Tan Hongbo continued to joke with Ling Qingwan, when suddenly, a piece of gravel hit him on the head.
"Ouch!" Tan Hongbo felt pain and couldn't stop rubbing his head.
There were bursts of crisp laughter coming from behind. Ling Qingwan turned around and saw a pretty girl who was holding her belly and laughing brightly.
Ling Qingwan felt that she looked unfamiliar, and she must have never seen her before.
"An Yi! You are trying to murder me!" Tan Hongbo bared his teeth and started playing with An Yi.
Even though she had never met An Yi, Ling Qingwan had heard of An Yi's name. She was the only daughter of Prince Shen and the current princess. Among her peers, her position was second only to the princes and princesses.
No wonder An Yisheng is so bright and cheerful, her pride seems to come from her bones.
Ling Qingwan thought An Yi was cute and couldn't help but look at her a few more times.
"I saw everything just now. You teased Miss Ling Er on purpose, and I was just avenging her." An Yi blinked her eyes, looking really clever.
"What do you mean I was teasing you on purpose? Wanwan is Ling Xiao's biological sister and also my sister. What are you thinking?" Tan Hongbo was rarely serious.
"Yes, yes, I was wrong." An Yi smiled, her eyes curved into crescents.
"The young master of the Bourne family and the two young masters of Prince Shen's family are looking for you everywhere. Go and have a look."
When Tan Hongbo heard someone was looking for him, he immediately prepared to go over.
"By the way, if you calculate your age, you are a few months older than Wanwan. You are the older sister, so you should take care of her more." Before leaving, Tan Hongbo did not forget to remind An Yi.
An Yi giggled and urged Tan Hongbo to hurry up.
In a blink of an eye, there were only two people left.
"I am Ling Qingwan, the second lady of the Marquis' Mansion, and I am here to greet the princess." Ling Qingwan nodded and saluted towards An Yi.
"Stop pretending. Brother Hongbo is not here again." An Yi's expression changed, and she was no longer as easy-going as before.
Ling Qingwan frowned, raised her eyes and met An Yi's eyes.
An Yi looked at Ling Qingwan with disdain.
"I just want to see what kind of woman can make some of Tokyo's most popular young men so obsessed with her."
After hearing An Yi's words, Ling Qingwan frowned even more tightly.
She thought An Yi was a simple and lovely girl. It turned out that she had bad intentions and was planning to give Ling Qingwan a warning when they met for the first time.
"The most popular young masters? I wonder which ones the princess is talking about." Ling Qingwan chuckled, looking very graceful and elegant.
She had no grudges against An Yi. If An Yi thought of her like this, someone must have fanned the flames and said bad things about her behind her back. Ling Qingwan hated people who deliberately provoked her the most. She didn't think it was hateful for someone like An Yi to be used as a knife.
"It seems that I have seduced so many men that I can't remember which ones they are." An Yi sneered, her tone full of contempt. "I can tell you that Brother Wei Xun and Brother Hong Bo are my best friends. Stay away from them. If you don't listen to me, don't blame me for disrespecting Ling Xiao's face and being rude to you."
Speaking of these people, Ling Qingwan could roughly guess who was trying to sow discord in front of An Yi.
Since An Yi and Ling Xiao have a close relationship, and she keeps calling them Brother Wei Xun and Brother Hongbo, it is not difficult to see that she has a very good relationship with these people.
Then it’s not surprising that he knows Tan Jiao.
I didn't expect that today I was not tricked by Ling Chuchu, but almost fell into the hands of Tan Jiao.
"The princess said that I seduced them. Did you see it with your own eyes?" Ling Qingwan asked An Yi.
"I just returned to Tokyo today, and this is the first time I met you. How could I possibly see it?" An Yi rolled her eyes and looked at Ling Qingwan as if she were a fool.
"You don't even know me, why are you so sure that I'm such a casual woman?" Ling Qingwan asked again.
"Of course it was Ah Jiao and I who told her!" An Yi only wanted to refute Ling Qingwan, and she blurted out Tan Jiao all at once. After she finished speaking, she realized something was wrong.
Ling Qingwan showed a faint smile on her face.
Sure enough, she guessed it right.
"Ah Jiao wouldn't lie to me." Since she had already said it and couldn't take it back, An Yi simply straightened her back and confronted Ling Qingwan with confidence.
Anyway, she was in the right, so she was afraid of what Ling Qingwan would do.
"I don't know whether Miss Tan would lie to you. Maybe she has some prejudice against me. But you said this about me when you don't know me well. Shouldn't you let me defend myself?" Ling Qingwan was not angry at all. Instead, she felt that An Yi was innocent.
Compared with Ling Chuchu and Tan Jiao, she prefers girls like An Yi. Her dislike and like are all on the surface. Since An Yi accused her in front of her, she would not do anything to plot against her behind her back.
"What can you say? Were you just enjoying the flowers and chatting with Brother Hongbo?" An Yi pouted.
She saw Ling Qingwan was gentle and kind, not at all like what Tan Jiao described. Could this be the reason why Ling Qingwan was so smart? An Yi muttered to herself.
"Mr. Tan and my brother are close friends. I was lost when I was young and returned to my family ten years later. My brother doted on me in every way. Isn't it reasonable that Mr. Tan treats me well? Besides, he only said a few words to me and did not overstep the line at all. How could I seduce him?" Ling Qingwan said in detail.
"There is a huge gap between the status of the Seventh Prince and me. I don't understand his mind, and it is not up to me to decide whether to marry him. Since you have known them for many years, you should know their temperaments. Especially the Seventh Prince, do you think he is such a person who can be easily deceived by women?"
After listening to Ling Qingwan's words, An Yi actually felt that it made sense.
After thinking for a while, An Yi felt more and more guilty and no longer had the confidence she had just now.
"As for others, I've only been back to Tokyo City for a short time, and these are the only men I've had interactions with. It's really not like what you said, that I have affairs with many men." Ling Qingwan told An Yi in a gentle voice.
"Then... why are there rumors everywhere that you are being fought over by Brother Wei Xun and the Crown Prince?" An Yi was gradually convinced by Ling Qingwan. Only one or two questions remained in her mind and had not been answered.
"You have to ask them about this." Ling Qingwan shrugged helplessly.
An Yi's willow-shaped eyebrows were furrowed into a ball, and she stood there without being able to respond.
"Just don't have any bad thoughts."
Finally, An Yi left quickly.
Ling Qingwan stared at An Yi's back and couldn't help laughing out loud.
The day after the flower-viewing banquet, Ling Xiao returned triumphantly.
A group of family members went to the hall to greet them. Ling Xiao saw Ling Qingwan standing at the back. He snatched the package from the guard and walked straight towards Ling Qingwan.
"Brother!" Ling Qingwan was delighted and hurried to greet him.
After not seeing each other for nearly a month, Ling Qingwan missed Ling Xiao terribly. Unexpectedly, Ling Qingwan experienced the feeling of missing someone for three years with Ling Xiao.
"Wanwan, be good." Ling Xiao ruffled Ling Qingwan's hair. "Look what I brought you."
After saying that, Ling Xiao handed the package to Ling Qingwan.
The package was neither too big nor too small, just the right size to hold. Ling Qingwan took it and felt it was heavy and a little unsteady.