Quick Wear: I was a Favored Concubine in the Qing Dynasty

"Empress, oh Empress." After calling out "Empress" twice, Qianlong was completely at a loss for words.

I thought I knew enough, but I never imagined I would know even more.

"Was it also you who did this to Lady Fuca?" At this moment, Qianlong suddenly thought of Lady Fuca, Yonghuang's mother.

The Empress immediately denied it: "Your Majesty, I have never poisoned Consort Zhe." She had never used this on Consort Zhe.

The Emperor Qianlong looked at the Empress with suspicion and shock. He felt as if the Empress was looking at him, at a fool.

He thought the Empress was simple, kind, and virtuous, but these were not her true nature. The Empress was narrow-minded and ruthless, more so than any ordinary man.

Emperor Qianlong concluded directly: "Then he did something else."

"Was Consort Yi also you?" Qianlong now felt a chill run down his spine as he thought about it, realizing that these things had happened right under his nose.

If the Empress were to attack him, Qianlong felt he would be powerless to resist.

Emperor Qianlong then recalled Yu Suisui's previous complaints that despite serving him in bed so many times, she had never been able to conceive.

"Empress, did you do something else to Consort Jing?" If that's the case, then there's been a poisonous scorpion lying beside her all along.

When the Empress saw Qianlong mention Yu Suisui, her expression turned disgusted again. "Your Majesty, although I have not been the best to Consort Jing all these years, she has grown up safely under my protection and has even become your concubine."

"I would not only be grateful to Consort Jing for giving me a second chance at life, but also for recognizing my talent and giving me a chance to grow up."

Emperor Qianlong didn't want to listen to the Empress's nonsense, but he didn't interrupt her.

The Empress suddenly burst into tears again, "I only asked her to plead for him before the Emperor, how is that going too far? Consort Jing is ungrateful."

"Empress, it was you who killed Consort Yi." When Qianlong heard the Empress mention Yu Suisui, he knew that the Empress was changing the subject; it was she who had killed Lady Huang.

Huang was a lively and cheerful young woman. He took a liking to her at first sight and promoted her from a maid who looked after the flowers and plants in the mansion to a princess.

At that time, the Empress volunteered to have her aunt teach Huang Shi manners. After learning the manners, Huang Shi became more and more rigid, and later she became depressed all day long.

Later, in the month before his ascension to the throne, he cut his own wrists and died.

Emperor Qianlong always thought he treated Lady Huang very well, and that she was overthinking things. Now it seems that it wasn't that she was overthinking things, but that he simply didn't notice the venomous snake beside him.

He would kill any woman he even slightly liked.

The Empress lowered her head and sobbed softly, "Does Your Majesty now think that I did all those things?" Lady Huang deserves to die too!

She's just a servant who dares to flaunt her looks in front of her. If she doesn't die, who will?

Emperor Qianlong: "That's why you killed him."

"Empress, I never imagined you were such a ruthless person." Qianlong felt a chill run down his spine.

For so many years, he trusted the Empress so much, and his mother also trusted the Empress so much, but she had been pretending all along and had been killing people behind his back.

Seeing that Qianlong had already determined the charges against her, the Empress still only admitted to the crimes committed against Consort Jing. "Your Majesty, I have only done one thing, which is that I had someone administer the poison to Consort Jing. As for Consort Zhe and Consort Yi, I have no connection with them."

Seeing that the Empress was still trying to argue, Emperor Qianlong felt a surge of anger rising within him. "Empress, you have betrayed my trust in you all these years!"

He's really blind.

When the Emperor was choosing his consort, he shouldn't have chosen an Empress.

The Empress smiled, a smile tinged with irony and a hint of bitterness that Qianlong couldn't decipher. "Your Majesty says you trust me, but Your Majesty, in the beginning, didn't you say you wanted to be a loving couple with me, a pair of lovers that everyone would envy?"

"It was Your Majesty who gave me this delusion, it was Your Majesty who gave me this promise."

The Empress recalled that she married the Emperor with a mix of joy and trepidation. The sky was red that day, and when they drank the nuptial wine that night, the Emperor said that they were husband and wife and would help each other in the future.

Later, when she gave birth to her eldest daughter, she died not long after. At that time, the emperor held her hand and sat by her bedside, saying that they would have many more children in the future.

She also said that she should cheer up, that they should be a perfect couple, and that they should stay together until old age.

But this changed not long after. She saw the Emperor happily holding the eldest prince born to Lady Fucha, and he and Lady Fucha looked like a family of three.

Later, Empress Fucha became pregnant again and happily told the Emperor that she wanted a daughter so that she could have a sweet daughter in the future.

I want my daughter to stay in the capital and be the happiest princess.

That day, she felt as if her soul had gone with her eldest daughter; she still remembered the words the emperor had spoken.

She remembers everything.

Emperor Qianlong thought about the promise he had made to the Empress, and he felt that he had done a good job and had never broken it.

"Empress, I have never broken any promises I made to you." Before this incident, he and the Empress had always been a loving and respectful couple.

Compared to his late father, he has already done far better.

What more could the Empress possibly want? Before any of the concubines, the Empress would always be the most important.

Of all his sons, he valued Yonglian the most.

He doted on Folgochun even more, and he also extended that same affection to her sister who died young.

Over the years, Emperor Qianlong believed that he had accomplished everything he set out to do.

She'd done it all? The Empress almost laughed. The Emperor actually said she'd done it all?

"Your Majesty, what loving couple in this world would have an outsider?" The Empress didn't understand. What loving couple would have a third person?

A loving couple is one who stays together for life.

Emperor Qianlong frowned, looking at the Empress with confusion: "Empress, you and I are a loving couple, but I also have the responsibility to continue the family line. I treat you as my wife." He clearly distinguished between his wife and the concubines in the harem.

Over the years, he has only ever had the Empress in his heart.

Even someone as talented as the Imperial Concubine only had a slight liking for him.

He dared to say that in his heart, there had only ever been the Empress. The current Consort Jing was merely someone who brought him a lot of novelty; he simply enjoyed the relaxation he felt when he was with her.

Being with Consort Jing wouldn't bring as much pain as I'm experiencing with the Empress.

"Hahahaha!" The Empress suddenly burst into laughter, unsure whether she was laughing at herself or at Emperor Qianlong. This world was truly absurd.