Chapter 35

Speak up!

Tang Mingxi: [I want to ask you something.]

Wang Min froze. With Tang Mingxi's princess temper, when had he ever started a conversation this tactfully?

Something was up. She could smell gossip.

Tang Mingxi agonized over it for ages, leaving Wang Min's chat box stuck on "typing."

Several minutes later, he finally carefully typed: [I have a friend...]

Wang Min: [...Is this friend you?]

Tang Mingxi: [.]

Tang Mingxi: [No, how could it be? Are you questioning me? :)]

Tang Mingxi: [Am I not your most beloved baby meme.jpg]

Very well. It was one hundred percent him.

Wang Min: [How could I possibly question you, baby? I would never doubt Her Highness the Princess. Please continue. What problem has this friend of yours encountered? (throws flowers)]

Tang Mingxi sent a string of ellipses.

He knew Wang Min would definitely suspect him, but he truly had no one else to discuss it with.

He could only brace himself and keep typing.

Tang Mingxi: [It's just that this friend of mine accidentally force-kissed a man...]

"Ah!" Wang Min screamed.

In the banquet hall, everyone's eyes turned toward her.

Wang Min covered her mouth awkwardly, smiling as she backed into a corner.

"It's nothing, nothing. Sorry, sorry."

Then she silently screamed like mad in her heart.

Aaaaaah!!!

Who had stolen Second Miss's kiss?! From the sound of it, it didn't seem to be Ye Heng!!!

Was her princess baby going to cheat in marriage? So exciting?!!

Tang Mingxi waited ages for a reply and was starting to get impatient.

Only then did Wang Min send one.

[It was his honor.]

[?]

Wang Min withdrew a message.

Wang Min: [Keep going, baby. I accidentally sent that to the wrong chat qvq (excited.jpg)]

Tang Mingxi suddenly did not know how to explain it again.

He simply started a voice call with Wang Min.

He skipped over the dangerous matter of falling into the sea, artistically reworked it a little, and told Wang Min the rough version of what had happened.

After listening, Wang Min became even more certain: it was definitely Tang Mingxi himself :)

"Do you think the man who got force-kissed might misunderstand?" Tang Mingxi asked gloomily.

"How could he? Being force-kissed was his honor! How many people in the world got to have that kind of luck?"

"Really? I don't believe it." Tang Mingxi said strangely, "What if he's already started suspecting that I... that my friend isn't straight, that he has improper intentions toward him and wants to take advantage of him?"

"That's even more impossible!" Wang Min declared with certainty. "Don't worry, your friend is definitely fine! How could anyone misunderstand in that kind of situation? At most, it counted as mouth-to-mouth resuscitation."

"Oh..." Tang Mingxi sounded thoughtful.

Wang Min was about to say something when she heard Tang Mingxi ask faintly, "Does mouth-to-mouth resuscitation involve sticking out your tongue?"

Wang Min suddenly fell silent.

After a long while, she asked in a trembling voice, "Did your... your friend stick out his tongue, or... did that man?"

Tang Mingxi paused oddly before saying, "Maybe it was just my imagination."

Wang Min: So it was that man who had stuck out his tongue :)

"Mimi, why are you holding a knife? Are you cutting oysters? I'll help you."

"No. This knife is for defending Her Highness the Princess's innocence to the death."

Tang Mingxi regretted saying that as soon as he had said it.

The scene underwater had been too chaotic, and he could not remember whether Ye Heng had actually stuck out his tongue.

Maybe it really had been his imagination?

And more importantly, he had been the one to press himself forward and pry open the other man's mouth first.

What if Ye Heng had only moved his tongue around in his mouth?

Ugh, so annoying!

He ended the voice call with Wang Min and tossed and turned on the bed in distress.

The more he thought about it, the more irritated he became, and the person irritating him was Ye Heng himself.

Tang Mingxi grabbed another pillow from the bed and punched and kicked it, turning

it into Ye Heng as Second Young Master's temporary target for venting his anger.

"Ye Heng, you're driving me crazy! It's all your fault!"

"Dogshit male lead, why is a male lead from a male-oriented webnovel sticking his tongue out at another man!"

"You didn't compliment me once all day. If you don't need your eyes, donate them to society :)"

"You even pushed me into the sea in that dream last time. I still haven't settled that score with you."

"My leg is injured, and you still wouldn't carry me just now. Go die, go die—"

Tang Mingxi rolled around on the bed a few times, leaving the soft bed a complete mess.

As he rolled onto his last turn, his head drooped over the edge of the bed, and his gaze landed on the bedroom door, which had somehow opened.

Ye Heng stood expressionlessly in the doorway with a change of clothes in hand.

Tang Mingxi: ...

An awkward atmosphere filled the air.

Tang Mingxi's vision went black, and he nearly departed from this beautiful new world.

Why did Ye Heng overhear him every single time he badmouthed the male lead?

How did this dog of a man manage to walk without making a sound? :)

He sat up as if nothing had happened. "Didn't you go take Tang Nuo back?"

Ye Heng said, "I did. I came back to change."

Oh, right. He remembered.

To play the perfect fake married couple in front of outsiders, Tang Mingxi and Ye Heng had shared the same room on the yacht.

Tang Mingxi curled his fingers and picked at the bedsheet, his voice steady. "Then go change."

Ye Heng took a few steps through the room and reached the bathroom door.

Just then, midnight arrived. The first birthday firework, the grand finale of tonight's banquet, shot into the sky with a whoosh and burst in the night, lighting up this stretch of sea.

Then came a second, a third, one after another, blooming like a hundred flowers.

Ye Heng's hand rested on the bathroom doorknob. He turned his head, his cool voice nearly blending into the sounds of the fireworks. "You looked very good today."

Tang Mingxi still heard him with perfect clarity. Remembering the nonsense he had just shouted on the bed, he knew Ye Heng was responding to his complaint that he had not said Tang Mingxi looked good today.

The tips of his ears turned red with embarrassment, but he pretended to be composed and demanded haughtily, "Did I not look good yesterday?"

"You looked especially good today."

He said, "Happy birthday, Tang Mingxi."

Hmph. Even if you said that, I still wouldn't increase your allowance, man :)

Tang Mingxi gave a cold snort, though for some reason, he felt a little happy inside.

At least Ye Heng had some taste.

Less than a week after Tang Mingxi's birthday, the people who had kidnapped him on the yacht that night were caught.

After an interrogation at the police station, they followed the trail straight to the mastermind behind it all. As expected, it was Tang Yu.

According to Tang Yu's confession, Tang Mingxi had never been his original target.

Because he had a conflict of interest with Ye Heng over the Azure Luo Bay project, he had temporarily lost his head and taken the wrong path. He had wanted to hire two thugs to beat Ye Heng up at the banquet, throw him into the sea, and make him lose face.

He insisted that he had never intended to take Ye Heng's life.

Who knew those two thugs would be so unreliable? Not only had they failed to recognize Tang Mingxi, but they had also thrown Tang Mingxi, who had wandered into the situation, into the sea.

That was how things escalated. Tang Mingxi knew what happened afterward.

It was not until more than a month later, when Tang Yu was arrested by the Ningcheng Public Security Bureau, that Wang Min learned about it.

That very day, she asked Tang Mingxi out to check in at a newly opened cake shop.

While arranging the cakes for photos, she complained.

"How much of Tang Yu's bullshit could anyone believe?