Jian Chuxue said, "Only after I have a son can I feel at ease."
As she spoke, she began to sob. "Fifth Miss, you don't understand. So many women here have their eyes on His Highness."
Jian Ruonan said, "But you're so poor. Who would even want him?"
These maids and older serving women were all there to keep watch over the two of them.
The Wa Kingdom was utterly destitute. Every time its envoys came to negotiate, they freeloaded on food and drink, then packed up heaps of rotten vegetable leaves to take home.
Mechuan Yaokuzi had nothing but the title of Emperor of Wa. Aside from that title, he didn't even eat as well as the maids and serving women watching him.
Their watchers had meat with all three meals every day, while Mechuan Yaokuzi and Jian Chuxue only got meat once every three days.
"What do those women want him for? Because he doesn't bathe? Because he's on welfare?"
Besides, he ain't even on welfare!
Jian Chuxue wasn't pleased to hear that. "His Highness is as graceful as a jade tree in the breeze, and the poetry and learning in his heart lend him a natural elegance. He's only short of money right now. Once he returns to the Wa Kingdom, his prospects will be boundless."
"Lots of women want to snap up a bargain while he's down on his luck!"
Jian Ruonan said, "So you mean he's a stock with growth potential?"
Jian Chuxue said, "Yes."
Jian Chuxue thinks other women want to seduce her husband, when her husband's actually a kappa.
Friendly reminder: there's a photo of a kappa below.
Jian Chuxue: "..."
"Fertility Pills cost five thousand taels of gold each. Send someone to tell me when you've scraped it together." Jian Ruonan didn't