Chapter 369: 369 Prepared

I originally wanted to eat first, but after seeing you, I just want to go back and work overtime...

"Princess Veronika!"

After interrupting the Princess's playful question, Li Ang's face fell with a look of speechlessness.

"Can you stop messing around? Why did you suddenly appear in my house? Where are Anna and the others?"

"Anna took the two children to sleep... Besides, I am your fiancée. Is it strange for me to appear in your house?"

After seeing the respect and distance in Li Ang's eyes, Princess Veronika blinked and said with a look of feigned sadness:

"My dear, why are you so cold to me? Could it be... that you have someone else outside?"

"..."

This... I don't know if it counts, but we are definitely innocent. Why did you suddenly run to my house and set up an ambush, and you're dressed so... casually?

After trying hard to control his gaze to look higher, trying his best not to look at some impolite positions, Li Ang said with a headache:

"Princess Veronika, between us..."

"Although we are rarely together, our feelings are still very good."

After actively holding Li Ang's arm and dragging him, who had a look of speechlessness, into the room, Princess Veronika pressed Li Ang to the table and pointed to the covered dish on the table:

"Eat quickly. These were prepared by Anna for you under my... personal supervision, and I tasted every dish. The taste is very good!"

"..."

"My dear, you're so good~"

... strangely happy?

Looking at the Princess, whose emotions were inexplicably excited and who still had a smile on her face even after receiving his "cold treatment," Li Ang hesitated for a moment and then sat honestly at the table.

"Princess, what exactly is the matter with you coming to find me today?"

"Look at what you're saying, can't I come to find you if there's nothing wrong?"

Princess Veronika gathered her loose nightgown, sat gracefully opposite Li Ang, supported her chin with her hand, and smiled:

"However, I do have a few happy things... You eat first. I'll tell you while you eat, okay?"

Following her movements, the loose sleeves of the silk nightgown slipped slightly, hanging to the elbow part, revealing a small section of arm that was blindingly white.

Coupled with the Princess's smiling face and the soft, delicate hint of skin visible at the neckline, it made Li Ang's heart tremble slightly. He hurriedly turned his head away, not daring to look more, and focused on dealing with the food on the table.

Reaction is not bad~ It wasn't in vain that I specifically asked someone to customize this nightgown that was half a size too big.

After secretly hooking her sleeve, which she had specifically loosened, with her finger to reveal another small section of arm, and taking the opportunity to pull her arms inward to make the already full curves more obvious, Princess Veronika said with a smile in her eyes:

"There are many happy things worth mentioning recently. The one that makes me happiest is that our wedding has been set. We will get married the day after tomorrow at noon. I came here specifically to pick you up today."

What?!!!

After hearing Princess Veronika's words, Li Ang, who was drinking soup, shook all over, almost pouring half a bowl of warm fish soup directly into his lungs.

"Cough! Cough cough! You! You said wha... cough cough cough cough!"

"Oh my, there's plenty of soup. Why are you drinking so fast?"

After walking around the table to Li Ang's side and patting his back, a flash of cunning crossed the Princess's eyes, and she said with a look of regret:

"Seeing that you can be so happy, I am truly glad. Unfortunately... if only this were true."

"..."

Revenge! This is definitely revenge! Revenge for my cold attitude toward you just now!

After trying hard to catch his breath, Li Ang, who realized he had been played, frowned and was just about to hold her accountable when a bright little fork, skewering a piece of fish, was handed in front of him.

The Princess, who had just been sitting opposite him, had directly used the opportunity of patting his back to mix into the chair next to him and was smiling as she raised the fork, wanting to feed him.

"Ah~"

"..."

Ah your head!

After feeling the faint heat radiating from the mature, full body beside him, Li Ang, who was shouting in his heart that he couldn't take it, hurriedly moved to the side, away from this heat source that made his heart flutter, and grabbed the fork.

"No... no need, I'll do it myself."

"Uh-huh, whatever you say~"

Seeing that Li Ang's expression was a bit embarrassed, and realizing that she had teased him to the limit and might be pushed away if she continued, Princess Veronika saw that it was enough and let Li Ang snatch the fork, then smiled:

"By the way, do you still want to hear why I'm so happy?"

"..."

After waiting for two seconds without hearing Li Ang's reply, Princess Veronika sat up straight and sighed with a look of disappointment:

"Sigh, if you don't want to hear this, then there's no point in me sitting here by myself. How about..."

Li Ang's expression shifted slightly at her words.

How about you leave?

"How about I continue feeding you!"

"..."

"Ah~"

"Seriously, stop with the 'ah'... I'm still... hmm... still quite want to hear you say something..."

Heh heh, got you!

After a cunning smile without any concealment, the Princess, who had successfully completed the suppression, sat up straight and said with a smile in her eyes:

"Then I'll say it... Do you know about the Hou Jue of Jin Juan?"

Hou Jue of Jin Juan?

After hearing this familiar name, Li Ang's expression shifted slightly, and he nodded:

"I have heard of it... the one who accidentally drowned recently?"

"Hmm, that's him."

Although the weather had warmed up quite a bit recently, it was still a bit cold at night, and the silk nightgown on the Princess, although it outlined her beautiful figure vividly, was a bit lacking in terms of warmth.

Unable to help but curl her body and bring her limbs closer together to warm her body, the Princess, whose nose was slightly red from the cold, recounted happily:

"He was the Tax Secretary of the Ministry of Finance, with a status only below the Minister of Finance. He had been suppressing the military's budget and wantonly exploiting the artisans' guilds, using the kingdom's fiscal budget to fill those... hmm... let me put it this way, he was a very rotten person, very, very rotten!"

Indeed, he was a rotten person, in every sense of the word.

After nodding in agreement, Li Ang asked curiously:

"So, you are so happy because he died?"

"Not entirely."

After exhaling a breath of hot air into her palms, Princess Veronika shook her head:

"Compared to such an unclear drowning, I would have preferred to personally catch him and put him in prison, letting him receive the punishment he deserved for the things he did in the past.

But it's not bad like this. Even if I could topple him, it would probably be very difficult to make him truly plead guilty. And after his position became vacant, the Ministry of Finance opened a gap.

Without him blocking it, many reform proposals that couldn't be pushed forward finally have signs of continuing. If we can share part of the tax collection power, we can also clean up those harsh and complicated taxes, so as not to... hmm...

Li Ang, are you interested in these? Should we talk about something else?"

After looking at the Princess, who was curled up in the chair from the cold but had light in her eyes, Li Ang hesitated for a moment and then shook his head:

"No need, I'm still quite interested in these... continue, but try to keep your voice down so you don't wake Anna and the others."

"Hmm~"

Looking at Li Ang, who finally remembered to give her a coat after she hinted seven or eight times, Princess Veronika couldn't help but glance at him with a look of reproach, then leaned against Li Ang with a look of "I'm very moved."

"You're so good~ Then I'll continue... Oh right, do you know about the attack on the boarding tower?" ===== CHAPTER 370 =====