753: Chapter 496 753: Chapter 496 The King had spoken.
While he was in seclusion, none of his sons were allowed to take his place.
Instead, he appointed Ye Tian, the military general, to handle the petitions.
The princes were not satisfied; this task should have belonged to them, his sons.
Why was it given to an outsider?
It wasn’t like the Little Prince was assuming the throne and needed the ministers’ help.
The princes made a fuss in the Imperial Palace, yet the King, completely indifferent, remained in seclusion.
Actually, Ye Tian was not interested in dealing with these messes.
The King was neglecting his duties and the princes were causing trouble; it was very annoying to him.
Moreover, it was almost time for his engagement, a time when he was supposed to shrug off these responsibilities and let others handle them.
However, his father mentioned that since the King had appointed him to manage affairs, if he didn’t do it and others made mistakes, the blame would be placed on him and his family.
With no choice, Ye Tian had to work overtime, day and night, to clear the petitions on the King’s desk.
In his previous life as a commoner, national affairs had nothing to do with him.
Having been reborn into a general’s family, he now had to shoulder the responsibility of a Guardian God, the burden was not light.
He was not the Emperor, yet there he was, one day dealing with national affairs in the palace like the King.
Fortunately, some teams still supported him, without too many people coming to disrupt.
The Prime Minister, who had always been at odds with them, seemed to have not come to cause trouble these two days.
Ye Tian simply needed to send people to stop the princes from causing disorder while he prioritized the important matters, clearing his schedule for tomorrow.
Tomorrow marked the first engagement of his life, and subsequently, would be the day of his wedding.
Tomorrow was very important to him, and nothing could change his determination to get married, to marry his junior sister.
The Prime Minister wasn’t absent from meddling; rather, he was ensnared by something else.
Ever since he entered his son’s courtyard, he had been captivated by Bian Shasha’s way of playing.
And he was also attracted by the cultivation aspect of the game.
While playing with his son, he seemed to have a newfound appreciation for the different facets of human nature.
The Prime Minister had grown fond of the game.
Previously keen on becoming King, he now felt, after becoming addicted to the game, that being King wasn’t all that special.
As long as he retained his position as Prime Minister, he could enjoy endless pleasures and wealth.
As for the spy activities of internal-external collusion, they no longer occupied his mind at the moment.
Bian Shasha hadn’t intentionally led them astray from their duties.
She was resigned to her fate; her life was already like this, so she might as well continue this way.
Her first man, the man in black, was currently in another woman’s courtyard.
Now, out of a sense of vengeance, she played games with a father and son, and even other women, harboring a different kind of sentiment.
She should have been free by now, should have sought out her sect, or returned to her noble clan.
But Bian Shasha felt she had lost face and had ruined her own life, so she decided to just continue on this path!
Deep down, she felt inferior, fearing to face those junior sisters in her sect, dreading their looks.
She also feared how others would view her.
Returning to her noble clan, what could she say if her family asked how her life outside had been?
What face would she have to return after cultivating, to show up without any talent or benefits to bring back to her clan?
They might discard her.
They could easily marry her off to someone else.
Bian Shasha was spending her days and nights in the Prime Minister’s Residence, having lost her sense of self and becoming a fairy who only knew games.
And it was this fairy who ensnared the Prime Minister and his son, getting them hooked on the game.
The two men of the Prime Minister’s Residence, father and son, had not stepped out of Liu Tao’s courtyard.
The Prime Minister’s wife and concubines had their suspicions.
They sneaked people in to investigate, only to discover that ever since the Prime Minister entered the young master’s courtyard, the doors had been firmly locked.
No one responded to knocks at the door.
The guards stationed at the courtyard were also in dire straits.
With the courtyard doors shut, and nothing to occupy them, they couldn’t help but watch the Prime Minister, his son, and these women engrossed in their game.
They too fell into the trap, their mindset changing.
Though the Prime Minister’s wife and concubines were well-behaved and listened to his words under his authority,
as women, when their men did not leave a certain courtyard, during the lonely nights…
their thoughts inevitably wandered a bit more!
The man in black had spent several days and nights in Yingzi’s courtyard, feeling that playing games with just two people wasn’t entertaining enough, so he decided to include others in the game.
