"Are you unhappy? You look so sad."

Ah Qiong looked at him worriedly, then gently grasped his hand and put the beautiful pebble she had been holding all the way into his hand. She said obediently, "My brother and I picked these up in the stream in the village. I picked up two, one for Father and one for you. I brought them back especially for you."

She hugged his arm, leaned on it and looked at him, "Don't be unhappy, I gave you a gift, and you're still not happy?"

She said in a baby voice, "If you're not happy with just one gift, then how many gifts do I need to give you to make you happy? How about this, I'll go look in my room again and give you three... no, five, okay?"

Chu Yujie looked down at the little cutie who was spinning around him. He couldn't help but smile when he heard how hard she was trying to give him gifts to make him happy.

It doesn’t matter if he can’t have a cute child himself, he can still look at the cute little ones in other people’s families.

Why should you be depressed about such things?

Why not just go to the orphanage and adopt one when the time comes?

He smiled and pinched the pebble that Arjun gave him, and said softly, "Thank you, Your Highness. I like your gift very much. I am very happy to have such a beautiful stone. Princess, you don't have to find another gift for me."

Arjun stared at him for a few seconds, then turned and ran away. "I'd better send it off! I see you're still not very happy!"

As she ran, she said to him, "Just wait here, I'll find you some beautiful gifts, the kind that twinkle like little stars!"

Chu Yujie laughed, stood up and shouted, "Princess——"

Arjun covered his ears with his hands, refusing to listen, and ran faster and faster.

Chu Yujie looked at the little princess, and the depression between his brows disappeared a little.

Look, there are still many beautiful things in the world.

How could he look at all the beautiful things around him with a sad attitude just because of a little regret?

He sat on the chair and continued reading, waiting for the little princess.

After a while, the little princess threw him into her arms again and stuffed her hands with gifts.

A goose feather as smooth as jade.

I don’t know if it was just plucked from a big white goose. I feel sorry for the big white goose.

A beautiful gem.

He can't have this, it's too precious.

A sweet cake wrapped in a handkerchief, the little princess insisted that he eat it.

There is also a beautiful head flower in the shape of a small butterfly.

He couldn't accept this either. Although the princess was still young, he couldn't accept things like jewelry. He had to avoid suspicion.

He returned the flower and jewel to Arjun.

Seeing Arjun pouting and looking at him unhappily, he smiled and coaxed, "I accept these two gifts, but they are too precious. If there is a thief in my house, they will be stolen. So I want to leave them with the princess first, and the princess will keep them for me. Okay?"

Ah Qiong was indeed coaxed and nodded happily, "Okay, I'll keep it for you! When you become a high-ranking official, live in a big house, and there are no thieves, you can come back to me and take it back!"

Then, she looked at Chu Yujie hesitantly, "Well, since I've given you so much, you'll give me a gift tomorrow, right? I'm not greedy, I only need one!"

“…” Chu Yujie understood. It turned out that the little princess wanted to exchange gifts with him!

He was not at all ashamed of not being as rich as the little princess, and said frankly, "But I am very poor. If I were to give the little princess a gift, it would be something cheap. Do you want it, princess?"

Ah Qiong was not old enough to say sweet words to flatter others. She would not say things like "thoughts are priceless." She said very honestly, "Well, you'd better not give me a cheap gift. A delicious candied haws costs only one copper coin! I gave you five gifts, so you should at least give me a gift worth five copper coins, right?"

Chu Yujie was stunned for a moment, then burst out laughing at the little princess's amusement.

Five copper coins is a valuable gift, right?

He smiled and said, "I would like to give the little princess a gift of one or two taels of silver, is that okay?"

Ah Qiong pouted and was unhappy again, "Do you think I'm stupid? Five to one! How can you treat me like this? You're so unlovable. You're so pretty for nothing, wuwu..."

Chu Yujie laughed so hard that he couldn't straighten his back.

He saw through it. The little princess couldn't tell the difference between copper coins and silver. She only knew that five was worth one, but she didn't know that one ounce of silver was worth a thousand copper coins.

Tsk.

So he took out silver dimes and copper coins from his purse and patiently told the little princess about the main currencies circulating in Daning today.

Arqiong leaned obediently on his arm and watched him fiddle with silver coins and gold ingots, and listened to him talk about the exchange rate between gold, silver and copper coins.

As she was listening, she fell asleep and her head fell into his arms.

"Princess?"

Chu Yujie called out softly, but the little guy didn't even make a sound. Maybe he had secretly fallen asleep and fell into his arms?

He had no choice but to give lectures to the little prince, who listened with great interest. However, his teaching career suffered a disastrous defeat with the little princess.

I actually fell asleep listening to it!

He walked out with the sleepy little princess in his arms, looking for the wet nurse.

Alas, if this continues, even if he doesn’t have children, he will be able to learn how to hold a baby skillfully.

…

In the bedroom at the back, Zhu Wuhuan was massaging Feng Changye's brows.

She complained to him, "If I didn't know you wouldn't cheat, I would have suspected you had favored eighteen palace maids when you looked so tired."

Feng Changye was lying on her legs. He had been enjoying himself with his eyes closed, but when he heard this, he deliberately opened his eyes just to roll his eyes at her. "You underestimate me. If I really cheated, I would have to favor at least nineteen women."

Zhu Wuhuan was surprised. "So, my charm isn't as great as before? You haven't touched me in six days, but if it were someone else, you would have favored nineteen of them at once?"

She shook her head and sighed, "Alas, these past four years have been wasted."

“…” Feng Changye shut up.

Didn't he already know that he was no match for the Queen?

Youyou stared at her for a long while before he gritted his teeth and said, "Okay, Zhu Wuhuan, you're great. You have to be responsible for what you say. Don't even think about having a peaceful life every month from now on!"

Zhu Wuhuan was amused and lowered his head to kiss him between the eyebrows. "Okay, then I'll ask the system if I can transfer my menstrual period to you. When the time comes, you're welcome to bravely come and deal with me, even while you're in pain and bleeding, okay? I'll definitely take pity on you—"

Feng Changye was so angry that he laughed. He glared at her and snorted, "You're lucky to have met me! If it were any other emperor, someone like you would have been deposed eight hundred times already!"

Zhu Wuhuan discussed this with him seriously, "If he can be deposed eight hundred times, then he truly loves me, right? Otherwise, just deposing him once would be enough. Why would he depose and reinstate him, then depose and reinstate him again, and continue this torturous love affair with me for eight hundred times? Right?"

Feng Changye became withdrawn. He wanted to depose the queen.

He wanted to destroy her eight hundred times and play a sadomasochistic love game with her.