Chapter 500: Chapter 293: Just Now the Prince Told Me Something_2

Dongfang Yi couldn’t help thinking that, given his daughter’s personality, if she were to do nothing and just attend to the North Prince in the North Prince Mansion every day, she probably wouldn’t stand for it.

At this thought, Dongfang Yi suddenly felt unsure about what to do. At this moment, Lu Chen continued, “Master Dongfang, rest assured, if Longyue is willing to marry this Prince, I can let her continue serving as the Editor-in-chief of the Eastern Newspaper Agency. However, I might delay giving her a proper status for a few years, and once I give her that status, she will have to resign from her position as the Editor-in-chief of the newspaper.”

Hearing Lu Chen’s words, Dongfang Yi instantly understood Lu Chen’s meaning, which was that Dongfang Longyue could move into North Prince Mansion now and tend to Lu Chen, and when Dongfang Longyue was ready to give up her position as the Editor-in-chief, that’s when she would receive her formal status.

Dongfang Yi felt that this solution wasn’t bad. Cook the raw rice first, and when they had children later on, it would also be acceptable for them to undergo the formal marriage rites.

The Dongfang Family was a vassal family of the North Prince Mansion, and Dongfang Yi trusted Lu Chen very much. If it were someone else, as a father, Dongfang Yi would certainly not agree to his daughter living with a man and having the reality of husband and wife before an official marriage, but the North Prince was different – he was ordained by heaven itself.

As long as Dongfang Longyue became the North Prince’s woman, she would be touched by destiny, binding her and the North Prince together.

Moving into the North Prince Mansion first was also an acceptable option.

Thinking this, Dongfang Yi excitedly said, “Prince, I will discuss it with Longyue later. Once we move to the new city, I will arrange for Longyue to move into the North Prince Mansion and serve you.”

Hearing this, Lu Chen smiled and said, “Master Dongfang, I will repeat myself, everything must be done willingly by Longyue, without any coercion.”

Dongfang Yi responded, “Your Highness can rest assured, I definitely won’t coerce my daughter, I’m merely conveying Your Highness’s intentions.”

At this point, Dongfang Yi was so eager to go to the Eastern Newspaper Agency to tell his daughter the news that he said, “Prince, if there are no other matters, then I shall take my leave.”

Lu Chen replied, “Mm, alright.”

Afterwards, Dongfang Yi turned and left the study. Watching Dongfang Yi’s retreating figure, Lu Chen couldn’t help but wonder whether Dongfang Longyue would agree to move into the North Prince Mansion in advance.

Although Dongfang Longyue’s favorability towards him was already at ninety-five, favorability did not mean that she was necessarily willing to engage in certain matters with him. Take Chu Yuqin from before; her favorability towards him was also in the nineties, almost reaching a hundred, but she always harbored reservations about their difference in status.

Dongfang Longyue was a strong-willed woman. She might worry that marrying into the Prince’s Mansion would mean losing the opportunity to continue managing the newspaper agency. Although Lu Chen had said that he would allow her to move into the Prince’s Mansion first and then carry on with managing the Eastern Newspaper Agency, once Dongfang Longyue entered the Prince’s Mansion, one day she would have to resign from her role as the Editor-in-chief.

Just then, an idea suddenly struck Lu Chen, and the corners of his mouth slightly lifted. If Dongfang Longyue worried about having to leave the Eastern Newspaper Agency after marrying him, then couldn’t he simply create another “employment” opportunity for her?

He had been contemplating setting up a newspaper under the North Prince Mansion recently. The current official newspaper was ostensibly an organ of the Small court’s public opinion. Although the relationship between the Small court and the North Prince Mansion was still very close at present, as his children grew older, the affairs of the Small court and the North Prince Mansion would inevitably diverge sooner or later.

Lu Chen didn’t want the politics of the Small court to enter his Prince’s Mansion, and then have his children embroiled in all kinds of political intrigue; if that happened, his North Prince Mansion would likely be thrown into complete disarray.

The Small court of the North Country all had their official newspapers. How could the North Prince Mansion, a commercial leader with so many industries, not have its own newspaper agency?

If the North Prince Mansion were to establish a newspaper, it could not only publish timely news but also release messages related to the North Prince Mansion’s industries.

Once Dongfang Longyue married into the North Prince Mansion, he could hand the management of the North Prince Mansion’s newspaper agency over to her.

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Eastern Newspaper Agency.

In the room, Dongfang Longyue was holding a brush, swiftly writing a draft of the latest news report on paper.

While steel pens, convenient for writing, were already available in North Country, Dongfang Longyue still had not abandoned the habit of using brushes.

Of course, although Dongfang Longyue was using a brush, her writing speed was hardly slower than those using steel pens.

As Dongfang Longyue was engrossed in her writing, an employee entered her office, “Miss, the Family Head is here to see you.”

On hearing this, Dongfang Longyue paused for a moment. She had just visited home, so why would her father come to see her at this time?

Then Dongfang Longyue said, “Let my father come to the office.”

“Yes, Miss.”

After the agency staff left the room, it wasn’t long before Dongfang Yi appeared in Dongfang Longyue’s study.

Seeing Dongfang Yi, Dongfang Longyue set down her brush and asked, “Father, what brings you here?”

Dongfang Yi said, “I just visited the North Prince Mansion.”

Hearing this, Dongfang Longyue did not show much surprise. The North Prince had requested that the Dongfang Family Master assist the craftsmen of Great Yu City in building warships. As the head of the Dongfang Family, her father naturally had to inquire about the progress of the warships so that their family could coordinate with the craftsmen of Great Yu City.