The Cold King Demands Love and Pleasure

Ji Shuihan's condition has gradually recovered, but business in Yanxiang is not recovering as quickly as Ji Shuihan's mood!

According to Ji Shuihan, the current income of the entire Yanxiang is simply appalling! The current performance is not even a third of what it used to be.

Xia Tongsheng was anxious! It seemed that her worst fears had come true. After all, given her status and the prince's influence in the court, probably not many people in the court would dare to indulge in debauchery in Yanxiang!

With these high-ranking officials and nobles not coming, Xia Tongsheng's dream of becoming a wealthy tycoon is out of the question, and even his initial plan to use Yanxiang to gather information is probably doomed to failure!

Min Youan carried Yi Yi in, "Why are you frowning?"

"Your Highness, I'm in a hurry! Business in Yanxiang isn't doing very well right now!"

Min Youan tapped his forehead, a slight smile on his face. "Now you know how hard it is to do business!"

"Yes, it's really difficult!"

"Please, Your Majesty, I will help you!" His gaze held three parts teasing and seven parts earnestness! It seemed he wanted to let her know that he was there for her, that no matter what happened, someone would stand by her side!

"I don't need your help, I can do it myself!"

"How about a bet?" He hoped this method would motivate Xia Tongsheng to fight!

"What are you gambling?"

"Gambling Alley!"

Xia Tongsheng frowned. What kind of bet is it to use Yan Xiang as the stake?

"If Yanxiang does not recover to its former state within three months, Yanxiang shall belong to me!"

This is quite a big bet. But what does Min Youan want with Yan Xiang? This man is someone who has no shortage of money, let alone brothels!

"Your Highness, what's wrong? You finally can't stand seeing my Yanxiang competing with your Chenxianchi for business?"

Min Youan raised his sleeves and straightened his robes. "Think what you want. I just want to ask you, do you dare to bet?"

"Let's gamble, but what if Your Highness loses?"

"Whatever you want, I will give you!"

She gave a sly smile, "Your Highness, don't talk big. I'm afraid you won't be able to afford it when the time comes!"

"If I can't even give my woman what she wants, how can I be considered a man!"

His words were incredibly touching, but Xia Tongsheng was no longer buying it. "Okay, see you in three months!"

"You can't deny losing, your daughter is a witness! You, as her father, can't lie to her! Right, Yiyi!"

At this moment, the youngest witness was eating his hand with a bewildered expression, unaware of what the two were doing!

"I wouldn't dare! Let alone my daughter, I can't even afford to offend you, myself!" Under the shadow of these two women, Min You'an had absolutely no self-respect!

Xia Tongsheng stood up, but Min Youan stopped her, "Where are you going?"

"Of course I'm going to do business. If I don't work hard now, this Xiaoyan Alley won't be mine anymore in three months!"

This brothel was built with great effort by Xia Tongsheng himself, and he couldn't let Min Youan, that cunning old fox, steal the fruits of his labor!

"You can go to Yanxiang, but leave Yiyi here!"

He hadn't paid attention before, so he pretended not to see Xia Tongsheng taking Yi Yi to Yan Lane. But now Min Youan couldn't bear to part with her. Yan Lane was a mixed bag, and it was better for the children not to have too much contact with it!

Xia Tongsheng handed the child to Min Youan, saying, "Then I'll trouble Your Highness to take care of your own daughter today!"

Before Min Youan could even agree, he ran off in a flash!

Min Youan couldn't help but shake her head. She's already a mother, how can she still be so immature!

Now everyone in the capital knows that Yan Lane is now the Princess's territory, so Xia Tongsheng didn't try to hide her presence when she went there.

"Shui Han, I'm here!" she shouted impatiently as soon as she entered the door.

Ji Shuihan rushed out and gestured to Xia Tongsheng to keep her voice down!

"what happened?"

"Your Highness, you have no idea how difficult business is in Yan Lane these days. It's only today that a few people have come here to patronize us, and they're having a good time in their rooms right now. If you shout like this, you'll disturb them!"

Xia Tongsheng had no idea that she possessed this ability!

But thinking about it, the person doing something bad in the room, hearing me arrive, would probably feel about the same as if they checked into a hotel room and heard the police doing a room raid!

"I'll go upstairs first. Bring me the account books for the past two months later."

Yingling watched as Xia Tongsheng went upstairs and asked, "Miss, do you have something on your mind?"

Xia Tongsheng shook her head, "I have no thoughts in my mind, it's your prince who has thoughts in his mind!"

Ideas and inspirations are rare; they're something you can't force!

But Xia Tongsheng has never been so lucky as to come up with good ideas!

"Does Your Highness have a plan? Should I tell Miss what to do?"

"No, but..."

Before Xia Tongsheng could finish speaking, Ji Shuihan came up with the account book. "Your Highness, the account book is here!"

"Give it to me!" Xia Tongsheng took the ledger, looking as if she were facing death with righteous indignation!

What she feared most was accounting. When Yanxiang's business was doing well, she only needed to look at the monthly performance figures. As for the additions and subtractions, Ji Shuihan and Yingling did the rest. But now it's different. She needs to use these ledgers to see the path Yanxiang should take in the future.

Data is the most fundamental way to reflect a problem, but this is ancient times, not modern times. If it were a modern era relying on big data, Xia Tongsheng could view his data through the app's backend or calculate it using spreadsheets.

In ancient times, let alone helping you organize the data, it was questionable whether you even had any data at all!

"Oh, right, I haven't finished what I was saying. The prince said that if Yan Xiang doesn't improve within the next three months, he's going to take Yan Xiang back!"

"What? How could you bear to do that?"

Ji Shuihan could hardly believe it was true. Xia Tongsheng had always regarded Yanxiang as her root, but how could Xia Tongsheng agree to hand over Yanxiang to the prince!

"I really hate to see it, but I can't just stand by and watch Yanxiang go bankrupt!" Xia Tongsheng sighed. "I'm telling you this so that you can pay more attention to Yanxiang's affairs. However, please don't tell anyone else in Yanxiang about this, or I'm afraid it will cause chaos!"

"I know what to do!" Ji Shuihan said, head bowed. "I'll go do something first!"