Rebirth of the Phoenix Princess novel Chapter 688

Perhaps it was because of someone taking the lead that not long after, ten more people signed up. The middle-aged man said that they would take ten people in a round, and then asked everyone to begin preparing.

Luo Qingyan looked at Yun Shang, and meditated for a moment before saying, "Wait for me on the bank. Don't walk around. Try not to be too close to the crowds."

Yun Shang smiled while replying, "Okay."

Luo Qingyan got on the boat alone. There were festive lanterns hanging at the bow and the stern. The festive lanterns were also lotus lamps, but the lotus lamps in the middle of the lake were more exquisite and bigger.

There were a row of festive lanterns on each boat from the shore all the way to the middle of the lake. Lantern riddles were hanging under each of the lanterns. Yun Shang smiled at Luo Qingyan and wondered how he looked when he was rowing the boat.

But before Luo Qingyan picked up the oar, the boat had already moved. Yun Shang frowned but soon she realized what happened. Yun Shang couldn't help but curl her lips and thought that Luo Qingyan was shameless and took advantage of the middle-aged man. That man only said that those would win if they arrived at the center of the lake first and took back the lotus lamps. But he didn't make clear that they had to paddle to the center of the lake. So Luo Qingyan used his internal force to drive the boat forward, stopped before the lantern and looked at the riddle hanging under the lantern in his hand. But the other participants were much more embarrassed. They had to row with oars in their hands. When they reached the lantern, they had to stop the boat to read the riddles. Some even couldn't row very well, so they couldn't get close to the lantern at all. Their boats kept spinning in the lake, so they were in a hurry.

Yun Shang couldn't help laughing. Suddenly, she felt someone was looking at her. The eyesight was too sharp that Yun Shang couldn't help but stop smiling. She turned her head in the direction of the gaze.

Yun Shang's eyesight met the man's gaze.

She was taken aback. She was surprised why he was here. Yun Shang took a look at the woman behind him, and the woman made a few gestures to her. Yun Shang frowned and kept silent for a long time. Then she walked towards the man.

"Your Majesty..." Yun Shang was about to say something when she was stopped by the man's eyes.

"It's the Lantern Festival. I just come out to have a look. You guys just play.Don't worry about me." Xia Huanyu looked somewhat cold on his face, and his eyes were on Luo Qingyan on the boat in the lake.

He paused, and turned to look at Yun Shang. "You're pregnant. You must take care of yourself."

Yun Shang nodded slightly and exchanged a knowing look with Ning Qian who was standing beside Xia Huanyu. As soon as he finished saying that, he turned around, intending to go to the other side.

Yun Shang looked at Xia Huanyu walk away and before she had taken two steps, she heard screaming from the lake. She quickly turned around. Suddenly there were about forty to fifty men in black rushing out of the lake. They brandished their swords at Luo Qingyan. Yun Shang was startled and shouted in a hurry, "Guards, go and help!" All of a sudden, more than twenty guards in black flew towards the lake.

Xia Huanyu also wanted to ask the guards hiding in the crowd to help Luo Qingyan, but Yun Shang hurriedly stopped him, "No. Your Majesty."

Xia Huanyu looked at her and stopped.

The people and peddlers around the lake were shocked by the sudden incident. They ran around in a hurry, and for a moment, there were cries and screams.