Collecting Rent From All Realms, Even Empresses Must Pay Tribute
Ch. 3 - Shoddy Goods and a Dress

If this woman stayed here, he could get a daily reward of 2000 yuan.

Wasn't that like a sunflower that looked at the direction of sun rays basking in the sun?

For a moment, the way Ye Chuan looked at Bai QianShuang changed. To him, he was the sunflower and she was the sun who feeds him 2000 yuan a day, wouldn't that be 60,000 a month?

For that much money, even if zombies came, he'd dare to tear them apart.

Ye Chuan couldn't help but take out his calculator and start pressing buttons.

"Clear."

"Two thousand multiplied by thirty, equals—sixty thousand."

"Huh? Not bad, sixty thousand for one person, six hundred thousand for ten people, right?" 

Just as Ye Chuan was happily calculating the money, Bai QianShuang on the bed suddenly let out a soft moan, her delicate and refined face furrowing slightly.

Just when Ye Chuan thought she was about to wake up, a clear tear slipped from the corner of Bai QianShuang's eye, blooming on the pillow like a plum blossom. 

She murmured, "Mother… Master…"

Then, Bai QianShuang's body began to curl up slightly, like a helpless kitten abandoned on a street corner.

The smile on Ye Chuan's face froze for a moment, and he calmed down, quietly watching the girl in front of him.

He reached out and gently wiped away Bai QianShuang's tears with the clean part of the warm towel, then tucked her in and left the room.

...

Outside, the ground was covered with broken concrete and stone bricks, with moss and weeds growing in the cracks. 

The damp ground emitted a musty smell. After all, this was an urban village, and in the alleyways, the residents generally paid for road repairs themselves, the main goal being just to make it passable.

Ye Chuan walked to the end of the alley and turned the corner. 

This was a street, but there weren't many people around, and the shops were sparsely open. He walked directly into a clothing store.

Inside the store, clothes were piled haphazardly on tables, with more hanging on wire racks. 

The main selling point was quantity over quality.

"Yo, what brings our ChuanChuan here?" 

An older woman in the store walked up to him and said cheerfully.

"Auntie, do you have any cheap clothes?" 

Ye Chuan looked away from the clothes.

"What are you talking about? Which clothes here are expensive?"

"Do you have any women's clothing for ten yuan?"

As soon as Ye Chuan finished speaking, the auntie showed a disgusted expression, "No, handsome, I can't even recover my costs for ten yuan."

"And why are you, a young man, buying women's clothing?" 

Then she seemed to understand something,

"Oh, I get it, it's that trendy thing, cross-dressing live streaming, right?"

"How could I cross-dress? It's for someone else," Ye Chuan said with a straight face.

He had tried it, but didn't earn a cent.

"What's up, got a girlfriend?" the auntie gossiped, "Is it that Luo Xi girl? No way, right? A school beauty would fall for you?"

Luo Xi, the girl the auntie mentioned, was Ye Chuan's childhood sweetheart, who also lived on this street. 

Being neighbors, everyone on this street had watched them grow up.

"Yeah, she doesn't like me, so I got together with another pretty girl."

Ye Chuan said lazily, and the auntie in front of him burst out laughing, reaching out and slapping him hard on the shoulder.

"What are you laughing at?"

"Nothing, just thought of something funny." 

The auntie turned around and rummaged through the pile of clothes, finally pulling out a black dress and stuffing it into a paper bag. 

"Ten yuan."

"Here." 

Ye Chuan took out the only remaining bill from his wallet and handed it to her. 

He noticed a red bag on the table filled with fruits and vegetables, and picked up a tomato.

"Auntie, you're buying groceries? Give me a tomato, will you?"

She immediately glared, "Taking advantage, are we?!"

"I'm paying!"

"Go on, take an egg too."

Ye Chuan left the store contentedly with the tomato, egg, and dress. Before leaving, he didn't forget to say,

"Auntie, wait till I get rich."

"Tch, wait till you graduate first."

...

-Back in the house-

Bai QianShuang woke up and looked at the unfamiliar ceiling as she sat up.

"This isn't the TianXuan Continent, there's no spiritual energy here." 

Bai QianShuang felt the almost depleted spiritual power in her body, and her jewel-like eyes dimmed. 

If she really couldn't recover her power, she wouldn't be able to avenge her mother and master.

And the man from earlier seemed to want to drive her away.

Bai QianShuang staggered to her feet.

It's better to leave, she shouldn't involve him.

Just as Bai QianShuang was struggling to lift her sword and prepare to leave the room, a crisp clicking sound rang out. 

Ye Chuan happened to walk in and saw Bai QianShuang swaying unsteadily.

"Hey, what are you doing? Lie back down!"

"I've disturbed you."

"No disturbance at all, you can stay here for a lifetime, or rather, that would be best." 

Seeing his money tree about to collapse again, Ye Chuan quickly reached out to support Bai QianShuang. 

Perhaps because he touched her, she trembled and forcefully pulled away from his hand.

"I… can do it myself."

Sitting back on the edge of the bed, Bai QianShuang hugged her spiritual sword and looked at Ye Chuan with confusion, "You… want me to stay?"

He had clearly been disgusted and wanted to drive her away earlier, why the sudden change in attitude?

This inevitably raised Bai QianShuang's guard.

This person must have ulterior motives.

"Just stay here and recover," Ye Chuan said. "I can rent you a room."

Rent?

Hearing this, Bai QianShuang's tone turned colder, 

"I lost my storage pouch. I have nothing… except this sword."

The implication was that she couldn't hand over her only weapon.

Ye Chuan understood the meaning behind her words, and he said exasperatedly, 

"Do you think I'm trying to take advantage of you? You've fainted twice in front of me. If I really wanted to do something, you would have already been eaten and wiped clean by me and fully digested."

Bai QianShuang froze for a few seconds. 

Although she didn't quite understand the meaning of some of the words, it was true, as Ye Chuan said, that if he wanted to do something, he didn't need to wait for her to wake up. And in her current condition, she couldn't do anything.

"Sorry" 

Bai QianShuang apologized honestly.

"Change your clothes first."

Ye Chuan handed her the bag in his hand. 

"The clothes you're wearing are tattered, and people will think you're a weirdo if you go out like that."

Bai QianShuang took the bag, glanced at Ye Chuan, and nodded obediently, 

"Thank you very much."

Ye Chuan turned and left the room.

After a while, when he returned to the room, he found Bai QianShuang huddled under the covers, her snow-white face flushed, looking at Ye Chuan with a strange expression.

"What's wrong? Doesn't the dress fit?" 

Ye Chuan asked, puzzled.

"The clothes… are strange."

"This is how we dress here. Your outfit is the strange one, okay?"

Hearing Ye Chuan say this, Bai QianShuang hesitated for a moment, then finally moved the covers aside.

The girl was wearing a black slip dress, her legs so white they were almost dazzling.

Bai QianShuang pressed one hand against the dress, her shy and beautiful appearance momentarily stunning Ye Chuan.

Wait, why was the dress the auntie gave him this style?

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