The Cold King Demands Love and Pleasure

"Looks?" She pointed directly to her increasingly prominent belly. "Are you sure anyone would still be interested in me like this?"

"Yes! Believe me!" Yingling said confidently.

Xia Tongsheng stared at her with her big, watery eyes, looking pitiful. "How can you bear to make a pregnant woman do these things?"

"It was you who wanted to open a brothel, Miss. Since you're not going, then forget it!" She turned around, her face aloof as she prepared to leave!

Xia Tongsheng quickly tapped the table, "Wait, you can say it now!"

Seeing Xia Tongsheng's uneasy expression, she knew she had successfully fooled her and said happily, "Didn't Qinyin say that you can just tell her what you want? So just tell her you want the bracelet and ask her to get it for you!"

"What's the excuse?"

"Just say you miss the Prince and are reminded of him by seeing these things!"

"..."

Then, she clapped her hands, narrowed her eyes, and smiled sinisterly, "What a brilliant idea! She really did sacrifice her body!"

At this moment, Xia Tongsheng already knew that she was deliberately messing with him, and reached out to tickle her!

Yingling smiled and begged for mercy!

When Qin Yin arrived the next day, Xia Tongsheng cried her heart out in front of her!

They say the prince is a heartless man, he hasn't come to see her in so long!

She also said that she missed him so much that she cried every day!

Seeing her crying so bitterly, Qin Yin casually said, "It's a pity this servant can't help you!"

"Yes!" Xia Tongsheng quickly stopped her tears and looked at her with hope.

Qin Yin blinked. "Then how can this servant help you?"

"Could you bring me the bracelet from the room? It was a gift from the Prince. Seeing it is like seeing the Prince himself! It helps ease my longing!"

Sure enough, the honest and simple Qinyin was tricked by the two. She went to the East Garden and, as Xia Tongsheng had told her, found the jade bracelet and brought it to Xia Tongsheng the next day!

Before the jade bracelet could even be warmed in her hands, Xia Tongsheng had Yingling pawn it!

"Miss, are you really going to become one?" To be honest, it's a bit of a waste to sell such a wonderful person as a child performer!

"Dang Dang Dang!"

After saying that, he left the palace with Yingling without looking back!

The reason she spoke so resolutely was simply because she didn't want to leave herself a way out!

Actually, she was reluctant to part with it, after all, it was a gift from Min Youan!

However, compared to her other jewelry, this bracelet was the best choice in terms of both meaning and price, so even though she was reluctant to part with it, she still chose it!

Fearing that the small pawnshop wouldn't be able to come up with that much money, she specifically went to one of the larger pawnshops in the capital!

Xia Tongsheng didn't go in. She was afraid that when the moment actually came, she wouldn't be able to bear it, so she only let Yingling go in by herself!

When Yingling came out with the silver notes, her whole expression was stiff!

Xia Tongsheng rushed over to support her, "What's wrong? Did you pawn too little money?"

Yingling shook her head, "There are too many, it's a bit scary!"

Xia Tongsheng quickly picked up the pawn ticket and looked at it!

Holy crap! Two hundred thousand silver notes!

Even Xia Tongsheng, who was used to big scenes, felt like fainting!

I originally thought it would be good to be worth 20,000 or 30,000 taels of silver, but I didn't expect it to be worth so much money. Min Youan is really willing to spend a lot of money on himself!

Xia Tongsheng suddenly felt even more heartbroken! If only she had known, she would have pawned something else!

However, Xia Tongsheng still felt uneasy. It was just a bracelet. Even if it was very precious, it couldn't be worth that much money!

Is the shopkeeper blind?

She quickly tucked the silver notes into her bosom and hurried away, fearing the shopkeeper might change his mind again!

At that moment, the pawnshop manager was examining the bracelet closely.

"Will you or I pay for this two hundred thousand taels of silver?" He placed the bracelet in the center of the table and looked up to ask the man opposite him.

The man opposite him glanced at the bracelet and asked, "What do you think?"

"Of course you're paying, it's not like I'm the one giving it to you!"

The man laughed, "I'll tell the prince what you just said, and see if you can still keep your position!"

That's right, the man is the manager of Yuyu!

The pawnshop owner, Dou Jianbai, turned pale. "Brother, don't get me into trouble! Alright, I'll take this 200,000!"

Shopkeeper Yu Yu took a sip of wine and took the bracelet back. "I'll keep this bracelet for now. You're such a rough old man, you don't know how to take care of it!"

Dou Jianbai grabbed the jade bracelet in his hand. "No way! I spent 200,000 on this bracelet. I'm waiting to exchange it for money with the prince!"

"You think the prince will give you money? You really don't understand the prince! He'll probably swindle another two hundred thousand from you!"

Well, thinking of the prince's temper, Dou Jianbai sighed, "Alas, it is indeed somewhat unrealistic!"

Dou Jianbai felt a pang of heartache. This was truly a case of losing both his wife and his army; he had given the silver notes, but the bracelet was gone!

Looking at the jade bracelet, Shopkeeper Yu Yu felt quite fortunate!

When the shop assistant brought the jade bracelet to Dou Jianbai for inspection, he would never have realized that this bracelet was the very one that the prince had asked him to carve!

So he secretly glanced at the person who came to pawn the item!

Although Yingling was wearing makeup, the prince's men naturally possessed some special abilities and recognized her, which put them at ease! That's why they had Dou Jianbai give her more silver notes!

"Wasn't it said that the princess was imprisoned? How did she get out?"

"Who knows! But we should tell the Prince about this as soon as possible!"

"That's true! But since the princess has already been demoted, why are you making me give her so much money!"

Shopkeeper Yu Yu mocked his ignorance, "You really are a fool, aren't you? How could the prince's feelings for the princess change so easily!"

He vividly remembered how Min Yoo-an threatened him to make the bracelet!

I'll never forget it, not even until I die...

Therefore, he simply couldn't believe that the prince had truly severed his feelings for the princess.

Meanwhile, Min Youan was standing on the city tower of the first city in Nanye that he had conquered!

He put his hands behind his back, gazing intently at the direction of another city ahead.

He silently told himself, "If I can capture just one more city, I can go back to see her!"

At this rate, he estimated he could still get back to see her before she gave birth and witness their child's birth. But he didn't realize that he had been too naive!

"Your Highness, what's wrong?" Cang Jue asked from behind him, noticing his gloomy expression.

Min Youan shook his head, turned his back to him and said in a deep voice, "It's okay. Everyone has worked hard these past two months. Go and treat them to something!"

"Yes!"

Cang Jue ordered his men to slaughter the sheep in the general's camp to reward the three armies!

As soon as the first lamb was roasted, Cang Jue couldn't resist taking a roasted leg of lamb and bringing it to Dongfang, saying, "Here you go!"

Dongfang raised his head, glanced at Cang Jue, his brows furrowing unconsciously, but he didn't reach out to take it. "Just leave it there!"

“Okay!” He sat down next to her and placed the leg of lamb on the table in front of her.