Rejected Beauty Practices the Villain Play-Chapter 896 - 871: What Exactly Do You Want?
Tao Yao was also amazed, but had never seen this handsome young man before. Fang Chuning squinted, his gaze met Xie Jue’s briefly before moving away, feeling inexplicably guilty.
Why am I feeling guilty, I don’t even know him!
Fang Chuning snorted coldly. This man kicked him into the lake without a word, and the matter hasn’t been settled? He deliberately boated on the lake for an hour, yet Xie Jue remained on the shore. Fang Chuning grew a bit impatient. What on earth does he want? As the sun set, Fang Chuning asked Liu Ruo to go play with Tao Yao, while he rowed back to the shore alone.
Upon reaching the shore, Fang Chuning approached Xie Jue, "What exactly are you trying to do?"
Xie Jue remained expressionless, "Are you engaged?"
"Do you have any manners?" Fang Chuning laughed angrily, "Meeting for the first time and asking if I’m engaged, do you have a sister waiting to marry, and want me instead?"
Xie Jue, "Yes."
Fang Chuning, "..."
"Are you engaged?"
Fang Chuning really wanted to say that he was engaged and that Xie Jue’s sister should look for another good match, but he stopped himself, "Not engaged." 𝘧𝓇ℯℯ𝑤ℯ𝘣𝓃ℴ𝓋𝑒𝑙.𝑐𝘰𝑚
"Not engaged and yet boating and picking lotuses with a group of beauties, enjoyable?"
"Who are you, being so nosy, what business is it of yours?" Fang Chuning felt that looking for Xie Jue was a mistake, "You’ve been standing on the shore for so long, what exactly are you here for?"
"I mistook you for someone else, came to apologize, I shouldn’t have kicked you into the lake."
"Brother, you came to apologize?" Fang Chuning was unsure, even a bit flattered, remembering Xie Jue’s wild demeanor vividly.
"Yes."
"No one taught you how to apologize?"
"I have never apologized!"
"What, never apologized in your entire life?" Fang Chuning was stunned, "With such a face while apologizing, you must have deserved a beating since childhood, haven’t been beaten much, have you?"
Xie Jue had never been beaten either. Usually, anyone who offended him would have others seeking revenge for him, so no one dared to provoke him. Xie Jue didn’t want to explain to Fang Chuning, so he said flatly, "Fang Chuning, I am called..."
"Wait, I’m not called Fang Chuning, I have the surname Fang, but I’m called Fang Tunan." Fang Chuning explained, "The name Fang Chuning sounds familiar, I think I’ve heard it somewhere."
Fang Chuning fell into thought, while Xie Jue watched him quietly. It turned out no one had told him he was called Fang Chuning; saying he was Fang Tunan was not wrong. His given name was indeed Tunan, but he never allowed his friends to call him by that name because he didn’t like the name his father gave him. Yet he forgot that nowadays he could confidently say he was called Fang Tunan. Luckily, upon hearing the name Fang Chuning, there was still a sense of familiarity.
"I’m called Xie Tingfeng." Since he was called Fang Tunan, he would be Xie Tingfeng.
"Wait, I know who Fang Chuning is now, isn’t it that person with an unusual reputation?"
Xie Jue, "..."
Fang Chuning clapped his hands, finally remembering who Fang Chuning was. The scandal involving Xie Jue and Fang Chuning was known throughout the world, especially widespread in Jiangnan. Although Jiangnan was under the command of a great commander who controlled the rumor mill, he couldn’t possibly silence the entire region. Not long ago, Fang Chuning indulged in his drinking habit, sneaking into a tavern to get drunk, overhearing gossip about Xie Jue and Fang Chuning, piquing his curiosity to overhear the entire city’s discussions. The two young men’s remarks were extremely brash and vulgar, claiming how Fang Chuning supposedly was devilishly beautiful, born male yet acted female, luring Prince Yan into anger, leading to a war between two clans, and it was disastrous, detrimental to the state and people. That Prince Yan was no good either, actually refused the Princess for a man, nearly sparking a war, becoming Beining’s sinner.
"I said they sounded familiar, Brother, have you mistaken me for that rumored femme fatale, the fragile, willow-like Fang Chuning?"
Xie Jue, "..."
