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

"What nonsense is Your Majesty spouting? You mean... that back then, in order to be ennobled and appointed as a general, I first sent someone to assassinate Your Majesty, and then pretended to save Your Majesty in order to gain merit, is that right?"

“Assassinating the Emperor is a serious crime of treason, punishable by the extermination of nine generations of one’s family! And you are among my nine generations of family!” Fu Yuan said with a sly smile, his eyes narrowed.

When his beloved revealed the secret he had kept hidden in his heart for many years, he couldn't help but wonder where Fu Luan had learned all this.

The assassination attempt, his mother's dying words... what other secrets did she know about him? His background?

Fu Luan said coldly, "Whether it's nonsense or not, brother knows in his heart. After so many years, I have no intention of pursuing it further."

"Given my brother's methods and style of doing things, all the evidence must have already vanished. Even if I wanted to find out the truth, I wouldn't know where to begin!"

She paused, then said seriously, "I just want to remind you, brother: if you continue to plot against the Emperor, I will not stand idly by!"

"Whether as his wife or as the Empress of Great Wei, I will stand by the Emperor's side!"

"Between me and the Emperor, you would choose the Emperor, wouldn't you?" Fu Yuan murmured.

Fu Luan didn't say it explicitly, but instead revealed that strange smile again, "I once chose you too..."

Fu Yuan sneered, "Because I didn't take you with me, you want to choose a man about the same age as my father; because I didn't take you with me, you want me to marry a maid to humiliate me, is that it?"

Fu Luan smiled and said, "The child in that maid's belly is also your child, isn't it?"

Fu Yuan snorted, "No need for Your Majesty's reminder! Since Your Majesty doesn't think it's a disgrace for the Fu family head to marry a maid, I will follow the imperial decree and marry Cuiyun; since Your Majesty is loyal to her husband, I will also be a good husband who loves his wife! Farewell!"

Fu Yuan carried back all the gifts from outside the palace untouched; a few days later, news came from outside the palace that "the Marquis of Yongning is about to get married," and Cui Yun naturally went to Changqiu Palace to thank Fu Luan.

"I owe everything I have today to Your Majesty the Empress! I will obey Your Majesty's orders as before..." Cuiyun knelt and kowtowed three times to Fuluan, her heart filled with endless gratitude!

"You should thank your father, not me. You're about to become the Lady of Yongning Marquis, so stop calling me 'this servant'!" Fu Luan said coldly, tossing down a piece of paper.

The paper floated to Cuiyun's side. She picked it up with trembling hands and looked at Fuluan in confusion—this was her indenture!

"Before I entered the palace, I asked your father what his wish was. He said... his family had been slaves for generations, slaves marrying slaves, and then having more slave children..."

“He doesn’t want his only daughter to be a slave or servant again! You are free now. You didn’t marry Fu Yuan as a slave, do you understand?” Fu Luan sighed.

Whenever she sees Cuiyun, she remembers the first time she met Cuiyun, with Xiaojiu standing beside her, but now she is all alone!

At that time, she thought that Cuiyun was the same as her—unfavored by her father, so she wanted to escape from the Marquis of Chang'an’s mansion and go to serve Fuling, who was then in the Prince of Yan’s mansion.

But Ah Song's words made her realize she was wrong! Cuiyun's father loved her very much...

"I know, I know!" Cuiyun folded the indenture and kowtowed to Fuluan more than a dozen times.

“Sigh, I’ve already told you, you’re not a servant…” Fu Luan shook her head.

Originally, we were still in the period of mourning for Yu Weiyan, but the Emperor said that the wedding of the Emperor and Empress was free of all taboos. So, Fu Ze married Liu Yun before, and now Fu Yuan has married Cui Yun.

Not long after the happy occasion, the funeral came – the body of Prince Yuanjiu of Yan had been laid to rest for forty-nine days and was finally to be buried.

However, the court was in an uproar over whether he should be buried as the Crown Prince or the Prince of Yan...