The Queen Mother slowly sat back on the Phoenix Chair.

The Queen Mother's eyes fell on the Emperor and she smiled bitterly, "I used to like the Concubine very much. She was proficient in everything from music, chess, calligraphy, painting, poetry, and songs. She was good-looking and had a good temper. I was satisfied with her in every way. But you two brothers should never have liked her."

Eunuch Yuan stood aside. He knew that if he stayed in the palace, he would definitely hear something that shocked him, but he did not expect that Prince Cheng had liked Concubine Chen twenty years ago.

Doesn’t Prince Cheng like Queen Song?

The Prince of Jin was almost certainly the child of the Prince of Cheng. Princess Shouchun didn't know that Queen Song was pregnant with another child by the Prince of Cheng...

They are already pregnant with two or three children. God knows how many times they have been secretly flirting with each other. In the end, the one that Prince Cheng likes is Consort Chen. Eunuch Yuan really wants to know if Queen Song knows about this...

Even Eunuch Yuan was so shocked, let alone the Emperor.

The Emperor never thought that Prince Cheng would like Concubine Chen, and that he had liked her for twenty years.

The emperor's face seemed to be covered with a layer of frost. "Did the empress dowager know about this twenty years ago?"

The Queen Mother said, "I don't just know that. At the birthday banquet of the late emperor, Concubine Chen performed a dance. The next day, King Cheng told me that he wanted to marry Concubine Chen. I was already satisfied with Concubine Chen, so how could I not agree? But I didn't expect that you also fell in love with Concubine Chen and asked the late emperor to grant you marriage. When I went to the late emperor, the imperial decree granting marriage had already been sent out of the palace."

The royal family values ​​the eldest son, and the people love the youngest son.

This point was particularly vividly demonstrated by the late emperor and the empress dowager.

The late emperor valued the emperor, and the relationship between father and son was closer, while the empress dowager doted on Prince Cheng more, so when the emperor had problems, he would go directly to the late emperor, and Prince Cheng would go to the empress dowager.

The Queen Mother liked Concubine Chen and was willing to have her as her daughter-in-law, but no mother would like to see her two sons want to marry the same woman.

Because she praised Chen Fei many times, the late emperor knew that she would not object. In addition, at that time, Lord Han intended to marry Chen Fei to his son and frequently came to propose marriage. Old Tutor Yan was on the verge of approval of the marriage. The emperor urged him urgently, so the late emperor did not discuss it with the empress dowager and directly issued an order to grant the marriage.

By the time the Queen Mother went to ask the Late Emperor for a marriage on behalf of Prince Cheng, the late Emperor's imperial decree granting the marriage between the Emperor and Concubine Chen had already been sent out of the palace. The Queen Mother was a step too late and did not even have a chance to stop the imperial decree.

The marriage was granted by imperial decree, and the empress dowager could not ask the late emperor to revoke it, not to mention that the marriage was requested by the emperor. All the empress dowager could do was to persuade Prince Cheng. There were so many ladies from noble families in Kyoto, and some were not inferior to the concubine Chen. The empress dowager still remembered the disappointed look on Prince Cheng's face at that time.

Although royal family affection is weak and the princes are full of intrigues, the emperor and Prince Cheng are both born to the queen mother, so their relationship naturally cannot be compared with that of other princes.

The Queen Mother thought that King Cheng had given up, but less than half a month after the late Emperor granted the marriage, the Queen Mother realized that she had thought things too simply.

The emperor took traditional Chinese medicine and had physical contact with his cousin, the empress dowager's niece.

At that time, the Queen Mother didn't know that it was Prince Cheng who did it. Someone was plotting against the Emperor, and the Queen Mother had to find out. This time it was an aphrodisiac, but what about next time?

But the Queen Mother finally found out that it was Prince Cheng who was responsible.

King Cheng confessed to this and said that he was the one who did it.

When the emperor ascends the throne in the future, he will be able to rule the world. He and the emperor are both born to the empress dowager, so he doesn't want anything else but a concubine.

This was also the reason why the Queen Mother doted on Prince Cheng more. The Queen Mother and the late Emperor had high hopes for the Emperor. Prince Cheng was their second legitimate son. With his eldest legitimate brother in front of him, he had no share in the throne. The Queen Mother wanted to dote on him more so that he could become a powerful prince in the future, which would actually be more comfortable than being the Emperor.

King Cheng only wanted a concubine, and since the incident had already happened, the Queen Mother had no choice but to be led by King Cheng.

