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

"Then I'll trouble you, Sister Physician, to help Xiao Wang change... Those idiots in the Imperial Medical Bureau are all sycophants who fawn over the powerful and bully the weak."

"Next time I see them, I'll skin them alive to bandage my legs! Ouch! Be gentle!" Yuan Lu was grumbling when Fu Luan and Fu Ling started to remove the burlap from his legs.

Fu Luan coldly stared at the bloodstains on his legs. Yuan Lu assumed she was disgusted and covered them with a piece of burlap that he had taken off.

He said sheepishly, "These scars are a bit ugly..."

Fu Luan sneered, "It's alright. We've been husband and wife for so long, what haven't I seen on you? Why are you only finding it disgusting now?"

"The most disgusting thing about you and Fu Zhengzheng is your heartlessness!"

"What's so great about a mere limp?" Fu Luan thought to herself with a sneer.

Compared to her past life where she was mutilated and turned into a human pig, Yuan Lu is now only at risk of becoming a cripple. It's too good for him!

He could have remained silent; but once he spoke, it reminded Fu Luan once again of the unbearable pain that no ordinary person could endure.

She took out a small bottle of medicine from Fu Ling's medicine box and said with a half-smile, "This bone-healing powder is a secret medicine of my Fu family, and it is never passed on to outsiders."

"If you apply it for 49 days, even a broken bone can be set back together!"

"Now that the hemp cloth on Your Highness's leg has been removed, the medicine that the imperial physician applied to you earlier is probably all stuck to that hemp cloth."

"Since Your Highness's injury was caused by me, I have no choice but to personally apply the medicine to Your Highness, what do you say?"

“Grandma, you…” Fu Ling looked at the medicine bottle, then at Fu Luan.

What Fu Luan was holding was not "Bone-Healing Powder" at all, but "Bone-Eroding Powder".

This medicine is extremely potent; once it comes into contact with the skin, it will cause excruciating pain.

If applied for an extended period during the spring, summer, and autumn seasons, it will attract poisonous insects that will devour its flesh and drink its blood.

The pain penetrated deep into the bone marrow... This is where the true name "Bone-Eroding Powder" comes from.

Fu Luan pouted and said, "Your Highness, you're not so lucky... Our Physician Fu Ling is reluctant to use this medicine on you!"

“I…” Fu Ling was about to explain when she immediately realized what she had said and replied, “It’s not that I’m being petty as a junior;

"But this bone-healing powder... is really rare, I'm afraid..."

Upon hearing that the Fu family's secret medicine could set broken bones, Yuan Lu immediately put on a fawning smile and said to Fu Ling:

“Sister Fuling, dear sister! No matter how much silver this medicine costs, I can afford it.”

"Give me this medicine as a reward!"

Fu Ling laughed and said, "This medicine... I'm afraid it's hard to buy even if you have money. It requires the tears of the mermaids from the South China Sea Kingdom as a medicinal ingredient!"

"My mother obtained one by chance many years ago and made this small bottle of it."

"But..."

Yuan Lu had assumed the medicine was hopeless when she hesitated earlier.

Now that she seemed to be changing her mind, he quickly put on a fawning expression and said, "Please enlighten me, Sister Healer..."

Fu Ling smiled and said, "I dare not accept the title 'Master'. Since Your Highness and my aunt have a past connection..."

"This medicine, which others can't buy even with money, I'm giving it to you as a gift!"

“Wife…” Yuan Lu stared pitifully at Fu Luan and the “bone-regenerating powder” in her hand.

Fu Luan smiled faintly, "Your Highness, you specifically asked me to help you apply the medicine, so let's not risk any mishaps..."

Yuan Lu hurriedly said, "Xiao Wang... oh dear... you'll have to bear all the consequences yourself!"

Fu Luan went through all that trouble just to hear Yuan Lu say those words.

If that's the case, then it's not that she, Fu Luan, harbored malicious intentions and deliberately tried to administer the bone-corroding powder to him;

Instead, it was Yuan Lu, that good-for-nothing, who begged her and Fu Ling to use this medicine.

Before Yuan Lu could finish speaking, Fu Luan opened the Bone-Corroding Powder and poured a third of it onto his rotting leg.

The moment the medicine touched his skin, Yuan Lu felt a cool sensation, followed by a burning pain.

"Grandma, you absolutely must not touch the Bone-Corroding Powder, not even a little bit!" Fu Ling put a coat on Fu Luan and whispered her instructions.

"It might hurt a little, Your Highness... you'll have to bear with it!" Fu Luan grinned mischievously as she vigorously rubbed the bone-corroding powder onto Yuan Lu's leg.

"Wife, be gentle... It hurts, it hurts so much! Stop! Ah!" Yuan Lu's screams were even worse than when Batu stepped on his ankle earlier.

If Fu Luan hadn't known the power of "Bone-Corroding Powder," he would have thought he was faking it.

"Stop! I told you to stop, didn't you hear me? Huh! Get out!" Yuan Lu's forehead was covered in cold sweat, and he couldn't care less about how this medicine could make his broken bones grow back.

He couldn't care less about his own need to rely on Fu Luan to "seize" back the position of Crown Prince and return to the Eastern Palace.

In his desperation, he slapped Fu Luan hard across the face...

Fu Luan's tears fell in large drops—shedding tears in front of others was something she would never have wanted in her past life.

But what's a few tears when it comes to revenge?

Since her rebirth, she has almost mastered the skill of "crying on cue".

"Our family's secret medicine is something many respectable members of the Fu family have never even seen! I'm only sharing it because we were husband and wife for a few days..."

"Your Highness insisted on using it, and now that I'm personally applying the medicine for you, you complain that it hurts."

"Fine, let the Imperial Physician serve the Prince his medicine!" Fu Luan threw her clothes on the ground and was about to leave when Yuan Lu grabbed her from behind.

"Honey, I was in a lot of pain just now, I didn't really mean for you to get out..."

"Wife, I didn't say anything when your horse trampled my leg, so why would I say anything just because of a little pain..." Yuan Lu was in so much pain;

But seeing that Fu Luan, the golden phoenix he had finally obtained, was about to run away, he had no choice but to endure the pain in his leg and put on this "good show" of deep affection.

If Yuan Lu were any smarter, he would have realized something was wrong—

He was howling and wailing inside the palace, but none of his attendants or servants came in to check on him.

Unfortunately, he wasn't very smart...

"Then, Your Highness, shall we continue administering this medicine?" Fu Luan's lips curled slightly upward, her smile as cold as frost, making even the undried tears on her face seem less out of place.

Yuan Lu quickly nodded, "Of course I'll go."

“Then Your Highness will have to bear the pain; if you make me ‘get out’ again, I really will…” Fu Luan smiled faintly, put on a new pair of handkerchiefs, and continued to apply medicine to Yuan Lu.

What else could Yuan Lu say?

For the sake of a pair of good legs, for the sake of regaining Fu Luan's possession, and even more so for the sake of returning to the Eastern Palace and reclaiming the position of Crown Prince, even knowing that Fu Luan was doing it on purpose, he had to endure it for the time being.

Once he regains his position as Crown Prince, Fu Luan will naturally remain the Crown Princess. It won't be too late to torment her then.

After all, if he could fool Fu Luan once, he could fool her a second and a third time.

Little did he know that the "golden phoenix" before him was reborn from the ashes.

"Your Highness, does it still hurt this time?" Fu Luan asked sweetly.

But the pressure she applied the medicine with her hands was far less "delicate" than she made her words...