Chapter 114 Almost a Mishap

The next morning, Yongqi happily ran off to Shufangzhai again.

At this moment, Xiao Yanzi had already woken up and was sitting in the hall drinking the hangover soup that Mingyue Caixia had cooked for her.

"Little Swallow, how are you feeling? Does your head still hurt?"

Xia Ziwei got up early and took Mingyue and Caixia to make hangover soup for Xiaoyanzi. Watching Xiaoyanzi finish the hangover soup, she felt relieved.

"Ziwei, I feel much better, it doesn't hurt at all anymore." Xiaoyanzi smiled at Xia Ziwei, "Now you're back to your energetic self."

"The talented scholars pay their respects to the Fifth Prince! May the Fifth Prince be blessed!" The four talented scholars in the courtyard saw Yongqi arrive and quickly bowed.

"Little Swallow." Yongqi's voice came from outside. Little Swallow looked at him, and a blush returned to her face.

"You... how did you get here?" Thinking about what happened yesterday, Xiao Yanzi felt too ashamed to face Yongqi.

Seeing their reaction, Xia Ziwei and Mingyue Caixia wisely left them some space.

Yongqi muttered, "Why can't I come? You drank so much yesterday, I was worried all night, but I didn't dare come over in the middle of the night, so I came first thing this morning to see if you had a headache..."

"Are you planning to kiss me and then deny it?" Seeing that Xiao Yanzi was still silent and not looking at him, Yongqi couldn't help but blurt out this question.

Upon hearing this, Xiao Yanzi stared wide-eyed at Yongqi, "What do you mean, 'denying the promise'? Who's denying the promise?"

"Then look at me." Just a few words were enough to break down Xiao Yanzi's defenses.

"Little Swallow, today I'm handing you the key to my private treasury. From now on, you'll be responsible for keeping my money safe."

"?" Yongqi's sudden words left Xiaoyanzi completely bewildered.

"Your private vault key? Why are you giving it to me?" Little Swallow was completely baffled. "It's your own thing, you should keep it safe yourself!"

“We will eventually get married. Whether Father Emperor gives us a residence outside the palace or we stay in the palace, after we get married, the affairs of the household should be handled by the mistress of the house.”

Hearing this, Xiao Yanzi finally understood, but at the same time, she took several steps back.

"I understand your intentions, but you should take this back!" Xiao Yanzi's resistant expression puzzled Yongqi.

"Little Swallow, what's wrong?" Isn't it said that most people would be happy to see their husbands hand over household chores to their wives? Why does Little Swallow look so unwilling?

Wait, for the average person...

Well, his wife is no ordinary person; her thought process is different from that of ordinary people!

"Little Swallow, can you tell me why you don't want it?"

Little Swallow sighed and looked at him helplessly, "I don't even want to manage my own private property, and you want me to manage yours? Are you kidding me?"

"I have entrusted all my assets to Qingyun for management."

“Qingyun? That name sounds familiar…” Yongqi paused for a moment after hearing the name, then remembered, “Could it be the little palace maid you saved in the imperial kitchen back then?”

Little Swallow nodded, "That's right, it's her. In the past few years outside the palace, I've been so grateful to her for helping me make a lot of money! She managed all the finances!"

“In the beginning, our expenses were not high, so Qingyun could manage on her own. As time went on, we had more and more people and our expenses were getting bigger and bigger, so Qingyun started recruiting and took in many apprentices, who were distributed all over the country.”

Xiao Yanzi gradually told Yongqi about what Qingyun had done over the past few years, and Yongqi was filled with admiration and heartache as he listened.

"Little Swallow, when I brought you back to the palace back then, I thought I would do everything I could to treat you well and give you the best of everything, but in the end, I made you suffer so much..."

When Xiao Yanzi saw Yongqi shed tears, she felt bad too.

“Yongqi, as I said, what I do is not just for you, but also for the people of the world.”

After a moment, she said again, "If you were just an unfavored prince, just an idle prince, perhaps I would really be willing to be this canary and live under your protection for the rest of my life. But you are not. You are the emperor's most valued prince, the most powerful prince. So your future is destined to be limitless. As your bedmate, how can I just be a canary?"

"Maybe others can accept it, but I can't. I don't want to be the kind of person who can only wait for others to rescue me when I'm in danger! I don't want to be the kind of person who can only watch you fight the enemy in front of me when we're in danger... What I want is to fight alongside you and move forward together!"

"The border is often invaded. Perhaps one day you will really need to go to the battlefield. If I don't know anything, I can only wait at home for you to come back. But that kind of life is not what I want. So, I practice martial arts desperately so that I can protect myself and the people I care about, so that I can go to the battlefield with you. No matter life or death, I will be with you! As long as the two of us work together, no matter what kind of demons or monsters they are, they will not be able to cause trouble!"

"With a wife like this, what more could a husband ask for!" Yongqi looked at Xiaoyanzi with a mixture of heartache, emotion, and joy. Their eyes met, and soon their lips were pressed tightly together as they began to kiss.

The two kissed and spun around until they reached a bench in the hall. Yongqi sat down and picked Xiaoyanzi up, holding her in his lap. Xiaoyanzi wrapped her arms tightly around his neck... Gradually, things almost escalated, and their clothes became disheveled again.

Yongqi's lips brushed against Xiaoyanzi's earlobe as he whispered, "Xiaoyanzi, you probably won't be able to leave your room for several days after our wedding night."

Hearing this, Xiao Yanzi swallowed hard, startled by Yongqi's presence. She leaned against Yongqi's chest, drawing circles on his skin. "Are you willing to do this?"

"I might be reluctant to give up other things, but I'm very willing to give up this one!"

"You..." Xiao Yanzi was speechless with anger at Yongqi's words, "You scoundrel!"

"A rogue? Then I'll have to do some things a rogue would do to live up to the title you gave me!" Yongqi said, his right hand moving up Xiaoyanzi's feet. Xiaoyanzi was so frightened that she quickly stopped him, "I was wrong, I was wrong, please forgive me..."

"Little Swallow, Yongqi, are you ready?" Xia Ziwei spoke up at the right moment, reminding them, "It's almost time, we need to leave."

Xia Ziwei's voice made Yongqi stop his nonsense. After the two straightened their clothes, Xiaoyanzi was eager to get off Yongqi. However, because of the "love" Yongqi had just given her, her legs were weak and she almost fell as soon as she hit the ground. Yongqi was so scared that he quickly helped her up. "Okay, I'll carry you out."

"It's all your fault." Little Swallow complained, but she obediently nestled in his arms, refusing to show her face.

When Xia Ziwei and the others saw Yongqi carrying Xiao Yanzi out, their mouths were so wide open they could have swallowed an egg.

"Yongqi, is this really okay?" Xia Ziwei was a little worried. What would she do if the Empress Dowager saw this?

Yongqi looked fearless. "It's only natural for me to hug my future wife. Even the Empress Dowager can't cause me any trouble!" After all, compared to what they had done in the room earlier, this wasn't out of line!