Volume 1: Phoenix Hidden Cloud Country Chapter 8: The Prince is Very Poor

  These days, Dongfang Chun went to Shuiyi Su's room every day, personally feeding her medicine and food, busy but happy.

  "Hey, you think the king is a transvestite?" A small servant crouched by the door, quietly peeking inside, they couldn't help it, they were too curious.

  "I don't think so, have you ever seen Wang Ye being this gentle before?"

  "It must be that you've thought of something"

  Dongfang Chun was focused on feeding Shui Yisou, staring blankly at the cinnabar, spooning the porridge into Shui Yisou's mouth one spoonful at a time. After several days of good care, Shui Yisou's body had clearly improved, and her skin had regained its luster and smoothness, truly like jade-like skin, making Dongfang Chun feel suffocated with envy.

  "Water Boy, you're really cooperative. Can't stand the person you dislike that much?" Dongfang Chun had a poisonous tongue, her words were sharp and piercing, she was furious, this Water Su Da didn't fight back, didn't retort, he should at least say something, but he was half dead and silent. This silent atmosphere was unbearable.

  He also protected the jade pendant on his neck as if it were something precious, thinking that she didn't know that the jade pendant was also hers in her past life. Unexpectedly, they still ended up with such a cliché plot here. But fortunately, she is different from her past self now. She won't feel heartbroken and desperate anymore because she has already taken the Forget Love Powder and doesn't understand emotional pain. At most, it's just that she can't get over this hurdle in her heart and feels resentful.

  Every time she gave him a bath and wiped his body, she couldn't help but look at the bruises on his body. She was indeed a little ashamed, but that really wasn't her doing.

  Dongfang Chun gently fed Shui Yusu, like a truly virtuous and capable wife. Every move she made was elegant and refined, just like a noble lady. However, only Shui Yusu knew that Dongfang Chun often pretended to feed him, intentionally spilling food on his body, and then called it "wiping his body". He realized that this person was sinister and lacked any feminine charm.

  Looking at Shui Yu's cold and icy gaze, Dongfang Chun pouted her mouth and gave a wild and arrogant smile, she was doing it on purpose.

  "If you hadn't spoken up, I would have really suspected that you were mute." Dongfang Chun put down the bowl in his hand and let out a cold hum.

  To make them leave, it's not now. "If you don't rest well, take medicine and eat well to strengthen your body, I'll cut your beloved into a thousand pieces," Dongfang Chunxue said cruelly, but he had no doubt that she could do it.

  I thought Shui Yu Su would be angry, but he just stared out the window, neither angry nor speaking, and Dongfang Chun was too lazy to guess.

  Dongfang Chun suddenly thought of something fun, with a sinister idea, "You're not moving or expressing anything, are you? I'll deliberately challenge your bottom line."

  Dongfang Chun gently leaned his body towards Shuiyin Su's shoulder, exhaling a gentle breath that caressed Shuiyin Su's ear.

  "I think your heart's desire has never treated you like this before."

  Shui Yi Su dodged Dongfang Chun's teasing and gave her a cold glance. "Cloud King, please restrain yourself."

  "Why should I hold back, I'm a lustful king and I've taken a liking to your looks. Look at this fair skin, it's even better than a woman's, and that beautiful face of yours makes me salivate just by looking at it." As he spoke, Dongfang Chun stroked the pale skin, making sounds of appreciation, "The feel of it is really great."

  Suddenly, Dongfang Chun's body was lightly swept by Shui Yusu, and he fell from the bedside to the ground. "Water Master is really bold, even daring to slap Prince Wang."

  "Prince, thinking that disabling my martial arts skills will allow you to do as you please, without knowing shame or integrity." Such a handsome and elegant man, should be as gentle as dust, but was actually driven mad by Dongfang Chun, speaking recklessly.

  "You've finally shown some reaction, it's about time you had some life in you, makes me think you're not a dead person." Dongfang Chun listened to his irritated words, got up from the ground, didn't get angry, and said calmly, with a different tone than before.

  "Your Highness, with so many beauties in the world, why must it be me?" Shui Yi Su closed her eyes and leaned against the bed, her voice as fleeting as air.

  "For no reason, who made you think that I'm not the king in your heart?" Dongfang Chun's tone was ambiguous, making it hard to discern his true emotions.

  Shuiyi Su's faint sigh, Yun Guo didn't have a man willing to love her, when the time came, he wouldn't stay here, Xue Er was still waiting for him.

  "Water boy, are you still thinking about that little lover Xue Er?" In his past life, his expression would also be so ethereal. At that time, she was foolish and pretended to be unaware, but he later admitted that he was thinking of her. In this life, with the same melodramatic plot, she no longer cared.

  Shui Yu Su's expression changed slightly, and he looked at Dongfang Chun with a dull gaze. "Your Highness, it seems that you think having power means you can do as you please."

  Gently playing with the water, Su's hair tickled his ear, and he quietly leaned in close to his ear "Hehe, yes, who let this king have nothing but power and influence, and also the favor of the imperial sister? So you are destined to not escape, and your little lover Xue Er will not be with you either."

