Ruyi's Royal Love in the Palace: Spring in the Palace

*In late March, Yan Wan gave birth to a prince, the twelfth prince, and the emperor named him Yongyan.

In April of the same year, when Yongyan was one month old, the emperor appointed him as the crown prince. This kindness shocked the court and the public.

The emperor was often ill, and everyone thought he didn't have much time left. Now the prince was only a month old, and his mother, Wei, was only 29 years old, not yet 30 years old, so there were ministers who asked the emperor to execute the prince's mother.

Although Wei was known for her kindness, she had only been in favor for a short time, so her sincerity could not be seen. Moreover, if a new emperor ascended the throne, Wei might use the excuse that her son was young to control the government and make the court chaotic.

Such proposals became more and more intense, until a week later, someone brought it up again. The emperor sneered and immediately reprimanded, "The queen is kind to me, and is considerate and attentive to me and the empress. She never mentioned anything related to the previous dynasty in the harem, even though your ridiculous remarks were spread throughout the harem, she never mentioned a word!"

"Is it that she doesn't know about this? No, she is kind enough. But how do you treat the Queen's kindness?" The Emperor scolded those ministers who kept saying they wanted to execute Yan Wan.

Yanwan was a dodder clinging to him, and she thrived because of his teachings. She learned Yueqin, Kunqu Opera, and Jiangnan tunes for him, she learned poetry, classics, and history from him, and she danced for him, stepping on red plum blossoms and wearing brocade clouds.

He single-handedly trained Yan Wan from a little palace maid to become the most perfect empress of the Qing Dynasty. He invested his efforts, time and energy, and he loved his results and the perfect incarnation he created.

Sometimes, the emperor would feel a little bored for a moment because Yan Wan absorbed everything he taught her so well that he gradually had nothing to teach her.

The words of these ministers actually gave him a wake-up call.

The emperor knew that he was in poor health and that he probably couldn't raise Yongyan properly. Waiting for a child to grow up and understand the truth was too long, and he couldn't wait any longer.

But he can teach the mother of the future emperor, who will then teach the next emperor.

So, after the emperor left the court, he summoned the empress to the Yangxin Palace. He sat facing Yanwan, panting with an old and embarrassed look, like a broken bellows, and his chest made a sound symbolizing death.

But the queen, who loved him deeply, just looked at her support for a long time with such concern and admiration in her eyes.

The emperor was silent for a long time, and suddenly said, "I will teach you how to handle some trivial matters of state affairs in the future."

Tears welled up on Yan Wan's face as she said, "The Emperor is a very strong and powerful man, how could he have reached this point?"

The emperor smiled slightly and said, "I know you are smart, and I am also a little tired."

The emperor coughed twice and said, "I hope you can help me deal with some trivial government affairs in the future, which can also reduce my physical consumption."

The two had another heart-to-heart talk. When Yan Wan came out of the Palace of Tranquil Longevity, her eyes were red with a feeling of being moved and sad.

The emperor in the Yangxin Palace also had slightly red eyes and lowered his eyes, not knowing what he was thinking.

An hour later, Yu Hu came quietly to report, saying, "After the Queen left the Yangxin Palace, she stayed in the Yongshou Palace for a long time, crying from time to time. It was probably because she was sad about the emperor's health."

The emperor nodded, a knowing smile on his face. He gently stroked the image of himself and Yan Wan drawn side by side by the painter, and said, "My queen has never let me down."

He started coughing violently again.

*Jin Yuyan became thinner and thinner, and died quietly without the emperor noticing. At that time, the emperor had not summoned her for two months and thirteen days.

The next time I heard news about Jin Yuyan, it was when Yu Hu came to report that Jiapin had passed away.

It was May, and the emperor's body was like a candle lingering in the wind, and it might go out at any time. So he didn't want to face death, so he just asked people to prepare Jin Yuyan's funeral.

*It was July, and the sky was just getting hot. The emperor decided to go to the Old Summer Palace to escape the heat.

On the fifth day of July, the first day of the court meeting in the Old Summer Palace, there was a screen behind the emperor's dragon throne, and behind the screen was the empress sitting upright.

According to historical records, on the fifth day of the seventh month in the nineteenth year of Qianlong's reign, the two emperors came to the throne.

Anyone with a discerning eye can see that this is following the path of the former Emperor Wu of Zhou.

But the emperor insisted on his own way, thinking that his queen was a good person. The ministers tried their best to refute him, but it was useless. Instead, some of them were punished by the emperor and banished to the frontier.

Empress Wei was not, as the ministers thought, a woman who only knew how to win favor and dress up. On the contrary, the empress was very smart and well-versed in history. She could often infer the purpose of covering up something from the ministers' reactions to it, and she could often draw inferences about trivial matters in the court and make meaningful comments.

