After transmigrating into the book, I helped my mother reconcile with her divorced husband.

Manager Xie rubbed his hands together.

Procurement is no problem; with money, there's no fear of not being able to buy things. But these firearms... can they really be treated as a business transaction?

As the manager of the Xie family business, he felt he should offer some advice, but then he thought, what's the point of offering advice? The Xie family isn't incapable of losing money. Before leaving, she told Manager Xie, "I'm entrusting the entire procurement to you."

Here are 30,000 taels of silver notes. I'll have Qingzhi send you another 30,000 taels of cash later. Use this for now, and let me know if you need more.

Before leaving, she told Manager Xie, "Be sure to be careful and don't overlook anything."

"Rest assured, Madam, I will handle this matter properly."

In the silk shop, in the private room reserved for distinguished guests, the manager placed an exquisite, bright red wedding dress on the table. He glared at the man lounging in his chair, sipping tea, and said with a half-smile, "Has your Crown Princess ever seen you acting so nonchalantly?"

The Crown Prince shook his head: "I'm afraid it will frighten her!"

The shopkeeper sighed: "As far as I know, your Crown Princess is not timid. When she was eight or ten years old, she dared to break into the Commandant's Mansion and the Garrison Camp all by herself. What kind of place is the Commandant's Mansion? It's a place old people use to scare children. And the Garrison Camp, even I have to go around it when I pass by the gate."

The Crown Prince tilted his head and smiled: "My little Crown Princess is indeed remarkable."

The shopkeeper pouted and said irritably, "You're getting all cocky after I just praised you a couple of times."

The crown prince straightened his posture. "That was pride, just telling the truth."

The shopkeeper clicked his tongue twice: "I really want your little crown princess to see what you look like now."

The crown prince waved his hand: "No, she'll look down on me!"

The shopkeeper laughed, laughing so hard he almost fell over: "You're finished!"

"You're truly finished. The dignified Crown Prince, the infamous Third Young Master of the Jianghu, has actually fallen for a mere girl."

“Not a little girl, but a fairy.” The Crown Prince corrected, “And, it’s not that I fell into her hands, it’s that I willingly became her captive.”

The shopkeeper looked at him with a sour expression: "That's too cheesy."

Are you still the same person I know? Don't say anything, or I'll get goosebumps.

The Crown Prince put down his teacup: "Let's get down to business!"

The shopkeeper curled his lip: "Alright, let's get down to business! You really want to get married to your little crown princess in Ganzhou? Why bother? The wedding you held in the capital was pretty grand too."

“That’s the Crown Prince marrying the Crown Princess, according to palace etiquette, which is inappropriate.” The Crown Prince looked at the wedding dress: “I want to hold a ceremony according to folk customs, not the Crown Prince marrying the Princess, but me marrying her.”

"Alright, considering we've known each other for so long,"

"Seeing how devoted you are, I'll help you." The shopkeeper slammed his hand on the table. "I'll handle the betrothal and wedding arrangements, I'll prepare the betrothal gifts, and I'll deliver the wedding invitations."

"Thank you for your hard work, Brother Zhuo."

"It's no trouble at all. It's my honor to know Your Highness." The shopkeeper gritted his teeth and pointed to the groom's clothes next to him: "Try them on. If there's anything that doesn't fit, I can have someone alter them."

"Didn't Brother Zhuo personally revise it for me?"

The shopkeeper pointed at the prince and said with a grin, "I'll change it for you personally."

The Crown Prince stretched out his arms: "Then I'll have to trouble you, Brother Zhuo."

"I owe you, I really owe you." The shopkeeper rambled on, "Don't let my wife see this, if she does, she'll suspect that there's something between us."

The crown prince only smiled and remained silent.

He met Zhuo Yunlang in the martial arts world, where they both used aliases. They hit it off immediately and became inseparable. On the day he met Madam Zhuo, Zhuo Yunlang was dressed as a woman.

