CH 115

After Tang Tianyuan finished trimming Tan Lingyin's nails, he was still reluctant to let go of her hand. He dawdled, grabbed her hand, and lowered his head to kiss the back of her hand.

Tan Lingyin's heart was beating wildly.

Tang Tianyuan put her palm on his face and looked at her with a smile. "How do you plan to thank me?"

Tan Lingyin leaned over and lightly kissed the corner of his lips. After the kiss, she wanted to withdraw, but he grabbed the back of her head. His passive act quickly turned as Tang Tianyuan deepened their kiss.

They kissed passionately, and when they parted, they were both a little breathless.

Tan Lingyin didn't dare to look at him. She lowered her head and played with her fingers. Well, the county magistrate's manicure was indeed very beautiful.

Tang Tianyuan suddenly asked, "Tell me, if I were Tang Tianyuan, what would you do?"

Tan Lingyin only thought that he felt inferior because he felt that his background was not good enough, so she comforted him and said, "Actually, you are quite good, not worse than Lord Tang. You are very smart, so you will definitely be popular during your officialdom. And although you do not have a high official as a father, you can become the high official father yourself, no?" After speaking, Tan Lingyin blinked her eyes and looked at him sincerely.

Tang Tianyuan poked her forehead helplessly. "You child of a melon."

His tone was a bit strange. Confused, Tan Lingyin asked in a daze, "Melon? What’s a melon baby?"

Tang Tianyuan was speechless, he made up an excuse and said, "It's a baby that popped out of a watermelon."

Tan Lingyin found his answer confused her even more. "Why did you mention this?"

"Because watermelons are delicious." Tang Tianyuan paused, then looked at her with a smile, "like you." At the end of his speech, his voice gradually became somewhat hoarse.

Tan Lingyin understood this sentence: She had been taken liberties off again.

She quickly found out that the County Magistrate was getting more and more hooligan day by day...

—

Due to the manicure incident during the day, Tang Tianyuan had a particularly wonderful dream that night. He dreamed that he helped color Tan Lingyin's nails. Balsaminaceae bloomed beautifully in the summer. Tang Tianyuan picked off the petals, grinded it with alum, and covered the mixture on Tan Lingyin’s nails for a whole day. The nails are all dyed scarlet red; like the setting sun. Tan Lingyin praised him for his good work. In order to reward him, she stripped off his clothes, and then touched him her dyed fingernails. At first, they were quite pure, only touching the face. Later, those soft and fragrant hands slowly slipped below his neck.

Then, he woke up.

Tang Tianyuan felt very regretful. Why, why did I have to wake up at the most exciting moment?...

He closed his eyes and recalled the scene in the dream. Although he knew it was fake, Tang Tianyuan felt content just thinking about it.

This thought burned him with enthusiasm. Breathing heavily, he murmured to himself, "I have to marry you home quickly."

—

Zhou Zhengdao didn't expect Tang Feilong to be so shameless. He believed that even if they gave him twenty thousand taels of gold, once he tastes the sweetness, he’ll continue to extort them. Afterall, the evidence was still in his hands.

Moreover, how could twenty thousand taels of gold be so easy to take out? Once money was earned and taken in, if one wanted to fork it out, it was as hard as cutting a piece of meat off their own body. And to cut such a large chunk of meat would be fatal.

And so Zhou Zhengdao wrote a letter to Zong Yinglin full of resentment. The letter lamented Tang Feilong's insatiable greed.

Zong Yinglin felt helpless after reading the letter. It seems he could not be kept. What a pity, a pity! A capable individual that refused to be malleable...

If they wanted to silence Tang Feilong, they couldn’t handle him the same way as  San Jie. This was because Tang Feilong had been in office for a short time, had little information that could be used against, and was quite popular with the civilians... In short, it was not easy to impeach him.

The most effective way was to let him die suddenly at home.

Zhou Zhengdao quickly contacted the killer; they would act the very next night.

—

Tang Tianyuan was having another dream.

The dream this time was still just as wonderful: he was washing Tan Lingyin's feet. With great excitement, he held her feet and soaked them in warm water. There were even flower petals floating on the water surface, allowing a floral fragrance to fill the air. While he helped wash her feet, Tang Tianyuan bantered with Tan Lingyin. Tan Lingyin was annoyed, so she kicked the water with her feet. The water splashing all over him. So, Tang Tianyuan pulled his wet clothes and asked Tan Lingyin what they should do. Tan Lingyin smiled and replied that she’ll take it off for him.

How did she help him undress? 

Tan Lingyin raised her foot and traced it up his trousers, it was slowly moving toward his...

Tang Tianyuan was aware that this was a dream. He reminded himself over and over again: Don’t wake up, don’t wake up...

However, just as he was about to reach the most exciting moment again, a loud boom sounded in the real world.

He was woken up.

Tang Tianyuan lit up a match found by his bedside and saw an uninvited guest caught in the net on the ground.

With black clothing, black mask, and a murder weapon in his hand, the uninvited guest was struggling to cut the net with their dagger.

Of course, it was impossible to cut though.

Tang Tianyuan's eyes darkened. It’s this person, this person ruined his wonderful dream.

He got out of bed slowly and lit a candle. Tang Tianyuan walked up to the assassin and looked down at him.

The assassin also looked up at him, and the two remained silent for a while.

Tang Tianyuan suddenly exploded, picked up a stool and beat the assassin violently. He cursed while beating him, "How dare you disturb my sweet dream! Can't you come during the day?!"

The assassin groaned in pain.