Fulfilling a Promise

Perhaps by now, some people had already guessed what promise Zhou Ming intended to fulfill.

It was not some supposed promise to marry Aier Sha as Empress... He had never said such a thing.

It was the tale of "hiding a beauty in a golden house" that had spread throughout the imperial capital and become known to every household... That was the promise Zhou Ming had directly made.

He did not want people to criticize him behind his back for breaking his word.

He wanted to keep his promise and prove that his word counted!

So... what was he planning to do?

A golden house.

He planned to build a golden house inside the Imperial Palace, fill it with large quantities of precious jewels, then invite Aier Sha inside to play hide-and-seek.

That way, the tale of "hiding a beauty in a golden house" would go from a street rumor to a story that had truly happened.

What?

What was this supposed to be?

Wasn't this a little too much?

Some women, upon seeing such behavior, would probably give him two words—scumbag.

That was right, a heartless, selfish, shameless scumbag.

Indeed, Zhou Ming admitted that what he was doing was rather scummy.

But did they think that, just to shake off the label of "breaking his word," and to avoid being a scumbag to the bitter end, he had not paid anything?

And did they think fulfilling the so-called "hiding a beauty in a golden house" was as easy as merely saying it?

Even though Zhou Ming was the emperor of a vast empire, even though the wealth of the realm belonged to him, achieving "hiding a beauty in a golden house" still took him more than three months.

What had he spent those three months doing?

Collecting gold, silver,