After becoming rich overnight, I handed over the system.

Chapter 166 A New Path

"If you're so conflicted, I can offer you a new option, but I don't know if you dare to take this new path."

One day, while Li Mingyue was troubled, she accidentally opened Long Mingyue's call and her rambling conversation was overheard by the other party.

"Immortal, what should I do?" Li Mingyue looked at the other person in confusion.

“Right now, you are a maid in the Prince’s mansion, which is why the Crown Prince’s wife can let you choose who to marry. Marrying the Crown Prince and becoming his concubine, or marrying a guard and becoming a servant in the Prince’s mansion, are not what you want, are they?” Long Mingyue saw through the core problem at a glance.

“Yes, neither of them is someone I like, and I don’t want to get married like this,” Li Mingyue said, distressed.

“But in the end you can’t disobey the Crown Princess’s orders, so I suggest you take this opportunity to change your identity and become a follower.”

"Followers?"

“You’re so smart, I don’t believe you didn’t see that your prince wants to compete for the throne, so what he needs is not women or servants, but followers who can help him.”

“But I don’t know anything, I can’t go to the battlefield.” Li Mingyue’s eyes lit up at first, then she said bitterly.

"That's not a problem. I have a cultivation technique here, used by mortals in the cultivation world. It doesn't discriminate based on aptitude. This technique will increase your strength after you start practicing it. However, it has a drawback: below the sixth level, your body will become stronger and stronger. Only above the sixth level is it possible to return to your original physique. Therefore, very few women in the mortal world practice it. So whether you practice it or not is up to you. I'm just giving you a chance. But I want to tell you one thing: if you don't want to be forced by others, then you need to have strength."

Long Mingyue transmitted the cultivation technique and then severed the connection, leaving the rest to Li Mingyue's own choice.

Li Mingyue hesitated repeatedly while holding the cultivation manual, unable to make up her mind.

"Miss Li, here is the flour, sugar, and jam you requested. Please take a look."

"Okay, thank you, Tonglu. Here, this is a new product I just made. Please try it."

"Thank you, Miss Li. I'll take my leave now!"

Li Mingyue checked what she needed and found that the amount of white sugar was a little short. So she chased after the other party to tell them to buy more white sugar next month.

"Hey, Tonglu, you've gone to deliver goods to Miss Li again?"

"Yes, Sister Chunhua."

"This Miss Li is really well treated. She can even let you buy precious things like white sugar at will. Here, these are the things our aunt needs this month."

"Who doesn't know that Miss Li was personally selected by the young master to work in the kitchen? Besides, aren't the desserts she makes also for the masters?"

"You're mistaken. A man as noble as the young master has tasted all kinds of desserts. Why would he need a poor girl to make them? I think the young master has ulterior motives. Hey, let me tell you, we're all betting on when the young master will take Miss Li into his household! Do you want to join in?" Chunhua looked at Tonglu with eyes full of gossip.

"No, no, I'm just a purchasing assistant, I won't participate!" Tonglu quickly shook his head.

"Oh dear, plenty of servants in this mansion get involved, what are you worried about? If you don't want to participate, then don't participate, why are you running away? Don't forget what our aunt wants!" Chunhua wanted to persuade him further, but Tonglu ran off in a flash.

Li Mingyue listened to these words from behind the corner. She gave a bitter smile. It turned out that the rumors hadn't disappeared, but were hidden underneath.

She made her decision and turned to leave.

As the days went by, just as Long Mingyue had said, her body gradually became stronger.

Fortunately, she was alone in the small kitchen and no one else looked at her strangely. Li Mingyue relied on her own strength and actually managed to cultivate all the way to the third level of the technique.

Taking advantage of the young master's return to the manor that day, she quickly requested an audience.

"Li Mingyue greets Your Highness!"

"You say you are Li Mingyue?" The young master could hardly believe that the strong woman standing in front of him was the little maid who had entered the manor back then.

"Your Highness, it's me!"

"Are you sick or something?" The young master circled around her, still unable to believe that this was the same Li Mingyue as before.

"No, Mingyue only practiced her family's traditional martial arts."

"Cultivation techniques?" The young master's eyes lit up.

"It's a body-refining technique for women; men can't practice it." With those words, the light in the young master's eyes went out.

"Then what brings you to see me, young master?"

"Young Master, I want to follow you! I know what you want to do, and Mingyue is willing to give her life to follow you!" Li Mingyue said, clasping her hands and kneeling on one knee.

"You know what I'm going to do? Then what can you do for me?" The prince looked at her with amusement.

Li Mingyue stood up, walked outside, picked up the large water vat filled with water in both hands, and walked around the courtyard with it held up.

"You! Come with me to the training ground!"

The young master was somewhat shocked, and then immediately asked Li Mingyue to go with him to the training ground.

Upon arriving at the training ground in the backyard, the prince asked Li Mingyue to choose a weapon, and then had Qin Da spar with her.

"Young Master, this is not appropriate. Miss Li is a weak woman." Although Qin Da was also shocked by Li Mingyue's change, he thought that the food in the Prince's Mansion was good, which was why she had eaten so much. He did not see the scene of Li Mingyue holding the vat.

"Stop talking nonsense and show me your full strength."

Li Mingyue was not afraid, of course, as the manual also contained corresponding moves.

She picked out a pair of hammers, tossed them around in her hand, and walked toward Qin Da, wanting to prove her strength.

Little did they know that the prince and his guards on the training ground were truly shocked to see that Li Mingyue had chosen this pair of hammers.

"She, she, Young Master, if I remember correctly, that was the Golden Hammer you had someone make back then!" Qin Da swallowed hard.

Prince Qin didn't speak. Those were the hammers he had someone make. Each of the Thunder Drum Golden Hammers weighed 400 jin, and the two weighed a total of 800 jin. After they were made, no one could lift them, so they were thrown into a corner of the training ground. Is Li Mingyue that powerful?

The young master is starting to covet that cultivation technique again.

The battle began. Li Mingyue swung her hammer down at Qin Da. Qin Da picked up his broadsword to defend himself, but as expected, he was no match for her. The moment the two weapons clashed, Qin Da's hand was injured by the impact, and the blue bricks under his feet were crushed.

Seeing this, Li Mingyue swung another hammer down, but Qin Da immediately withdrew his knife and ran away, shouting, "I'm not fighting anymore! Who can beat this guy?!" Another hammer blow and his arm would be broken.

Even Qin Da, the head of the guards, backed down, and Li Mingyue became one of the young master's men with an unstoppable momentum.