My Evil Imperial Wife is Too Arrogant

With Elder Ye’s affirmation, the eyes of the people in the private room changed when looking at Lou Mu Yan. Even those that followed Elder Ye into the room stared with a fierce desire at the white porcelain bottle he was holding.

Elder Ye thought a bit, then asked Lou Mu Yan with a smile: “What starting price does Young Miss Lou plan to set for this pill?”

“I don’t really understand these things, but I believe the Ming Alliance of Merchants will help me sell this at a good price. So I ask of Elder Ye to also set the starting price.” Lou Mu Yan displayed a gentle smile. She showed a lot of trust towards the Ming Alliance of Merchants.

Elder Ye nodded and smiled, saying: “Since that is the case, then this old man will set the price for Young Miss Lou.”

“Then I’ll trouble Elder Ye.” Lou Mu Yan replied politely.

Elder Ye nodded with a smile, thought a little, then couldn’t help but ask: “Young Miss Lou, do you still have more Marrow Cleansing Pills?”

He originally wanted to ask how Lou Mu Yan obtained this Marrow Cleansing Pill—was it because she met a powerful Alchemist? But he held back. After all, the majority of Alchemists had weird temperaments and didn’t like other people enquiring about them. She could only do his best to befriend Lou Mu Yan for now.

The others also stared at Lou Mu Yan with scorching gazes.

“I also obtained this Marrow Cleansing Pill by accident, and while I do indeed have two more on me, I don’t plan on selling them.” Lou Mu Yan refused with a smile.

Things that were rare were more expensive. She didn’t want to suddenly take out so many at once, and as Ye Qing Han reminded, it wasn’t suitable for her to reveal her identity as an Alchemist. Right now, her main task was to increase her strength as soon as possible.

“Then that truly is a pity.” Old Lu revealed some disappointment, but he quickly recovered his composure, smiled and said: “If Young Miss Lou has other good pills or items you would like to sell in the future, then you can come to our Ming Alliance of Merchants. I promise you a satisfactory price.”

After speaking, Elder Ye took out a silver token the size of a palm with the word ‘Ming’ on it, then handed it to Lou Mu Yan, “This is a token that is only given to the top distinguished guests of our Ming Alliance of Merchants. Now, this old man will make an exception and gift one to Young Miss Lou.”

Seeing Elder Ye take out a silver token and hand it to Lou Mu Yan, everyone’s expressions changed.

To think the moment the Ming Alliance of Merchants gifted something, they’d gift something that was a representation of power, the silver token that was only given to those who had the strength of a Sword Monarch and above—all this because Lou Mu Yan wanted to auction the Marrow Cleansing Pill? This was too exaggerated.

Lou Mu Yan’s luck was so good that it made people jealous, envy, and hateful¹

But even if some of them had their doubts about this, the Ming Alliance of Merchants had always been domineering, so no one dared to question or object to the decisions they made.

Gu Yan Ran was in an exceptionally bad mood. Even when her nails embedded into her flesh, she didn’t feel the pain, and she tried hard to cover up the jealousy in her eyes.

She didn’t expect that Lou Mu Yan not only turned the tables, experienced such a fortuitous opportunity in obtaining the Marrow Cleansing Pill that eradicated her Terminal Meridians constitution, became an Initial-Phase Great Sword Master, but was now also so highly regarded by the Ming Alliance of Merchants. What sort of dog-crap luck² did she step on?

Lou Mu Yan took the token and felt that there was a small Array hidden inside this silver token. An understanding crossed her eyes—the Ming Alliance of Merchant’s strength was certainly powerful.

“Thank you, Elder Ye. I, Lou Mu Yan, will remember this personal favour.” Lou Mu Yan put the token into her interspatial ring and accepted Elder Ye’s display of friendliness.

The affection in Elder Ye’s eyes thickened—though this little girl was rather young, but she was very clever and quick-witted. As expected from a child educated by a distinguished clan.

The previous rumours were probably all exaggerated and false. If such a quick-witted and intelligent woman was considered trash, then who knew how many trashes there were in this world.

“When you return home, drip a drop of blood on your token and it will recognise you as its master. Even if other people obtain this token, it’d be useless.”

