Tempting the Powerful Official: His Maid Only Wants to Make Money

[Dominating Possession, Mad Regent, Crown Prince’s Regret, Size Gap, Money-Making Heroine, Second Male Lead Takes the Lead]

Ye Qingli was the Crown Prince’s secret concubine for three years.

By day, she managed the Eastern Palace’s accounts. By night, she was his lover, hidden from the world. She endured the palace servants’ contempt, all to save enough money to buy her freedom and open a shop outside the palace.

On the day the Crown Prince married a noblewoman, she packed up her secret savings and fled in the middle of the night, only to stumble into the carriage of the Regent, Yue Xiuyuan.

Rumor had it that Yue Xiuyuan had no interest in women, was a ruthless killer, and became unable to recognize even his own family when his fire poison flared up.

As it happened, Ye Qingli had an exceptionally yin constitution that could suppress his poison.

He pressed a case of gold bars against her waist and said in a low, hoarse voice, “Be my antidote, and all of this is yours.”

Ye Qingli intended to take the money and walk away.

But the Regent clung to her night after night, backing her up by day and sticking close, demanding hugs, after dark.

Later, the Crown Prince knelt in the snow, begging her to come back. Yue Xiuyuan wrapped her in his cloak and lifted the Crown Prince’s chin with his sword tip. “Call her Aunt.”