"This is the first time I've seen haggling where the price is inflated."
Si Jin lowered her head and lifted Yuwen Linyuan's chin: "Does the young prince think he's making too much money and has nowhere to spend it?"
"I……"
"How about we change it to... 10,000 taels a night?"
∪ω∪“Awoo?”
Yuwen Linyuan was taken aback. The non-existent dog ears seemed to droop immediately, and his dark eyes were full of grievance.
"Be a little cute, Jinjin is so clueless about romance." Saying that, she kissed the back of his hand, took Jinjin's hand, and rubbed it against her cheek: "I helped you get the imperial decree and did the job, shouldn't I give you some reward?"
Everyone around had been dismissed by Madam Mei, leaving only Yuwen Linyuan squatting beside him, staring intently at him.
After staring at those wet eyes for a while, Si Jin suddenly laughed: "You really are just like a big wolfhound."
"Woof." The little prince, shameless, barked and kissed Si Jin's neck, his breathing steady and his kisses tender.
It slowly and deliberately swept across the Adam's apple, spreading down to the jaw, lips, and tip of the nose.
But he didn't go deep; he just gently rubbed against her for a while before letting go and asking, "Shall we go back to the room?"
He said, "I'll get you something."
“Okay.” Si Jin agreed and went back to her room to wait. Before long, Yuwen Linyuan came running back and forth.
Every time, she would bring a large bouquet of pastries and carefully arrange them on the table: "I brought all these desserts with me. Try them and see which one you prefer."
Judging by the quantity, it seems they've visited every pastry shop in the city. Si Jin glanced at it, picked up a piece at random, and said, "Your Highness spent so much money, and you still want to send desserts. That's too much of a waste."
"It can't be measured in money, my Jingjing is priceless." Saying this, he opened the pastry bags for Sijing one by one: "Try and see which one you like."
Without explaining why, Yuwen Linyuan simply propped his head up with his hands, sat opposite Si Jin, and watched him with happiness and quiet, waiting for him to critique each pastry.
He would carefully note down every single one of Jinjin's preferences, and then invite that pastry chef to the palace.
Today it's pastries, tomorrow it could be clothing designs, the day after tomorrow it could be dishes, and the day after that it could be landscape design...
Every day, or every few days, they would slowly pick out Jinjin's favorite things from the trivialities of life, and then little by little, transform the palace into the way Jinjin liked it.
He wanted Jinjin to have a life of great suffering in the past, and he wanted her to be surrounded by joy in the future.
Ordinary people who dote on their loved ones will spend half of their wages on things to make them happy.
But he is the crown prince. If the whole country doesn't dote on him, what use is this position to him?
"Do you like this place?" Yuwen Linyuan asked earnestly, taking notes little by little.
After arranging a proper dinner for Si Jin, and carrying her into the bathtub, he suddenly remembered the old emperor's instructions.
"The emperor wants you to treat his illness, and promises to restore your original official position. Will you go?"
Si Jin leaned against the edge of the bathtub, her eyes half-closed, her wet hair draped over her shoulders. Her languid demeanor was surprisingly alluring.
"If I and your father fell into the water together, who would you save first?"
"Hmm?" Yuwen Linyuan tilted his head, and then laughed out loud: "I pulled you up by stepping on his head. If he still wants to float upwards..."
At this point, the young wolf's eyes suddenly turned fierce and menacing: "Then I'll smash it down with a rock, smash it a few more times, and it'll surely die."
The longer he knew the truth, the stronger the hatred in Yuwen Linyuan's heart became. He would not let go of that incompetent emperor who had raised him as a puppet.
no way!
"But right now," Yuwen Linyuan said, his water-drenched fingertips gently stroking Si Jin's shoulder, "I need to go into the water to save Jin Jin~"
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The next world will feature a sickly young man, Jin Jin (20 years old), who is a scheming, manipulative woman, versus Yuan (32 years old), the world's No.1 conglomerate and a powerful figure from all walks of life.
P.S.: This is the unfinished story from before, where the protagonist marries the scumbag's uncle. Some readers felt I wrote too many younger-male-male romances, so I'll write about a gentle, aloof, older man with gold-rimmed glasses instead. ~(^з^)-☆
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