Hey, you are reborn too?

The two were inseparable, sticking together like a newlywed couple.

She whispered coquettishly, and he comforted her gently.

Everything seemed to have returned to the year when Saint Beili entered the palace.

She was timid. Although she had learned royal etiquette from the teaching nanny sent by Dayuan, she was still very cautious in everything, fearing that she would make mistakes.

The emperor still remembers that because Dayuan was much stronger than Beili that year, he did not pay too much attention to the saint girl who was sent to him for marriage, and just hastily conferred her the title of a noble lady.

He sent people to place the Holy Maiden Beili in the Huayin Palace, and served her with good food and drink every day.

Three years passed like this.

One day, a banquet was held in the palace.

The emperor was in high spirits and drank too much, so he went to the harem.

He stopped when passing by Huayin Temple.

There seems to be a strange fragrance.

Unlike ordinary palace incense, it has a strange, almost captivating fragrance.

He was dazed at the time and followed the scent, then he saw a beautiful woman in palace dress.

The emperor could not remember what happened afterwards. He only knew that when he woke up the next day, there was a pretty lady with talking eyes beside him.

When she saw the emperor looking at her, she did not avoid him but covered herself with the quilt and giggled.

After three years in the palace, she has completely lost her former shyness.

The most rare thing is that in this harem of cruel people, she can maintain a pure heart.

When the emperor saw those bright, light-colored eyes, his heart was filled with tenderness.

He didn't say anything more and hurriedly got up and left.

Soon after, an edict came.

The little noble lady suddenly became a concubine.

The queen was so angry that she deliberately damaged the concubine's clothes during the ceremony to give her a warning.

The Concubine Chen didn't think much of it and wore the dress to meet the Emperor.

The emperor was furious, but not at the Concubine Chen, but at the Empress.

On that day, the Queen was deprived of the right to manage the six palaces, while the Concubine Chen, a foreign woman who had never given birth to a prince, was given the right to assist in the management of the six palaces.

The people in the harem were in panic for a while.

Everyone said that the Saint Beili was a witch. She accepted the title wearing tattered clothes. Not only was she not punished, but she also made the Emperor furious with the Queen, and he gave her the right to manage the harem.

Of course, they dared not say it openly and could only speak secretly.

It was only after the Queen Mother stepped in that the incident was settled.

The Empress was confined to Fengyi Palace for two months, but she still had the power to manage the six palaces. Concubine Chen, who failed to observe proper etiquette during the ceremony of conferring the title of Concubine, was punished to copy Buddhist scriptures at Anguo Temple for two months.

It was precisely because of this incident that the already bad relationship between the emperor and the empress dowager took a sharp turn for the worse.

As for the Queen, she felt that her power was taken away by the Concubine Chen because she was punished with house arrest. She was dissatisfied and did not look kindly to the Queen Mother.

The Queen Mother had been in the harem for so long, so she was no fool. Feeling the dissatisfaction of the Emperor and Empress, the Queen Mother said nothing, but stayed alone in the Cining Palace, and never cared about the affairs of the harem again.

Two months later, Concubine Chen returned from Anguo Temple and the Empress's house arrest was lifted.

The emperor was deeply resentful of the empress. He disregarded the etiquette of the Dayuan Dynasty and used a headache as an excuse. He did not set foot in Fengyi Palace for a whole year. Instead, he stayed in Huayin Palace every night.

As for why he stayed in Huayin Palace, the emperor also had a reason: Concubine Chen was good at mixing perfume, and the perfume she mixed had the effect of calming the nerves and helping sleep. Staying in her palace, I felt comfortable all over, and even the headache that the Imperial Hospital was helpless to treat was a little better.

As it concerned the emperor's health, no one dared to stop it, and the empress dowager also did not intervene. As a result, the emperor actually spent a whole year in the Huayin Palace.

Until that day, when the two of them were chatting about family matters, the imperial physician who was taking Concubine Chen's pulse suddenly knelt down, startling her.

The Empress Chen is pregnant!

The imperial physician's words awakened the man from his dream.

They stared at each other with eyes wide open. I don't know who burst out laughing first, but they both laughed.

You're going to be a father.

There was tenderness in the corners of Chen Fei's eyes. She gently stroked her abdomen, and her shallow eyes seemed to be able to shed tears.

You're going to be a mother too.

The emperor came closer and placed his forehead against the concubine's in an affectionate manner.

Since that day, Huayin Palace has been heavily guarded. Although the Concubine Chen was not restricted in her movements, she seemed to be under house arrest in disguise.

Oh, you are such a fool. Why do you have so many people guarding the door? You don't let me go here or there. Do you know that it is boring and uninteresting to stay in the temple every day?

Madam, it’s my fault.

The emperor gently held her hand, worry flashing in his eyes.

Although there have been children in the harem over the years, most of them did not go smoothly, at least, not to the emperor's liking.

If the child's mother does not have a high status, she cannot raise the prince personally even if she gives birth to him.

Over the years, the emperor also discovered a terrible fact: if a concubine of a higher rank became pregnant, even if they were lucky enough not to have a miscarriage, they could only give birth to a princess alive.

If they gave birth to a prince, their lives would certainly not be saved. Even the newborn prince would die inexplicably before he was one month old.

This incident happened many times, which was really strange. The emperor ordered the empress to investigate it, but he could not find a satisfactory result.

Although the Queen Mother was concerned about the royal offspring, she had no intention of investigating. As a result, the Emperor had offspring, but they were not numerous, with only one princess and two princes surviving.

The princess's mother became a nun, and the second prince's mother, though prominent, did not survive childbirth. The third prince's mother was just a palace maid, and although she was given the title of concubine for her contribution in giving birth to the prince, her mother's family was not prominent and her birth was relatively low, so the emperor could not give her a higher title.

Seeing this, the emperor was in a dilemma.

Since he already had a prince, and he was getting older and less able to handle things, he thought about appointing a crown prince.

But if the second prince is appointed, he is unwilling to do so. The second prince's mother died when he was born, and the Imperial Astronomical Observatory judged that this child was unlucky. The prosperity of the Dayuan Kingdom cannot be passed on to an unlucky person.

If no new prince is born, then the only option is to establish the third prince. It's not that I am not satisfied with establishing the third prince, but the status of the third prince's mother's family is too low and they can't help him.

Besides this, the emperor had another concern.

If he were to establish the third prince as the heir, it would very likely cause the queen to take the third prince away for adoption and use the power of her mother's family to cultivate him, thus causing the queen's interests to be linked with the future monarch in advance.

In this way, it is very likely that they will become the only powerful one and even threaten the imperial power.

More importantly, the emperor had no feelings for the third prince's biological mother. He just mistook her for an old friend when he was drunk and had sex with her on a whim.

But unexpectedly, this time, the palace maid got pregnant. The emperor did not need to publicize the matter, but quietly took her into the harem and gave her a noble status.

Unexpectedly, her belly was so good that she gave birth to the second prince.

A new prince was added to the palace, and the emperor could not be too harsh on the prince's biological mother, so he came to her place a few times, rewarded her with some things, and made her a concubine.

However, when the third prince was just one year old, an accident happened again.