"Alright, alright, I'll buy it," Prince Kang reluctantly said, though he didn't agree in his heart. He was a man, how could he use a woman's money—how shameless would that be to say aloud.
...
In the evening, the housekeeper went to deliver the pearls.
Before reaching the wall called a door, Concubine Qin stopped him.
"What is this?" Concubine Qin glared at the wooden box in the housekeeper's hand, her gaze malicious. This box looked very familiar. The Prince had given her a box of pearls using such a box. Are there pearls inside? The Prince wants to give it to the Princess?
"I don't know," the housekeeper, of course, would not reveal that the box was filled with pearls the Prince wanted to gift the Princess, only saying that he didn't know.
"Give it here," Concubine Qin said, her face darkening.
The housekeeper didn't move. Meanwhile, the young servant behind the housekeeper, sensing trouble, had already hurried off to find Prince Kang.
