30 The News (1/2)

Shuang and Ren Tao meet at the meeting place later that afternoon.

”Father, did I make you wait long?” Shuang asked Ren Tao asked she saw the man standing back under the tree while staring blankly at the space.

Ren Tao snapped out from his line of thoughts when he heared that melodious voice.

”Shuang'er, no, I just arrived a minute earlier. Have you enjoyed your time?” Ren Tao asked gently.

”Very much Father. ” Shuang answered.

Ren Tao did not find something a mess in her answer and so he invited the girl for a snacks.

Shuang and Ren Tao were sitting inside the popular snack house in town when the people outside were in chaos.

”What?! The Town Head Officer's daughter committed murder and hung herself after?”

”Who did she murdered?”

”It was her cousin and the son of Town Officer Wong.”

”Aren't they in a relationship?”

”Yes, but it was said that Miss Wen caught her cousin and Town Officer Wong's son doing it in the small house outside the town. The farmers who passed by that place saw it and reported it back to one of the soldiers from the camp.”

”Aiya, Miss Wen was surely a hot tempered but I never thought she could do this deed.”

”Maybe she was blinded by the anger she felt when she caught her man doing it actually in front of her with another girl.”

The whispering crowd echoed inside the snack house where Shuang and Ren Tao were sitting in.

”Tk tk tk! Sometimes love rivalry can be this scary. So Shuang'er never love a man that plan to take many wives. Though having many wives is just normal, it's still better to be loved alone atleast you can avoid those tricky schemes.”