Chapter 826: Chapter 17: I Am Your Aunt Wang Liyao

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"Wang Liyao, we agreed on thirty percent of the total revenue!"

It took over ten breaths before Prince Heng, in a fit of rage, jumped three feet high. At this moment, he had lost all the graceful demeanor of the Prince’s Mansion, looking more like a petty commoner haggling over small gains.

He pointed at Wang Liyao, angrily saying, "Do you know that a gentleman’s word is worth a thousand pieces of gold?"

People only become more concerned about benefits after experiencing poverty, and it’s the same for the prince.

"First, I am just a woman. Has Your Highness ever heard that ’women and petty persons are hard to nourish’? Second, Wang Anan is my grandson; it would pain me a little to beat him up." Wang Liyao said calmly and firmly, "If we could increase it to fifty percent for this round, I could reluctantly harden my heart."

"You’re asking for two more percent because you feel sorry? You’re a dignified Celestial River True Inheritance, destined to walk the path of a Saint Son, can’t you show a bit of decorum?" Prince Heng felt as if a knife had cut through his heart, causing pain.

"Alas, my master... went bankrupt." Wang Liyao sighed deeply.

"What? Elder Tianhe..." Prince Heng was suddenly shocked, "He, all his savings, he invested everything?"

"Everything, even his coffin money is gone." Wang Liyao nodded seriously.

What she said was true. Not only her master, Celestial River Zhenren, invested heavily in her, but her family also supported her with great effort.

"What an impressive feat. So, Miss Liyao, now you’re...?" Prince Heng changed his tone of address, becoming instantly more polite.

The Celestial River Zhenren was an old ancestor of the Divine Power Realm who had lived for over a thousand years. The wealth and resources he had amassed must have been astonishing, yet he invested them all in his beloved disciple Wang Liyao, which speaks volumes about his resolve and how deep Wang Liyao’s reserves must be now.

"In any case, I won’t let Your Highness down." Wang Liyao evasively said.

"Alright, alright, fifty percent it is." Prince Heng, as if invigorated, suddenly became full of energy again, "But let’s agree upfront, from now on, you have to follow my direction on how to proceed. Together, us old and young will make a big fortune."

At this point, Prince Heng had a lot to reflect on, realizing this is how money should be made. Each time before, when the Great Celestial Pride faced off, it was always lively, but although the fame of a Great Celestial Pride was achieved, no money was made at all.

Just like Gongyang Strategy... and back when Wu Hanheng was at the top of the Capital City’s Top Ten Outstanding Youth... they were too proud to compare to someone as practical as Wang Liyao.

Wait a minute...

Prince Heng suddenly felt something was amiss.

That’s right, Liyao had appeared just in time for the finale of the glutton contest and won the first battle, bringing great popularity to his White Cloud Tower, then hiked the price at a critical moment...

Could it be that all this was calculated by Wang Liyao long ago?

No, no.

This thought had just surfaced when Prince Heng dismissed it himself.

Wang Liyao, still young, having followed Celestial River Zhenren for cultivation since an early age, with her ethereal aura, did not seem like a deeply scheming woman; it’s just that she raised the price because of her financial need.

This was most likely just a coincidence.

Then.

Under the "well-thought-out" plans of Prince Heng, a storm rose in Gui Long City, with rumors and truths flying together. Mostly, it was said that the Great Celestial Pride Wang Liyao hailed from a small Sixth-Grade Family in Longzuo County Changning Guard — the Changning Wang Family.

In the eyes of the nobles and noble families of Gui Long City, not to mention the remote Longzuo County, even Qeng’an County was considered a backwater. As for the small Changning Guard, it had never been heard of for generations.

Amidst their sighs, they were amazed that a golden phoenix flew out of this little family in Changning Guard.

This made people inevitably think of Gongyang Strategy. Back then, Gongyang Strategy also came from an inconspicuous family, but now the Gongyang Family has risen following Gongyang Strategy’s momentum, and the trend is quite strong.

Presumably, that unremarkable Changning Wang Family will have to be elevated to the Fifth Grade, maybe even higher, in the future.

As Wang Liyao and Gongyang Strategy’s names were brought up again and again, the two Great Celestial Prides who came to the Capital City to face off, separated by more than a hundred years, were naturally put up for comparison.

The two had similar backgrounds, but there was a big age gap during the face-off. Gongyang Strategy was already over ninety then, while Wang Liyao was not even seventy. Yet Wang Liyao could defeat Chen Mu Ying in just three breaths, showing strength far beyond expectations.

Therefore, some people thought Gongyang Strategy was superior back then, while others thought Wang Liyao was stronger now. The two camps, under the provocation of "interested persons," gradually began to argue, leading to enormous buzz.

Wang Liyao’s personal reputation shot up rapidly, and along with it, the name of Changning Wang Family gradually became known.

Subsequently, White Cloud Tower broke the news, saying that three days later, the third-ranked, but practically the second-ranked, in the Top Ten Outstanding Youth, Wang Anan, would face off against the Great Celestial Pride Wang Liyao.

The reason this individual was ranked third is mainly because among the young people under a hundred in the Capital City, there were two other Great Celestial Prides.

One of them is the recognized royal descendant Wu Zhixing, whose cultivation is not yet at the Purple Mansion Realm and has not yet made any battle achievements, thus temporarily unqualified to be a prince.

Even more unfortunately, Wu Zhixing’s background within the Imperial Family is not very good. His lineage is not directly from the current Great Emperor but from another branch of the royal bloodline passed down from a previous emperor.