It's quite a tragic story. A crown prince and the young master of the Zhuo family, both traveling the world, had their silver stolen. They couldn't endure hunger, and they couldn't bring themselves to do manual labor as servants. What if they were discovered and recognized? What would become of their reputation and their family's standing?

So they agreed to become thieves and set their sights on the Tan family, the wealthiest family in the area.

The crown prince disguised himself as a servant, and Zhuo Yunlang disguised himself as a maid.

As for why he was a maid, it was because he was deceived by this black-hearted, cunning Crown Prince.

Having never been a thief before, and lacking experience, he didn't know to scout the place out beforehand. By a twist of fate, he stumbled upon Miss Tan's boudoir.

Miss Tan is now Mrs. Zhuo.

The person was bathing at the time. Hearing the noise, they ordered a maid to go out and investigate. The Crown Prince, being unkind, pushed the maid out to escape. The roof of the Tan family's house was really thin; with just that one shove, a hole was torn in it, and the person fell through.

Unfortunately, he fell into Miss Tan's bathtub. Luckily, the tub was empty, but he was quite disheveled when he got out. His parents gave him good looks, which he could use to impersonate a woman in a pinch. He lied that he was a new maid in the manor who had been discovered by infiltrators while on night patrol and almost lost his life.

Thank God, when he fell, his neck was grazed by a piece of tile, the wound looked like it was made by a dagger. Miss Tan is beautiful and kind-hearted, unaware of the dangers of the world, and was easily deceived by him.

Miss Tan not only personally applied the medicine to him, but also gave him some money.

He went to buy some good food to calm his nerves. Thanks to the money Miss Tan gave him, the prince survived, and so did he.

For the next six months, he worked as a servant in the Tan family until Miss Tan discovered that he was a man.

The thought of this made him want to kill the Crown Prince.

"Why are you looking at me with such a murderous gaze?" The Crown Prince looked at Zhuo Yunlang innocently: "Could it be that..."

"Shut up!" Zhuo Yunlang covered the prince's mouth: "You heartless, black-hearted bastard, you tricked me into dressing up as a woman and becoming a maid, you tricked me into using my maid's monthly salary to support you, you tricked me... In the end, I almost got beaten to death by my wife."

"If I hadn't been beaten up by Miss Tan, how could I have turned misfortune into blessing and gained Madam Zhuo in return?"

The prince curled the corners of his mouth and said, "You should thank me."

"You're so shameless!" Zhuo Yunlang glared at him, angrily pinching the cuff of his sleeve. "It's an inch too wide here, it needs to be narrowed down."

The Crown Prince grunted in agreement, took off his wedding robes, and gestured for Zuo Yi to come in.

"Young Master Zhuo!"

"Leftmost." Zhuo Yunlang nodded: "You've grown up. When I first met you, you were just a kid here."

Zhuo Yunlang pointed to the position on his waist.

Zuo Yi lowered his head shyly: "Young Master Zhuo is still as handsome as ever."

"Handsome and dashing? He actually said I'm handsome and dashing." Zhuo Yunlang grinned from ear to ear: "Good, you're better at talking than when we were kids. I still remember the first time I met you, you said I was a seductive temptress, that I deliberately dressed as a man, and that I was plotting something while staying by your prince's side."

Zuo Yi scratched his head: "I didn't know that Young Master Zhuo was a man! No wonder you're so handsome, Young Master Zhuo."

I'll take that as a compliment.

Zhuo Yunlang tapped the box: "What's inside? Is this also something your Crown Prince prepared for the Crown Princess?"

"This was prepared for you." The Crown Prince raised his eyes slightly. "To be precise, it was prepared for your wife, that is, Madam Zhuo."

Zhuo Yunlang felt a pang of jealousy and picked up the box, ready to throw it away: "Why would you send my wife something like this out of the blue? There's no reason for such kindness; you must have ulterior motives."