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

Chapter 47 You are my twin brother, why do you always help bastards?

Fu Zhengzheng had given this ointment to a woman in her previous life. It truly made a woman's complexion glow upon application;

It not only brightens and whitens the skin, but also removes scars and blemishes;

However, after 21 days, the area where the ointment was applied will become extremely itchy, and may even ulcerate!

This time, however, the "Soothing Cream" arrived a little early...

She felt utterly humiliated because Fu Luan had made Fu Zhengzheng's relatives lose face at the family banquet.

Was it Fu Yuan's favoritism towards Fu Luan that angered her, causing her to send the soothing cream to Fu Luan much earlier than expected?

In her past life, Fu Zhengzheng at least openly and honestly presented the soothing cream herself; now, however, she has to use her fourth brother Fu Ze's name...

According to Tao Su and other eyeliners, Fu Zhengzheng has not shown any signs of using ointment recently;

Moreover, when she moved, all the items were inspected, and there were no materials that could be used to make the ointment.

Fu Luan recalled the events carefully, and suddenly she remembered the human pig dolls found in the Eastern Palace!

It seems that Fu Zhengzheng had already prepared this ointment, just waiting for the right moment to use it to make Fu Luan's face rot without anyone knowing.

It's like... she was thinking of turning Fu Luan into a human pig as soon as she became the Crown Princess!

Unfortunately, Fu Ling was right; she was too hasty this time, and the enticing fragrance betrayed her!

Fu Luan sneered, "She thinks she can sow discord between me and my fourth brother like this? She's far too naive!"

Fu Luan tucked the soothing cream into her sleeve; when she arrived at Fu Ze's room, she didn't mention the cream, but only asked about Fu Ze's invitation to the Yan family to the Fu family banquet in her name.

"Hmph, brother has already done something superfluous, and now he seems even more superfluous!" Fu Luan said with a half-smile.

Fu Ze coughed and said, "The reason... cough... I already told your maid, so why did you have to come all this way!"

"This is my fault for not thinking things through as your older brother, and I've caused you so much trouble..."

Although Fu Luan felt sorry for her brother, if she didn't take this opportunity to make things clear, the two siblings would probably only develop a greater rift!

"The three reasons that my brother gave earlier are all untenable in my opinion!"

"You want me and Zhengzheng to be as close as before; but with the incident at the Eastern Palace, my sisterly bond with her has changed, and I'm afraid it will never be the same again!"

"Brother doesn't think that she only did one 'good deed' in the East Palace: seducing her brother-in-law, does he?"

"I heard she complained to you many times that the Fu family wasn't her relatives? That's really strange!"

"From childhood to adulthood, when have our relatives in the Fu family ever not brought us siblings the same gift?"

"Who doesn't treat her like our siblings? It's the Yan family, on the other hand, who would rather stay far away from her when she's sick or in trouble."

"Oh, so now you've become her confidant? What, does she think our Fu family relatives aren't worthy of being her 'family,' and the Yan family is?"

"Since Zhengzheng looks down on our Fu family, let her change her surname from 'Fu' to 'Yan'!"

"It's unheard of for a concubine's daughter to insist on taking the surname of the legal wife! The Fu family didn't despise her, and her mother raised her like her own daughter;

"Now she's complaining about the Fu family? My brother left early."

"They probably didn't see the Yan family's arrogant and domineering attitude at the banquet, did they?"

"Wasn't it Aunt Yan who was greedy for our Fu family's property back then, and like a lapdog, she kept pestering Father to let her daughter take our mother's surname?"

"Now it's the mother who's snatching her precious daughter away and forcing her to take the surname of the legal wife!" Fu Luan became more and more angry as she spoke.

Seeing this, Fu Ling smiled and poured her a cup of tea, then continued her sentence:

"According to the rules of the Great Wei, the family members of the legal mother are considered relatives of illegitimate children, while the relatives of concubines from their own maternal families are not."

"But no matter how you look at it, this is a family banquet for our aunt and the Fu family. There is absolutely no reason to invite concubines to serve their maternal families."

"This anger... I was right to be born into this family."

"There's a right and wrong in being angry? Only you could say something so witty."

"Ahem..." Fu Ze glanced at Fu Ling, not minding her for talking too much, but his eyes showed some tenderness.

Fu Luan drank several cups of tea to calm his mind, and then continued, "It is true that they were born of the same father."

"'She also has a share in the Chang'an Marquis's mansion,' which is not wrong..."

Seeing that his sister's anger had subsided somewhat, Fu Ze replied, "That's more like it..."

“Zhengzheng is our younger sister after all. You are better than her in everything, so you should help her out more…”

"What's the use of you winning first place, receiving an official title, and showing off all by yourself? It just gives outsiders something to talk about, saying our family is mean-spirited and that we're born out of wedlock..."

The moment the words "harsh and unkind illegitimate son" were uttered, the anger that Fu Luan had just suppressed flared up again.

“Cruel to a concubine’s daughter? How am I being cruel to her? Don’t I love her enough?”

"I even gave her my husband! It's because she's useless that she got rejected by that good-for-nothing Yuan Lu!"

"Alright, alright! I know Fourth Brother cares about his little sister! But Fourth Brother, don't forget, I'm your little sister too!"

"She's a twin sister born on the same day, month, and year, at the same time!"

"Since Fourth Brother dotes on his sister so much, why don't I see him dote on me? Why does he only dote on her?" Fu Luan stood up and said angrily.

She disregarded her brother's poor health and completely forgot about all the so-called "etiquette".

“Ah Luan, you married into the Eastern Palace once, how come you have become so vulgar when you came back?”

"You are the daughter-in-law and future empress appointed by the Great Wei, how can you use such vulgar language?"

"She doesn't act like a proper lady at all!" Fu Ze frowned.

Fu Ling sighed inwardly, "Things have come to this point, and the Fourth Young Master isn't even nitpicking my sister's attitude, but rather her wording..."

For a fleeting moment, Fu Luan suddenly felt that the twin brother in front of her resembled someone—Tang Wanqing, the Vice Minister of the Court of Imperial Sacrifices.

It's not his appearance, but the rigidity ingrained in his very being.

"Indecent? Where was I indecent? Oh... I see;"

"It must be those words 'return' that made you feel sorry for that slut, right?"

"If others can do it, why can't I even say it? I'm going to say it! Return it! Return it! Return it!"

"You shameless woman, you shameless woman, you shameless woman! Humph!"

Fu Luan stamped her foot and turned her back.

She herself didn't realize that this action was just like a child's;

Instead of a crown princess burdened with a blood feud, reborn solely for revenge...

She heard Fu Ze cough loudly a few times behind her;

Moreover, the cough was persistent, completely different from the intermittent short coughs of ordinary days.

Thanks to Fu Ling's treatment, he hadn't coughed so badly in a long time...

The sound of his cough made her feel sorry for her brother, but she hardened her heart and ignored him.

No matter how much the two argued, Fu Luan would always stop arguing, pat his back, or put a cloak on him...

Fu Ze took the medicine with the help of Fu Ling and Hua Luo, and then sighed, "I know you prefer your other brothers to me..."