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

Fu Luan raised his chin and asked with a smile, "Your subordinate offended me, so you must punish him severely."

"Since your princess has 'offended' me, I wonder how the general should 'deal with' her?"

"Ah? This..." Yarkand was about to reply when a palace servant rushed over.

"Oh! Miss Fu, what are you doing here? The Emperor is looking for the 'Chief'!"

"Please come with me to the Zhaoyang Palace to meet the Emperor quickly, don't keep him waiting!" The palace servant was sweating profusely with anxiety.

Fu Luan glanced at Yarkand, "General Meng is too modest. I hope that one day, the two of us can fight each other on horseback, fair and square!"

After Fu Luan finished speaking, he followed the palace servants to meet the Emperor.

After the horse race, the emperor's carriage moved to Zhaoyang Palace, and the princes and nobles who had watched the race naturally followed.

"I never expected... that the winner of the horse racing competition in our great Wei Dynasty would be a little girl!" The Emperor said sarcastically.

But anyone could hear the undisguised praise in those words;

Anyone could see that the Emperor's eyes were full of admiration for Fu Luan.

"Your Majesty is too kind... I am blessed by Your Majesty's great fortune."

"My victory was merely a fluke, a stroke of luck." Fu Luan knelt in the Zhaoyang Palace, awaiting the "reward" she had been hoping for since her rebirth.

She wasn't worried about Yuan Lu, much less about the Emperor taking his anger out on her because of Yuan Lu's broken leg.

In his previous life, Yuan Lu fell off his horse and broke his leg in that secluded place, and in the end, the cause was never found out.

When the Emperor learned that Yuan Lu had broken his leg, he not only failed to express any concern, but also failed to do so.

On the contrary, they felt that this good-for-nothing son had disgraced the Great Wei Dynasty.

After all, at this time in his previous life, he was still the Crown Prince.

More importantly, the emperor never liked Yuanlu.

If it were the eighteenth prince, who was just born this year, let alone having a broken leg;

Even a minor cut on his finger would likely keep the emperor up all night.

The Emperor laughed and said, "If it's all thanks to my good fortune, why did Great Wei fail to win the championship in the previous times? It's clear that my good fortune wasn't enough..."

"Your good fortune is indeed waning... you only have three years left to live!" Fu Luan thought to himself.

Seeing that Fu Luan remained silent, the Emperor realized that he had said too much.

He then asked with a smile, "According to the rules, the winner of the horse racing competition can make a wish to me and to the Great Wei."

"Fu Luan, since you are the leader, what is your wish?"

"As long as it does not violate the ancestral precepts and laws of the Great Wei, and does not involve the safety of the Great Wei territory, I can grant your request."

"So? Do you want to become a princess of the Great Wei, a first-rank imperial consort, or seek official titles for your father and brothers?"

Fu Luan had been planning this for a long time, and in order to practice riding skills, he had fallen off his horse countless times.

Now I can finally speak my mind openly and honestly.

The Zhaoyang Palace was extremely quiet, so quiet that Fu Luan could almost hear his own heartbeat echoing within the golden hall.

"Your Majesty, none of this is what I wish for... I hope Your Majesty can return Xiao Jiu to her..."

"The Ninth Prince has been exonerated and is now free." Fu Luan kowtowed again, performing the full kneeling ceremony before the Emperor.

After Fu Luan finished speaking, the hall remained silent; but after a moment, it seemed as if a pot had exploded in chaos.

"This, this, this..."

"Wasn't she the one who stood by and watched, letting the Sixth Prince accuse the Ninth Prince of raping the princess who was to be married off for political reasons?"

"Yeah, why pretend to be a good person now?"

"That's not how it works... I heard that the sixth prince is having an affair with her half-sister, something improper..."

Every sarcastic remark from both sides went straight into Fu Luan's ears, but she didn't mind.

This was something she had wronged Xiao Jiu in her past life; since she had decided to make amends, she had anticipated these discussions.

She had no intention of hiding, nor did she intend to completely absolve herself of responsibility.

Even with the Emperor in such high spirits, he couldn't help but frown upon hearing Fu Luan's words: "Fu Luan, have you thought this through?"

"In all these years of horse racing, you've been the only champion from Great Wei. You were, after all, a royal daughter-in-law for a time;"

"I am somewhat familiar with your horsemanship. To have reached such a level in such a short time, you must have endured a great deal of hardship."

"Having endured so much suffering, did you only end up benefiting others? I don't mean to expose your shortcomings;

"Just reminding you, you can only make one wish, there's no need to waste it on useless people!"

"Since the death of the King of Qi, more than seventy cities in the State of Qi have been without a ruler for many years;

"Why don't you ask for the title of 'Princess of Qi' for yourself? You'll receive two thousand shi of rice every year without lifting a finger. What do you think?"

The Zhaoyang Palace, which had just calmed down, suddenly erupted into chaos again.

"The State of Qi? Is it the State of Qi?"

"Yes, it's the State of Qi! And it's a real fiefdom of Qi, not just a nominal one!"

"Since the founding of the Great Wei Dynasty, the Qi Kingdom has never granted a fiefdom to a princess of a different surname..."

“It’s not just ‘different surnames,’ even legitimate princesses don’t receive this treatment!”

"Tsk tsk, it's so good to be pretty..."

"What nonsense are you talking about! If you're capable of winning the championship, you can also possess more than seventy cities in the State of Qi!"

It should be noted that those who can watch the horse racing event are all high-ranking officials and nobles of the Great Wei Dynasty, not ignorant commoners.

Princesses of the Great Wei Dynasty were divided into those with honorary titles and those with actual fiefdoms.

Among princesses with fiefdoms, the "Princess of the State" was the highest-ranking.

Among the "national princesses", the princesses of Qi were the most noble.

The State of Qi possessed over seventy cities and numerous salt-producing areas, making it incredibly wealthy. No wonder the nobles and princes present were envious.

At this moment, Fu Luan was thinking about the Emperor's words, "making wedding clothes for others."

Ha, what a perfect example of "doing the work for someone else's benefit"!

Wasn't everything in the past life just a wedding dress for that despicable couple, Yuan Lu and Fu Zhengzheng?

Since we've already done it once, what's wrong with doing it again? Besides, this "wedding dress" originally belonged to Xiao Jiu...

Fu Luan said solemnly, "Your Majesty, I have thought it through: I am willing to exchange the title of champion for Xiao Jiu's freedom!"

"Good, good, good! Well done, Miss Fu!" The Emperor laughed coldly, then angrily threw the teacup to the ground!

Zhaoyang Palace was the main hall where the Great Wei held important banquets, and even the carpets on the floor were made of gold and jade.

The teacup fell onto the long velvet carpet, a tribute from the Western Regions, but it didn't break at all;

There wasn't even a sound, only the faint scent of tea spreading across the blanket.

The Zhaoyang Palace returned to calm in an instant. Seeing the emperor's rage, the nobles at the banquet all left their seats and knelt down.

He did kneel, but some people couldn't help but gloat and want to see Fu Luan and even the entire Fu family of Chang'an make a fool of themselves.

However, some people were worried that she had offended the emperor.

For example, Yarkand.

Just when everyone thought the emperor was furious, he laughed loudly and said, "I only accidentally broke a teacup, why are all of you kneeling on the ground?"

"Get up now! As for Fu Luan, you...you're very good."

"Xiao Jiu went from being a member of the imperial family to a prisoner, and everyone took advantage of his misfortune."

"Only you still think of him, even disregarding your own safety and honor, and giving up your position as a princess of Qi, to save him from prison."

"Since that's the case, I will grant your wish. However..."