I just want to live a good life

That night, several men in black quietly entered the yard of the Yue Mansion in the east of the city.

After an incense stick of time, they all left at the same time.

A man in black said to the leader Tracer, "There are nine people in this courtyard, including the master and the servants. No secret passages or doors were found. The only suspicious thing is that there is no hostess."

Tracer said, "I have asked someone to find out this afternoon. Mr. Yue came to the Imperial City from Yicheng to do business. I heard that his family is in Yicheng."

The man in black said, "Maybe Lord Ye Yin is worrying too much. There is nothing suspicious about this family."

Tracer said, "No matter what, since it concerns the safety of His Royal Highness the Crown Prince and His Royal Highness the Concubine, it's better to check it out. Leave two people to monitor first, and the others go back to report."

Su Nuan had no idea what happened here, but she slept uneasily that night.

Whether it was the loss of her voice caused by Cheng Ansu or the betrayal by her own people, she could not sleep well.

She thought that if she didn't do anything to fight back after suffering a loss, she would be looked down upon by her opponents.

People will think she is easy to bully and will make her suffer in silence again and again.

And the person who betrayed her, she must be found out. It is too dangerous to keep such a person around. Today this person can betray her cake recipe, but maybe he can betray her life tomorrow.

So Su Nuan decided to teach Cheng Ansu and the traitor in Duiyueju a lesson.

Three days passed in the blink of an eye. During these three days, Su Nuan locked herself in her room most of the time except for eating, and no one knew what she was doing.

However, after these three days, a strange incident occurred in the imperial city, which was neither big nor small.

Overnight, all pastry shops in the imperial city received a cake-making guide, which provided a detailed description of the cake-making process with pictures and text, and even included examples of failure.

The best part is that this production guide also has an advanced section, which contains suggestions for developing new flavors by integrating different flavors and ingredients.

Then, within one day, all the pastry shops in the imperial city launched their new product - multi-flavor cakes.

Of course there is one exception, which is "Yipinsu" on Hengsi Street.

So on the fifth day after the store opened, there were almost no customers in the store.

This result was soon heard by Su Nuan, and the person who brought her the news was Mu Yunting.

It turned out that after Su Nuan decided to teach Cheng Ansu a lesson that night, she came up with an idea.

There was a drawback for Cheng Ansu to open a shop first, and that was that she was not well prepared. The main product in her shop was cakes, but her other dim sum had little competitiveness in terms of variety or taste. Compared with several large dim sum shops in the imperial city, her only advantage was a novel product.

Su Nuan thought that since her cake-making method had been lost, she might as well lose it more completely, so she locked herself in the room for three days and three nights, and using her hand-drawn design skills, she made dozens of cake-making guides in three days.

Then, on a dark and windy night, she secretly found Falcon with the production guidelines and asked him to help distribute them to all the dim sum shops in the imperial city.

Of course, Falcon couldn't accomplish this kind of thing alone. Su Nuan found Falcon, and Falcon reported the matter to Ye Yin, who then told Mu Yunting about it.

After Mu Yunting received the production guide hand-drawn by Su Nuan, he immediately sent out the secret guards from the Prince's Mansion to complete the task of distributing flyers.

That night, Mu Yunting invited Su Nuan to have dinner together for the first time.

During the meal, Mu Yunting took out the production guide. When Su Nuan saw it, she immediately understood that Falcon had told Mu Yunting what she had asked him to do.

But when she saw that there were only a few copies of the production guide left in Mu Yunting's hand, she knew that the task she had asked Falcon to do had been completed.

So, she raised her glass and toasted Mu Yunting to express her gratitude.

Mu Yunting was not polite either. He took the wine glass and drank it all. Then he said, "Do you want to hear the result?"

"Of course I want to listen." Su Nuan answered honestly.

Mu Yunting smiled and said, "Today, all the big pastry shops in the imperial city are packed with customers, except for Yipinsu on Hengsi Street, which didn't sell a single pastry all day."

This result was similar to what Su Nuan expected, but she was still very happy to hear it from others.

Mu Yunting continued, "I guess it won't be long before Cheng Ansu's 'Yipinsu' will be closed down. I didn't expect your method to be so vicious."

"This is just my normal counterattack. Your Highness used the word 'vicious' to describe it, but I don't like it." Su Nuan said as she picked up a piece of food and put it in her mouth, eating happily.

"So what words do you like to use to describe it?"

Su Nuan thought about it and replied, "Let's use 'Gao Ming'!"

"You are not modest."

"Can modesty help me fight back against Cheng Ansu?" Su Nuan looked at Mu Yunting seriously and said, "Strictly speaking, this matter was also caused by Your Highness. If Cheng Ansu didn't love Your Highness and always regarded me as an imaginary enemy, he wouldn't have done bad things to me and taken away my business. So shouldn't Your Highness give me some compensation?"

"I thought you had already received your compensation."

"Huh? What do you mean?"

"Shouldn't the 2,500 taels of silver from the Ruiyin Building be counted on me?"

Su Nuan shrugged without commenting.

"Do you know who is the owner of the UBS building?"

Su Nuan shook his head.

"The owner of the Ruiyin Building is Cheng Ji's brother-in-law, Cheng Ansu's uncle, and in fact, the Ruiyin Building is Cheng Ji's private property."

"Then I have completely offended Lord Cheng!" Su Nuan said while chewing a piece of bacon.

She likes the taste of this bacon. She had eaten it once at the flower-viewing banquet last time and couldn't forget it. She didn't expect to eat it again so soon. She was very happy.

Seeing her enjoying the meat, Mu Yunting couldn't help but ask, "Aren't you afraid?"

Su Nuan said, "What are you afraid of? Afraid of Cheng Ji? He is the prime minister of the dynasty, and I am the prince's concubine. We have no connection! What reason can he use to take revenge on me? At most, he can marry his daughter to the prince's mansion and let her deal with me. But I see that His Royal Highness the Crown Prince has no such intention towards Cheng Ansu, so why should I be afraid of him?"

"If Cheng Ji wants to take revenge on you, he has many ways to do it. Don't forget that you still have your father and brother serving as officials in the court. He has no chance to deal with you directly, but it is still easy for him to do harm to your father and brother in the court. Aren't you worried about them?"

After Mu Yunting finished speaking, he looked at Su Nuan leisurely.

Su Nuan put down the chopsticks in her hand and said to Mu Yunting seriously for the first time: "If Cheng Ji is the kind of person who can't distinguish between public and private, family and country, why should he be allowed to sit in the position of prime minister?"

Perhaps he didn't expect Su Nuan to ask such a soul-searching question, Mu Yunting's expression was a little unnatural, "Cheng Ji has made great contributions to the Nanzhao Kingdom."

Su Nuan curled her lips and said, "This kind of person has bad conduct, and his merits may have been obtained by framing others."

Mu Yunting's expression changed instantly when he heard this, and he looked at Su Nuan with cold eyes.

Su Nuan felt a little scared by his gaze and quickly changed her words: "I just said it's possible."

Seeing that Mu Yunting was still looking at her, she had to admit her mistake: "Okay, okay, I was wrong. I shouldn't have casually framed the ministers in the court."

After a long time, Mu Yunting finally sighed and looked away.