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Published at 25th of June 2020 03:24:19 PM
Chapter 110

Qi Sheng granted Xie Yi a marriage and married her to Li Hong so Fu’er became my competent grand maid . She was as agile as ever .

In a life as ordinary as this, days flew by fast . In a blinking second, the third prince was born .

I kept delivering babies and Zhao wang and Lv Li didn’t take a break as well . As if they were in a competition with us, they had babies one after another . But Zhao wang didn’t marry a princess again . Every time it was mentioned, the Grand Empress Dowager couldn’t help but get her eyes reddened . She felt she was in debt to Zhao wang so she asked every family to recommend suitable girls .

Whenever things proceeded to this stage, Lv Li would come to visit me in the palace and she specifically chose the time when Qi Sheng was there . She didn’t say anything else but grabbed my thigh and cried that she missed me and she was worried about me . Luckily that the Grand Empress Dowager intended to find Zhao wang a princess . Once the new princess was in the mansion and she had handed over all the affairs in the mansion to her, she would return to the palace and serve me .

Qi Sheng couldn’t put up with it and every time he would pay the Grand Empress Dowager a visit the next day . I had no idea what he told the old lady and the old lady would temporarily forget about finding Zhao wang a princess .

Several times later, when the Grand Empress Dowager mentioned about finding Zhao wang a princess again, none of the families took it seriously and girls of suitable ages couldn’t get married for various of reasons . In the end, Qi Sheng had no other way and he didn’t want his brother to be a bachelor forever so he made the only woman in the mansion the princess .

Zhang wang’s mansion was settled and Qi Sheng was finally relieved .


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But I started to feel troubled . Somehow concubines in the harem were all addicted to religions and all of them seemed to become disillusioned with the mortal world .

Qi Sheng didn’t have many concubines in the first place and there wouldn’t be one left in several years if they left one by one every year . In the fifth year of Datong, the only concubine left in the palace, Concubine Liu, wanted to devote her life to the buddha .

I urged Concubine Liu in her place, “You are still so young . Why do you take things so hard? What’s bothering you that cannot be solved? After all these years, we are the only ones left in the palace . There was a time we were only able to take our turn every seven or eight days, and we’ve made through it . Now His Majesty can only sleep at my place or at yours, so why are you thinking about becoming a nun now? How can the temple be any better than the palace? You can only practice abstinence from meat and say prayers every day . Just stay and you can keep me company . If I have some meat for a meal, you wouldn’t have to be a veggie!”

I couldn’t help but become emotional as I spoke, and my eyes swollen .

But Concubine Liu got even more emotional than I did . She grabbed my thigh and pleaded in tears, “Your Majesty, please let me go . I’ve been serving His Majesty for several years and he’s never touched me . I am suffering but I can’t say it . In the past, the other concubines could take a half a night shift but now I’m the only one left so I have to guard for the whole night . I’m getting old now . Staying up for a night will take me days to recover! Your Majesty, please take a look at the dark circles under my eyes . No matter how much makeup I put on it, I can’t cover it!”

I was struck dumb for a moment and stared at the tearing Concubine Liu in a daze, speechless . After a long while, I tried to negotiate with her, “What about I talk to His Majesty and ask him to stop calling you to serve him at the night?”


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Concubine Liu didn’t agree and she became a nun no matter what I said .

I felt the Palace was so empty that it didn’t look like one, so I had to advise Qi Sheng to choose more girls by myself . I earnestly urged, “Why do you have to be like this? More girls in the Palace will bring liveliness . I don’t even care about it, so why are you being so stubborn?”

Qi Sheng only smiled and answered, “I want to win your heart with my own . If it can’t be done in one year, then I’ll try for ten years . If it still can’t be done in ten years, then I’ll devote my whole life . ”

I was quite helpless, “Qi Sheng, you don’t understand . ”

“Then tell me,” he said .

I opened my mouth, trying to tell him, but I didn’t know what to say . The only thing I could tell him was that as long as he was an emperor, he would be my ruler . When my life was in his grip, how could I love him regardless of my own life?


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He didn’t understand that love was not based on spoiling or cherishing, but equality . But he was the Emperor and I was the Empress, so never would we be equal .

In the tenth year of Datong, the Grand Empress Dowager finally passed away . Qi Sheng was extremely close to his grandma so he was downhearted for quite a while, which gave him another perfect excuse to cancel the girl selection the next year .

In the thirteenth year of Datong, Qi Sheng and I had already become an old couple, with five kids in total, three sons and two daughters . At that year, Qi Sheng made a list of all young talents in the imperial court and selected a few he was satisfied with . After investing their ancestors eight generation backward, our first-born Princess Weiyuan was finally married .

So I asked Qi Sheng, “We’ll stop having more kids, alright? I’m becoming a grandma soon and I’m too embarrassed to have another one . ”

Qi Sheng carefully contemplated on it for several nights and finally agreed he would have a serious consideration of my advice .

In the fourteenth year of Datong, the Crown Prince Qi Hao was already sixteen . After careful selection, the Crown Princess was selected . When I was choosing other concubines for him, I taught him, “If you like, you can have some more girls . If you don’t like them, marry no one at all . Don’t ruin those girls’ life . ”

The Crown Prince was still too young to understand the charm of beauty so he immediately nodded, “I only adore Ning’er, so I won’t marry anyone else . ”

Qi Sheng looked at me meaningfully then invited me to visit the ancient temple in Cui Mountain . He asked me, “Pengpeng, don’t you feel happy now?”

Inside the temple, where smoke of incense sticks filled the room, I answered with the honesty that I never showed before, “I am happy, very happy . ”

It’s just… when I was reminded that behind the happiness was several girls whole life devoting to the oil lamp and the Buddha, I felt guilty .

Qi Sheng asked, “This is the temple where Concubine Huang and the others became nuns . They are here . Do you want to meet them?”

I was in a trance for a while but in the end, I still shook my head, “No . ”

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