  Water remembered Su's silent shallow smile, and looked at her deeply with eyes that seemed to be watching a dying person struggle.

  Although Dongfang Chun felt that his smile was not good-natured, he still smiled brightly at her, as if to say, "I don't care", for she was a self-confident and arrogant person.

  She gave Su a faint glance "I'm the one holding the knife and you're the fish on the chopping board, yet you can still smile, no wonder they call you Water Young Master."

  "Cloud King, have you never thought that one day, when you no longer hold power, what would happen to your unbridled desires?" The vermilion between Water's eyebrows seemed even more strikingly beautiful, as if it could enthrall people endlessly.

  Dongfang Chun raised an eyebrow, she never worried about this, even if one day came, she also had the ability to make herself live well, it was just hard work.

  Facing the water, Yu Su remembered, but pretended to be angry: "If one day it's like that, I will kill your little lover Xue Er first."

  Knowing that King Yun would investigate the people around him, he originally protected Xue Er well, but unexpectedly got involved. "King seems to have overestimated himself, King should know that you can't hurt her."

  Dongfang Chun's eyes narrowed dangerously, he had said similar words in his past life, "I won't let you harm her", and later on, he indeed protected Xue'er very well, all the open and hidden attacks were blocked by her.

  He tightly closed his eyes, and when Dongfang Chun opened them again, his eyebrows and eyes curved into a smile. "Wang Gongzi is indeed infatuated." Dongfang Chun's eyelashes trembled slightly, covering the light in the bottom of his eyes, as if there was a hint of melancholy, yet also a hint of arrogance.

  It's okay, I drank the Forgetful Dust myself, and won't be hurt by his words. No sorrow for love, no regret for love. The old woman's Forgetful Dust also has another name called No Regret.

  The eastern spring's twin eyes shone brightly, unexpectedly snatching the precious jade pendant from Shuiyi Su's neck and walking out of the house with a gentle swaying motion.

  "Aren't your martial arts skills useless now?" Dongfang Chun gazed at the figure blocking her way, saying lightly, pausing for a moment, with a sarcastic smile.

  "Return the jade pendant." Shui Yi's deep, water-like eyes flashed with a stern expression.

  "I won't pay it back" She had a stubborn and arrogant streak in her bones. Sometimes she would yield to softness but not to force, and the more Water Ink Su was like this, the more she became so, listening to Water Ink Su's cold and severe words, her eyes emitted a fierce light.

  "The king will regret it." Shui Yi Su narrowed her eyes, furious.

  "I won't regret it." Dongfang Chun's eyes shone with a faint, unblinking light as he stared at Shuiyi Su, his gaze piercing through the heavy shadows.

  After going out, Dongfang Chun returned to the house and found some medicine water. She dissolved the jade pendant, which had the effect of making people lose their minds. The surface was soaked in poisonous love water. She didn't think that she could also see poisonous love water on this continent. But if she told Shui Yisu about it, he wouldn't believe her either and would only suspect her of various tricks. Even if she found someone to prove the existence of poisonous love water, he would still think that she had soaked it herself. So it can only be like this, Shui Yisu, I'm actually saving your name.

  Sitting quietly at the table, Dongfang Chun looked at the clear soup and vegetarian dishes in front of her, her eyebrows furrowed so tightly they could pinch a fly to death. "Chou Ya, why have we been having such bland meals for the past few days? Not even a bit of meat?" She picked up some carrot dish with her chopsticks and handed it to Chou Ya, still puzzled. Logically speaking, the prince's meals should be similar to those in the imperial palace, but looking at the dishes on her table, they couldn't even compare to an ordinary person's home-cooked meal. Could it be that her past life liked to eat vegetarian food? That didn't seem likely either; she had already seen her taste and knew for sure that she wasn't a vegetarian.

  Ugly girl looked at Wang Ye, hard to speak, now Wang Ye is very good, those people don't understand Wang Ye's goodness, they spread rumors about Wang Ye like that, but Wang Ye still let her sit and eat with him, what an honor it is.

  "Your Highness, the mansion is indeed facing financial difficulties." Ah, it's all because of Your Highness' good nature, but you're just a spendthrift who squanders all your money on men. It's always men supporting women, and women getting whatever they want by spending money. But here with Your Highness, it's the opposite. She really doesn't understand Your Highness.

  "What's the meaning of being short of money? Am I not the king? Don't I have a salary?" Dongfang Chun bit her chopsticks, feeling very uneasy in her heart. Her rice-bug life mustn't go down the drain.

  "Your Highness, there is indeed no more silver in the mansion, and all of your family's assets are also in the hands of those four husbands... The profitable shops were also given to them by you..." Ugly Ya said as she spoke, Dongfang Chun sighed on one side, finally directly lying on the table without getting up, revealing a painful expression.

  "Your Highness, what's wrong?"

  "Woe is me, my ugly life as a rice worm has been ruined, I'm penniless, how can I survive?" All I can do is cry about it here.

