Xiao Lanhua rested her chin in her hands. "Tell me, why did the Ancestor Salt Maiden and Chonghua fall out in the first place?"
Dongfang Qingcang lowered his eyes to her eager expression. The ancient texts had never mentioned the whole story. The records about the Moon Tribe thriving on this sea only made occasional references to it, and even those were evasive, as if either the authors had been bound by a spell of silence, or, whenever the subject came up, the spirits in the ink would twist and change the writing themselves. "Maybe Dongjun came between them."
"How could that be?" Xiao Lanhua's eyes widened with laughter. "That's Dongjun! The father of the leader of Shuiyuntian."
"Hah... Doesn't Yunzhong Jun seem like the sort who'd do something like that?"
Xiao Lanhua's loud rebuttal cut off abruptly. Her eyes darted around as she searched for a reason to argue back.
"And what about Changheng's relationship with you and me?" He raised an eyebrow. "Dongjun is the father of those two. The chance he'd do something like this... isn't it just the sum of what those two have done? There's a reason they say a rat's son knows how to dig holes."
"You... Immortal Lord Changheng was only following fate. He had to honor our engagement! In Deer City, Immortal Lord Changheng sincerely treated you as a brother. How can you slander him like this? That makes you the third party!" Xiao Lanhua was naturally not one to back down. Though... that seemed to have made her insult herself too, placing herself on the throne of the unfaithful woman. Never mind. Even if it cost her eight hundred to hurt herself, she still had to take down the enemy by a thousand.
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