Elder Ye reminded again: “Young Miss Lou must keep it safe. This token’s usage isn’t just limited to auctions. But it is inconvenient for this old man to say anymore. You will know once you experience it in the future.”

Lou Mu Yan nodded. She understood what Elder Ye meant. If there came a day where she had the strength to truly utilise this silver token, then naturally she’d know its secrets; if she couldn’t meet the requirements to use it, then she would also lose the qualification to use this token.

Elder Ye’s eyes inadvertently revealed slight admiration. If anyone else obtained their special guest Ming Alliance Token from the Ming Alliance of Merchants, then they’d probably already display excitement and joy on their face.

But this teenager girl was able to remain this calm and composed, maintaining an indifferent attitude from beginning to end, and without any arrogance or rashness. If she could retain this state of mind, then her future could not be assessed.

“Yes, I understand.” Lou Mu Yan appreciated Elder Ye.

“Then this old man will go order the auctioning of this Marrow Cleansing Pill. And this Fire Cloud Mink was bought by you. Afterwards, the Alliance of Merchants will deduct the ink-gold coins from the auction of the pill, and the rest of the ink-gold coins will be settled together.” Elder Ye motioned to the attendant who was carrying a cage behind him to put the Fire Cloud Mink down.

It could be regarded that he was selling Lou Mu Yan some face—the moment the Marrow Cleansing Pill was auctioned, then it would definitely attract the attention of Yan’zhou Kingdom, and even the entire land’s interest. It’s price would be far more valuable than the Fire Cloud Mink.

“Ok! Then I will trouble Elder Ye.” Lou Mu Yan didn’t feign modesty either. This was all because these people didn’t know the actual value of a Spirit Devourer. If they knew, numerous high-level experts would come contend for it.

After Elder Ye took his people and left, everyone’s eyes were focused on Lou Mu Yan, with a burning desire—particularly Xiao Zi Ang. He was an Alchemist to begin with and loved Alchemy. He was about to stare a hole through Lou Mu Yan right now.

Lou Mu Yan sat in her seat, pondered for a moment, then before anyone could speak, threw one porcelain bottle to Yun Lan and Yun Jin each, raised her eyebrows and said: “The last two Marrow Cleansing Pills, I’ll gift them to you.”

“PU!” Yun Jin spit the tea out directly—seriously? This generous?

Seeing the porcelain bottle thrown over, he immediately threw the teacup away and stretched out his hands to catch it carefully.

“This is too valuable.” Yun Lan reached out and caught the bottle containing the pill. Although he was very enticed by it, but he still endured the strong desire and looked at Lou Mu Yan.

Lou Mu Yan’s eyes were coloured with a smile—this cousin’s character was pretty good. But there was no way she would be able to keep these two pills, so she’d rather turn it into a favour and gift it to Yun Lan. Her aunt loved her dearly since she was young, so this was also a sort of repayment.

As for gifting it to Yun Jin, one was because she felt that this man was rather pleasing to the eye earlier, and also because last time when Lou Mu Yan was injured by Gu Yan Ran, it was Yun Jin that stopped the woman’s final attack and sent her back to the General’s Mansion. Otherwise her dan’tian would’ve definitely been destroyed. It would’ve been difficult to cultivate again even with the Marrow Cleansing Pill.

Regardless of why Yun Jin helped her then, she still remembered this personal favour. Using the Marrow Cleansing Pill to return that favour would be enough.

She had always done what she wanted in life. If a person looked pleasing to the eye, then Magic Tools, pills, so what if she gave it out at will; while if one wasn’t pleasing to her eye, no matter how strong they were, how strong their background, if she said she didn’t have any, then she didn’t have any. Even if they gave her thousands of gold she wouldn’t give anything.

As they waited for the pill in Elder Ye’s hands to be auctioned, she thought about the fact that not only would the Marrow Cleansing Pill rouse people’s attentions, but she would probably have people attentive of her as well.

If she still had these two pills in her hand, then she’d definitely be harassed by many entities or other distinguished clans. Now that she gave it to Yun Lan and Yun Jin, then she could simply say she had no more, and no one could do anything about it.

Translated product by May Our 梦 Come True

¹a popular colloquial saying in China, so it may be said a lot throughout this series.

²popular colloquial saying in China meaning someone was so lucky they didn’t even know how these lucky things happened.