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

"What does this mean, brother?" Fu Luan glanced into the courtyard and asked Fu Yuan.

He didn't come empty-handed this time; he had all the gifts that Fu Luan had given to Cuiyun as Empress carried back to Changqiu Palace!

Fu Yuan said coldly, "She's pregnant, so it's fine that the Emperor bestows gifts upon her, but why are you getting involved?! I never knew that a maidservant could receive gifts from both the Emperor and the Empress at the same time! Cuiyun is truly blessed!"

"Brother, that's strange! Isn't the child in her belly my and the Emperor's niece or nephew? What's wrong with an aunt sending a few things? You're bringing them back untouched, which makes me, the Empress, lose face!"

"Besides, Cuiyun and Liuyun are both maids who married the young master, and they are both pregnant. If only Liuyun is rewarded and not Cuiyun, my family will not only say I am biased, but they will also look down on you!"

"Fourth Brother has already brought Liuyun into the Marquis of Jimo's mansion in a grand manner. Liuyun is now the 'Lady of the Marquis of Jimo.' What about your Cuiyun?" Fu Luan laughed, but in a strange way.

Fu Yuan snorted, "Liu Yun is loyal to Fourth Brother and never abandons him. How can Cui Yun compare to her?"

"Your Majesty, I advise you not to waste your efforts. I'm afraid His Majesty... will not agree to me marrying a woman like Cuiyun!"

Fu Luan paused for a moment, then smiled and said, "'Such a woman'? What kind of woman? What happened to Cuiyun?"

"Since you despise her so much, why did you let her conceive your child in the first place? As your sister and as the Empress, I must offer you this advice:"

"If we marry her now while she's still a little pregnant, it will be a good look for both the adults and the children. If we don't marry her now, are we going to wait until her belly gets so big that she can't fit into her wedding dress and people will point fingers at us?"

"Or should we wait until the child grows up and is gossiped about as a 'bastard'? Just say the word, and I'll take care of things with the Emperor..."

Fu Yuan said with a smirk, "You? Yes... Ever since the Emperor's wedding, he has stayed in your Changqiu Palace every night, wishing he could stay for even a moment longer!"

"Everyone says the women of the Fu family are seductive; if Mother is like that, then my dear sister is naturally..."

Before Fu Yuan could finish speaking, he was slapped across the face by Fu Luan!

Fu Luan frowned and widened her phoenix eyes, saying, "Fu Yuan, you can say whatever you want about me or the Fu family, but you have no right to talk about my mother!"

"She raised you before she was even married, enduring so much scorn! And yet you speak of her like this, calling her a woman who disregarded her reputation and raised you from childhood!"

Fu Yuan was slapped by his sister, but he wasn't angry; he simply wiped the blood from the corner of his mouth and said calmly:

"You always tell me to marry Cuiyun, but have you ever thought about how the situation would change if I married her and she gave birth to a daughter?"

Fu Luan remained silent for a long time. Fu Yuan was right!

The "Fu family" mentioned in the ancestral precepts of the Great Wei Dynasty generally refers to the lineage that contributed to the founding of the Great Wei Dynasty.

By the time of Madam Fu's generation, it was the "Chang'an Fu Family" where she and her siblings lived; and in the "Chang'an Fu Family", Madam Fu, as the head of the Fu family, was the first to give birth to a daughter; so Yu Weiyan used tricks to take advantage of the loophole, and this daughter became the "eldest legitimate daughter".

Now that there are six siblings, Fu Luan and Fu Yuan are the head of the family. Even if Fu Ze has a "legitimate eldest daughter" first, the "main lineage" must take precedence. If Fu Yuan does not have a legitimate eldest daughter by the time the child reaches marriageable age, then his daughter will be the legitimate eldest daughter and be married to the Crown Prince!

According to the ancestral precepts of the Great Wei Dynasty, as long as there is an "eldest daughter of the Fu family", a crown prince must be established; and the power to decide which prince is the crown prince is still in the hands of Fu Luan.

Although she is no longer the eldest daughter of the Fu family, she is the current Empress; the Emperor himself has said that whichever prince she adopts will be the next Crown Prince...

As for Fu Jin, whom she had recruited to impersonate the eldest daughter in order to help Xiao Jiu become the crown prince, she had already disappeared without a trace!

Fu Luan smiled and said, "Alright... If you 'get a daughter with one request,' then I will adopt one of the princes to be the crown prince."

"From now on... we'll not only be siblings, but also in-laws! Wouldn't it be great to strengthen our bond?"

Fu Yuan sneered, "What a fine 'in-law'! Aren't you afraid I'll expose all your past plans, especially that imposter's identity!"

Fu Luan's face darkened as she said, "Brother is probably going to be disappointed! Fu Jin... she won't appear before us anymore!"

After Xiao Jiu died, Fu Jin came to see her once, wanting Fu Luan to use the Empress's power to help her obtain the title of "Queen of Yan".

"Your Majesty, I can see that His Majesty loves you and is willing to give you anything! I have served His Highness the Prince of Yan for a few days, how can I let that barbarian woman become the Queen of Yan?"

"Please, for this reason, help me! I will do my best to deal with that barbarian woman and her unborn child in the Prince of Yan's mansion!" That day, Fu Jin knelt on the ground, crying and begging the Empress of Great Wei for a favor.

Fu Luan spat, “Serve? You served her so well that you practically killed Xiao Jiu! Back then, the Emperor intended to bestow a marriage upon you and Xiao Jiu, and the Court of Imperial Sacrifices even chose the date, but you complained that the title of ‘Queen’ was not as respectable as the title of ‘Crown Princess’.”

"Because Xiao Jiu and I only had an arranged marriage before, without an engagement banquet, you always tried to outdo me, insisting on getting engaged first and waiting for Xiao Jiu to become the Crown Prince before getting married! Now look what's happened, Xiao Jiu is gone, and I didn't even point out your fault, but you just delivered yourself to my door!"

"Ah Jin, you seem to really enjoy offering yourself up... Didn't you used to be so eager to move into the Prince of Yan's mansion before you were even married? You... you don't really think you're surnamed 'Fu,' do you? You're just my substitute! You were when we were kids, and you're even more so now!"

"Anagui is, after all, Xiaojiu's concubine, and now she is pregnant. It is only reasonable for her to be elevated to queen because of her son. I would like to ask you, though:"

"You never married Xiao Jiu when he was alive, and now that he's dead, what right do you have to be his wife? Are you trying to arrange a posthumous marriage???"

Fu Jin originally intended to use her identity to coerce Fu Luan into fulfilling her wish; however, upon hearing the words "ghost marriage," she was so frightened that she fell to the ground and scrambled away from Chang'an, never daring to mention asking for a title again!

After hearing the whole story, Fu Yuan pondered and said, "So what? Even if she's gone, I can still..."

Fu Luan coldly interrupted, "Do you think the Emperor doesn't know that Fu Jin is an imposter?"

"Oh? Did you tell him? Ah Luan has been married twice, but she hasn't improved at all!"

“You still value your husband so much; even at the risk of deceiving the emperor, you still want to tell him everything!” Fu Yuan raised an eyebrow.

“No, not really. For example…” Fu Luan tiptoed and whispered in her stepbrother’s ear, “I never mentioned that you sent assassins to kill the Emperor at the horse racing event a few years ago!”