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Time hurried by, and in the blink of an eye, more than ten days had passed.
On the beautiful Dongchacha Lake, an ornate pleasure boat drifted over the water.
This was none other than the famous Tianyan Boat.
Inside the pleasure boat's spacious pavilion.
A group of gorgeously and meticulously dressed young people were drinking fine wine, listening to elegant music, and bragging to the skies.
"Now then, on that very night when the moon was dark and the wind blew high," the young Prefecture Prince Wu Jinghao said with vivid relish, "that deranged Zuoqiu Qingyun used the vile method of poisoning..."
A quarter of an hour later.
"I, the young Prefecture Prince, Wu Jinghao, battled that vile thief for three hundred rounds!"
A quarter of an hour later.
"Who could have expected that knave to be so despicable..."
A quarter of an hour later.
"Though that knave hurled every manner of insult at me, I stood as immovable as a mountain... Of course, while Shihai and the others performed half a notch below me, they were all right overall."
"The young Prefecture Prince is mighty! The young Prefecture Prince is amazing!"
A crowd of a dozen or twenty second-generation wastrels all began praising the young Prefecture Prince in every possible way.
"Young Prefecture Prince, tell us more about Fairy Youqing. Is she really as formidable as the rumors say?"
"Fairy Youqing, ah—although she did her utmost to conceal her origins, under this young Prefecture Prince's fiery eyes and golden pupils, I saw through her true face at a single glance..."
"Young Prefecture Prince, I heard your royal father was grounded?"
"Naturally. Just a few days ago, Master Yaoguang of Qing'an Academy personally descended upon our Monan Prefecture City. In front of the Prefecture Governor, my royal father,