  The ugly girl looked at the king and couldn't bear it, so she quickly came up with an idea: "Your Majesty, don't be sad, you used to go to the imperial palace to ask the emperor for it."

  "Dongfang Chun's eyes lit up, and in her excitement, she accidentally broke the bowl beside her. This predecessor was so shameless, actually daring to ask the Emperor for it with a thick face. The Empress needed this funding more to consolidate her imperial power."

  Suddenly, a brilliant light flashed in Dongfang Chun's eyes. "Chou Ya, wasn't it said that the husband here supports his wife?" Then can she also continue to live a life of idleness?

  "Your Highness, you can't do that. Those four husbands haven't spent a single penny since they entered the mansion." Chou Ya said gritting her teeth, she really felt sorry for the king, why did those four husbands not like him even though he was such a good king? Even that Water Marquis didn't give the king a good face.

  Lowering his head, Dongfang Chun let out a long sigh. His previous life was to blame for this. Weren't beauty and power supposed to coexist? But there's no money. This is a real problem.

  "Ugly girl, ask Uncle Yan to bring all the account books for me to take a look. I should have the right to check the accounts myself, let's understand it first and see if there is any way to make up for it."

  Jade Emperor Garden

  Yan Shu looked at the elegant Yu Gongzi reading a book inside the house, "Yu Gongzi, our Wang Ye wants to take a look at the account book." Yan Shu said with a humble and obedient expression. The four husbands didn't like being called "husbands" by others, they just wanted to be called "Gongzi". Although he was old, he could see things clearly, they simply didn't want to have any dealings with Wang Ye, that title made them very uncomfortable.

  Yu Qianhua looked at Yan Shu with a hint of surprise, elegantly put down the book in her hand, and said in a clear and melodious voice, "Yan Guanjia, are you sure it's the prince who wants to see this?"

  Yan Shu did not dare to be the slightest bit slow "Yes, Wang Ye said he wants to see the account book."

  Upon hearing this, Yu Qianhua rarely revealed a smile as elegant as jade, but looking closely at the curve of his mouth, it was clear that he despised and looked down on Prince Wang. A prince who couldn't even recognize big characters would understand account books? What a ridiculous joke.

  Yu Qianhua smiled slightly, then placed all the account books on the table. "Uncle Yan, this is the accounting book for the past two years. Please take it to Master Wang." Uncle Yan was shocked in his heart, knowing that Master Wang couldn't understand it, yet Yu Gongzi still asked him to bring so many over, wondering what he had in mind.

  A moment later

  Yan Shu handed over the account book with respect, and when he went to ask for it from Sanfu Jun Yutianhua's hands, Yutianhua smiled warmly at the corner of his mouth, as if mocking him. Yes, even he suspected that Wang Ye was pretending to be knowledgeable, but couldn't actually understand the account book, let alone Yu Gongzi! He just felt sorry for Wang Ye.

  Dongfang Chun sat in the study's chair, flipping through the account book with a glance that could take in ten lines at once, a talent she had possessed since her past life and still did now. The more she flipped, the darker her face became. This wasn't just being broke, it was being deeply in debt.

  Although this account book is an ancient and cumbersome method of accounting, it's still not enough to stump her. If modern accounting methods were used instead, many things could be simplified, but for now, the information in this account alone is enough to make her extremely angry.

  Dongfang Chun slammed the account book to the ground, the Wang Fu's huge industry was ruined by her predecessor, leaving only an empty shell with heavy debts. Her eyes gleamed with a fierce light, and her bones seemed to emanate a chill. After a while, Dongfang Chun slowly suppressed her emotions.

  Yan Shu stood trembling, the aura on Wang Ye's body was too overbearing, he could say that he had experienced many things, before Wang Ye no matter how angry he got, he didn't feel any pressure, but just now Wang Ye just slammed the account book, and he felt that the overwhelming pressure emanating from his whole body made him breathless.

  "Go down, Uncle Yan." Uncle Yan is also very loyal, don't scare him.

  Gently tapping on the table, Dongfang Chun fell into deep thought. Should she bring out her true abilities or not? The lessons from her past life were enough. Besides, she wouldn't starve even if she didn't. If she really brought out her strength, even if she was heavily in debt, she would still make a fortune. In her past life, she had single-handedly saved the Ye Corporation from bankruptcy and made it an international sensation that echoed around the world.

  But she wants to keep a low profile and can't live that life anymore. It's better to be comfortable, relaxed and free, without being noticed by others, and not so lonely.

  Is there a way to do it quickly and quietly without causing a stir?

  Suddenly a bright light flashed through her mind, and Dongfang Chun's mouth curved into a brilliant smile. "Husbands, wait for my move!" She would cheat the money back from their hands, and she was also good at swindling and deceiving. Acting was also her specialty.

  Chou Ya looked at Wang Ye's smile at the corner of his mouth and had a bad premonition, wondering if Wang Ye was thinking of something "fun" again.

  However, those few husbands didn't take her seriously, and she just admired their good looks, but there was no real affection. This still needs to be carefully planned out. Can't let them do as they please in the backyard, yet can't move against them either. Cultivating feelings seems like a good idea.