21st century woman!

The next day appeared peaceful, the sun was slowly rising and Liu Lian tossed the second play she had been reading away. She had finally gained a bit of weight, and could now start to work on her health and fitness. Now she could also do something about this shabby room, everything about it was dull and gloomy and seemed to dampen her mood all the time. She had various methods to get the money she needed to do it, but she wanted to use one that would cause damage to her father's concubine, liu Bai's mother.

Jun Wu Mei.

No matter how much power she has a concubine is still a concubine. Her name will never enter the geology books.

The first course of action should be to sort out concubine mei, She has been getting too overconfident, she needed to be pushed of her throne. But then again she wasn't ready to be poisoned yet again. Liu Ji Lian let out a loud exhausting sigh, someone needed to make a move before she could do anything.

As if on queue she noticed someone coming towards her, a cold demeanour, upon a closer inspection it seemed to be Butler zhu. Butler zhu had come from a generation of butlers that had served Lui manor for decades so naturally he was well respected in the manor. Was he by chance coming to look for trouble?

Liu Lian was disappointed because as soon as he reached her he bowed, "this servant brings news for miss, the king has brought an imperial decree, asking miss to receive it!" He didn't come to look for her trouble, instead he came to inform her the king was looking for her trouble instead!

Liu Lian wasn't expecting this, instead she was expecting that lowly concubine to pick a fight with her. She frowned a little but got up and quickly followed the Butler, he had never slighted her before so she had no score to settle with him. He was safe, but he deserved that sense of security.

She walked swiftly but steadily not giving any room for people to start up rumours, she didn't have a good reputation so she had to work hard to restore it. She wasn't a patient person and wasn't the type to keep a low profile, they must know who she was, they must know what they were getting themselves into when they opposed her.

They must regret! She must make them regret so much they would rather die than face her again!

She quickly made her way to the hall where everyone else were already bowing to the imperial eunuch. She was the last person to arrive.

She quickly bowed down to receive the decree.

"Beautiful and virtuous...to be given the title of princess of the people...to be granted a marriage to second prince Feng Mu Chen of the Xiang Kingdom."

She expected someone to act but not to bestow a marriage.

"May the emperor live a thousand years!" They chorused and the emperor left, concubine bai came up to her with a sad and pitiful expression she said,

"It's such a pity that the legitimate miss was given to the king of hell Mu Chen."

King of hell?

"This servant is here to comfort miss anytime" she smirked giving her a scornful look.

Liu Lian had angered her daughter greatly now she was being sold of to the cruel demonic king who hated women and was known to be ruthless when dealing with overly ambitious women who had attempted to climb into his bed.

"Worry about yourself concubine, your daughter will never be able to get married if she doesn't change her personality."

Unlike the refined misses of other officials she was direct and blunt. So what if rumours started? She was already being given to another country as a hostage. At first she was prepared to be sharp tongued and cunning but she was someone from the 21st century, was that even possible?

With a flick of her sleeves she made her way back to her courtyard.

She was now a princess in title.

Mei Li couldn't hold her excitement, did this mean that no one would bully her mistress anymore? Did that mean her mistress could live her life happily and leisurely?

She was willing!

Liu Lian was suspicious, who would request a marriage with the trash of the prime minister's family?

Was this some kind of political joke?

If the family from her fiancé's side have heard of the rumours then won't they plan to kill her? Or where they the one who requested the marriage because they knew she was trash?

Or did they know she wasn't actually trash?

The clutched her head in frustration completely forgetting the man she had saved, it was as if he was just a stray that she picked up and healed along he way.

That man was her fiancé now, the man who was looked down upon by his family because of his odd hair.

Since he was a child that person had tried to assassinate him over and over again, that they there was an unwanted accident and he barely escaped with his life.

If she found out he was the one who requested for the marriage she would've spat out blood in regret.

This is a lesson to all my main characters, stop picking up strays.

Seriously.