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Chapter 1799 My Aunt is the Empress 6
Qingcao was unaware of the Crown Prince's third plan, but the person in question, the original owner's half-sister, actually knew about it, because the Crown Prince treated her very well.

Indeed, the eldest prince had been secretly working on this for a long time. After all, time waits for no one, and he was already getting old and couldn't afford to wait any longer. So, naturally, he maintained a good relationship with both the original owner of this body and her half-sister.

He wanted to have a backup plan, just in case things didn't go well with Linlang and he had to pursue Zhou Erniang in a hurry.

If we prepare early, we won't be afraid. If Zhou Linlang is unwilling, we can kill her and then seamlessly marry Zhou Erniang without any delay.

This also happened in the original owner's second incarnation.

In her second life, the original owner of this body naturally did not want to marry the eldest prince again, and even wanted to take revenge on him. Therefore, after being reborn, she rejected the eldest prince, just like Linlang.

After the eldest prince realized through the grass that he was no longer within the original owner's selection range, he initiated Plan Two, attempting to forcibly take over the original owner, but the original owner cleverly evaded him.

When the eldest prince saw that plan two was not going to work, he began to devise plan three: to get rid of the original owner so that he could marry Zhou Erniang in a legitimate way.

But Master Zhou wasn't stupid. He knew that if his eldest daughter rejected the eldest prince, the prince might take action against her for various reasons, such as being unhappy or thinking that if he couldn't have her, he couldn't let other princes have her either. So he arranged for people to protect the original owner of this body. In addition, the original owner of this body was also vigilant and was not killed by the eldest prince.

The eldest prince thought that his actions were secretive and no one would discover them. So when his plan failed and the Zhou family became more vigilant, and he could no longer kill the original owner, he began to ask to marry Zhou Erniang. He thought that if the third prince married the original owner and he married Zhou Erniang, perhaps the eldest master of the Zhou family would still not ultimately take sides.

But he didn't expect that Master Zhou already knew from the original owner that he had a beloved person, and just like in this life, he didn't intend to support him anymore. Even if he married Zhou Erniang, it would be useless, and all his joy would be in vain.

Leaving aside the situation in the previous life, let's just talk about the current situation of Zhou Erniang.

Unlike the numerous princes vying to curry favor with the original owner of this body, who was already used to it and therefore indifferent, there weren't many who would try to please Zhou Erniang. After all, those princes knew that if they were with Zhou Erniang, at most they would only get support from the Zhou family, not from the Duke of Zhenguo's mansion. Given Zhou Linlang's existence, if they didn't choose Zhou Linlang but instead chose a concubine's daughter, only the concubine's father, Master Zhou, would support them. Zhou Linlang's mother, Madam Zhou, would definitely be unhappy. In that case, Madam Zhou wouldn't be able to persuade the Duke of Zhenguo's mansion to support the prince who married the concubine's daughter; she might even try to sabotage the marriage because she was angry that the prince didn't marry her daughter.

Because they were afraid that if they didn't choose Zhou Linlang but chose Zhou Erniang instead, they would not only lose the support of the Duke of Zhenguo's mansion, but the Duke of Zhenguo's mansion would also interfere, which would cause them trouble. Therefore, very few people tried to seduce Zhou Erniang.

Because Zhou Erniang wasn't as pampered as Linlang, she couldn't help but feel her heart flutter when the First Prince tried to seduce her, and she easily fell for him.

No wonder she fell for the eldest prince so easily. Seeing how many people liked her and how many gifts they gave her, it would be a lie to say she wasn't envious.

If Linlang has endless money, then Zhou Erniang is pitiful.

Her aunt wasn't favored, so she couldn't give her much. Her aunt's family was even less likely to give her anything; it was already a favor if they didn't take advantage of her. Therefore, Linlang had her maternal family, her mother, and her aunts in the palace who sent her things. Apart from her aunt, the Empress, occasionally remembering her and sending her some things, she had no other source of income.

Moreover, the gifts that her aunt, the Empress, gave her were different from those given to Zhou Linlang. The gifts given to Zhou Linlang were better, while hers were a level below.

Growing up in such a starkly contrasting environment, who could maintain a good mindset? Even adults struggle, let alone a mere thirteen-year-old girl. Her mindset is easily unbalanced.

So, seeing that the eldest prince was pursuing her sister and treating her well, she didn't realize how despicable he was. Clearly, he was a scoundrel, and she wasn't a garbage dump; she couldn't accept him.

On the contrary, there was a secret pleasure in it. I thought to myself, "So what if so many people fawn over my sister? They only like her because of her status and position. But for me, some people like me simply because of who I am."

She felt a thrill of stealing someone else's partner, so she didn't refuse the Crown Prince's advances. She flirted with him in private, and sometimes, when the original owner of this body was around, she would deliberately flirt with him in front of her. She felt great about stealing someone else's partner in front of her sister, while her sister was completely unaware and still laughing and chatting with the Crown Prince, liking him but not knowing that the Crown Prince liked her.

She never imagined that the original owner of this body, whom she envied and was jealous of, was actually just a pawn in the princes' rise to power. If she were the original owner, knowing the dangers ahead, how terrified she would be to still choose a prince to marry. She was simply jealous of the original owner being favored by so many people.

However, her aunt was not favored, so she was just a nobody in the mansion and was not valued by anyone. No matter how jealous she was, there was nothing she could do about the original owner of the body. She could only watch helplessly as the original owner of the body was loved by so many people, which made her heart ache with resentment.

After all, she was the same age as the original owner of this body. The original owner had so many people who liked her, but she didn't, so naturally she couldn't stand it.

Finally, the eldest prince took a liking to her. When he ascended the throne and became emperor, he would definitely marry her. At that time, her sister would become empress and she would become a concubine. Although she would only be a concubine, she would be more favored than her sister. In the palace, it was uncertain who would have a higher or lower status. Her sister would be the one to suffer. Thinking of the bright future, Zhou Erniang was very excited and just waited for that day to come so that she could slap her sister in the face and make her sister envious and jealous of her.

Before she could even successfully climb into the emperor's bed, trouble broke out with the eldest prince. It was said that he was keeping a bunch of women and had several children with them. One of his beloved women was severely reprimanded by the emperor and imprisoned. When her sister heard about this, she decided not to marry the eldest prince anymore. In other words, the Zhou family might not support the eldest prince anymore, and he might not be able to ascend the throne. This made her feel like the sky had fallen.

The eldest prince has a woman he likes, but he may not truly like her; this is the first point of contention.

The second major setback was that the eldest prince couldn't ascend to the throne, shattering her dream of becoming a concubine. She could no longer humiliate her sister, which was also unacceptable to her.

Although the sky had fallen, she only had this one choice. So, like Qingcao, she still wanted to see if she could plead for the eldest prince and get her father to agree to let the eldest prince continue to marry her sister and then continue to support the eldest prince.

Even if she was stupid, she knew that if her father did not agree to the eldest prince marrying her sister, and her father supported another prince, the eldest prince would not be able to ascend to the throne. So naturally, she wanted to get past the obstacles on her father's side.