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

"After you finish all this, you can personally lead the people to bring his whole family over."

"They'll be exempted from their work, and their monthly wages will be doubled! As for medical treatment, they'll have Poria cocos to treat them;"

"The money for the medicine all went through the government's accounts, and they were given the most expensive medicines possible!"

"If there are any medicinal herbs that are unavailable, Fu Ling will let me know, and I will arrange for their availability," Fu Luan instructed.

"Let's go, it's time to talk about our business!" Fu Luan urged Fu Yuan to leave after finishing her work.

"Big brother, I..." Back in the house, she tugged at Fu Yuan's sleeve and called out in a sweet voice.

Fu Yuan frowned and said, "Don't call me elder brother. I'm just an adopted son of your Fu family, not your elder brother!"

Fu Luan immediately lost interest.

She flung Fu Yuan's sleeve away and said coldly, "Then what should I call you?"

"We've been siblings for over ten years, what do you want to be if not my brother? My husband?"

Fu Yuan grabbed Fu Luan's chin, narrowed his eyes, and said, "What if I said... I want to?"

Before she could reply, he suddenly leaned in and kissed Fu Luan;

But she seemed to have anticipated this, her eyes sharpened, and before his lips could touch hers;

He quickly kicked him, and Fu Yuan reluctantly let go.

He chuckled knowingly, "What, you're not taking out the hairpin this time?"

"Oh, Ah Luan is wearing a hair ornament today, so she can't kill anyone!"

"Right, sis...sis?"

He gazed at the gold-inlaid jade hairpin on her head, with a phoenix at the top of the hairpin, and a piece of extremely thin jade in the phoenix's beak.

The jade piece is decorated with openwork lotus flowers all around, and there are tassels with gold wire and inlaid with pearls and jade on the side... It is quite luxurious.

Everything else was fine, but the phoenix and the lotus flower were clearly made specifically for Fu Luan.

"Why are you staring at this hair ornament so much, brother? If you like it, I'll give it to you!" Fu Luan removed the hair ornament and handed it to Fu Yuan.

"I wonder which noble family sent this; I can't possibly accept it!"

“If Ah Luan really wants to give me a gift, how about... we talk about what happened in the carriage last time?”

"The conditions you proposed that day, I wonder if they still stand today?" Fu Yuan raised his eyebrows and asked.

Fu Luan laughed and said, "The carriage matter... the carriage matter. When I asked you about it in the carriage, you didn't respond."

"Ask me again now, of course it doesn't count!"

Fu Yuan's handsome face darkened. "Am I really inferior to those princes? Or is it that even you look down on me for being an adopted son..."

Fu Luan chuckled and said, "Big brother... if you weren't an adopted son, but my own brother;

"There's even less chance for us, isn't there? Fu Yuan, I've given you chances, and more than once!"

Fu Yuan turned his face away. Fu Luan was right; she had given him a chance once!

For Fu Luan, it felt like a lifetime ago;

For Fu Yuan, however, it was only last year.

Like Fu Zhengzheng, she had also once liked this older brother who was not related to her by blood;

Unlike her later self, Fu Luan once deeply resented the ancestral precepts of the Great Wei Dynasty and had no desire to become the Crown Princess!

"Big brother, I don't want to go to the palace. Please take me with you."

"Brother, what did Mother say before she died? Say something!"

"Brother, what does the Great Wei Ancestral Instructions have to do with us? Why can't you take me away with you just because the Great Wei Ancestral Instructions are there?"

After two crown princes died in succession, the emperor cited "bad luck in the year" as the reason.

For a long period of time, no crown prince was appointed, and during this time, Fu Luan was a free man, just like he is now.

It was at this moment that Fu Luan confessed her feelings to Fu Yuan, but Fu Yuan rejected her outright.

"Ah Luan, you are destined to be the Crown Princess and then the Empress."

"Ah Luan, all land under heaven belongs to the king, where can I take you?"

"Ah Luan, let's pretend you never said that, don't bring it up again..."