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Zhao Jingyi came out after a while, and the current Empress Yang had to endure for many years before he could finally become the main empress of the palace from an imperial concubine. Others would proclaim her to be a thousand years old, but to the Eldest Princess, she was merely a woman who took over the position of her mother.

”Wen Jiu.” Zhao Jingyi reached out his hand and rubbed Wen Jiu's face, ”A person who puts on an act at such a cheap price is truly unpleasing to the eye.”

”But the princess smiles every time she says I don't please her.” Wen Jiu looked into her eyes, without a single trace of the depressed and humiliated look he had when they first met. He laughed, his almond eyes shining brightly, ”If I don't desire to make the princess happy, then I would rather be someone who doesn't desire to be.”

Zhao Jingyi laughed and looked away, ”I hope that you can still act so shameless in front of others.”

Wen Jiu laughed without saying a word.

The cruise liner headed towards the dragon boat with the wind. The palace maids were standing around with octagonal lanterns in their hands. The lights were dazzling, and even the wind in front of them was getting hotter.

The ladies at the banquet were discussing softly. The old Empress and Empress Yang were seated at the head, looking quite spirited.

Zhao Jingyi did not avoid the suspicion either, and brought Wen Jiu to greet the two, as if it was common for her to be together with this Young Madame from Xie Family.

One said ”to meet father”, one said ”to meet emperor”, and the latter half of the sentence ”Empress” was in strange unison.

Wen Jiu looked at Eldest Princess with surprise, only to see that the other party had an indifferent expression, as proud as a phoenix, he would not bend his waist for an ordinary mortal.

She only knew that Zhao Jingyi came from the empress dowager, and did not have any sort of relationship with the person sitting on the Phoenix Seat. However, she did not know that this princess would actually treat Empress Yang with such indifference in front of everyone.

From the looks of it, it seemed as if he had come all the way for her.

Wen Jiu thought.

The court ladies below seemed to have long gotten used to Eldest Princess's ways. Each and every one of them smiled and wished the empress an eternal life, wishing that they could use all of their family's resources to give her a birthday present.

Zhao Yu, who was sitting beside the Empress Yang now, stared at Wen Jiu for a long time, acting like the Seventh Princess, but his tone was a little sour, ”I have often heard that there was a female God of Wealth in the Dijing City, in just a short half a year, she had already surpassed the first-rich Wang Family, I wonder what kind of congratulatory gift did the Wealth God Wen send over today?”

It was probably because Xie Heng's attacks were not light previously, that Zhao Yu had been recuperating from his injuries, the arrogant and despotic little princess' personality had diminished a lot, and she just found Wen Jiu even more unpleasing to the eye.

Everyone stretched out their necks to watch the commotion.

The little princess had given her the title of ”Wealth God Wen”. If the gifts presented to the Empress Yang were not expensive enough, with a few heavy words, it would be easy for her to be charged with a crime on the spot.

Wen Jiu thought for a moment and could not help but remind himself: If you want to live a good life, you must not offend women.

Especially the women of the palace.

There were quite a few pure and flawless white jades, and it just so happened to be as light as a piece of paper, a total of 28 pieces. When she folded the fan, it didn't look too heavy, but when she opened it, it was a peony painting.

Wen Jiu said, ”I wish Empress Fang Hua will remain here forever.”

This wedding gift could not be considered good or bad, it could only be described with one word, ”expensive.”

Wen Jiu had originally wanted to earn a lot of silver from Empress Yang's birthday banquet, so she would show some sincerity by giving a gift to others. The ladies who frequently went to various banquets all knew that Empress Yang was an elegant person, and liked antique calligraphy and paintings the most.

But Xie Xuan had a bad temper, who knows when he would start acting like this and casually smash this precious object into her head. Not only was he blind with the money, he was also a deadly weapon.

After some thought, she brought it here.

Empress Yang seemed to like it, and praised Wen Jiu right away.

The expressions of the people in the crowd became more subtle as they listened. Who didn't give away rare things? Why was she so popular with the empress?

Wen Jiu received the praise without care for the reactions of the people around him

He thought to himself: I've spent so much money, but I can't listen to any of it?