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

Fu Zhengzheng glanced at all of Yan's relatives out of the corner of her eye;

They were either small vendors who couldn't make more than a few coins a day, or people who just loafed around at home all day, barely better off than the homeless people in the dark alleys.

How can such relatives be compared to the princes and generals of the Fu family?

The relatives were embarrassed by what Fu Zhengzheng said, so they drank and ate, pretending to be busy and not having time to chat.

Fu Zhengzheng was someone who was used to using tears to gain sympathy. Seeing their embarrassed and speechless faces, she couldn't help but squeeze out two more lines of tears.

"To be honest, it was my good-for-nothing mother who left early, who came to the Marquis's mansion to become a concubine."

"It made me born as an illegitimate child, and I was always inferior to the legitimate daughters of the principal wife; "

"Others live in big houses and big courtyards, while I am squeezed into a small room near the servants' quarters, living in isolation."

"I was feeling unwell and needed to see a doctor, but she had such a good female doctor, yet she wouldn't treat me and instead found some quack doctor from outside."

"You all saw that female doctor too. She was bossing people around like she was the Fu family's daughter's own sister!"

"That's not all..."

Fu Zhengzheng sobbed and decided to pour out all the grievances she had suffered recently.

She didn't mention the harmful things she had done, and instead made up a lot of lies to slander Fu Luan.

How could Yan's relatives not be angry after hearing these words? Aunt Yan died young, and they were counting on Fu Zhengzheng, their cash cow!

As Fu Zhengzheng spoke, she began to gag, as if to confirm her words.

"That's why you're useless! She was sick in the Crown Prince's Palace and couldn't get up at that time;"

"You should seize the opportunity to keep your brother-in-law firmly by your side. That's exactly what your mother did back then."

"She climbed up the ranks step by step, from a maid to a concubine in the Marquis's mansion. What a clever trick! What an honor!"

"Unlike you, a worthless piece of trash! You're returned even when you're delivered to someone's door!" Aunt Yan snorted.

She was so engrossed in her conversation that she didn't notice Fu Luan had returned and was glancing at their table.

Even Fu Ling, who was usually unsmiling, was surprised and asked, "Grandma didn't invite the Yan family, so why did they come?"

Hua Luo immediately sent someone to inquire; Fu Zhengzheng saw that her relatives were all looking behind her, and felt a chill run down her spine;

Turning around, they discovered that it was Fu Luan watching their table from a short distance away.

She didn't even care whether Fu Luan was close enough to hear her lies;

After all, it's always hard to feel guilty about talking badly about someone behind their back.

Even someone like Fu Zhengzheng would blush if the person in question caught her gossiping!

When Madam Yan saw Fu Luan, she showed no fear. She immediately stood up and said:

"The county magistrate held a grand banquet at the Marquis of Chang'an's residence for four consecutive days, quite an impressive affair! However..."

"If the money spent these past few days was the county magistrate's own, then so be it;"

"But if it's money from the Marquis of Chang'an's mansion that's being spent, then as your aunt, I'll have to have a word with you!"

Fu Luan looked Yan up and down and sneered, "Aunt? I, Fu Luan, the dignified Lady of Yuan, how could I have an aunt like you?"

“I have a total of four aunts. One of them guards the Dian Kingdom for the Great Wei and is known as the ‘Princess of Dian Kingdom’;

"One is a female general who conquered Loulan and swept across the desert, and was personally appointed by the late emperor as a 'Grand General of the State with the Rank of Second Grade';

"And there is another one... who married far away to the grasslands and now serves as the 'Empress Dowager' to govern and oversee the country."

"As for this last aunt, she died for her country when I was young. The Emperor personally attended her funeral and bestowed upon her the title of 'Marquis of Linjiang'..."

“All four of my aunts are outstanding women, but I’ve never seen an ‘aunt’ like you, loudly plotting to seize someone else’s property in someone else’s house!”

"To put it nicely, it's like asking, 'Who are you?'; but to put it bluntly, it's like..."

Fu Luan paused, then said, word by word, "What...are...you...anything...?"

After speaking, Fu Luan sighed inwardly, "It's a pity that these heroines were all killed in their previous lives by your good niece, Fu Zhengzheng, on charges of treason!"

At today's family banquet, Madam Yan spoke with absolute certainty in front of everyone, saying that she was mean to her half-sister!

If she really was mean to her half-sister, would she have given Fu Zhengzheng the opportunity to climb over her in her past life?

If she were truly mean to her half-sister, would she have given Fu Zhengzheng chances again and again in her past life?

If she really was mean to her half-sister, she would have ended up being turned into a human pig in her past life, neither human nor ghost.

Fu Luan clenched her fists, suppressing the urge to punch her distant relative, Yan Shi, in the face...

Given all that happened in her past life, plus Yan's words, how could Fu Luan not hate her?

Is Fu Luan mean to her half-sister? It is precisely because she treated Fu Zhengzheng like her own sister since childhood that the relatives of the Fu family all regarded Fu Zhengzheng as a true member of the Fu family;

It was precisely because she knew in her past life that Fu Zhengzheng had done despicable things, yet she still showed mercy and gave Fu Zhengzheng the opportunity to lure the Fu clan to Chang'an under the guise of "Fu Luan's younger sister," so that they could be wiped out in one fell swoop...

As Yan listened to Fu Luan recount the names of all the prominent relatives of the Fu family, her back was already drenched in cold sweat.

That last sentence was the last straw!

But a whole host of relatives were watching her from behind… She drank a bowl of wine before mustering her courage to say:

“My daughter Zhengzheng is unlucky; she was born into the womb of my younger sister, who is a concubine.”

"Unlike you, County Princess, you were born as the Crown Princess of our Great Wei, a position of unparalleled nobility!"

“Zhengzheng has always been humble and subservient to your mother since she was little, and she even changed her surname to ‘Fu’!”

"Everyone here, tell me, in respectable families, whose child takes the mother's surname?"

"Forcing a child born out of wedlock to take the surname of the legal wife is something that has never been seen or heard of before!"

"Since your mother insists that Zhengzheng treat her as her own mother, why can't I let you treat me as your own aunt?"

As soon as these words were spoken, the relatives and friends in the room either shook their heads or mocked them.

The phrase "Children from respectable families typically take their mother's surname" in particular angered many members of the Fu family.

Most branches of the Fu family take the mother's surname...

"Where did this shrew come from?"

"According to the rules of the Great Wei, it has always been the case that a child born out of wedlock recognizes the relatives of a child born out of wedlock. How could a child born out of wedlock recognize the relatives of a child born out of wedlock?"

"Stop talking about legitimate or illegitimate children! I don't want any relatives like this, even if they're from my own family!"

"Wasn't it that concubine who forced the Marquis to make his daughter take the surname of our Fu family's lady?"

"Now you're pretending nobody remembers, huh?"

Hearing these comments from Fu's relatives, Fu Zhengzheng felt ashamed, and her face burned with embarrassment...

"But... Auntie is standing up for me!" Fu Zhengzheng thought to herself, then hesitated.

If you stop your aunt now to save face, it will be difficult to find someone to steal Fu Luan's thunder later!

What's more, she also wanted to see her precious elder sister make a fool of herself and suffer a humiliation in public!

She, Fu Zhengzheng, was, after all, a daughter of a noble family, and there were several handsome young men at the banquet;

No matter what, I can't argue with my elder sister like a shrew in front of them, can I?

This matter... isn't it most suitable for a shrew like Yan to do it?