“Even though they did not apologize for the rudeness they committed against me last time. And despite selling me with baseless rumors. And even daring to recommend a government to me, a member of the royal family, without understanding the subject.”
“I, when did I do that…….”
“Do I have to stoop down and deal with such people, Levanfell?”
Levanfell put down his papers at my question, then tore up a catalog that showed signs of being checked multiple times without any regrets.
“No, Your Majesty. There’s no need to face those who have deceived you, who don’t even know how high the sky is.”
“You will regret this! As you said, Your Majesty, our monopoly is…!”
“Ah, about that. I’m planning to take all those monopolies away.”
Levanfell looked at me with a dumbfounded face.
“Yo, Your Majesty. If you terminate all their contracts, you’ll have to pay them ten times what they’ve earned so far to that corporation…….”
Levanfell muttered to me, glancing at the merchant. The merchant puffed out his chest and nodded vigorously upon hearing Levanfell’s mutterings.
“Fine! Go ahead, Your Majesty! I’ll just find new designers. If I use the money you gave me properly, that’s all!”
“Exactly. If you want to terminate, you have to pay ten times what the designers have earned. But…… from what I’ve seen, you’ve been evading taxes with fraudulent revenue reporting?”
The merchant’s pupils shook rapidly, unable to distinguish left from right.
“You reported your revenue to be less than the dust rolling over there? Did you think no one would check since the finance position is vacant?”
“Tha, that’s, I was going to report again…….”
“So take either ten times the dustlevel revenue you reported or report the actual revenue and pay all the unpaid taxes, plus interest.”
Levanfell slowly checked the documents again.
He was a man who liked alcohol and women and parties.
His eyes were more intelligent when he looked at the catalog than now, when he was seriously checking the documents.
“Surely…… in the end, the money that will come in will be greater than what Your Majesty will spend.”
I turned my head in surprise. Levanfell was dryly squinting his eyes.
“You calculated all that yourself?! Without even a pen?”
“……Oh.”
“I had a hard time doing it myself, so I entrusted it all to Jaelim! And Jaelim took days to calculate it?”
Levanfell opened his mouth small and then, with a flustered face, avoided my gaze and quickly pushed the documents onto the table.
“I’m fast at calculating…… Anyway, either way, Your Majesty won’t lose, so it’s not bad.”
“You heard that?”
“Wh, wh, wh, what did I do wrong to deserve this! What have I done wrong!”
“You don’t even know that. You’re not the person to do business with me.”
The merchant’s face turned red with shame. His appearance was like……
“Like a beaten octopus.”
“Heh.”
“Thi…… this……! Your Majesty! What did you just say……!”
Oops. I opened my eyes wide in surprise and quickly covered my mouth. I could hear Levanfell struggling to suppress his laughter next to me.
“I’m sorry! It wasn’t intentional……! I’ve been so tired lately because of the government talk, and when I saw your face, I just……”
“You’re calling me a beaten octopus now?!”
“Ah, didn’t you know? Then I’ll take back what I just said. Just think of it as something I said while looking at the picture hanging on that wall…….”
“I will be on my way now!”
Before I finished speaking, the merchant abruptly stood up from his seat, his face trembling with anger, even more flushed than before.
However, he didn’t move his feet easily. He probably thought I would stop him.
“I won’t see you out. Be on your way.”
But instead of stopping him, I lightly waved my hand in farewell. The merchant finally turned away sharply.
“Ah, and just so you know.”
I stopped the merchant as he was about to leave the reception room, and he turned back with a bright smile as if he had expected it.
“I don’t have a consort. It’s a false rumor spread by someone who saw wrong in the middle of the night, so if there’s anyone who sends me a letter saying they’ll be my consort, tell them this.”
“…….”
“Tell them I won’t take a pathetic person who can’t even talk to me directly and asks others to relay messages as my consort. Now be on your way. It was nice to see your face. May you continue good trading, and don’t stab others in the back. ……We’ll meet again soon, either regarding the termination of monopolies or tax evasion. Which one you choose is up to you, so I’ll wait.”
With that, the merchant finally left the reception room, his face flushed red. As the door closed, Levanfell, who had been shouting defiantly, slowly looked back at me.
“You were quite intimidating, Your Majesty.”
“Before I came to the Leonharta Empire, when I was still Princess Lupeon, my siblings used to torment me a lot, you know?”
“Yes.”
“Do you know what I did to them whenever that happened?”
