The Princess and the Antique Appraiser (From Ancient Times to the Present)

Yu Rong, a down-on-her-luck princess who had accidentally transmigrated to the modern world, walked into a five-star hotel with the last 2,000 yuan she had. She didn't recognize money or hotels, but a pampered little princess had an instinctive eye for the finer things in life.

Then she spotted an advertisement for an auction in the hotel lobby. The star lot, an imperial-green antique cabochon ring, had sold for 250 million.

Oh! Wasn't that the ring she'd used to wear?

Which bastard had sold her beloved treasure?

The princess spotted the name Shen Lingyu, clearly printed on the appraisal certificate provided by the auction house.

All right, so it was you?

Shen Lingyu: "??? I'm just an appraiser who'd rather not reveal her name."

The princess went backstage to settle the score with this Shen Lingyu, but one glimpse of her made the princess's heart skip a beat. The woman, dressed in a neat suit, had clear, bright features and looked at her with a gentle gaze.

Then the princess was thrown out of the hotel lobby for causing a scene.

The original owner of her body had also finally been kicked out by the landlord for falling behind on the rent. The landlord thoughtfully found the young lady a shared apartment. When the door opened, her new roommate looked up, her friendly smile freezing on her face.

"Hello, fancy meeting you again. Heh."

A spring breeze that had lain dormant for a century blew into the princess's heart for the first time.

Later, Her Highness the Princess discovered that Shen Lingyu was merely a glamorous-looking wage slave. She handled treasures worth hundreds of thousands every day, but none of them had anything to do with her. She even had to take side gigs on livestreams appraising antiques to support her family.

And so Shen Lingyu's livestreams began to look like this.

Shen Lingyu: "Friend, turn the vase over so I can see the bottom. Hmm, all right, something's off about this piece."

Viewer: "What's wrong with it?"

Shen Lingyu: "Friend, look at the clay body... the shape... the glaze..."

Shen Lingyu went on and on until her mouth was dry. Then someone in the livestream's background casually chimed in, "It's fake. We don't have anything like that at home."

Or it went like this.

Viewer: "Look at this pendant. This kind..."

Princess: "Too young."

Viewer: "The luster..."

Princess: "Too short..."

Viewer: "The carving..."

Princess: "This sort of thing is only good for apprentices to practice on."

Shen Lingyu muted her mic and tried to reason calmly. "Your Highness, what exactly are you trying to do?"

The princess lowered her eyes and said softly, "I have a family heirloom bracelet. It's made from the finest stone I've ever seen. It was sent as tribute from a foreign land, and my father passed it down to me, telling me to..."

Shen Lingyu challenged her. "Is that so? Let me see it sometime."

The princess smiled. "I'm sure you'll like it."

Only later, after Shen Lingyu somehow ended up wearing the bracelet, did she realize that the Yu family had always given it specifically to their daughters-in-law.

A princess top who's particular about appearances and whose ancestors were once rich x a learned wage slave bottom, forced by circumstance to make ends meet

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