Xue Xing's Gratitude Fee, Shrek Encountered Again!

The next morning, at the Fourth Prince's residence.

"Outrageous! Absolutely outrageous!!!"

Xue Xing's roar nearly blew the roof off.

He clenched the note in his hand so tightly that his knuckles turned white.

The note's contents were brief and clear:

[Your Highness, Prince, how should I even talk to you about this?!]

[How did you lose His Highness the Fourth Prince again? Luckily, this kindhearted passerby happened to pick him up. Otherwise, if he were sold off to the slums, I'd like to see where you'd go cry!]

[Prepare three million Gold Soul Coins as a gratitude fee. Before noon, place it beneath the rock thirty li north of the city. For every hour you're late, one part will be missing.]

[There's no holiday at noon tomorrow. I'll squeeze him into fine juice for you to drink!]

Every word was filled with reproach, yet they sent an icy chill through Xue Xing.

What made Xue Xing want to cough up blood most was that the kidnappers had demanded exactly three million.

Not a coin more, not a coin less.

That was precisely the "spare change" he had planned to use yesterday to bid on the Seven-Treasure Wishful Soft Armor.

It was also all the money he could gather within a short time!

"Beasts!"

Prince Xue Xing was certain that the kidnappers had heard about what he had done at yesterday's auction and knew he still had that much money.

They might even have been hiding among those guests, quietly watching him throw money around!

"He knows! He knows everything!"

Xue Xing's eyes were bloodshot. "He's telling me that every move I make is under his surveillance!"

"He's humiliating me!"

The steward asked fearfully, "Prince, should—should we inform Mister Dugu?"

"What use would that be?!"

Xue Xing roared, "Did