The abstinent prince, practicing Buddhism, is seduced by a voluptuous beauty into breaking his vows.

Chapter 156 The Troubles of the Charismatic Siblings

The next morning, the threshold of the Yongning Marquis's residence was almost worn out by people walking on it.

Su Yaoyao was still in bed when she heard a commotion outside.

"Miss!" Chun Tao rushed in, her face beaming with excitement. "Princess Xiao Yue is here! And she brought the Second Prince with her!"

Su Yaoyao rubbed her eyes and sat up: "So early?"

"And there's more!" Chun Tao whispered, her eyes shining, "The Northern Desert Princess and her eldest prince brother are here too!"

Su Yaoyao was stunned for a moment.

Then she smiled.

This is going to be interesting.

She slowly got up, washed up, changed her clothes, grabbed a handful of melon seeds, and then strolled leisurely to the front hall.

Before I even entered, I could hear it was as noisy as a market inside.

"You, a princess from the Northern Desert, running to our Great Yong Marquis's residence every day, what kind of behavior is that!"

Anar sneered, "You, a princess of Yong, going to someone's marquis's residence every day, is that reasonable?"

"I...I came to ask for advice on horseback archery!"

"What a coincidence, I'm also here to teach horseback archery."

"Can your teaching be as good as mine?"

"I'm a thousand times better teacher than you!"

"You barbarian from the northern deserts!"

"You incompetent fool from Yong Kingdom!"

"you--!"

Su Yaoyao lifted the curtain and saw Xiao Yue's face flushed with anger, while Anar stood opposite her with her hands on her hips, looking disdainful.

There were two men standing next to him.

Xiao Qiming stood behind Xiao Yue, his expression shifting between light and dark, his eyes constantly glancing at Su Yaoyao.

Ashina Lie leaned against the door frame, his tall figure blocking half of the doorway, watching the show with his arms crossed, looking like he thought, "My sister is awesome."

Su Qingrun sat in the main seat, expressionless, holding a cup of tea in her hand, with an air of "you can argue all you want, just pretend I don't exist."

As soon as Su Yaoyao entered, everyone's eyes turned to her.

"Little sister!" Anar's eyes lit up, and she was about to pounce on her.

"Su... Sister!" Xiao Yue also leaned forward.

Su Yaoyao took a step back and raised her hand to stop her.

"Stop," she said. "One at a time."

She walked over and sat down next to Su Qingrun, picked up her teacup and took a sip.

"So, what brings you all here?"

"My lord~" Xiao Yue's voice was sickeningly sweet as she spoke to Su Qingrun in a coquettish tone, "I personally made some white fungus soup, would you like to try some?"

Su Qingrun looked at her expressionlessly.

"Princess, I have told you countless times that I do not eat sweets."

Xiao Yue blinked: "Then I'll make savory soup tomorrow?"

Su Qingrun: "…………"

Anar chuckled upon hearing this, "Did you hear that? He doesn't like your cooking! He just loves riding horses with me!"

Xiao Yue stomped her foot in anger: "You—shameless!"

"You're shameless! The Marquis clearly doesn't want to talk to you, but you still keep pestering him!"

"You brute force tyrant!"

"You weakling with nothing to your name!"

The two started arguing again...

Su Yaoyao looked at her brother's lifeless face and silently ate sunflower seeds.

Xiao Qiming suddenly spoke up: "Yaoyao..."

Su Yaoyao glanced at him.

Xiao Qiming stepped forward, forcing what he thought was a handsome smile: "Long time no see, how have you been?"

Before Su Yaoyao could speak, Ashina Lie had already stood up straight.

He didn't move; he just stood there, looking down at Xiao Qiming.

The height difference—Xiao Qiming was of average height, while Ashina Lie was more than a head taller than him, standing there like a mountain.

Xiao Qiming's smile froze on his face.

Ashina Lie looked down at him, his gaze calm, yet the oppressive feeling was overwhelming.

"Second Prince," he spoke, his voice low, "what is it?"

Xiao Qiming took half a step back.

"...N-nothing."

Ashina Lie took a step forward.

Xiao Qiming took another step back.

Ashina Lie took another step forward.

Xiao Qiming retreated directly to the corner of the wall.

"This prince just wanted to... ask casually..."

Ashina Lie looked down at him and suddenly smiled.

