The Max-Level Money-Grubbing Crown Princess Starts by Leading Troops to Demand Back Pay

On the very first day after Ye Yao transmigrates into the role of Crown Princess, the Empress orders her to pay for a birthday banquet out of her own dowry, while the Ministry of Revenue withholds one hundred thousand taels in military funds from the Eastern Palace.

The whole palace expects her to be virtuous and put up with it. Instead, she flips the table and slaps a three-page list of unpaid bills in front of the Empress. “I can host the banquet, but pay my wages first.”

Ye Yao’s greatest talent is turning favors into line items and unspoken rules into IOUs.

When the Noble Consort swallows up military equipment, Ye Yao grabs a blade and clears out the shops owned by her family. When the court officials pressure the Crown Prince to surrender his military authority, Ye Yao leads three thousand wounded soldiers to block the palace gates and demands every last cent of their campaign expenses, pensions, and back pay.

Everyone calls her insane and waits for the Crown Prince to divorce her.

But the cold-faced Crown Prince personally brings her a warm towel and asks with a smile, “Does your hand hurt? I’ll smash up the next place for you.”

Then the Emperor flies into a rage and orders an investigation of the Eastern Palace’s accounts. But in the old ledgers, Ye Yao uncovers a secret: the biggest debtor to the Eastern Palace isn’t the imperial treasury at all. It’s…