The Eldest Daughter Reborn: She Provoked the Obsessive Crown Prince and Couldn't Escape

"Zhengzheng, I took you in because I wanted to give you a way to live;

"Since you're so ungrateful, don't blame me for being ruthless!" Fu Yuan shouted.

He locked Zhengzheng in the woodshed, and only at mealtimes would Xiaoliu bring her some spoiled soup and rotten rice.

"It's all sour and sticky, how can we eat this?" Zhengzheng pushed the bowl away, looking disgusted.

These dishes were all leftovers from the servants;

The rice was so tender that it could be pulled into strands when picked up with chopsticks; the vegetable leaves were wilted and yellow, I don't know how many days they had been sitting there!

I bet even pigs would find this food spoiled if they were fed it!

Little Willow sneered, "We've come this far, so stop being picky! You should be grateful that you have anything to eat."

"You're complaining when you have food to eat? In a famine year, people will even gnaw on tree bark!"

"You...then why aren't you eating? The maids eat the best food and drink the best, while the masters eat spoiled food. What kind of rule is this?" Zhengzheng said through gritted teeth.

Xiao Liu'er said with a sinister smile, "I am indeed a maid, but who does the word 'master' refer to?"

"It couldn't be you, could it? Hahaha!"

Zhengzheng felt uneasy at her laughter.

She stopped arguing with Xiao Liu'er and simply pushed the spoiled food away from the ground.

Zhengzheng would rather go hungry than eat such food!

Even from this distance, the sour smell makes me feel nauseous!

But after Xiao Liu left, she didn't bring any more food for a long time...

Zhengzheng wakes up several times a night from hunger even after she falls asleep!

She's going to starve to death if she doesn't eat soon!

She gazed at the food she had once pushed away, and finally, with trembling hands, picked it up...

The weather is getting cooler, but it's not really winter yet;

In addition, the food was already spoiled when it was delivered, and now that it has been sitting for a few days, it has spoiled even more!

But Zhengzheng looked around the woodshed and wondered, what else was there to eat besides these things?

She endured her nausea and ate all of these things, which were even more sour and smelly than swill and could no longer be called "food";

She finally understood why Xiao Liu'er left the food but took the chopsticks with her!

She just wants to humiliate herself! Even if she can't see it, this humiliation gives her immense pleasure!

No, it wasn't her...

She had no grudge against Xiao Liu'er, so why did Xiao Liu'er humiliate her?

It must be Fu Luan! It's that bitch Fu Luan!

Zhengzheng swallowed the food that was worse than swill;

She reminisced about the days of luxury and ease she had spent in the Marquis of Chang'an's mansion, and wept alone.

It was quite a coincidence that she had just eaten the rotten soup and mushy rice that night, and the next day Xiao Liu'er brought her food again.

This time, I didn't even bring chopsticks...

"Where are the chopsticks? How am I supposed to eat without chopsticks?" For some reason, after eating, Zhengzheng felt even hungrier and weaker than before.

Xiao Liu said with a forced smile, "Oh, do you need chopsticks?"

"Even without chopsticks at night, people still eat heartily, don't they? These things..."

"Even pigs and dogs wouldn't eat this, and we thought it was a waste! We didn't expect you to enjoy it so much!"

"Doesn't it taste better... when you eat it with your hands?"

"You! Did Fu Luan, that bitch Fu Luan, send you here!"

“Or it’s that wretched maid Cuiyun…” Zhengzheng’s eyes turned bloodshot.

"Hmph, don't you remember me? People say 'important people have bad memories,' and that's absolutely true!" Little Willow said quietly.

Zhengzheng said patiently, "You look at least fifteen or sixteen years old, which means you've passed the 'coming-of-age ceremony'..."

"Oh dear, what's with all this talk about 'coming of age' and 'not coming of age'? It's embarrassing for me to even say it out loud!"

“When you noble ladies from high-ranking families reach the age of marriage, you wear hairpins in your hair.”

"The price of one hairpin could probably buy ten servants like me!"

"What are we? We're like straw tags stuck in our heads. If we're 'good,' we'll be sold to a kind-hearted family."

“Someone like me… isn’t that all I can do is serve you?” Little Willow spat.

Zhengzheng wanted to ask something more, but Xiaoliu grabbed her hair and pressed her face into the rice bowl.

Zhengzheng then noticed that what was being served was not a bowl at all, but a food bowl used to feed dogs!

Even the food bowl... has a chip in it.

Let alone a noble family, even an ordinary family with slightly better conditions would not use a vessel with a chipped rim!

What exactly is she being treated as here?

"Hmm, um..." Zhengzheng's entire face was pressed into the rice bowl;

She struggled, but her face hit the gash, and blood immediately started flowing out!

Little Willow laughed heartily behind him, completely unlike the gentle and charming girl she was when they first met...

Is she really that bad at judging people?

Yuanlu is like this, Taosu is like this, Cuiyun is like this... and Xiaoliu is like this too!

And Fu Yuan...

"Little Willow, let me do it!" A familiar and deep voice sounded at the door.

Just as Zhengzheng thought of Fu Yuan, Fu Yuan actually showed up!

Xiao Liu let go, and Zhengzheng used the soup bowl to quickly clean the rotten food off her face.

When the spoiled food touched her wound, Zhengzheng felt another wave of pain!

Zhengzheng clutched her wound and cried out, hoping to receive even a simple, not-so-gentle, greeting.

But there was nothing there... Fu Yuan leaned against the doorway, quietly watching her.

"Have you had enough of acting?" Fu Yuan asked calmly when he saw that she had cried until she had no strength left.

“I’m really in pain, I’m really suffering, and you actually think I’m just acting?”

"If it were Fu Luan, whom you cherish in the palm of your hand, being forced into a dog bowl;

"And I ate rotten soup and rotten rice..." Zhengzheng didn't finish her sentence before dodging to the side, covering her face and waiting for the slap that was about to come.

But there was nothing there...

Fu Yuan did not get angry as usual when she humiliated Fu Luan.

"You've always been like this since you were little, always wanting to play the weak and vulnerable;"

"You have to make a big fuss about every little thing so that the whole family knows, and everyone's attention is focused on you."

Do you think I can't see it? If you don't touch A-Luan;

"I can treat you as my own sister and protect you for the rest of my life."

“But you shouldn’t have…” Fu Yuan’s expression changed when he mentioned his “A-Luan”!

Zhengzheng bit her lip, pondering a solution.

She was careless!

She and Fu Yuan grew up together in the Chang'an Marquis's mansion;

She only knew that Fu Yuan was in love with Fu Luan, but how come she didn't realize that he had already seen through her true colors?

"Brother likes Fu Luan, doesn't he?" Zhengzheng chuckled.

Fu Yuan glanced at her but did not respond.

Zhengzheng seized the opportunity and said, "You like her, but she's only interested in marrying into wealth—"

"Is my brother going to hit me again? Don't worry, let me finish!"

"You like her, but she only likes the princes who can bring her wealth and status."

“From Yuanlu to Yuanjiu, and maybe even Yuanjia… Brother, how long do you plan to wait like this?”

"His Majesty has already bestowed a marriage upon the Prince of Yan. Are you willing to watch your beloved lie in someone else's bed?"

Seeing that Fu Yuan's expression softened slightly, Zheng Zheng knew that her plan was about 80% successful!

“I have some ‘good stuff’ in my room, brother, why don’t you give it to her to use?”

"Once the deed is done, even with an imperial decree in hand, I'm afraid the Prince of Yan will find it difficult to marry a woman who has slept with his own brother!"