The Obsessive Crown Prince Can't Let Me Go
Chapter 99 - 98 Brother Lu Ying, Please Spare Me

Chapter 99: Chapter 98 Brother Lu Ying, Please Spare Me

Lu Ying, having practiced martial arts for many years, appeared tall and slender on the surface, but beneath his clothes were robust, muscular arms with strikingly defined lines. Shen Yinning simply could not resist his strength.

Tiny beads of tears hung on her eyelashes, and she whimpered like a kitten: "Brother Lu Ying... please, no more, Brother Lu Ying... I can’t take it... please spare me, Brother Lu Ying..."

Lu Ying turned her face toward him, gently holding her face with his hands.

He gazed into her eyes and asked, "Who is your man?"

Shen Yinning, ever so demure, answered obediently, "It’s Brother Lu Ying..."

Upon hearing this answer, the cold clarity in Lu Ying’s eyes faded, giving way to a hint of softness.

He softly caressed Shen Yinning’s tear-glossed, enchanting eyes with the pads of his fingers. He wanted Shen Yinning’s heart and eyes to be filled with him, he wanted Shen Yinning to like him, adore him, see him as her only sky.

He kissed away the tiny tears from her eyelashes: "Sleep."

The next day, Shen Yinning returned to the Gao Family on Lotus Lane.

Yin Shanshan was bustling around, embodying the image of a strong career woman. Seeing Shen Yinning in front of her, she couldn’t help but put her hands on her hips and shout, "Sister, you’re really lucky, hiding in the backyard all day to enjoy leisure, unlike me, having to prepare Hong and Hui Ge’er with their studies myself, and also preparing Duke Shen’s birthday feast, so busy I barely have time to eat!"

"Oh," Shen Yinning held a small enamel-painted hand warmer, "Sister is so virtuous, I’m truly ashamed in comparison."

Yin Shanshan couldn’t help but glare at her: "To put it unpleasantly, Sister, do you even know what shame means, being the head lady, yet doing nothing! Go out and ask, whose family in this vast Capital is run by a concubine?! Ow, these account books, I can’t even look at them another day! Yet without me, this household wouldn’t be in order at all!"

Shen Yinning watched her.

She threw the account book on the table, with an eyebrow-raising smugness, yet deliberately presented a posture of fatigue and reluctance, leaning on the heated armchair, with two young maids by her side, massaging her shoulders and legs, as if managing the house and doing business were responsibilities forced upon her.

Shen Yinning found it humorous, so she said, "If you don’t want to manage the house, I can do it instead."

"Do what?!" Yin Shanshan instantly raised her eyebrows, "You don’t even understand the account books, how can you manage the house?! Don’t make a fool of yourself!"

Shen Yinning couldn’t be bothered to argue further.

She knew that this girl was simply unwilling to let go of power.

Today, she came to show her face before Madam Gao, not expecting that Madam Gao would be taking a nap, leaving only Yin Shanshan here.

Just as she was about to leave, Madam Gao finished her nap and came out.

Upon seeing Shen Yinning, Madam Gao first frowned and then questioned sharply, "What, heard that Shanshan is preparing Duke Shen’s birthday banquet tomorrow, and you can’t sit still, came to gather information? I tell you, Shanshan and you are different now, she is favored by the Crown Princess Consort, guess how much she can earn from this banquet?!"

"How much?"

"This much!" Madam Gao exaggeratedly extended one finger, "A single banquet, netting ten thousand taels of patterned silver!"

Shen Yinning raised an eyebrow.

Yin Shanshan borrowed twenty thousand taels of patterned silver from her for restaurant capital turnover.

Half a month has passed, which means the amount she actually used for Shen Yan’s birthday banquet is less than twenty thousand taels.

Subtract the ten thousand taels of profit, and the banquet only cost a few thousand taels.

This time, for Shen Yan’s birthday banquet, Shen Yunxi was going all out, estimating at least forty tables; spread across each table, it would be just a few hundred taels of patterned silver per table?

Yet with rising prices in the Capital, a single jar of fine wine costs hundreds of taels of patterned silver, clearly indicating the substandard level of Yin Shanshan’s banquets.

She chuckled internally, but outwardly marveled, "Sister has a knack for making money, truly impressive!"

Madam Gao was smug: "Once this birthday banquet is over, Shanshan’s western restaurant will gain full recognition. By then, our family’s coffers will fill day and night, amassing a fortune in less than a year! Shen Yinning, compared to Shanshan you’re truly useless, neither helping brother earn prospects nor bringing in money for our family, in my opinion, Shanshan should be the wife, and you the concubine!"

"Mother," Yin Shanshan wore a modest expression, "Sister is naïve and has never seen the world, seeing people like the Crown Princess Consort and Duke Shen would probably scare her out of her wits. We need not force her. As long as Sister doesn’t cause trouble for our family, nor add burden to husband, we should be thankful just for that!"

Madam Gao thought the same.

She looked disdainfully at Shen Yinning’s overly opulent and glamorous face, and snorted lightly with disapproval: "I always said a woman being too good-looking is no good, luckily brother married a virtuous concubine like you, Shanshan, otherwise brother would be bewitched to losing ambition by this vixen!"

Shen Yinning remained indifferent.

She took it as a compliment on her appearance from Madam Gao.

Yin Shanshan glanced at Shen Yinning, her face full of teasing pity: "But speaking of it, it’s quite unfortunate for Sister, coming from the rural Gan State. If Sister is willing, I could take you to the western restaurant the day after tomorrow to broaden your horizons, see how the Capital’s elite socialize. But let’s be clear, you can only watch discreetly, don’t go offending them."

"No need." Shen Yinning brushed her skirt and stood up, "Sister should focus on organizing the banquet well, it is after all the Duke Mansion’s birthday feast, don’t produce something substandard and end up in a laughable situation."

Madam Gao watched her leave, sneering coldly: "What’s the talk of substandard, I see, Shen is clearly jealous of you, Shanshan!"

Yin Shanshan felt a flicker of unease.

This time, the Crown Princess Consort hadn’t even paid a deposit for the banquet, which already made her a bit disgruntled. Coupling with tight finances, indeed some tricks were done on the table setting, like substituting sea cucumber with cucumber, vermicelli for shark fins.

But the chef added ample sauce, so even shoe leather would taste fragrant, she doubted anyone could tell.

The more she thought, the more assured she felt, boasting, "Sister is just a housewife who doesn’t step out at all, ultimately not as worldly or sharp as me, a bit of jealousy is understandable. She may say she won’t come, but might sneak in herself the day after tomorrow, don’t I know her?"

Like the opener of her restaurant, didn’t Shen Yinning sneak in to learn from it?

Yin Shanshan resolved to let Shen Yinning, this country bumpkin, have a real eye-opening experience on what high society means the day after tomorrow.

The next day.

Shen Yinning left from the side gate and got into the carriage Lu Jiazhe had parked on Lotus Lane.

Lu Jiazhe was excited: "Sister Shen, last time you asked me to investigate Sun Miao Niang, I’ve found her current residence, and as per your instruction, set up a spokesperson to meet her, let me take you to have a look!"

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