I Suddenly Realized My □□ Had Ascended the Throne

Li Xia is the head maid in the Prime Minister's residence. She earns the highest monthly wage in the entire household and oversees a hundred people. She has no particular hobby except loving money and saving every penny. She keeps thinking that one day, when she can leave the residence, she'll rent a few fields and marry a handsome young man who looks like Pan An. If he's handsome enough, she wouldn't mind keeping him herself. She worked steadily toward that goal until one rainy day, when she found an injured beggar. Out of kindness, she let the little beggar stay and gave him food. But the little beggar was always causing trouble in the Prime Minister's residence. He never followed the rules and had a wild streak, acting like a wolf cub with everyone, yet behaving obediently around Li Xia. Whenever she tried to scold him, one look at his pitiful eyes, a glance at his sufficiently handsome face, and the sound of him calling her "Big Sister" made her lose her temper all over again. Before long, everyone in the Prime Minister's residence was saying that the little beggar had latched onto Li Xia, using his looks to get her monthly wages. Li Xia was so angry she stamped her feet, but she couldn't shut everyone up. The little beggar said, "Big Sister, people are saying it anyway. Why not make it true?" Looking at his handsome face and his clothes soaked by the rain, Li Xia couldn't resist the wolf cub's charms. They agreed that every month she would give him one tael of silver from her wages. After they cuddled together in the night, she watched her little husband secretly bite the silver to test it, and thought that she should work hard from now on so she could give him a few more coins. Later, one day, the new emperor ascended the throne. She saw the little husband she had raised sitting in a grand sedan carried by sixteen men, dressed in yellow silk and wearing a jade crown. Behind her, the crowd shouted, "Long live the emperor!" Everyone in the Prime Minister's residence knelt on the ground. In her panic, she started to kneel too, but her little husband, smiling, stepped down from the sedan and raised a hand to stop her. His dark eyes glittered as he said in a voice only the two of them could hear, "Big Sister, things aren't the way they used to be." She felt dismayed and sad, thinking that out of regard for their past, he wouldn't have her killed, but that the two of them could never have anything to do with each other again. Then she heard him say, "That'll cost extra."