Our Contract Expired, but the Empress Won't Let Me Leave

[Multiple Heroines] [Dynastic Power Struggles] [Succubus] [The Husband-Chasing Crematorium] This novel is also known as *Cultivating Through Wealth: I Conquered the Immortal Realm Through Trade*. Three years ago, Lu Chenyuan was a false prince whose meridians had been crippled. Under a contract, he agreed to look after a blind, orphaned young woman from a family of loyal heroes on behalf of a certain prince. For three years, he stayed by her side, brewing her medicine, reading to her, and sheltering her from wind and rain. The night before her eyesight returned, he left without a word, taking with him a pill that could restore his meridians and three years of memories he had kept to himself. Later, she slaughtered the imperial family, subdued the realm alone, and ascended the throne as empress. He, meanwhile, vanished into the city streets and became a merchant. He thought their paths would never cross again. Until the night of a banquet in the imperial capital. Seated high above the crowd, she swept her gaze over the thousands of guests Then suddenly fixed it on him. “There’s… a familiar scent about you.” Lu Chenyuan kept a straight face. “Your Majesty, you must have mistaken me for someone else.” She smiled faintly and touched her lips with a fingertip. “Is that so? Then pour me a cup of wine.” … The contract had long since expired. But she said, “You owe me three years of your company. I want you to repay me tenfold.” Lu Chenyuan: ??? Wasn’t it your fiancé who hired me in the first place? The empress smiled, murder in her eyes. “He’s already kneeling at the entrance to the Imperial Ancestral Temple. Anything else you’d like to say?”