Tang Xu was pulled out of the lotus pond, grabbed by the shoulders and forced to kneel on the ground. He was soaking wet and looked utterly disheveled.
Chi Yan looked him over, but her heart was not as calm as it seemed.
Finding Tang Xu here was truly unexpected for him, as he hadn't paid attention to Tang Xu's activities for a long time since the imperial examination cheating incident.
Unexpectedly, he got involved with the Third Prince.
In fact, there were already clues all along. How did Tang Xu learn about the cheating in the imperial examination and set a trap for him in advance?
If someone had not consulted with him beforehand, what else could it be?
Therefore, he and the Third Prince had been in contact for a long time. The reason he set a trap for him was not only out of jealousy, but also because he used him as a stepping stone to climb the social ladder.
It wasn't a momentary impulse, but a complete exploitation; Chi Yan couldn't quite describe the feeling in his heart.
"We haven't seen each other for a long time. Old friends meeting again, don't you have anything to say?" Seeing him hanging his head and remaining silent, Chi Yan's urging had become tinged with impatience. "Or did you appear at the Third Prince's residence in the middle of the night just passing by and stopped by?"
Even a three-year-old wouldn't believe that; the seal on the door was firmly affixed before he came in.
Tang Xu finally made a move. He slowly raised his head and saw Chi Yan looking down at him, while he was kneeling on the ground looking up at him. He couldn't help but feel a sense of humiliation.
He clenched his fist, a mocking smile playing on his lips: "Now that things have come to this, what else can I say? Or are you saying that if I do, you'll let me go?"
A hint of hatred flashed in his eyes. "Stop pretending, Chi Yan. You must be feeling very smug right now. Why am I in this state today? Isn't it all thanks to you?"
Every year, people submit their examination papers to officials in the capital. Why was he so unlucky as to be reported for cheating? He couldn't think of any other possibility besides Chi Yan's revenge!
After that incident, he was banned from taking exams for five years, and from then on, people looked at him with strange eyes wherever he went!
He had completely forgotten how he originally designed the Pool Banquet, and besides, it hadn't been successful, had it?
Chi Yan is so heartless, completely disregarding the brotherhood they've shared for so many years!
Even now, he still hasn't realized where he went wrong.
Chi Yan's eyes grew colder and colder: "Thanks to me? Did I make you plot against me again and again? Pingting's death, cheating in the imperial examination, or even earlier, you deliberately set traps for me, making me point them out one by one?"
Tang Xu's face paled, and he gritted his teeth as he blurted out, "I didn't mean to scheme against you, but you've been pretending to be a playboy for so many years, why can't you just keep pretending?"
Both of them were taken aback by these words.
Chi Yan stared at him, her tone accusatory: "You knew all along?"
A hint of annoyance flashed in Tang Xu's eyes, but the words had already been spoken, and there was no room for reversal. He simply admitted it outright, and curled his lips in a mocking smile: "That's right! Chi Yan, you keep saying that you treat Ji Wuyai and me as brothers, but you've been pretending from beginning to end. You've clearly been treating us like fools!"
He had kept his talents hidden for many years, and was even complacent, thinking that he was the most special one.
But no one knows how jealous he was when he discovered that Chi Yan's talent far surpassed his own!
He began to fear that Chi Yan would stand out, that people would discover he was actually a rough diamond. The seeds of jealousy took root and sprouted, gradually twisting his mind, leading him to make one mistake after another...
Chi Yan wanted to laugh when he heard this, but then a cold glint flashed in his eyes as he recalled something: "So, back then, it was you who put laxatives in my water?"
On his third imperial examination, not wanting to disappoint his mother, he initially intended to do well, but he ended up with diarrhea, vomiting and having diarrhea.
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