Levanfell tilted his head, a puzzled expression on his face.
“Did you cry?”
“Nope. Whenever that happened, I always paid them back double or triple.”
“…….”
“Ha ha ha. They tried to stab me in the back last time; I couldn’t just let it go. Those bad guys. How dare they?”
Levanfell looked at me with cold eyes and murmured, ‘I must not make Her Majesty my enemy.’
“But Your Majesty.”
“Hm?”
“What will happen to the designers if all the monopolistic contracts are terminated? The famous ones can stand on their own, but the ambiguous ones won’t be able to. What will you do about them?”
You think quite deeply. Your vision sees one step ahead.
“If the fact that I broke ties with the merchants gets around, there may be no merchants willing to supply, fearing the same thing will happen again.”
“That’s fine. I’ll take care of it.”
“……Yes?”
“If I once took a hand, I have to take responsibility to the end. All the designers who have terminated the monopolistic contracts will recontract with an anonymous merchant. Of course, exclusively.”
Levanfell’s eyes narrowed. I felt a disbelief in his cloudy blue eyes.
“Surely you’re not trying to profit from the same action as the merchants?”
“What do you think of me?”
Levanfell looked at me with cold eyes and muttered, ‘Someone who pays back double or triple? A fearsome person?’
It’s not a wrong thing to say, but……
“I’ll charge a commission of 10% of sales, and we’ll agree on the number of supplies required each year. Workshops can be freely chosen, and there will be no other interference. If you want to terminate the monopoly, it’s always possible. However, if you terminate the monopoly, the supply commission will, of course, be the same as with other merchants.”
“You are giving a monopoly in exchange for drastically reducing the commission? And giving the option to terminate the monopoly?”
“That’s right. And those who contract exclusively will be prioritized for product review when the royal party is held.”
“That’s a radical condition. Many nobles attend, so if you get noticed, it will be easy to gain fame.”
Levanfell looked back at the list of designers.
I don’t know much about art yet, but judging by Levanfell’s comments like ‘Oh, this designer’s work is good,’ there seemed to be many decent ones.
“It seems that preparing the party will be easier.”
“That’s fortunate.”
The two of us looked at each other and smiled. The glimmers of doubt in his eyes had been replaced by a sparkling zest. His smile is really beautiful whenever I see it.
That’s when it happened.
“That looks nice.”
A sneer, like something spat out by a hoodlum, was heard. Startled, I turned my head and saw Levanfell leaning on the reception room door, looking at Levanfell with a cold smile.
Top Celebrity Younger Brother Bears Her Child (Female-dominant)
One-line summary: Forced to live stream romance with a top celebrity in a female-dominant world.
Yan Jin transmigrated into a brothel, with a fellow transmigrated junior beside her.
Hearing the obscene words coming from outside, the unfortunate junior covered his ears tightly, his cheeks flushed red, and whispered to comfort her, “Don’t worry, I will definitely help you escape.”
“Don’t worry, I will definitely defend your chastity.” Yan Jin looked at the flawless and delicate features of the unfortunate junior and gently comforted, “Because we have transmigrated into a female-dominant world.”
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Top celebrity Yu Shu suddenly fell into a coma during a concert.
Research scientist Yan Jin fainted in the lab after working overtime.
Two people with no connection were rushed to the same hospital.
Three days later, neither of them had woken up.
Suddenly, the entire nation discovered that a live streaming app had been forcibly installed on their phones.
Upon opening it, they heard the two discussing how to escape from the brothel.
The entire internet was in an uproar.
After the two successfully escaped from the brothel, Yu Shu’s fan group rushed to make a banner and sent it to the hospital overnight.
“Big sister bravely took action to defend the chastity of our idol!”
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When Yu Shu was diagnosed with pregnancy, Yan Jin stared at his belly for a long time.
Covering his stomach, he muttered gloomily, “If you don’t like it, I’ll go get an abortion.”
“It’s not that I don’t like it.” Yan Jin hugged Yu Shu and said softly, “I just feel like I’m not human.”
Yu Shu comforted Yan Jin, “I was already an adult when we got together.”
Yan Jin hesitated, “But you won’t be of legal marriageable age even after giving birth to the child.”
At the same time, a flood of bullet comments appeared in the live streaming room that the two couldn’t see.
[Although it’s inappropriate, I also want a young and handsome boyfriend to have my child.]
①Male pregnancy (highlighted)
The female lead is five years older than the male lead, and the male lead is already an adult when he appears.
