TCN: Mei Gongqing

Chapter 62: Getting Out

Chapter 62: Getting Out

Outside, Wang Hong's raspy chuckle answered him: "No sooner had I returned than I heard a hundred beauties are blossoming at Your Highness's estate. In a moment of curiosity, I've brought a few friends over." He had come to the door at this time. From the doorway, Wang Hong cast a glance at the women inside, causing them to flirtatiously smile in return when they felt his attention on them. Wang Hong smiled, his eyes crystal under the starlight.

Chen Rong raised her head looking at him helplessly.

She was conspicuously standing among the musicians at present, and it only took Wang Hong a single glance to detect her.

Her eyes got misty as they stood there face to face.

Wang Hong gave her a long gaze before turning around to face the Nan'yang Prince.

At this time, the prince also regarded him with a chill in his murky and puffy eyes. Involuntarily, the prince's face sank. "I'm afraid you've come but for one among those hundred," he said deliberately.

Wang Hong laughed. He did not answer him, merely waving to the back and ordering: "All of you may step down."

As soon as he said this, everyone discovered that there were some carriages behind him. With his command, the curtains simultaneously lifted to a burst of fragrance. They promptly looked, all the men lighting up. Sitting in those five carriages were five splendidly dressed beauties.

The prince's eyes twinkled. He laughed in surprise: "My, oh my, do you also have such interest, Qilang?"

Wang Hong merely said in reply, "Beautiful woman can be a feast for the heart and eyes, and can assuage worries. Being a man myself, how can I not have a fondness for them?" He gave a dazzling smile, flapped his sleeves, and leisurely said, "Come down and let His Highness have the pleasure of meeting the beauties of the Wang house of Lang'ya."

"Aye," replied the five women in unison who then proceeded to alight from the carriages.

The prince's unblinking eyes were locked on the five of them. Seeing that the light in the room was not bright enough, he clapped his hands and anxiously called: "Quick, light the lanterns!"

"Aye." Following the rush of running sound, illumination began to wash over the courtyard.

Five beautiful figures plainly appeared in front of the crowd.

Once the lights went on, the Nan'yang Prince narrowed his eyes, clucked his tongue and struggled to take in the beautiful scene as he exclaimed: "Superb, superb indeed! Alas, Nan'yang cannot compete with Jiankang after all."

He wasn't the only one affected by such sentiments. His subordinates, too, were staring at the five women fixedly, all beguiled and drunken by their allure.

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With Wang Hong's wave of the hand, the five women gracefully shook their hips and sashayed into the hall.

Chen Rong shifted her gaze as she also watched them in stupefaction.

None of them was quite as beautiful as she, but for some reason when they stood together, they called to mind the orchid in springtime, the plum blossom in winter, the lotus in summer, and the chrysanthemum in autumn, dazzling people's eyes with a feeling of surreality.

While the men gaped at them witlessly, Wang Hong in his fluttering white outfit had made straight for Chen Rong.

Looking at his smiling face, Chen Rong slightly bowed her head and curtsied to him, her voice sounding a little astringent as she said, "Good greetings, Qilang."