I woke up straight into a nightmare scenario: my love-struck little sister was blushing as she embroidered a purse for the enemy kingdom’s hostage prince.
I looked at the crooked character “Ce” on it and tossed it into the brazier.
Instead of trying to save a hopeless romantic, why not try a different approach?
I did some digging: State Preceptor Gu Qingxuan oversaw the Imperial Astronomical Bureau and the treasury. He wanted nothing to do with women and devoted himself entirely to cultivation.
Wasn’t he the perfect long-term meal ticket?
I brought him midnight snacks, passed him notes, and helped him investigate corruption, doing everything I could to get inside the treasury.
When I saw the mountains of account books, my eyes lit up.
These weren’t account books. They were my path to becoming a rich woman!
Until one day, the aloof, chaste state preceptor cornered me in the storeroom:
“Miss Shen, what exactly are you after, coming to the treasury every day?”
I blurted out, “Your… treasury keys.”
He smiled and pulled a ring of keys from his sleeve.
“Here. The keys to every storeroom in the treasury are yours.”
“What about you?” I asked, stunned.
He lowered his gaze to me, starlight in his eyes.
“I’m after you.”
Before long, everyone in the capital knew that the state preceptor who wanted nothing to do with women had proposed using the treasury keys.
Later, before the enemy kingdom’s hostage prince was placed under house arrest, he asked me, “Did you transmigrate here?”
I gave him an innocent look. “Transmigrate? I just like making money, and happened to win myself a state preceptor along the way.”
