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

Fu Luan looked down at Anagui and said calmly, "How 'noble' is the little princess who has been pampered by the thirty-six kingdoms of the Western Regions since childhood?"

"Moreover, you are now a concubine of the Prince of Yan and pregnant. How could you possibly kneel and pay respects to me, a mere fourth-rank Lady of Langya? I cannot accept such an honor!"

Despite saying that, she did not send anyone to help her up. Instead, she sat down in the seat of honor and began to drink tea.

"Han people are bullying us!"

"Yes, Princess! Why don't we go back instead of having to put up with her attitude?"

"I don't know how high the sky is!"

The maids from the Western Regions chattered amongst themselves, but Anagui waved her hand, and they finally stopped.

Anagui held back her tears and said, "Ever since His Majesty issued the decree to annul the engagement between the Prince and the Princess, the Prince has been unable to eat or drink, and has been completely distracted."

"He showed no interest in the upcoming engagement banquet, nor even in his impending return to the Eastern Palace, and even the child in my womb..."

“I dare not say that I understand him; but he was not like this when I was about to marry the Princess!”

“He looked forward to you becoming his bride every day, not like he is now…”

Fu Luan calmly interrupted, "This is a private matter of your Prince Yan's residence. There's no need to bring it to the Marquis of Chang'an's residence and tell it to me specifically."

"Your husband won't eat or drink tea, that's something you wives and concubines should figure out to solve, why are you coming to me?"

"Don't worry, Consort... After you safely deliver this child, you can perform that naked dance for him, and he'll be happy! Show the guest out!"

Anagui never expected that Fuluan would bring up in public the matter of her dancing in private to seduce Yuanjiu.

She looked around. Although the servants of the Marquis's mansion did not dare to criticize her in public, their eyes still held a look of disdain and contempt.

Anagui remained kneeling, biting her lip, and said, "If Your Highness is angry with His Highness because of me and the child in my womb, then it seems that I am the one in the wrong..."

"When I first came to Chang'an, I was indeed ignorant and offended the Princess. Now, I kneel before you as the 'Consort of the Prince of Yan'!"

"As long as Your Highness can restore the Prince to normal, I and my child... are at Your Highness's mercy!"

Hua Luo sneered, "My lady is really not in a position to interfere in the affairs of the Prince of Yan's household. Concubine, please leave!"

"Please come, Concubine!" the maids said, crowding around her.

When Anagui saw that her "self-inflicted injury" ploy was useless, she had no choice but to get up and leave.

She walked to the door and turned back to say, "Your Highness, if you change your mind, you may come to the Prince of Yan's residence at any time."

"You rejected my request today, thinking you were disrespecting me, but in the end, only Your Highness will be hurt, won't you?"

“You feel we have wronged you regarding my affair with the prince; but at the alliance ceremony, the prince also shielded you from the table with his own flesh and blood.”

"I hope that Your Highness...will not regret your decision today!"

Hua Luo spat at Anagui's retreating figure, "Shameless! She still has the nerve to mention the alliance ceremony! If she hadn't pushed me out that day, the Prince of Yan wouldn't have ended up like this..."

Seeing that Fu Luan's face darkened, she shut her mouth and followed her to the boat in her backyard.

"Fu Yuan?" Fu Luan lifted the curtain and saw Fu Yuan inside.

Fu Yuan laughed and said, "What, can't I ride in my own boat? You've come at a bad time."

"The boatwomen have all gone to patrol the lake in their boats, leaving only this one boat; if we wait for the other boats to return, it will take at least half an hour!"

"But you came at just the right time; I had just finished brewing the tea when you walked in..."

Fu Luan sighed and sat down on the boat.

The boat glided slowly across the lake, and Fu Yuan personally poured tea for his younger sister. "I plan to... return the Fu family and everything I inherited from Mother to you!"

Fu Luan smiled bitterly and said, "What, are you trying to comfort me because you know I can't marry the Prince of Yan?"

Fu Yuan sighed, "If I had known earlier that you would not be bound by the 'Great Wei Ancestral Instructions' one day, why would I have bothered to plan all of this?"

"I'll reclaim my original surname, and you..."

Fu Luan said solemnly, "Since you remember what I said to you in the carriage, you should remember 'the carriage incident and the carriage' even more."

"You've done a good job as the head of the Fu family, and most of the Fu family members trust you. If I were to take over now, there would be a lot of turmoil. Why bother?"

"What's yours is mine, and it doesn't matter whether you or I take charge of the Fu family!"

"As long as the Fu family remains in the hands of the Fu family, Mother's efforts have not been in vain! But there are two things I need to ask you..."

"You want to confirm whether I told the Prince of Yan what happened in the carriage, right?" Fu Yuan looked at his sister with amusement.

Fu Luan nodded. "Although I've already broken off the engagement with him, it's rather strange that he brought it up for no reason..."

Fu Luan frowned and said, "That's right, I had the coachman tell him that night, on the night of the alliance ceremony, you and I made love in the carriage on our way home!"

"If he truly loves you and wants to marry you, he wouldn't even believe it, let alone 'care' about it!"

“Ah Luan, it’s alright if you don’t choose me; but the Prince of Yan… he really can’t be considered your ‘good man’!”

Fu Luan smiled bitterly again: "Do you know who was the last person to say something like that? It was Yuan Lu..."

Fu Yuan sighed, "Should I explain to the Prince of Yan that I had no physical intimacy with you..."

Fu Luan shook her head. "I just want to understand things for myself. Whether he knows, what he thinks, or how he sees me is no longer important!"

She drank the strong tea in front of her in one gulp.

She is now free, but she doesn't know: if Fu Yuan hadn't rejected her before, or if they hadn't had that passionate night in her past life, would she have accepted him?

Just as she was about to bring up the "second matter," Fu Yuan raised an eyebrow and said, "This 'second matter' must be referring to Cuiyun!"

“That’s right!” Fu Luan nodded. “In the end, I was the one who hired her to be Zhengzheng’s informant, and now she and you…”

"You saw her father, Asong, that time too... He was crippled by the fallen Eighth Prince;

"Although Fu Ling treated him, he still suffered a great deal! The Eighth Prince also testified before the Emperor on behalf of... the Prince of Yan."

Fu Yuan sneered, "So, Lady Langya, you rejected me because of my affair with Cuiyun?"

Fu Luan smiled and said, "Brother, that's a strange question! If we're going to get to the bottom of it, it was you who rejected me first, wasn't it?"

"Come to think of it, when I rejected you in the carriage, I didn't even know that our family had a Cuiyun!"

"She only asked me to act as a matchmaker, to connect her with someone. She said:"

"'As long as I can stay by the side of Marquis Yongning for the rest of my life, I would be willing to be just a maidservant...'"

Before Fu Luan could finish speaking, Fu Yuan pinned her down.

"She was willing to be a concubine's maid, but what about you? I will tell the Prince of Yan: what happened in the carriage before was a lie;

“But what happened on the ship today is true!” Fu Yuan ripped open her blouse and leaned in to kiss her.

A gentle breeze on the lake lifted a corner of the curtains, and then brushed against the exposed skin of the most beautiful woman in the Great Wei Dynasty...