Salty Fish Marketing (Second Update)

Chapter 172

It was like a little kitten's paw lightly scratching at his heart. Jiang Hansheng went completely numb with sweetness, so much so that he forgot how to respond.

"You're standing too high, Cheng Yu. I don't know how long I'll have to chase you. Give me some time. Let me catch up to you."

Then there would be no more criticism. When everyone saw them by then, they would only sigh inwardly that they were born to stand together, rather than wondering whose family background mattered more, or who had borrowed whose glory.

Without caring whether Jiang Hansheng answered, Li Wenchuan went on, "It was always like this. No matter what you did, you worked harder than everyone else. There was nothing you wanted that you couldn't get."

"No..." There are things I can't get.

"Hmm?"

"I'm actually very greedy." I especially want to greedily claim one person, by any means necessary.

Li Wenchuan was the only prince without bedchamber attendants or concubines. Even after becoming Crown Prince, his rear court remained completely empty. From his ascension until his death, his harem was desolate. On one hand, the political situation had been treacherous, and Li Wenchuan had no mind for such things; Yang Empress Dowager had not cared either. On the other hand, it had all been Jiang Hansheng's doing.

There had been no shortage of memorials requesting an imperial consort selection, but nearly all of them had been stopped by Jiang Hansheng.

Whenever someone stepped forward in court to suggest selecting consorts to fill the harem, one of Jiang Hansheng's people would rise to argue forcefully: the rivers were not yet clear and the seas not yet calm—did they intend to hold back the nation?

Li Wenchuan placed a hand on the back of Jiang Hansheng's head