacitly put down their money and disappeared. Chen Xin didn't step forward to stop them. After asking someone to close the doors and windows, he happily collected the bill by himself.
"What did you tell me before? You said you and Wang Yanzhou no longer had any contact!
Faced with Liang Shuyi's scolding and anger, Tang Chen still felt a little guilty. The premise for him and her to form a united front was that she and Wang Yanzhou had "broken off"; and he had indeed promised her that he would be a good person and marry an honest man. But who could have known that he would suddenly come to him and take the initiative to "throw himself into his arms"? It really is true that plans cannot keep up with changes.
Tang Chen stared at the kitchen knife in Liang Shuyi's hand, swallowed his saliva, and hurriedly explained: "Shuyi, this is not what you think, really! Well, believe me, I can explain it!"
"snort!"
Liang Shuyi snorted coldly, stabbed the kitchen knife into the table again, sat down with his legs crossed, and waited for Tang Chen to explain with a murderous look on his face.
Wang Yanzhou, who was sitting quietly watching the show, saw Tang Chen was panicking and wanted to watch the two of them quarrel quietly for a while. But now it seemed that if he didn't say something, Tang Chen would be completely bullied by Liang Shuyi.
"Stop it, you're scaring her."
After Wang Yanzhou spoke, Liang Shuyi glanced at him, and when he looked at Tang Chen again, he did burst out laughing: "I just wanted to tease her, don't worry!"
Tang Chen looked at Liang Shuyi's face-changing show with a confused look on his face. He was a little confused for a moment: "...Fuck, what the hell is going on? Someone please explain it to me!"
Chen Xin saw that Wang Yanzhou had revealed his cards, so he asked the kitchen to add a few side dishes. He then slowly floated to the group of people, pulled out the kitchen knife that was embedded in the table, and then slowly floated away again.
Liang Shuyi tilted his head to glance at Chen Xin, then said with a smile, "Using what you just said, I think we can explain it clearly."
Wang Yanzhou looked at Liang Shuyi with some disdain and shook his head. Forget explaining. He was just thankful that she didn't make things worse for Tang Chen. "You'd better forget it. I'll explain it to her later. But you, why are you here?"
Liang Shuyi smiled very casually and replied: "Running away from marriage, what else can I do? Maybe I'm out buying groceries."
Tang Chen slammed his hands on the table. Oh my god, why did he seem to have heard this excuse before? "Whose marriage are you running away from?"
Liang Shuyi passed by Tang Chen, held up his chin, and looked at Wang Yanzhou, saying, "After all, we have been in a long-term cooperative relationship for many years. I have helped you deal with so many romantic relationships. Now is the time for you to repay me."
Wang Yanzhou closed the folding fan in his hand. Before he could even start to question her, she took the initiative to claim credit: "Solve it? I haven't settled the score with you for kidnapping Ah Chen and feeding her random food."
"Didn't you agree to that at that time?"
When Liang Shuyi finished the last word naturally, he suddenly realized that he seemed to have said something that he couldn't say directly: "...Oops, I let it slip. Well, I just saw my doctor Shen go to the backyard. I'm going to find him, you two stay!"
After Tang Chen took a long breath, he brushed back his non-existent bangs and said calmly, "Valley Master Wang, please begin your performance."
“…This is a long story.”
Tang Chen smiled and said, "Let me make it short."
"But it can't be explained in a few words."
She kept making it up. She had to know the whole story today. She recalled how she and Liang Shuyi had first met, trying everything from knockout drugs and bondage play to insect poison and boy's urine. And in the end, Wang Yanzhou had tacitly approved of it. Very well, she said, the man who had become her guide, bodyguard, and right-hand man because of the bet should have taken care of his own safety. So why was he so nonchalant after she had swallowed the poisonous insect?
At first she thought she had picked up the wrong script, but now it seems that it wasn't the wrong script, but their script and hers were just not on the same wavelength.
"Then say a few more words. I have plenty of time anyway. I didn't know that you two would actually team up to bully me."
After saying that, Tang Chen added gossipingly: "Also, what's going on between Chen Xin and her? Why do I feel like something is wrong?"
Wang Yanzhou listened to the various strange noises coming from the backyard and said, "I'm only responsible for my part. For the rest, if you want to know, go and ask yourself."
"That's fine. Anyway, none of you can escape today. Now, you can start talking. Your Majesty, I am all ears."
Tang Chen summarized Wang Yanzhou's statement, half revealing and half hiding, as if she were still holding a lute and half covering her face. Wang Yanzhou's meaning, in simple terms, was that Liang Shuyi, for various reasons, was unwilling to marry anyone else, and Wang Yanzhou, at the time, was being pressured into marriage by his sworn brother. The two of them were brought together by chance. Liang Shuyi told her family that she would marry no one but Wang Yanzhou, while publicly helping Wang Yanzhou resolve the romantic problems he couldn't personally handle.
Of course, due to information asymmetry and other irresistible influences, Liang Shuyi had already labeled Tang Chen a bad romantic partner. And Wang Yanzhou certainly didn't like Tang Chen during the time he was her tour guide. So, he wanted to let Tang Chen know that Liang Shuyi was a dangerous person around her, so she would back off and cancel the bet herself...
After Tang Chen summarized her thoughts, another woman naturally emerged from the depths of her memory: "From what you said, that Lin Chongrong who often sends people to cause trouble for my Chun Zai Tang is also related to you?"
Wang Yanzhou shook his head slightly. "Lin Chongrong's situation is somewhat different from what the book suggests." Contrary to what Tang Chen thought, Lin Chongrong was actually the real crisis lurking around him.
Rumor has it that Liang Shuyi, obsessed with Wang Yanzhou, had caused all the women around him to disappear from the world. But in reality, the person who did this was Lin Zirong, the current Lin Chongrong of Emperor Gan Zhao. Liang Shuyi was at best a scapegoat who was unaware of the truth.
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