淫欲的代价

After thinking all hope was lost, Lu Xuilan suddenly woke up in the body of 15 year old Lu Xuilan.

The real Lu Xuilan was the official Eldest young miss of the right Prime minister Lu and at the age of 13, it was discovered that her mother\'s family had committed a grave crime against the Emperor.

In panic, the right Prime minister had decisively banished she and her mother to a remote mountain village to save his neck. His stance was supposedly to show the Emperor that although he was married to the Fang family\'s daughter, he was in fact not allied with them.

With Lu Xuilan\'s mother out of the way, the position of official wife was taken over by Prime minister Lu\'s secondary wife. Her only daughter, who happened to be pampered by said minister, became the official first daughter.

Heartbroken and afraid, the real Lu Xuilan had to let go of her role as the Eldest young miss of a powerful family and try her best to survive through hardship with her equally heartbroken mother.

That was until two years later when Fang Lan, Lu Xuilan\'s mother, fell gravely ill. 15 year old Lu Xuilan had no one to turn to so she\'d decided to go up the mountain for some herbs.

Unfortunately, she met her end at the hands of two bandits who had drugged her and wanted to sell her to a brothel.

An hour after the bandits discovered she was dead and dumped her body in a pit to decay, the modern Lu Xuilan transferred over.

Although she was shellshocked, she soon recovered and carefully went through the memories of the original owner -after which she sighed in pity.

The right Prime minister was really ruthless wasn\'t he? Abandoning his official wife and daughter with no hesitation when they hadn\'t even been involved was too much!

Lu Xuilan shook her head and decided to get out of the pit and look for the herbs for the original owner\'s mother. After all, she had taken over the young girl\'s body so she couldn\'t let the young girl\'s hard work be in vain.

As she looked for different herbs, she sighed in regret. If only she was back in the modern realm, all she needed to do was go over to her pharmacy and get the most advanced of drugs that she\'d stocked in there!

At that thought, Lu Xuilan suddenly felt a burning sensation and lifted her long sleeves to stare at the phoenix shaped birthmark on her wrist. The second she rubbed on it, she was transported to her very own pharmacy!

Excited with this discovery, Lu Xuilan turned around to leave the mountain but halfway down, she met a strange masked man who was laying half dead in the bushes.

Since she was in a good mood, she offhandedly grabbed some supplies from her pharmacy and casually healed him. As she turned to leave, the strange man opened his eyes and burned the image of the beautiful maiden into his memory.

When Lu Xuilan met and healed Fang Lan, she was reminded of the fact that she\'d lost her own mother at a very young age so she wholeheartedly accepted the woman as her person.

Two days after Fang Lan became healed, the mother and daughter duo received a letter from the Capital stating that they were permitted to return to the Lu mansion once more.

Lu Xuilan was very much dissatisfied with the Lu family but she didn\'t want to see Fang Lan suffer any longer and the Capital had much more opportunities so she agreed to leave the remote mountain village.

When the mother and daughter duo arrived at the Capital, it was discovered that the reason they were allowed to return was because Lu Xuilan had been bethrothed to the Fifth prince at birth.

Tales of the Fifth prince were abundant in the Capital. He was the renowned general of the Southern army who became crippled in battle. He was also so hideous that he always hid his face behind a mask because he was too ashamed of his looks.

Other than that, he was a demon incarnate no one dared to cross.

Not only was the fifth prince arrogant, due to the fact that his mother had been the Emperor\'s beloved, he was also rumoured to be the favourite of the Emperor.

The only reason the different powers in court paid no mind to this was because it was impossible for a cripple to rule the kingdom.

Naturally, Lu Xuilan did not place any attention to this. She was her own person and refused to be forced to marry any man. Rather than that, she placed more emphasis on becoming strong and building her own forces.

After their return, the right Prime minister and the rest of the Lu household waited patiently for the Fifth prince to make a move but besides the Emperor suddenly speaking of the bethrodal in court, nothing else happened so the Lus became impatient.

Since the Fifth prince wasn\'t interested in Lu Xuilan, there was no need to hold back so they went back to treating Lu Xuilan and Fang Lan as less than dust.

Naturally, the transmigrated Lu Xuilan could not take such a thing lying down so it was faceslapping upon faceslapping until the Fifth prince suddenly showed up in the Lu household.

This was also the moment Lu Xuilan realized that the masked stranger she\'d saved in the mountains was in fact her bethrothed, the Fifth prince.

Lu Xuilan was still not interested in a marriage but the Fifth prince was determined to get the talented beauty who had saved his life so he dominantly tried all means until he succeeded.

Slowly but surely, Lu Xuilan began to strengthen her forces and opened up several medicine shops all over Xiangshan. After healing one or two persons, her reputation spread far and wide and she was acknowledged by the Emperor himself.

Six months after Lu returned to the capital, the birthday banquet of the Empress came up and the former military doctor was challenged by one of the young misses at the banquet.

Unsurprisingly, Lu Xuilan proved her worth as a military personnel in her past life and was given permission to go into the military camps whenever she pleased.

At the military camp, Lu Xuilan once again shone bright and got the approval of every single soldier under the Fifth prince. After dispensing drugs from her pharmacy like water, she constantly grew and her fame as a miracle doctor spread far and wide.

When the strength of her forces increased to a satisfactory level, Lu Xuilan married the Fifth prince. Although the other ladies of the Capital were envious of the fact that the Fifth prince had no other but Lu Xuilan in his inner courtyard, they were consoled by the fact that he was a hideous beast and even mocked her for it.

Knowing what her husband truly looked like, Lu Xuilan paid no mind to this and even sneered at the fools. Rather than focus on them, she decided that it was time to take care of the Lu family.

Not much was done as the right Prime minister was already involved in numerous shady dealings with the Ninth prince, who was a strong contender for the throne.

After exposing them, the members of the Lu household were all sentenced to death. Some were able to escape but some weren\'t and part of the latter team was the Leaser, Lu Wenduo, whose mother was one of Prime minister Lu\'s lower ranked concubines.

With the Lu family out of the way, Lu Xuilan became much happier in the Fifth prince\'s palace but not for long as the Emperor soon met his end and the fight for the throne began.

It was no question that Lu Xuilan used all the resources within her power to aid her husband and when the fight reached it\'s peak, the rumoured cripple stood to his feet and took off his mask before every single official in court.

The First, Third and Sixth princes were all shellshocked whilst the officials were dumbfounded. The man they did not put in their sights turned out to not be crippled and whoever said the Fifth prince was hideous swallowed their own tongue.

When news reached the people, Lu Xuilan became the target of National envy for marrying such a handsome and devoted man.

In other to tip the scales on their side, Lu Xuilan decided to equip the Fifth prince\'s army with various advanced weapons that she\'d taken from the military in her past life and kept in her pharmacy.

Raw strength brooked no argument. In the face of sheer power, the ambitious ministers and court officials flocked to the Fifth prince\'s side and he became the Emperor.

With immensely powerful weapons in the hands of Xiangshan soldiers, the country became much more powerful than the surrounding countries.

Tian Weisheng did not lack ambition so he ended up conquering the other four countries and then became the first grand ruler, ever loyal to his beautiful empress, Lu Xuilan.