The Prime Minister's Darling
Chapter 623 - 623 300 Family Affair (First Update)_2

Chapter 623: 300 Family Affair (First Update)_2 Chapter 623: 300 Family Affair (First Update)_2 Prime Minister Yuan had someone send the poetry collection to his granddaughter.

He understood that his granddaughter was extremely talented and proud, not considering ordinary people worthy of her attention, yet she should regard a genius like Prince An as worthwhile.

Little did Prime Minister Yuan know that the little Taoist nun, looking at the quatrains on the table, had turned her face as dark as charcoal.

Why did they want her to read poetry?

She just wanted to read novels, okay?

Speaking of which, it’s been so long now, why isn’t the third volume of “Yunting Records” out yet?

Isn’t it supposed to be a release once a month?

It’s already been a month and three days. Has he vanished?

In Bishui Alley, the Old Priest, who had just finished penning the final character, put down his pen and sneezed fiercely: “Achoo!”

He had just taken over Guozijian; his wages were low, and his previous savings were ransacked by the old woman. He wanted to get a new carriage…

In order to cope with an increasing expenses, he had no choice but to resume his old career by writing novels.

He had not written for many years, his original pen name had long been forgotten, so he took a brand new pen name – Drunken Life, Dreaming Death.

It felt quite apt at first listening.

His first work upon returning was about a frail hostage prince from an enemy country, wreaking havoc in the court, and his love-hate relationship with the princess of the Great Xia Dynasty.

To avoid unnecessary troubles, he made it clear at the beginning of the story that it was all a dream of the prince.

However, despite this, the story had others unable to stop chasing after it.

The first two volumes sold extremely well, and he managed to make a small profit. The third volume should have been handed in as scheduled, but it was delayed due to recent affairs at Guozijian.

To apologise, he decided to personally deliver the original manuscript to the collaborating Bookstore.

The little Taoist nun also went to the Bookstore that day, she was there to press for the release of the new volume.

The old priest could not help but prick up his ears to listen.

Behind the bookshelf, the page boy was introducing other novels to the little Taoist nun.

The little Taoist nun was flipping through them out of sheer boredom and commented, “They aren’t good, they are not as exciting as the stories written by Drunken Life, Dreaming Death.”

The old priest thought she would compliment the novelty in his story, but she commented instead on how thrilling his story was.

The old priest cleared his throat.

It appears… to be rather thrilling indeed.

The little Taoist nun said, “The part where the eldest princess divorces her husband-in-law was quite good, the royal princess shouldn’t have to endure such indignity!”

The eldest princess was actually an unremarkable supporting character in the story, and her related plotlines were not well-developed. The divorce was also briefly mentioned, yet surprisingly, it left an impression on the her.

You’re a kindred spirit!

The old priest cleared his throat, thus became interested in interacting with her, hoping to find more inspiration, “Taoist priest, do you also like this book?”

The little Taoist nun replied nonchalantly, “It’s okay, the writing is passable.”

Old Priest: I, the highly regarded Guozijian priest, only has passable writing skills?

However, in order to lower the threshold for readers, he did deliberately weaken his writing skills, incorporating a significant amount of vernacular language, ensuring that it was easy to understand.

But to cater to readers’ aesthetic tastes, he also added quite a few original verses. Ordinarily such places would be ignored by ordinary readers and would not affect the progression of the plot.

Old Priest continued, “What is your opinion on the character Li Wang?”

Li Wang was the protagonist in the story, the frail hostage prince who had subverted the entire Great Xia Dynasty.

The little Taoist nun shrugged, flipping through a novel she had picked up from the shelf: “He’s good with conspiracies and scheming but not so great at love. He’s blind.”

Old Priest: “……!!”

The little Taoist nun sighed, “He could have been with the mighty general of the Great Xia but insisted on being with the Sixth Princess. If that’s not blindness, what is? Didn’t he see the deep affection the general has for him?”

The old priest twitched his mouth.

When did the general have such deep affection for Li Wang, how come I didn’t know?

Continuing her sigh, the little Taoist nun said, “And the empress of the Great Xia, she’s also blind. The consort Huo treats her so well, how could she like the monarch of the Great Xia instead? Isn’t it better to be with Consort Huo? Didn’t she see how many times Consort Huo tried to seduce her?”

Old Priest: “….”

No, Consort Huo didn’t seduce her!

The relationship between Consort Huo and the Empress is a pure superior-subordinate one!

No, miss!

No, Taoist priest!

How did you read the story?! What did you even understand from it?!

Consort Huo and the Empress of the Great Xia are mortal enemies; they have stabbed each other in the heart!

…Wait a minute, that’s not the point, the point is that both are women!

The general and Li Wang are both men!

You, you, you… Is it right for you, a young girl, to have such heavy tastes?

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