The ministers just held their noses and endured this strange situation. No one could stop the emperor from doing what he wanted.

When the Queen Mother learned about this, she hurried to find the Emperor, trying to dissuade him from giving his kingdom to someone else. But the Emperor refused to see her, he just wanted to do what he wanted.

*On New Year's Eve of the 19th year of Qianlong's reign, the emperor turned over the name of Concubine Rong, but suddenly vomited blood in the middle of the night and fell into a coma.

When the emperor was critically ill, the court could only be entrusted to the empress, who had handled state affairs with the emperor and enjoyed the power to control the world.

Some ministers speculated that the queen had evil intentions and wanted to seize power while the emperor was unconscious.

But three days later, the emperor slowly regained consciousness, and Yan Wan handed all power back to the emperor without any hesitation. This stopped the ministers from making malicious speculations.

The emperor handled government affairs alone again, but he fell ill again after a few days of hard work.

Everyone in the palace knew of Yan Wan's beautiful name, and people outside the palace talked to people inside, so the people of the capital also knew the queen's beautiful name.

Such a good queen was actually slandered by the ministers. Some people couldn't bear to see the queen hurt by such a thing, so they volunteered to plead for the queen.

I hope that officials in the court will not treat the Empress like this, and I also hope that the Emperor will not blame the Empress because of other people's nonsense.

Two days later, Yan Wan was helping the emperor handle government affairs again.

*In the summer of the twentieth year of Qianlong's reign, the emperor had been recuperating for a long time, but death was always with him, causing him to fall into a coma and wake up from time to time.

He is old.

The emperor had not been in charge of government affairs for a long time, and Yan Wan held the imperial power firmly in her hands.

In the former court and the harem, Yan Wan had the final say.

*The 10th day of the second month in the 21st year of Qianlong's reign

The emperor woke up from a cold sweat, and suddenly remembered his childhood sweetheart, whom he had been thinking about on the day of the selection.

Two years, three months and fifteen days after Rupin had not seen the emperor, she saw the young man again. The young man had aged and had wrinkles on his face.

The young man just stared at her with wide eyes. His hair was all white and he looked very old.

Ruyi's heart trembled. Could it be that the emperor remembered her again at the end of his life?

The emperor moved his hands, and Jinbao, who was standing beside him, hurriedly helped the emperor up so that he could half lean on the pillow.

The emperor asked with a puzzled look, "Ruyi?"

Ruyi pursed her lips. Her voice was hoarse from drinking the chicken soup Jingse had brought her. She could no longer speak the same voice as before. She said, "Your Majesty."

The emperor observed Ruyi carefully for a long time. He traced Ruyi's eyebrows, nose, lips, and ears with his eyes, and then focused his gaze on Ruyi's eyes again.

He suddenly sighed for a long time and said, "I thought that the love between us before was still somewhat sincere. But now I see that you are completely different from what I remember."

"No..." The emperor frowned and said angrily, "You are not her."

"My Ying'er is gentle and sweet." The emperor coughed twice, turned his head and called, "Ying'er."

Wang Fuzhi came in wearing a pretty dress, and the emperor said he liked her youthful and energetic look the most. Without her makeup, she looked nothing like Ruyi, with her piercing eyes fixed on the emperor's face.

She looked at the emperor with eyes full of love, and the emperor also looked at her lovingly and gently stroked Wang Fuzhi's face.

He turned to look at Ruyi again and said, "It's... strange. Why didn't I sentence you to death before?"

"Come here, strip this woman of her name, drag her away and sentence her to death." The emperor directly wrote the ending of Ruyi's life.

In the invisible world, the white silk that bound the emperor's eyes fell off the moment he saw Ruyi. The emperor's eyes became clear again, so he did what he wanted to do.

Ruyi, oh no, it’s Anonymous, died in oblivion.

Before she died, she had no false dreams of love, no pretending to be generous and inviting the enemy to drink tea underground, and no time to beg for mercy. She was completely abandoned and died in shock.

*On April 15, the 21st year of Qianlong's reign, in such a vibrant spring, Emperor Qianlong passed away.

His twelfth son, Yongyan, who was two years old at the time, inherited the throne.

The new emperor was very young, so the government was handed over to his mother, Empress Dowager Wei.

*In August of the 22nd year of Qianlong's reign, many officials, common people, royal relatives, monks, and Taoists asked Yan Wan to change the reign title. After many things were complicated, she chose a suitable one and ascended the throne in the Hall of Supreme Harmony.

Wei Yanwan became the new emperor of the Qing Dynasty, and people called him Emperor Taichu.