My Evil Imperial Wife is Too Arrogant

See if there are any you want to trade for.” Elder Xiao took out a jade slip and handed it to Lou Mu Yan.

Lou Mu Yan took the jade slip and checked it, finding that there were many high-level Spiritual Herbs on the list.
Not only were the prices extremely high, but one needed a certain identity to be able to buy it in limited quantities.

“Can I trade for the limited Spiritual Herbs too?” Lou Mu Yan blinked and asked with a smile.

Since Elder Xiao wanted to give her preferential treatment, he naturally wouldn’t object, “Yes.”

Lou Mu Yan waited precisely for this answer.
After she crossed out several kinds of Spiritual Herbs that were of little use to her, she said: “Aside from the Spiritual Herbs I crossed out, I want them all.”

Elder Xiao took a look and his eyelids jumped instantly—this girl sure spent so much money.
But he did have such authority.

“Although it’s a little troublesome, but I can gather it.
You can trade when you get to the central area.” Elder Xiao said.

“Then how many pills do I need to exchange for it?” Lou Mu Yan asked.

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Elder Xiao stroked the porcelain bottle on the table, thought about it, then said: “Six Spiritual Energy Recovery Pills, three Elemental Nourishing Pills.”

“Aye! I originally planned to keep some spares, but now I’ll just have to lose money for the sake of Master.” Lou Mu Yan agreed with gritted teeth, with an expression as if her flesh hurt.

The transaction number Elder Xiao proposed was very reasonable and he didn’t deceive her, which also made her impression of the Pill Tower a little better.

“I’ll give these six Spiritual Energy Recovery Pills and three Elemental Nourishing Pills to Elder Xiao first.
Then I’ll go to the pill shop in the central city to pick up the Spiritual Herbs.” Lou Mu Yan took out several bottles of pills very generously.

Elder Xiao said with a smile on his face: “Little girl sure is resolute.
Aren’t you afraid that this old one will fool you and act as if such a thing didn’t happen?”

“Elder Xiao seems to have a sense of righteousness, so you naturally won’t act as if this didn’t happen or breach our promise.
I believe in my own judgement.” Lou Mu Yan’s eyes were clear, and she smiled naturally, appearing as if the words came from her heart without the slightest falsehood.

Elder Xiao was taken aback for a moment, then he laughed happily: “You’re a rather loveable little girl.”

He had been paying attention to this little girl Lou Mu Yan since the first time he saw her.
She handled affairs without fear, treated anyone neither humbly or haughtily, and her indifferent, otherworldly temperament made people unable to resist feeling good about her.

In addition, she had a very light medicinal fragrance, so she must be an Alchemist, which also had Elder Xiao feel a kind of closeness, as if a Senior watching a Junior.

Hearing Elder Xiao’s address of her change from Young Miss Lou to ‘little girl’, the expressions on the people present varied.

Elder Xiao was notoriously difficult to approach, yet who knew that Lou Mu Yan obtained his favour at first glance4.

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“I’ll give this Pill Tower Token to you.
When you get to the central city, take it to the pill shop and there will naturally be someone who will send you the Spiritual Herbs you want.” Elder Xiao tossed over a palm-sized cyan token to Lou Mu Yan, in a good mood.

Lou Mu Yan received the token and took a look at it.
There was a complicated pattern engraved on the token, and within the pattern was the word ‘Pill’.

Seeing Elder Xiao take out this cyan token, Si Nan and He’lian Lie couldn’t resist revealing shock and envy in their eyes.

“Then I won’t be polite.
My gratitude, Elder Xiao.” Although Lou Mu Yan didn’t know what the token could be used for, but she knew it was a good thing seeing the expressions of Si Nan and the others.

Seeing her accept it without being quarrelsome and without pretence, her beautiful pair of eyes narrowed in a smile, like a little fox that had successfully cheated someone of something, Elder Xiao’s like for her increased.

Luo Li and the others were also dazzled by her lively smile.

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1so, in case people didn’t know, ‘wanting face’ or ‘having no face’ etc, figuratively means being shameless.
In this case, it’s common play on those words meaning that ‘his ‘face skin’ is so thick he doesn’t care’ and won’t feel shameful or embarrassed by his actions.

2figuratively means to scare the opponent by intimidation/make others think she’s mighty by using something that looks mighty.

3pockets being ‘shy’ means she doesn’t have money/enough money.

4hmmm, not the easiest to translate.
It’s used to mean that one person might like the other person from the very first glance.
I guess I could translate it to ‘fated at first glance’, but it sounds a bit too romantic if I translated it like that.
The Chinese is 眼缘 (yǎn yuan).
眼 means ‘eye’, 缘 is ‘fate’.