Chapter 63
Chapter 63
Ye Piaoling thought for a moment, then suggested, “Why don’t you help me collect the accounts from the shops? Convert each day’s income into Silver Banknote form and deposit it at the bank. That way, I won’t have to run around every day.”
Fox Shadow was taken aback. “You’re entrusting something this important to me? Aren’t you afraid I’ll embezzle some of it?”
“You won’t,” Ye Piaoling said. “If you were interested in money, you wouldn’t have stayed in Falling Petals Courtyard. Although I don’t know what you truly want, I’m sure it isn’t money…”
Ye Piaoling looked at him, her face full of trust. “I believe in you!”
Fox Shadow covered his mouth, deeply moved.
“Eldest Miss…” His eyes shimmered, and his voice choked with emotion. “Very well. Since my Eldest Miss has given the order, this subordinate will obey!”
Ye Piaoling patted him on the shoulder approvingly. “Do your best! I have high hopes for you!”
Bing-le-me and the Divine Weapon Pavilion were both going to keep expanding, and she was precisely short on manpower.
When there was free labor at home, why wouldn’t she use it?
…
The next day, as soon as school was over, Ye Piaoling found a restaurant and had a feast with Hua Wuhuang.
After that, she hurried to Chonghua Palace and made Di Xiulan a bowl of noodles.
Plain scallion noodles in clear broth-the same style as in the Soul-Departing Dream.
The man looked at the noodles. He did not criticize them and simply began eating.
Ye Piaoling smiled ingratiatingly. “Your Highness, please enjoy your meal. I’ll go warm the bed first.”
She lay down on the Regent King’s bed, silently counting the number of times in her heart. From now on, she would come lie here once every day.
Although she was still far from reaching one hundred times, little by little, it would add up.
Ye Piaoling lay on the bed for a while. Once she figured enough time had passed, she left.
Everything went smoothly. She was safe and sound.
The next day, Ye Piaoling repeated the same routine as the day before and made another bowl of noodles.
Di Xiulan said nothing and finished it again.
Ye Piaoling thought to herself that the Regent King was actually quite easy to serve.
And so, day after day passed.
…
On the seventh day.
Di Xiulan stared at the bowl of noodles in front of him and fell into deep thought.
A moment later.
“Do you only know how to make noodles?”
Ye Piaoling lowered her eyes shyly. “Eep, you’ve discovered my secret.”
“…”
Di Xiulan said, “What did you have for dinner?”
“I just grabbed something random outside,” Ye Piaoling said. “Because I was in a hurry to come here, I didn’t have time to return to the Prime Minister’s Mansion. I could only eat a quick bite by the roadside.”
“You went to Wangyue Tower tonight,” Di Xiulan said gently. “And ate four dishes by yourself.”
Wangyue Tower was a very famous restaurant in the imperial city, known for food excellent in color, aroma, and flavor.
The corner of Ye Piaoling’s mouth twitched. “Your Highness, you know how heavy the coursework at Tianwen Sect is. After an entire day, I’m completely exhausted, and I’m still growing… If I don’t eat my fill, how would I have the strength to come work here for you?”
She argued with perfect confidence. “Besides, Tianwen Sect gives out an especially large amount of homework. If I don’t eat more, I won’t be able to finish it at all!”
Di Xiulan smiled. “But I heard that as for the scriptures and incantation formulas the elder assigned you to copy at home, you haven’t written a single word. Other people have been copying them for you.”
Ye Piaoling’s expression changed drastically.
He even knew about something that private!?
The elder who taught the theory classes at Tianwen Sect loved assigning homework the most. At the slightest excuse, he would make everyone write out the day’s key points from memory fifty times…
She was a modern person. She didn’t even know how to hold a writing brush, so how was she supposed to do homework?
At first, because she didn’t turn in her homework, she was punished to stand every single day. Every time Gu Liuxian passed by and saw her, he would shake his head and click his tongue in lament, his face full of disdain and disappointment, as if she were a hopeless case.
In the end, Hua Wuhuang really couldn’t stand watching anymore and had no choice but to write it for her.
Ye Piaoling shot to her feet and snatched the bowl of noodles away, saying solemnly, “Your Highness, you have to keep the homework thing a secret for me!”
Di Xiulan gave a derisive laugh, his tone laden with meaning.
“If you are willing to put in the effort, I naturally will not make things difficult for you.”
Ye Piaoling immediately said smoothly, “If Your Highness isn’t satisfied with the dinner I made, how about I take you out to eat every night from now on? The meals are on me!”
Ye Piaoling simply wanted to neatly shove the cooking duty off her plate. She was busy enough as it was; she had no time to waste on unpaid labor like this.
And the Regent King usually lived in seclusion. There was no way he would agree to openly go in and out of restaurants and marketplaces with her every day.
Sure enough, Di Xiulan’s gaze paused slightly.
It was as if he had seen right through her little scheme.
She just wasn’t willing to serve him…
A long while passed.
Then the man suddenly said coldly, “Forget it. I no longer require you to be my maidservant.”
“Starting tomorrow, you need not come to Chonghua Palace again. As for the debt you owe, I will collect it another way.”
Ye Piaoling: Meow meow meow?
She stared at Di Xiulan, somewhat stunned.
Because the look on this guy’s face was clearly saying, “This princess is angry!”
The Regent King’s temperament had always been unpredictable. Ye Piaoling had long believed that he either had something wrong with him mentally or something wrong with him physically. Either way, no one knew what he was thinking.
Just like now. He was angry but refused to say it outright, only threatening her in a sneaky, roundabout way. Who knew what he was sulking over?
Ye Piaoling sighed inwardly. Could they still properly use each other or not?
Still, her thoughts spun rapidly. This was fine too.
Given the Regent King’s status, surely he wouldn’t go all the way to Tianwen Sect just to make trouble for a nobody like her.
The mission to sleep with him a hundred times had been something she was only doing casually anyway. As for charging the electric scooter, even if she wasn’t his maidservant, she still had plenty of ways and excuses to come to Chonghua Palace.
So she looked at Princess Di with an ingratiating smile and said readily, “Since Your Highness has put it that way, I won’t disturb you any longer. Please take care of yourself. I’ll come back often to visit you in the future…”
“Bye-bye, then!”
With that, she went out, hopped onto her electric scooter, and zipped away in a flash.
…
A short while later.
Liang Yun had something to report. After entering, he saw his master sitting at the table with a gloomy expression, lost in thought.
On the table sat an empty bowl. Even the noodle broth inside had been completely finished.
Liang Yun was shocked. His master ate noodles every day, yet actually seemed to enjoy them?
His thoughts racing, Liang Yun suddenly exclaimed, “Master, that Miss Ye wanted to sleep with you before, and now she’s successfully seducing you by making meals every day! This subordinate has followed you for countless years and never knew you liked eating noodles so much. How did she know?”
Di Xiulan: “…”
Your master does not like eating noodles.
Liang Yun said, “Master, that Miss Ye possesses an Immortal Pulse. Since ancient times, only reincarnated gods, devils, immortals, and demons undergoing tribulations across the heavens would possess an Immortal Pulse! Master, have you ever guessed what her original form was? Was she a celestial immortal or a demon?”
Di Xiulan said, “Neither.”
Liang Yun: “???”
Liang Yun couldn’t help asking, “Then what is she?”