The carriage swayed slowly and soon arrived at Fucha Mansion.

As soon as Langya returned home, Jueluo came to greet her. Langya waved away everyone, leaving only the mother and daughter in the room. "My son, did your trip go smoothly?"

"It went well." Langya nodded.

"As long as everything goes well, as long as everything goes well. Right now, Concubine Xi and the Fourth Prince are in their prime. As long as you become the Fourth Lady, you will be the next Empress for sure. The glory of our Fucha family depends on you."

"Depend on me?" Langya did not hide the sarcasm on her face, "Is mother confused? Our Fucha family is full of power and nobility. There are eight males in our family alone, but mother wants to put the burden of the family on me alone. What does mother think of me? A stepping stone for the family?"

"Why are you talking to your mother like that?! Your mother is doing this for your own good. How can a woman marry without relying on her parents? Only when her parents are well, will you be well!"

"Really? I don't think so."

"This palace?" Jueluo was confused. Isn't this how the ladies in the palace call themselves?

"Yes, it was me. During the selection today, the Fourth Prince originally put the Jade Ruyi representing the legitimate wife in my hand, but when his childhood sweetheart, Princess Qingying, came, he took the Jade Ruyi back from my hand and gave it to Princess Qingying again. The Ulanara family is just a poor family, and the only promising queen is confined to Jingren Palace today because of her plot to take the throne, and she cannot leave until she dies. But the Fourth Prince insisted on marrying that person as his legitimate wife, and looked down on me, the daughter of the Fucha family. How could I tolerate such an insult to my face? So I asked to enter the palace to accompany the emperor. The emperor has issued an imperial decree to make me a concubine and enter the palace in five days. What's the matter? Didn't mother receive the imperial decree?"

Jueluo really didn't receive the imperial edict, because Langya heard the imperial edict verbally, and she left the palace soon after hearing the imperial edict. Yinzhen had to go back and re-draft the edict before it could be sent to Fucha Mansion. Now the imperial edict is still on the way.

Jueluo was extremely angry, and she covered her violently beating heart, "You, you didn't even ask me, your mother, and you made the decision on your own? Do you still remember that I am your mother?!"

"Then do you still remember that I am your daughter, not your puppet?! Since Su Lian beside my daughter only has you as her master in her heart, there is no need for her to serve her in the future. If there is nothing else, then I will take my leave!"

After Langya left, she said to Sulian who was waiting outside the door: "From now on, you will stay in the main courtyard to serve mother, and you don't have to come back."

"Princess!" Su Lian wanted to catch up, but she saw Lang Ya turned around and gave her a cold look, "I don't want disloyal servants under my command!"

Su Lian thought of how she had reported all of Langya's trivial matters to Jueluo since they were young. She stopped in her tracks, shed two lines of tears, and refused to move forward anymore.

Langya returned to her own courtyard and looked at the maids who were serving her.

She used to be closest to Su Lian, but it’s better not to mention her now.

The other three who served her were the first-class maid Suxin, and two second-class maids Hongmei and Luzhu.

Hongmei and Luzhu are both family-born children, and Langya instinctively doesn't want them.

Because having children at home would mean that their families would be controlled by the Jueluo clan, and they might become the next Su Lian one day, so they simply didn't bring them along.

She was a concubine and according to palace rules she was allowed to bring four maids into the palace.

Su Xin is an orphan, she is thoughtful and quiet, so she can be taken with us. Of course, we have to ask her opinion.

"I will enter the palace in five days. Would you like to go in with me?"

"My slave is willing."

Seeing that she looked normal, without any excitement or embarrassment, Langya was even more satisfied with her and felt that she was capable of taking on the task, so she gave her the task of selecting the other three maids, which was also a test of her ability.

"Go to the market and pick out three maids. I require them to be orphans and have a skill. You can pick one from each of the three, such as cooking, hairdressing, and medicine."

Just as Su Xin took the silver and went out, the imperial edict and the aunt who instructed her arrived from the palace.

Langya felt relieved when she found that the content of the imperial edict was no different from what Yinzhen said.

Although the Empress Dowager was gone and the Empress was under house arrest, the three high-ranking concubines in the palace, Imperial Noble Consort Duan, Imperial Noble Consort Jing and Imperial Noble Consort Xi, were all in the same group, and Langya was afraid that they would stop Yinzhen from giving her the title of concubine.

But think about it, since Yinzhen had already said in front of the ladies and concubines that he would give her the position of concubine, he naturally could not change his mind overnight.

After sending the angel away, Langya held the imperial edict in her hand and looked at Jueluo, who was unwilling to see the puppet she raised escape from her control.

"Mother, I have to learn etiquette from Aunt Fangruo these days, so I won't go to pay my respects to you these days. I hope you can forgive me."

In front of outsiders, Langya still followed the rules and reminded Jueluo to pay attention to her expression.

Jueluo wanted to get angry but couldn't. Fangruo was still here, and the angel who announced the decree just now also said that Fangruo was a person in the imperial court. Jueluo immediately changed his expression to be kind and said, "It doesn't matter whether you greet her or not. The most important thing is that you learn the rules well."

Langya bid farewell to Jueluo and took Fangruo to her own yard with a smile.

She also didn't expect that Yinzhen would actually send Fangruo to be his aunt.

This was the aunt who taught Zhen Huan and An Lingrong, and she has been secretly supporting Zhen Huan in recent years. Now Zhen Huan has the grown-up Fourth Prince, Princess Longyue and twins, and Fang Ruo is now truly devoted to Zhen Huan.

Therefore, Langya was very wary of Fangruo.

She has been kept in the yard for the past few days and has not been asked to go anywhere.

Fang Ruo was not stupid. She saw Langya's defensiveness and didn't like her very much. She only taught her palace rules and etiquette, and she didn't teach her very seriously. She didn't say a word about the gossip in the palace. Compared with the time when Zhen Huan was young, she was treated completely differently.

Langya took an indifferent attitude towards her behavior.

Anyway, if she makes any mistakes after entering the palace, it will be all because of Aunt Yin’s failure to teach her. Let’s see who will be unlucky in the future!

The day before leaving, Ma Qi came to the house.

"My uncle wanted to come a few days ago, but I heard that you were learning the rules and didn't want to disturb you. You will enter the palace tomorrow, and my uncle wants to know why you want to enter the harem."

At that time, Ma Qi, Guangcheng and Fu Qing were in the room, and Jueluo was asked to leave by Langya.

Langya told the story of what happened during the talent show that day.

"Uncle, eldest brother, second brother, what do you think, a man who humiliated our Fucha family in the selection, how will he treat our Fucha family when he takes power in the future?"

Guangcheng and Fu Qing both looked angry.

Guangcheng: "This Fourth Prince is really going too far!"

Fu Qing: "The Emperor had clearly told our family that the selection was just a formality, and he had already decided on Langya as the Fourth Lady, but we never thought that the Fourth Prince would suddenly change his mind and choose the daughter of a Fourth-Rank Colonel."

Ma Qi, who was silent, listened to the two brothers' words before he asked, "Langya means that you don't approve of the fourth prince taking the throne? But now, the emperor has adopted the third prince, and now there are only the fourth, fifth and sixth princes in the palace. The fifth prince is sickly and naughty, and the sixth prince's bloodline is questionable and he cannot ascend the throne. In this comparison, only the fourth prince is the most likely. If you don't choose the fourth prince, who do you want to choose?"

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