That smile, paired with his wild and unrestrained face, looked like a tiny chick that wouldn't even fill a tooth gap.

"Just asking?" he said. "Are you done asking?"

Xiao Qiming nodded frantically.

"Then... let's both be princes, let's go and have a match with this king."

Xiao Qiming shook his head frantically.

Ashina Lie reached out and grabbed him by the back of his neck by the collar, lifting him up like a chick.

"Let's go. Don't get in the way."

Xiao Qiming was dragged out, his arms and legs flailing wildly.

"You, you let me go! I am the Second Prince! You—"

Ashina Lie didn't even look back, and dragged him out the door.

Xiao Yue panicked: "Brother!"

She wanted to chase after him, but Anar stopped her.

"Hey, don't go," Anar said with a grin, "we're not done arguing yet."

Xiao Yue glared at her, then looked at Xiao Qiming, who had already been dragged away outside the door, and her eyes turned red with anger.

"You...you're bullying us!"

Anar raised an eyebrow: "Who bullied you? Aren't you usually so argumentative? If you can't win an argument with me, you call for your brother—"

"You're acting like nobody can't do it. Well, I shouted it too."

Xiao Yue choked.

Anar mimicked her, calling out shyly, "Brother—someone is bullying me—"

The voice was drawn out, with a hint of coquetry and a hint of provocation.

Ashina Lie felt a chill.

He turned to look at his younger sister, his face saying, "What are you doing?"

Then Anar pointed outside the door: "Oh dear, your brother~, it seems he was taken away by my brother~~~~~~"

Xiao Yue: "..."

She glanced at the door, then at Anar, then at Su Yaoyao sitting in the main seat eating melon seeds and Su Qingrun with an expressionless face, and suddenly burst into tears.

"You're all bullying me! I'm not coming!"

She covered her face and ran out.

The lobby quieted down.

Su Yaoyao put down the melon seeds and sighed.

"It's peaceful now."

Ashina Lie had already dragged Xiao Qiming to the street corner and casually put him down.

"Don't bother her anymore," he said calmly. "Otherwise, next time it won't be as simple as just picking her up."

Xiao Qiming's legs went weak, and he had to hold onto the wall to stand up.

"...Who, who's bothering her!"

Ashina Lie turned around and glared at him.

Xiao Qiming immediately shut his mouth, his face turning pale and then red.

Inside the mansion, Anar looked at Su Qingrun.

Su Qingrun felt uneasy under her gaze and looked away.

"Is there anything else?"

Anar didn't speak, she just stared at him.

Su Yaoyao and Ashina Lie wisely retreated to a secluded corner, squatting down to watch while cracking sunflower seeds.

"Your brother is finished," Ashina Lie said.

Su Yaoyao nodded: "I bet he won't last three sentences."

I'll bet you.

The two high-fived as a pledge, "Give me some more sunflower seeds."

At the door of the study, Anar finally spoke.

"The one surnamed Su," she called out, her voice a few decibels lower than usual.

"I have a question for you."

Su Qingrun didn't look at her.

"explain."

Anar took a deep breath.

"Have you missed me at all these past few days?"

Su Qingrun's back stiffened.

silence.

Time passed little by little.

Anar stood there, watching his stiff back, her heart growing colder and colder.

Forget it.

She knew it.

She turned to leave.

Just then, a barely audible voice came from behind.

"...I've thought about it."

Anar turned around abruptly.

Su Qingrun still had her back to her, but her ears were so red they looked like they were about to bleed.

Anar paused for a moment, then her eyes lit up.

She rushed over and hugged him tightly around the waist.

"I knew it!"

Su Qingrun froze, unsure of what to do with her hands.

"You, you, you, you let go—"

"I won't let go!" Anar hugged him even tighter. "You said you wanted to! That means you like me! If you like me, you have to take responsibility!"

Su Qingrun opened her mouth, wanting to refute, but didn't know what to say, so she could only resign herself to letting her hug her.

In the distance, Su Yaoyao and Ashina Lie watched this scene while spitting out sunflower seed shells.

"One sentence," Ashina Lie said.

"I lost, I lost." Su Yaoyao took out a silver ingot and handed it to him. "Here you go."

Ashina Lie took the silver, his gaze towards Su Yaoyao growing even more ardent...

Su Yaoyao subtly moved to the side and continued eating sunflower seeds.

The troubles of these charming siblings...