Using his Divine Sense, he probed the interior of the Prime Minister’s Residence.
He discovered that Bian Shasha and the Prime Minister and his son, as well as other women, were playing games.
The man in black was somewhat annoyed; after all, Bian Shasha was still his woman!
Out of wrath, he thought of the Prime Minister’s wives and concubines.
So, during the night, he kidnapped these women one by one into the rooms in Yingzi’s courtyard.
He drugged them, causing their minds to become muddled.
Yingzi had not expected the man in black to be so bold as to dare to meddle with the Prime Minister’s women.
Was he not afraid that the Prime Minister would find out and slaughter them all?
Under Yingzi’s watchful gaze, the man in black said with a sneer, “The Prime Minister of a country has such low cultivation, yet he is so arrogant.
If he dares to resist, he’d better be careful or I’ll take his dog’s life.”
Seeing his ruthless gaze, Yingzi, who was not a cultivator, couldn’t compare the abilities of this man and the Prime Minister.
However, compared to some of the more powerful individuals in the Capital City, the Prime Minister really did fall short.
Yingzi felt she was now on the same path as the man, and if he was truly as powerful as he seemed, she could use him to her advantage.
Yingzi, lacking the ability to foresee, did not know that the man in black, though powerful, was only at the Nascent Soul Realm.
There were many men of such capability among the noble clans; right now he was not exposed to others, letting no one know of his vile actions — he would deserve death a thousand times over.
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Jiang Tang waited for the beautiful women beside him who were new to Artifact Refining, as well as those who had already learned it, and they finally managed to barely create a piece of artifact-crafted jewelry after an hour.
“Jiang Tang, do you think I can give this magical treasure away as a gift?”
Yun Duoduo was very excited, as this was her first time learning Artifact Refining and she actually managed to create a magical treasure with just the basics.
Then, one after another, the women let Jiang Tang check the gifts they intended to give away in their hands.
Jiang Tang inspected the magical treasures they had refined; Lin Dandan, who had started learning Artifact Refining a bit earlier, had made a magical treasure with some spirituality, but its offensive and defensive capabilities weren’t strong.
They could have had spatial features but failed to achieve such functionality.
Jiang Tang wanted to improve the magical treasures they had refined.
So, in front of the beautiful women and dozens of dolls, using his own powerful flame, he reprocessed the nine pieces of jewelry.
The eyes of the beautiful women quietly watched Jiang Tang rework their jewelry.
Starting from the first phoenix hairpin to the last headpiece.
Jiang Tang added defensive and offensive capabilities to these pieces of jewelry, and he even integrated spatial features into them.
The previous products that the women had worked on couldn’t have much space added to them, having one cubic meter of space was already good enough.
This space could hold hidden weapons or some important items — who would have thought that such small pieces of jewelry had spatial features?
With this entire set of jewelry, there’s no need to wear a Storage Bag.
All important items can be hidden in the jewelry, and if one piece gets stolen, aren’t there many other useful pieces?
It’s not like a Storage Bag filled with important items, where everything is lost if it’s taken.
The women, upon seeing their reworked jewelry so beautiful and even more sparkling than before, felt reluctant to give them away.
“Jiang Tang, can you improve my artifact-crafted jewelry in the future?” The suggestion by Yuan Baozhu was supported by the other beauties.
Having already agreed to give the gifts to their boyfriends and senior sisters, they had no choice but to give them away; thus they could only save the best items for themselves in the future, to wear or to give to family, relatives, and friends.
“Jiang Tang, what kind of good items do you have to offer your senior sister?”
Lin Dandan thought back to when they were making magical treasures, everyone had a task.
“Let me show you…” Jiang Tang took out the necklace meant to be worn on the chest, the glittering gems captivating the gaze of the beauties around him.
The thought among the women was whether they could be gifted with such beautiful jewelry.
“It’s so beautiful, Jiang Tang, can you make such beautiful jewelry for me as well?”
Xuanyuan Mengting was the first to make the request.
Then, all nine beauties squealed with pleas.
Jiang Tang smiled and nodded; this had been his intention all along.