Warden of the Beast World: Everyone is a Hakimi

"Your name is Ye Tang, right?"

"Yes, Your Highness." Ye Tang straightened up instinctively. The Fifth Princess in front of her was completely different from the other royal family members she had ever met.

Luo Ling was dressed in a simple and neat light yellow casual outfit. The only thing she wore was an expensive-looking energy watch on her wrist. Her long hair was casually tied in a ponytail, and her face did not have the exquisite heavy makeup of Luo Selin. She looked more like a female college student at Blue Star University who was rushing to school early in the morning with her textbooks.

Only his amber eyes, when staring at someone, held a shrewd and focused light, as if he were calculating whether the deal would go through.

"Don't call me that, just call me Luo Ling. I want to learn how to make money from you." Luo Ling took a step forward, her gaze fixed intently on Ye Tang. She really wanted to get rid of the label of "the spendthrift son of the empire." If she continued to squander money like this, her father's dowry would be gone sooner or later, and then her father would be ridiculed by the entire empire as "the most unsuccessful royal consort."

"Huh?" Ye Tang thought she had misheard. Learn how to make money from her? How could she possibly make money? Her money all fell from the sky with her golden finger; catnip grew on its own, the Spirit Crossing White Dew prop shop automatically restocked, and even the mahjong set was a gift from the system. She only did one thing from beginning to end: take out the right thing at the right time.

"Please, please." Luo Ling clasped her hands together, her amber eyes blinking as she looked at Ye Tang, her expression almost as coquettish as Chi Heng's. Before Ye Tang could refuse, she began to pour out her grievances, recounting her "glorious achievements" one by one.

She was building a luxury resort on the Arctic ice sheet when a polar night storm trapped the entire construction team inside the grounds. It cost three times the usual price to get them out.

She built an ice rink in a volcanic area, claiming to use the latest high-temperature resistant refrigeration technology, but the volcano erupted on the first day of opening, turning the rink into a sauna. She tiled the Arctic ice wall, which is an extremely cold ice wall that never melts, insisting that tiling it would make it look more impressive, but before the tiling was even finished, she was impeached by parliament for wasting public funds.

There's also a seafood market in the middle of the desert, a hot spring hotel in an underwater active volcano, and a pet boarding facility deep in the Warcraft Forest. Every project is incredibly imaginative, and every project resulted in huge financial losses.

Ye Tang was dumbfounded. This can actually make money? She's lucky she wasn't beaten to death. She'd seen plenty of failed startups on Earth, but someone who lost money this creatively, this persistently, and this way of burning through their own father's fortune was absolutely unprecedented.

"Your father's dowry was quite generous, wasn't it?" Ye Tang exclaimed sincerely.

"Yes, yes, my father is the president of the Supreme Auction House." Luo Ling nodded proudly. The Supreme Auction House is the largest auction house in the empire, with branches in all the major cities of the empire. It handles countless rare treasures every year. As the president, his father's assets are probably enough to buy several small duchies.

Ye Tang took a deep breath, repeatedly telling herself that being born into the right family is a skill, calm down, calm down. This fifth princess is simply the ultimate combination of a super-powerful second-generation heir and a super-rich second-generation heir, but she's also an absolute spendthrift.

"Alright, I'll teach you how to grow catnip." Ye Tang pointed to the catnip patch in the yard. Anyway, she never intended to monopolize it. If Luo Ling wanted to learn, she would teach her. Whether she could learn it or not depended on her own fate.

Luo Ling was so happy she almost jumped up on the spot. She took out a brand new notebook and a pen from her storage ring, with the Supreme Auction House's gold-embossed logo on the cover.

She turned to the first page and neatly wrote down the words "Catnip Planting Class - Teacher Ye Tang". Her earnest appearance made Ye Tang feel as if she had really become a visiting professor at some agricultural university.

"Sister, let's play mahjong." Qi Xuan tapped the mahjong tiles in his hand with his tail, his icy blue vertical pupils staring impatiently at Ye Tang. He had been waiting for a long time, but his sister had been talking to that new blonde girl, leaving him ignored at the mahjong table.

Upon seeing this, Lu Yu immediately stood up. He was worried about not having an excuse to escape Qi Xuan's mahjong table. This God of War was too fast at winning by self-draw. He had already lost almost half a month's salary in just one morning.

"Fifth Prince, please. I need to go back and attend to official business." He said this and walked quickly out of the courtyard without looking back, his pace so fast it was as if a lord-level fallen beast was chasing him.

"Oh, okay. What's this?" Luo Ling asked curiously as she sat down at the mahjong table.

Mahjong.

"How do we play?" Luo Ling picked up a card and examined it from all angles. She wasn't particularly interested in this kind of entertainment at first, but her eyes changed instantly when they swept over the pile of star coins on the table. She was interested in anything related to money.

"I'll teach you." Ye Tang sat down opposite her. This princess was obviously a money-grubber. Although she seemed to be very extravagant, her eyes lit up when she saw money, just like Ye Tang's.

Luo Ling learned very quickly. Ye Tang only explained the rules of mahjong once, and she was able to ask follow-up questions such as "How many points is a pure suit?" and "How many times does a winning hand multiply?" Her amber eyes sparkled when she heard about doubling the points, as if she could already see herself dominating the game.

However, the ideal was far from reality—after ten rounds, she had already won three out of ten times. Every time she had just finished arranging her cards, Qi Xuan opposite her would push his cards forward and shout "Hu!" with a blank expression, and she would lose another round before she could even recognize all the cards in her hand. The star coins on the table flowed from in front of her into the pockets of Qi Xuan, Chi Heng, and Ye Tang at a visible speed.

"Aaaaaah, I refuse to believe I can't win today! Let's go again!" Luo Ling slammed the last few crumpled star coins on the table, her ponytail standing on end.

"Stop it, you've already lost over four thousand star coins." Ye Tang looked at the empty chip box in front of her and felt a rare pang of sympathy. Four thousand star coins was nothing to Luo Ling, who used to spend money like water, but now that her allowance was restricted, this was probably several months' worth of her budget.

"No, I must win back my losses today!" Luo Ling's amber eyes burned with the obsession unique to gamblers.

"Alright then." Ye Tang reshuffled the cards. She finally understood that this Fifth Princess was not only single-minded in business, but also in mahjong.

"Fifth Prince, you're really bad. I'm embarrassed to even beat you." Chi Heng shook his head and swaggered behind him as he arranged his tiles. He had just won a hand of "double win" and was extremely smug. "Your skill level is comparable to that of a free-range chicken."

"Don't say anything! I can afford to lose! I'm going to win back my losses!" Luo Ling gritted her teeth and glared at Chi Heng before burying her head in her cards.

Ye Tang sighed and pushed the cards into the wall: "Luo Ling, gamblers never have a good ending."

"Alright, alright, it's time to eat." Ye Tang couldn't stand it anymore. After Luo Ling lost her last coin, she was tricked by Chi Heng into signing an extremely unequal treaty—no gambling, only housework.

As a result, she lost several more games in a row, and her chores of washing dishes, doing laundry, and mopping the floor were already booked for months to come. The dignified Fifth Princess of the Empire would be spending her spare time as a cleaning lady in Prison Zero for the next few months.

That's all for today. We're having mushroom hot pot today.

"What is mushroom hot pot?" Luo Ling looked up from the duty roster, a white sticker Qi Xuan had stuck to her face after she lost a game of cards. She had eaten at the capital's top restaurants and attended countless royal banquets, but she had never heard of the word "hot pot."