"What's going on?"
Su An'an was dumbfounded. She quickly opened her smart device and found her account balance glaring red, like a gaping, bloody wound.
Princess's Allowance: Frozen (Remaining Balance: -890,000,000)
She thought she'd dodged a bullet. It turned out she'd kept her status as a Princess but not her wallet.
'No doubt about it, this has to be Night Abyss's doing again,' she thought.
'That vengeful, scheming Black Snake... his methods for swindling money are more vicious than any highway robber.'
Su An'an felt suffocated as she stared at the 890 million-deep hole in her finances.
If she couldn't pay off the debt within a month, her life would be forfeit on the day her control over the Five Great Beast Husbands was lifted.
Su An'an asked the smart device, "Can I pay the debt in installments?"
Paying back 900 million in one month was a bit difficult for someone who had only transmigrated into this world two days ago.
[Princess, you may use your Female Master's authority to have your betrothed Beast Husbands pay the debt for you.]
"Denied!" Su An'an refused immediately.
In the book, the original owner of this body had used her Female Master's authority to force the Five Great Beast Husbands to pay her debts, earning a massive wave of their hatred.
'I can't make that same mistake again.'
[Understood. Searching for the possibility of installment payments.]
[You may use your Royal Credit to apply for a six-installment repayment plan. The minimum payment for each installment is 148 million.]
Su An'an asked, "Can I split it into more installments?"
[Your Highness, this is already the longest repayment period you can apply for.]
"Fine!" Su An'an had no choice but to apply for it.
[Application successful. Princess, please make your payments on time before the end of each month. If a payment is late or insufficient, the agreement will be voided.]
"Got it." Su An'an turned off the smart device, grabbed her medicine box, and headed to her private alchemy lab, cursing indignantly.
"You damn snake, it won't be that easy to ruin me. Just watch me sell potions to pay off this debt."
She placed the freshly made red pills into the analyzer and quickly received a test report.
[New Potion Discovered: Star Core Level, A-Class. 90% Energy absorption rate. Side effect: Induces a berserk state, but with a zero percent physical damage rate to the beast's body.]
"A side effect of painless berserking?"
She suddenly laughed out loud while looking at the report, thinking of a great slogan.
'The War God Experience Potion! A three-minute beast-form rampage with zero damage! Money-back guarantee if you still can't beat your enemies!'
The warmongering Beastmen would definitely be clamoring to get their hands on it.
'Something this dangerous has to go to the highest bidder. I'll start by pricing them at two thousand five hundred gold coins a pill.'
This box had about five thousand pills, which meant 12.5 million Gold Coins. That was a pretty decent income.
And this was just a Basic Potion she had casually concocted.
Once she improved her Spiritual Power Tentacles, she would be able to create even more valuable high-level potions.
In her original world, Su An'an had been a genius in pharmacology.
Just from the patented potion formulas she had invented herself, she had an annual income in the hundreds of millions.
But here in the Beast World, the status of a Pharmacist was even more revered.
They were practically a three-in-one combination of an old-school traditional doctor, a master surgeon, and a pharmaceutical expert from Ancient Earth.
As long as you became a Pharmacist, you could achieve "financial freedom" on the spot.
Even the Basic Potions mixed by a rookie Pharmacist, priced more exorbitantly than a trendy boba tea shop, could be marketed with the slogan "One bottle for three days free of rampages," and Beastmen would be crying over how great a deal it was.
The lords of some remote planets had to salute a High Level Alchemist when they met one.
After all, a single vial of their potions could be the difference between an army rioting and an army striking it rich.
Even a White Tiger War God like Ying Jiuyao...
...had a few days every month where he'd be red-eyed, desperately seeking high-level potions to stabilize his emotions.
So, as long as Su An'an worked her butt off doing Alchemy, paying back 900 million in six months wasn't just a dream.
'Let's do this!'
Su An'an immediately connected to the Star Network to register a new account under the name "Jiu Su."
The technology of the Interstellar Beast World was advanced, but the style of its shopping websites was very similar to Ancient Earth's Amazon, Taobao, and TikTok.
The "Amazon" equivalent mainly sold all kinds of weapons, with a hardcore military style and a motto of 'If you've got a problem, fight it out.'
The "Taobao" equivalent focused on various interstellar specialties, with everything from fresh produce to general goods, aiming for a high-end, premium feel.
The "TikTok" equivalent was like a huge hodgepodge of live streaming, sales, and product showcases. It had everything, specializing in whatever was explosive and sensational to chase trends.
Right then, the "TikTok" homepage was featuring a live class titled, *A Must-See for Hunks! The 18 Happy Styles of a Female Master.*
Inside, a hunk with butterfly wings was demonstrating how to tie a knot in a cherry stem with his tongue.
Scrolling down three screens, all she saw was *A Guide to Postures for Taking Spiritual Power Potions*, with the potion bottles themselves even made in suggestive shapes.
'As expected of a restricted, R-18 rated Beast World novel,' she thought. 'All this stuff is displayed out in the open, and it's incredibly popular.'
She strongly suspected this was where the original owner had ordered her... implements of torture.
Su An'an browsed through the potion section.
She discovered a magical treasure trove: folk remedies!
Tree Sloth Turtle Speed Pharmacy.
"Orders this quarter: 1."
Potion Purity: SS Level. Annual Production: Only 10 bottles.
Squirrel Inheritance Battle Medicine.
Drink it and instantly turn into a muscle-bound squirrel! Come at me if you dare!
Negative review: It gave me buck teeth.
Rabbit Clan Medicine and Cuisine Workshop: [Like Cures Like].
Carrot Virility Soup, monthly sales: 20,000+.
BEEP BEEP BEEP!
Shop Suspension Notice: This medicine contains prohibited substances. After consumption, the user's 'beast whip' will shrink and turn red.
Su An'an was dumbfounded!
'These shops are as full of tricks as a barrel of monkeys.'
Although these special-effect potions all had their flaws...
...their prices were exorbitant, ranging from one thousand gold coins to ten thousand gold coins.
Still, it was understandable. Creating potions with spiritual power wasn't easy. Sometimes, it took thousands or even tens of thousands of failures to achieve one success.
The amount of consumed medicinal ingredients was enormous and incredibly valuable, something an ordinary Beastman couldn't possibly afford.
Some families even had to pool the entire clan's resources for a chance to cultivate a single Pharmacist.
If they succeeded, there was hope for the future.
If they failed, the entire family would be saddled with debt and fall into ruin.
To this, Su An'an could only say, 'Taking out loans to raise a child is a terrible idea!'
After browsing a few potion shops, her confidence surged.
She felt that her red pills could also be considered a special potion, and she might even be able to price them at five thousand a pill.
'Fortune favors the bold!'
Su An'an summoned the shop creation assistant.
"I want to register a potion shop. What's the procedure?"
When she revealed she was a female, a pink pop-up window suddenly appeared on the site.
[Greetings, esteemed female user! We have detected that you are registering a shop to sell special potions. You may skip the examination and open your shop directly.]
[However, you must complete three 'spiritual comfort' live streams for male beasts per month (beauty filter will be automatically enabled).]
Then, a virtual dreamboat popped up in the pink window, a golden slogan scrolling across his eight-pack abs:
"Stream for three hours, earn a guaranteed thirty million!"
[Are you willing to accept?]