The Duke Mao's Mansion did not agree to let their daughter become the Emperor's concubine, and the Empress Dowager also disagreed. Even if she was just a concubine or a future imperial concubine, it was just a nicer title, and in reality she was still a concubine.

The empress dowager first found Old Tutor Yan. Although Old Tutor Yan did not want to cancel the engagement, the empress dowager made it clear that she wanted the emperor to give an explanation to her niece from her natal family. Old Tutor Yan was also unwilling to let her daughter be a concubine, and was even more afraid of offending the empress dowager. Even if she finally married into the royal family as the principal wife, she would be wronged, so she agreed.

The empress dowager persuaded old tutor Yan, and then went to see the late emperor. When the late emperor saw that they had reached an agreement, he agreed to revoke the imperial decree to grant the marriage, but the emperor disagreed.

He had no interest in his cousin in the first place, and he was plotted against because of his carelessness, but he would not agree to break off the engagement like that.

Then things stood still there.

The Queen Mother went to see Concubine Chen and told her clearly that she was not dissatisfied with her, but as a mother, she did not want to see one son marry a woman that another son also liked, which would sow the hidden danger of a quarrel between the brothers.

The Queen Mother asked Concubine Chen to give up the idea of ​​the Emperor marrying her. Concubine Chen did not expect that Prince Cheng also liked her. The Queen Mother had some concerns and asked her to cancel the engagement. What could she do?

Concubine Chen agreed to the Empress Dowager's request. She told the Emperor that she had someone she liked. The late Emperor had arranged the marriage for her but she did not dare to tell him. Now the Empress Dowager wanted to cancel the engagement, and she hoped that the Emperor would grant her wish.

The Concubine Chen did not say who her favorite person was. The Emperor asked her if he was the son of Lord Han, but the Concubine Chen did not say anything.

The emperor said nothing and thought that he had guessed correctly.

But even so, the emperor did not want to let go. Because of this matter back then, the emperor was extremely worried and could not find the person who drugged him, otherwise he would have wanted to whip the corpse.

Seeing that the Emperor insisted on not canceling the engagement, Prince Cheng frequently went to Old Tutor Yan's mansion to look for Concubine Chen. In order to get Concubine Chen, Prince Cheng wanted to use the strategy of being a hero to save the beauty.

Prince Cheng sent the Emperor away, causing the carriage that Concubine Chen was riding in to lose control. However, the Emperor, who had been sent away, suddenly came back for some reason and was one step ahead of him. In order to save Concubine Chen, the Emperor broke his arm.

The Concubine Chen and the Emperor were in love with each other. The Emperor even risked his life for her. How could she bear to hurt the Emperor's feelings? In order to be able to stay with the Emperor forever, she was willing to give up her position as the principal wife.

Not only did King Cheng's plan fail, it also helped the emperor.

Next was discussion of marriage. The Empress Dowager wanted her niece from her natal family to marry first, but the Emperor wanted them to marry together.

The Emperor had disobeyed the Empress Dowager too many times for Concubine Chen. The Empress Dowager realized that both of her sons were obsessed with Concubine Chen. She originally wanted the late Emperor to revoke the marriage between the Emperor and Concubine Chen, and then have the late Emperor marry Concubine Chen to the son of Lord Han.

Neither of the two sons should marry the Concubine Chen.

The Ke'er are no longer under the control of their mothers. None of them listen to the empress dowager, and each one of them has his own ideas.

The wedding date had not yet been set when the late emperor passed away.

When the late emperor passed away and the emperor ascended the throne, he had the final say on how to get married.

The Emperor married Empress Wei and Concubine Chen on the same day. He ignored Empress Wei and favored Concubine Chen alone.

The Empress Dowager was even more hostile to Concubine Chen. She knew that her niece from her natal family was not favored by the Emperor. According to the ancestral system, the Empress Dowager wanted the Emperor to take a concubine to expand the royal family.

It was at that time that Queen Song entered the palace.

As for Prince Cheng and Queen Song, the Queen Mother had been kept in the dark for so many years. She only knew that Prince Cheng was obsessed with Concubine Chen, so obsessed that she was afraid that they would run into each other at a banquet and that the Emperor would find out that Prince Cheng admired Concubine Chen.

That is to say, last time, in order to save Xie Jingyin, Queen Song had no choice but to go to the Queen Mother and beg her to save Xie Jingyin. Only then did she tell her that King Cheng came to the palace for a banquet, got drunk, and raped her in the rockery in the imperial garden.

Just because she was wearing a skirt similar to the one King Cheng wore when he first met Concubine Chen, King Cheng mistook her for Concubine Chen when he was drunk.

It was at that time that the King of Jin was born.

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