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

Fu Luan arrived at the Prince of Yan's residence as if it were empty; not a single gatekeeper dared to stop her. She had barely settled into the main hall when she heard a familiar voice behind her, "A-Luan!"

Before Fu Luan could turn around, she felt her skirt being tugged, and upon closer listening, she could hear sobbing. "Nuan Nuan?"

When Nuannuan heard its former owner call it, it nuzzled her head even more affectionately.

"After Nuannuan came back to my side, she couldn't see you and she was so worried! She not only ate and drank very little and lost a lot of weight, but even her fur became dull! When she was with you, you took very good care of her;

"Why don't you take it back and continue to raise it?" Yuan Jiu's face was pale and his eyes were dark, it was obvious that he hadn't had a proper rest in a long time.

How could Fu Luan not see Nuan Nuan's unusual behavior, and how could she not know that Yuan Jiu missed her terribly?

But she still said cruelly, "Nuan Nuan is lovable, and I like it very much, but it is an owner's cat after all!"

"I want to have a cat. I can buy one anywhere, but I can't find one anywhere. Why should I adopt someone else's cat? Get out of here!"

Fu Luan lowered its head and shouted loudly; Nuan Nuan, who had been yelled at by its beloved owner, felt extremely aggrieved. Instead of leaving, it moved its paws up and grabbed Fu Luan's leg!

Yuan Jiu sighed, "Ah Luan, you're angry with me, so why make things difficult for a cat by indirectly criticizing me?"

Fu Luan sneered, "Then why does Your Highness the Prince of Yan make things difficult for your own sister? Is it simply because she doesn't like your concubine?"

Yuan Jiu gazed at Fu Luan with a melancholy expression. "Ah Luan, are you talking about Rui'er's marriage to the emperor? She is a princess of the Great Wei, receiving a salary from the court and being supported by the people."

"She eats the emperor's food and bears the emperor's worries; what's wrong with sending her to marry a foreign ruler?"

Fu Luan said coldly, "If a princess enjoys the court's salary and then wants to marry into a foreign land to help the king share his burdens, what about the prince?"

"You should know that even the least favored prince receives a salary that is several times or even dozens of times higher than that of a favored princess!"

"Why don't you and your brothers go to 'serve the court' instead of sending Princess Chun'an, who has never been favored by the emperor since childhood, to a marriage alliance?"

"Xiao Jiu, you once said that if you were to inherit the throne, you would not allow women to be married off to foreign powers..."

Yuan Jiu raised an eyebrow slightly and said, "That's right, I did say that. But so what?"

“Ah Luan also said she liked me, wanted to marry me, and would help me return to the Eastern Palace, but now she is about to become my ‘Empress Dowager’… You want me to keep my promise, but what about you?”

"Your Highness's position as Crown Prince is no longer something for an outsider like me to interfere with! Now that you have Fu Jin, why worry about not being able to return to the Eastern Palace? It's just a matter of time!"

"As for the others... I like Xiao Jiu, who has loved me since childhood, not the Prince of Yan, who secretly had another woman's child."

"I want to marry Xiao Jiu, who can ask the Emperor for my hand without hesitation, not the Prince of Yan who hesitates and doesn't know who to choose!"

“You think you have the right to choose, but I, Fu Luan, will never be the one waiting to be sold!” Fu Luan laughed.

This smile, so calm and serene, accentuated her stunning beauty, yet also revealed a resolute and desolate chill!

Yuan Jiu choked up and said, "Really? Then why can Father Emperor do it? Why can't I, who made Anagui pregnant, but Father Emperor, who has more than twenty children, do it?"

"Why can't I dismiss your concubines, but my father, who has three palaces, six courtyards, and seventy-two concubines, can?"

Fu Luan sneered, "To dismiss my concubines? Your Highness, you're really joking! Everyone knows you dismissed your concubines to please my sister, that new 'eldest daughter of the Fu family'."

"Even so, you still managed to protect Anagui and the child in her womb, sparing her the suffering of wandering outside!"

"When we were together before, she never even held an engagement banquet for me; but when she came, the banquet lasted for three whole days!"

“When you were with me, you treated your concubines like precious jewels, and wouldn’t let me touch them; but now that she’s here, you can get rid of them whenever you want!”

"You treat me like this, what more do you expect from me?"

Yuan Jiu blinked her wet, dewy eyes, as if grasping at a lifeline, "If I hold a belated engagement banquet for you, will you come back to me?"

"As long as you like it, let alone three days, even thirty days or three months, my Prince Yan's Mansion can afford it!"

Fu Luan chuckled. How come she had never noticed before how naive her Xiao Jiu was?

That's right. It's precisely because of his naivety that he was slandered, framed, and easily seduced by other women...

"Xiao Jiu—Your Highness Prince Yan, you just said that I will soon become your 'Empress Dowager'. How will you hold an engagement banquet for me?"

"I have already spoken with the Emperor about Princess Chun'an's marriage proposal. From now on, no matter who submits a memorial, it will not be approved!"

"Great Wei is now a wealthy and powerful nation, at the height of its power, and holds a high position in negotiations with the Western Regions. Why should we send our princess to marry a foreign prince? As long as I, Fu Luan, am alive, no one from Great Wei will be sent to marry a foreign prince!"

"I think this terrible idea came from either Fu Jin or your little princess from the Western Regions!" Fu Luan narrowed her eyes.

Yuan Jiu stared at Fu Luan, her eyes cold and distant. "Father really listens to you! How come I never noticed before that A-Luan is so good at pleasing the Emperor?"

He looked Fu Luan up and down, a bitter feeling welling up inside him. "Father must have tasted Fu Luan's soft and fragrant body quite a bit..."

Before he could finish speaking, Fu Luan raised his hand to slap him.

Yuan Jiu smiled bitterly, "Is A-Luan going to hit me? Well, I do deserve to be hit... No matter what wrong I've done, A-Luan has never hit me."

"Now I'm standing here for you to beat me to your heart's content. When you're done, come back to me, and we'll discuss the things we didn't finish discussing in the Sixing Temple prison, okay?"

Fu Luan gently lowered his hand, frowning as he said, "What happened in prison? I don't remember..."

Yuan Jiu answered softly, "A-Luan once made a bet with me that I would one day return to the Eastern Palace..."

Fu Luan pondered for a moment, then smiled and said, "I wondered what it was, but it's just this? With Fu Jin here, Your Highness's return to the Eastern Palace is just around the corner! It seems that I am the one who wins this 'bet'!"

Yuan Jiu forced a smile and said, "Yes... A-Luan always manages to control the whole situation and is always the one who wins! So what does A-Luan want after winning the bet?"

Fu Luan sneered, "I only want a little Jiu, a complete Jiu that belongs only to me. What a pity..."

Before Fu Luan could finish speaking, and before Yuan Jiu could refute, the chief clerk of the Prince of Yan's residence rushed over to report: "Greetings, Your Highness, greetings... Lady Qi."

"Your Highness, the eldest daughter of the Fu family has been arguing with the concubine. The concubine says she's so upset she's threatened her pregnancy and wants Your Highness to come..."