ebookland Chapter 137 Ruyi’s Royal Love in the Palace – Gao Xiyue 37
Chapter 137 Ruyi’s Royal Love in the Palace – Gao Xiyue 37
There are two things that are always emphasized in Ruyi's Royal Love in the Palace. One is the emperor's sincerity towards Ruyi. No matter how many concubines the emperor took in after he had Ruyi, Ruyi still firmly believed that the only person her young man truly loved was her. In the plot, it was not until Han Xiangjian appeared and she heard the emperor admit that he fell in love with another woman at first sight that Ruyi gradually woke up from this belief. She kept testing until she was sure that her long-standing cognition was wrong, and finally she lost the courage to live.
The other is Ruyi's sincerity towards the emperor. Not only was Yihuan moved by their childhood sweethearts, but the emperor himself was also convinced that Ruyi was the only one in the harem who loved him without asking for anything. After personally discovering Ruyi and Ling Yunche's affair, the emperor was angry and inexplicably panicked. He was eager to prove that he was loved by someone, so he threw his new favorite aside and began to linger around old people like Xiyue.
Xiyue finally found out what happened in the cold palace. She could roughly guess the emperor's thoughts. Ruyi was like a proof to him, proving that he was worthy of being loved regardless of his identity. After all, Ruyi was the only one who knew him when he was still in the Old Summer Palace.
Once Ruyi no longer loved him, he seemed to have lost his younger self and began to doubt everyone around him. Even Ruyi, who he thought would love him forever, had an affair with someone else. Then, was it possible that those women in the harem who married him because of his status as a prince and emperor had never been sincere to him?
Xiyue was not overwhelmed by the emperor's sudden favor. No matter how the emperor tried to test her, Xiyue behaved as usual. Even though she was very impatient in her heart, she held back her impatience when she thought of Yongqi who was still young. Fortunately, the emperor's pretentious mood only lasted less than two months before he recovered.
Yihuan became the emperor's new love, but no one knew the true situation behind this new love. The queen mother tried to contact Yihuan many times, but failed to get a reply. The queen mother was so angry that she thought Yihuan wanted to run away after using her.
"Hmph, if you want to cross the river and destroy the bridge, you have to see if this bridge of mine is one that a mere noble like you can tear down!" The Queen Mother ordered people to contact the Nianhulu clan outside the palace to suppress Yihuan's father. Yihuan regretted it deeply after hearing the news, but he could not explain the truth, so he could only beg the Emperor for help.
The emperor once again realized the great power of the empress dowager in the previous dynasty through the suppression of Yihuan's father. Even though Prince Guo was dead, he was still afraid that the empress dowager would find a way to support her young son to ascend the throne. Thinking of the recent contact between the empress dowager and Concubine Chun, the emperor felt something was not good. The sterilizing medicine in his body had not yet been dissolved. If this continued, he would only be able to choose his successor from Yongzhang and Yongqi.
Yonghuang is not smart, and Yongzhang is the eldest son. The more the emperor thinks about it, the more he feels that this is what the empress dowager planned. He can't help but become more and more anxious to find the antidote. However, the empress dowager controls the Cining Palace too strictly, and the emperor dare not confront the empress dowager in person. He can only get angry at Quanxiao and others.
What the emperor didn't know was that although he was anxious, the empress dowager was even more anxious than him. After all, the emperor still had three sons who were unable to have children. This was completely incomparable to the empress dowager who would be poisoned in a year and a half.
The Queen Mother has not yet found out who poisoned her. Although she also has suspicions about the Emperor, after several subtle tests, she did not find anything wrong, so she had to turn her attention to others. Xiyue was naturally the target of the Queen Mother's suspicion. Originally, the Queen should have been a target as well, but the Queen died too early so the Queen Mother completely ignored it.
The situation did not improve after Yihuan asked the emperor for help. The empress dowager found that her father, who had suppressed Yihuan, still could not get a response from Yihuan, and finally realized that there must be something going on that she didn't know about. For this reason, the empress dowager wanted to get the secret from Yihuan more and more, but the empress dowager's investigation speed was completely inferior to the emperor's secret medicine. Yihuan fell ill, and due to the effect of the medicine and her own depression, Yihuan died in less than three months.
The Empress Dowager and the Emperor were busy looking for an antidote, and neither of them cared about the women in the harem. As for the women in the harem, those who were scheming and causing trouble had either died long ago or been sent to the cold palace. Those who had children no longer cared about the Emperor's favor, and those who did not have children had already accepted their fate. The harem then entered a relatively peaceful period.
A country cannot be without a ruler for a day, and the harem cannot be without a queen either. As expected, Xiyue was canonized as queen by the emperor one year after Langya's death. The empress dowager could not find a reason to stop it. After all, Xiyue herself had a high position and an adopted son. She was the most suitable candidate. She wanted to promote Concubine Chun, but unfortunately the emperor did not give her any chance because she was wary of Concubine Chun and her son.
Perhaps the emperor wanted to give up after searching for a long time without any news, or perhaps the emperor was tired of staying in the capital and wanted to go to the south to have a look. The eastern tour in the plot came as scheduled.
As the empress, Xiyue naturally had to go with the emperor, and the queen mother was also on the list of the eastern tour. Not long after, Korchin asked for a legitimate princess, just as in the plot. In this life, without Princess Hejing, the daughter of the queen, the only legitimate princess was the queen mother's daughter Hengti. The princess would marry into Korchin, far away from home, and would be very miserable. Hengti's elder sister, Princess Duanshu, had already married far away, and the queen mother was very reluctant to part with the remaining little daughter, so she decided to ask the emperor to adopt other women from the royal family, and keep Hengti no matter what.
"Your Majesty, Duanshu has married far away, Hongzhan died early, and I only have Hengti left. I beg you not to marry Hengti to Khorchin."
It was rare to find something that the Queen Mother cared about, and the Emperor really felt that God was helping him at this moment, so he decisively used Heng Ti's marriage to trade the antidote to the infertility drug to the Queen Mother.
"Empress Dowager, Hengti is also my sister, and I am reluctant to let her marry far away. But Khorchin is my great-grandfather's maternal family, and they bluntly want the legitimate princess to marry down, so I have no choice."
The Queen Mother understood what the Emperor meant and did not continue to play Tai Chi with the Emperor. She directly promised, "As long as the Emperor can agree to my request, no matter what it is, I can agree to it."
"Okay! Since the Empress Dowager is so straightforward, I won't worry about it. I want the antidote. As long as you give it to me, I will find a way to persuade Korchin to change the candidate!" The emperor was waiting for the empress dowager to say this, and once the empress dowager made the promise, he would immediately put forward his request.
"Antidote? What antidote?" The Queen Mother originally thought that the Emperor would ask her to hand over the power in her hands, but she never expected that the Emperor would make another request that she herself did not understand.
The emperor still thought that the queen mother was still pretending, and did not realize that the queen mother was really confused. He did not mind saying it more bluntly, "The antidote to the infertility drug! Queen! Mother!"
"Don't play dumb anymore. Qi Ru is your man, remember? Before he died, Qi Ru told me that you ordered him to give me a sterilizing drug twice. The first time, he worked, but after Yongqi was born, he gave me another drug. So now I'm asking you for the antidote!"
"?!!!!!!" The Queen Mother was really dumbfounded. It was true that Qi Ru was her man, but Qi Ru was a fence-sitter and was not very reliable. She only bribed Qi Ru to give Gao Xiyue drugs and secretly feel the Emperor's pulse. She had never made any infertile drugs!