[Charming little apothecary girl × cold, possessive young lord / both untouched, one-on-one]
Shen Qingqing is Xiao Zhuo's fiancée, but when they meet again ten years later, she doesn't recognize him.
"Master, Miss Shen bought you ten new robes at the accounts office..."
The guard reported, trying not to laugh.
"Miss Shen also insulted you... She called you a menace to women..."
Xiao Zhuo looked toward the corridor, where an apricot-colored figure was twirling a handkerchief. A low laugh escaped his throat.
"Go tell the shopkeeper..."
"Make all those robes she bought from the sheerest mermaid silk."
"This young lord of hers is such a 'menace'... I ought to be worth all the silver she spent today."
[Bonus Scene]
Shen Qingqing: A first kiss has to be romantic!
Xiao Zhuo: Next time, I'll take you to a field of flowers beneath the moon.
Mermaid-silk robe: Just wait until I'm on him, and I'll show you what a real menace looks like.
In those turbulent years, she was sent to the Imperial Medical Bureau for refuge, while he became a cold-blooded young lord with power over the court.
When they met again, he deliberately gave her a phoenix-feather fairy gown at the welcome banquet, but she rejected it again and again. "My lord, I'm only a little apothecary girl. I'm not worthy of even dreaming of becoming yours!"
Later, she unexpectedly became bound to the Get Rich System: every tael of silver she spent on him earned her ten times its value in gold!
And so...
The mermaid silk he glanced at, buy it!
The jade pendant he idly played with, buy it!
She even wanted to buy back the paving stones he'd walked on and bring them to his home!
Xiao Zhuo thought the little apothecary girl was suspicious.
Yesterday she was so poor she could barely afford steamed buns, and today she'd bought out an entire street of shops on Vermilion Bird Street?
Until Xiao Zhuo pinned her against the wall, and the girl rose onto her toes to stuff gold into his arms:
