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

Fu Luan, as if nothing had happened, fed Xiao Jiu segment by segment of the orange, chuckling softly:

"You're too honest; you even tell me about this kind of thing."

"You just saved my life yesterday, how could I be jealous because you have something going on with other women?"

"Your Highness thinks too little of me! If I were really jealous, with your dozen or so concubines in the harem, I'd be a jealous jar!"

Xiao Jiu hugged Fu Luan and whispered, "I woke up early yesterday morning, but I just couldn't get up."

"If I can get up, I will never let your brother take you back!"

Fu Luan smiled and patted the head that was rubbing against her arm, asking knowingly:

“What can I do if I stay? I’m not a female doctor, I can treat your illness.”

Xiao Jiu blushed and replied softly, "A Luan doesn't need to do anything, just stay here with me."

"You just said I underestimated you, but now you're underestimating me too, aren't you?"

"It seems that in Ah Luan's eyes, my desire to be with you is solely for... for..."

Fu Luan pinched his cheek and deliberately asked, "Why?"

Yuan Jiu turned her face to the side and whispered, "You know that..."

"Your brother doesn't want you to stay here with me all night because he's worried..."

Fu Luan remained silent for a long time, naturally not mentioning the past, especially what happened in the carriage yesterday...

How could Fu Yuan possibly have the nerve to do that?

Even though he was the one who coveted her, he always suspected that she and Xiao Jiu had been intimate.

Seeing that she didn't speak, Yuan Jiu assumed that she was really angry with him.

After coaxing her for a while, Fu Luan finally managed to show a smile.

The two chatted and laughed for a while, and after Xiao Jiu finished eating the last segment of orange, Fu Luan sighed:

"Jokes aside, the mourning period for the Imperial Concubine will be over next month."

"If the Emperor is still unwilling to arrange the marriage by then... Xiao Jiu, aren't you worried?"

Xiao Jiu asked, "Why should I be in such a hurry?"

"What else could it be? Of course, it's the position of Crown Prince!" Fu Luan said with a wry smile.

"A big reason why I want to be the crown prince is that only by becoming the crown prince can I be with you;

"Now that you understand my heart, it seems that whether or not I become the Crown Prince..." Yuan Jiu hadn't finished speaking when Fu Luan interrupted him:

"If you think like that, you'll probably never be able to return to the Eastern Palace!"

"The Crown Prince and I are interdependent and indispensable. You can only marry me after you become the Crown Prince."

"Only by marrying me can you become the crown prince. If I had to choose one..."

"Xiao Jiu, the position of Crown Prince will always exist, but I am not."

"I will get sick, I will die, I will disappear from this world; do you understand?"

Yuan Jiu nodded as if he understood, and then Fu Luan continued:

"Just like the turmoil at this alliance ceremony, some people are happy while others are sad."

"The King of Longxi was promoted to the King of Ning, and the King of Youbeiping was demoted to a marquis;

"If the Emperor intends to reinstate you, he can take this opportunity to reinstate you as Crown Prince."

"But he didn't, he only increased your salary..."

"Have you thought about what I told you before, about having you recognize another mother figure? Have you found a suitable candidate?"

Yuan Jiu nodded again, "To be honest, I definitely don't want anyone who has treated me or my mother badly in the past."

"Among the remaining concubines, those with princes will definitely support their own sons, which is obviously inappropriate."

"Among the concubines without princes, those who are not favored are of no help to us."

"And those who receive too much favor, regardless of whether they will have princes in the future;

"They ultimately believe they will definitely have a prince, so they have no reason to cooperate with us."

"So the best thing would be... to find someone who doesn't have a prince and who can catch the Emperor's eye;

"But not so much that they can have a lot of influence. If they have a daughter, that would be the most suitable."

After a moment's thought, Fu Luan asked with a smile, "I thought Your Highness only had love and romance in your heart."

"Who would have thought His Highness would be so fond of his sisters!"

Yuan Jiu shook his head, "To my shame, I didn't think that much about it..."

"What I'm thinking is that if a concubine has a daughter, we can assure her that the princess will not be married off to a distant place."

“A-Luan’s previous victory not only saved me but also Rui’er. With this precedent, the concubines will surely be convinced!”

Upon hearing this, Fu Luan seemed to feel a sense of shared sorrow, like the saying "when the rabbit dies, the fox grieves" or "when things of the same kind are hurt."

She couldn't help but sigh, "The princes are not living well, yet they can still be granted titles and establish their own residences when they come of age."

"But many princesses, no matter how favored they are, cannot escape the fate of being married off or even sent to a political marriage when they grow up."

For example, Yuan Rui.

If the Western Regions win the horse racing competition again, Yuan Rui will have no choice but to marry into a foreign land, just like in her previous life, and then suffer a tragic death in a foreign country.

Fu Luan felt sorry for Yuan Rui, but wasn't he also feeling sorry for himself, who was trapped by the ancestral precepts of the Great Wei?

Yuan Jiu hugged her even tighter and said in a low, husky voice, "A-Luan, I promise you."

"If I have the opportunity to inherit the throne, I will definitely not use marriage alliances to exchange for peace!"

"I will make sure all the princesses grow up happily."

"They can do what they love and have their own lives..."

Fu Luan nodded, then said, "However..."

"I've heard that some of the concubines aren't very kind to their daughters..."

She whispered the names of several concubines.

She said it was "hearsay," but in reality, it was all something she had witnessed firsthand in her past life: normal mothers who loved their daughters and couldn't bear to let them marry far away;

Those concubines, seeing that the princess's marriage to a foreign land would bring them promotions and benefits, were eager to have more daughters.

Even when no foreign countries came to propose marriage, they would rush to form alliances in order to exchange princesses for their own wealth and status.

Even worse, some who couldn't have daughters of their own would pretend to be kind and adopt princesses whose mothers had died into their own names.

In private, he not only treated the princesses terribly, but also controlled their salaries!

Once the princesses reached marriageable age, these concubines would advise the emperor to allow the princesses to marry far away.

Yuan Jiu suddenly realized and said, "A-Luan is absolutely right! It was I who hadn't thought things through properly; A-Luan's idea was much more sensible!"

"Although he's glib and smooth-talking, I actually quite enjoy it..." Fu Luan said smugly.

Although Fu Luan had decided in her heart, based on her memories of her previous life, that Rou Guiyi was the best candidate to be Yuan Jiu's mother;

But after much deliberation, she couldn't ignore Xiao Jiu's opinion.

Having no sons in her previous life to be crowned empress, this was an advantage for Rou Guiyi;

Ke Rouguiyi had previously tested Yuan Rui and could already tell that she was not someone to be trifled with;

If he continues to be at odds with Yuan Jiu, even if he acknowledges her as his mother, it might not be good for him.

"These three ladies are the ones I've come up with, but I don't know if they'd be willing..." Yuan Jiu said as he wrote.

The two whispered to each other in the warm pavilion and finally selected three concubines.

Seeing that there was a gentle and noble demeanor among them, Fu Luan smiled and said, "Your Highness, rest assured, I will handle this matter."

Even the imperial edict from the Lady of Jin praised me for my eloquence; how could there be anyone I couldn't persuade?

Yuan Jiu wanted to say something more, but seeing that she was confident, he didn't want to spoil her mood, so he hesitated and stopped.

But how could such a small movement escape Fu Luan's notice?