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

Fu Luan glanced at the speaker and saw that it was Consort Tao who had spoken rudely to her at the Prince of Yan's residence—but now she had been demoted to "concubine" by Xiao Jiu for her inappropriate words and deeds!

Fu Luan sneered, "Oh, so Consort Tao can now call me 'Madam' and even uses such an honorific title as 'you' to address me? That's quite a surprise!"

"You! Humph!" Consort Tao was someone who "wouldn't come to the palace without a reason," and she had already been extremely tolerant of Fu Luan's courteous manners. Now that Fu Luan had spoken sarcastically, she was even less willing to endure it!

But the concubines who accompanied her were pulling at her sleeves and giving her meaningful glances, so she had no choice but to swallow her anger!

Fu Luan put away her smile and said seriously, "I say, everyone, why don't we go back now? I've made it very clear time and again that I have no say in matters concerning the Prince of Yan's residence. You should go find whoever you need to find."

"As for your return to the manor to continue being concubines, that's your private matter. In short, it has nothing to do with me, Fu Luan! To put it bluntly..."

Fu Luan revealed a mysterious smile, "All of you here... must have done a lot of things to offend the Prince of Yan when he was imprisoned, right?"

“If the Prince of Yan truly wanted to summon you back, it would only be a matter of sending someone to deliver a message. Why would he make you show your faces and beg me, an outsider?”

"He wanted to use you to control me, which is a good strategy, but unfortunately... he used the wrong bargaining chip!"

"My daughters suffered all sorts of disrespect and scorn at the Prince of Yan's residence a while ago. I haven't even settled that score with you yet, and here you are, coming to my door!"

Fu Luan glared angrily, then slammed his fist on the table and stood up, startling the younger concubines!

Before Consort Tao could refute her point, a maid rushed in to report, "My lady, we have a distinguished guest!"

The maid was quick-witted; she glanced left and right, and Fu Luan understood immediately. "Everyone has seen it, right? I have guests at my residence, so I won't keep you company!"

When the concubines saw that Fu Luan had given the order to leave, they had no choice but to take their leave, and there was nothing they could do after arriving empty-handed; only Consort Tao was scolded by Fu Luan and could not retort, so she stomped her feet in anger!

When Fu Luan went to the backyard, she met a "distinguished guest," who turned out to be Yuan Rui, and Yuan Rui's eyes were swollen like walnuts from crying!

"The princess is crying like this, does she not like me, her future 'mother'?" Fu Luan joked.

She assumed that Yuan Rui and Xiao Jiu had just had another fight and were coming to her to complain, so she didn't take it to heart. But then Yuan Rui cried out, "I don't want to go to the Western Regions for a political marriage!"

Upon hearing the words "marriage alliance," Fu Luan immediately became serious.

"Why another marriage alliance? What happened at the horse racing event last time..." Fu Luan wondered.

In the horse racing tournament of his previous life, General Yarkand of the Western Regions won the championship and used the championship to exchange for a princess of the Great Wei for a marriage alliance, which led to Yuan Rui's sudden death.

After that, until Fu Luan was turned into a human pig and died tragically in the stable, there was no more news of a marriage alliance!

In this life, she became the victor, and a traitor emerged from the Western Regions, making her utterly unqualified to marry the princess of the Great Wei!

Even the emperor would never send his daughter to marry a foreign ruler when the Great Wei is in a strong position!

Yuan Rui continued to cry, "It was Ninth Brother... Ninth Brother proposed in court today that I be married off to secure peace for the people on the border of Great Wei!"

"What?! Xiao Jiu?" Fu Luan exclaimed in disbelief.

Yuan Rui nodded and continued crying, "It must have been that barbarian woman who instigated this! She married far away for a political alliance, and now she won't let me have a good life!"

"Ninth Brother is so infatuated with her that he doesn't even recognize his own family! He doesn't even want you anymore... Father actually said he'd consider it..."

Fu Luan sighed, "Princess, rest assured. You risked your life to lend me the token that day. I promised you that I would never let you suffer the pain of a marriage alliance!"

"As long as I, Fu Luan, am alive, I will not allow the princess to be married off to a distant land!"

Yuan Rui leaned on Fu Luan's shoulder and murmured, "I know... A Luan, my mother died early, and I used to be able to rely on Ninth Brother."

"Now he only has eyes for that woman, I can only rely on you! I knew men couldn't be trusted!"

Fu Luan couldn't help but chuckle. This little princess probably hadn't even held a man's hand before saying such things...

But despite the laughter, Fu Luan still treated this matter as a serious matter!

She entered the palace to meet the Emperor with Yuan Rui. How could the Emperor not know her intentions? He never wanted his daughter to be sent for a political marriage!

Now that the Empress, who is not yet married, has personally inquired about this matter, he is even less able to let Yuan Rui go! Only after receiving the Emperor's reply in person did Fu Luan and Yuan Rui feel at ease.

"Change course to the Prince of Yan's residence!" Fu Luan comforted Yuan Rui for a while; when leaving the palace, he ordered the coachman to turn around and head towards Xiao Jiu's home...