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In that ancient and profound palace, there are countless unknown secrets and entanglements hidden.

Like an underground river flowing quietly under the night sky, silent yet magnificent.

Today, Lin Qingya had the honor of listening to a forgotten story.

It is a complicated story of love and hate between the Queen Mother, Prince of Liang Zhao Yue and Emperor Yuan Jin.

The story begins one night many years ago, when the Queen Mother gave birth to Emperor Yuan Jin.

Then she experienced a heartbreaking accident - she personally replaced her own biological daughter with another, resulting in the tragic death of the baby girl.

Behind this action may be the desire for power, or perhaps helplessness towards fate.

However, for whatever reason, after this exchange, the Queen Mother's mood fell into a deep depression.

She was sometimes sad, sometimes anxious,

Even the innocent Emperor Yuan Jin could not arouse the tenderness and kindness in her heart.

When Lin Qingya heard this, she secretly wondered why the Queen Mother's mood changed like this.

It is very similar to modern postpartum depression.

It is a disease that has caused countless women to suffer, but it is also simple to treat.

The key is to give patients enough care and companionship to help them get out of their inner haze and embrace life again.

However, in that era of strict feudal ethics,

Who can truly understand the Queen Mother's pain and struggle? Who dares to touch her easily?

Time flies. During the period when the Queen Mother was in a low mood,

A prince named Zhao Yue quietly walked into her world.

Zhao Yue, whose father was a king of a different surname, received a good upbringing since childhood.

Not only is he talented in both literature and martial arts, he is also very elegant, which has won the hearts of countless women.

By chance, Zhao Yue met the well-maintained and graceful empress dowager in the imperial garden.

At that moment, he was deeply attracted by the beauty and temperament of the Queen Mother and almost forgot the constraints of his status and etiquette.

Although the Queen Mother lived in the harem, she was also moved by Zhao Yue's heroic demeanor.

A long-lost flame seemed to be ignited in her heart, which was the desire for love and the yearning for freedom.

However, when Zhao Yue learned that the Queen Mother was the Emperor's concubine, the enthusiasm in his heart instantly turned to ashes.

He was in pain and decadent, and even wanted to forget the Queen Mother at one point, burying this forbidden emotion deep in his heart.

However, fate did not seem to let them off easily.

Whenever there was a palace banquet, Zhao Yue was always attracted by the tenderness that the Queen Mother inadvertently revealed.

The Queen Mother was always paying attention to Zhao Yue's every move inadvertently.

There seemed to be an invisible bond between the two of them, tightly connecting them.

Finally, at a palace banquet, Zhao Yue drank too much.

He made an excuse to go out for some fresh air and happened to meet the empress dowager who was also out for a walk.

The two of them tacitly dismissed the servants around them and began the forbidden conversation.

The night was dim and the moonlight was like water. The Queen Mother and Zhao Yue were in a corner of the Imperial Garden.

They expressed their thoughts to each other and shared the emotions that had been suppressed for a long time.

Their voices were soft and lingering, as if they were leaving all the troubles of the world behind.

Finally, at that moment, the defense line of reason completely collapsed, the two fell asleep in each other's arms, and fell into the forbidden abyss together.

From then on, whenever there was a palace banquet, the Queen Mother and Zhao Yue would have a secret meeting.

They enjoyed this stolen time as if the whole world had stopped.

As time went by, their feelings for each other grew deeper and deeper, and they began to plan how to stay together forever.

However, reality is always cruel and it will not change because of anyone's will.

Finally, Emperor Yuan Jin grew up and began to consolidate his imperial power.

He knew very well that in order to gain a firm foothold in this treacherous court, he must have the support of a powerful force.

The support of the ministers naturally requires money. Therefore, Emperor Yuan Jin turned his attention to Zhao Yue, the Prince of Liang.

He ordered Zhao Yue to secretly withhold a batch of disaster relief funds and use it to bribe court officials.

However, before the funds were shipped out, they were discovered by the imperial supervisory agency.

King Zhao Yue of Liang was unable to defend himself and was eventually exiled thousands of miles away. When the Queen Mother heard the news, she was heartbroken.

She knew very well that all this was due to her affair with Zhao Yue.

However, she was powerless to change it all and could only endure the inner torment silently.

During his exile, Zhao Yue fell ill due to grief and anger and eventually died thousands of miles away.

When the Queen Mother learned of Zhao Yue's death, she was devastated and locked herself in the palace, no longer caring about worldly affairs.

And it was at this time that Lin Qingya learned the whole truth from Hongxiu.

Lin Qingya looked at the angry and helpless Hong Xiu in front of her, and felt nothing after hearing it.

These people have it all their own fault, they can't blame anyone else.

She also understood that the disputes and conflicts between these people could not be simply summarized as right or wrong.

Everyone has his or her own difficulties and helplessness, and fate always pushes them into the abyss at the most critical moment.

"Then why did the Queen Mother lock you up?" Lin Qingya asked softly.

Upon hearing this, Hong Xiu's eyes flashed with anger and unwillingness:

"It's because I didn't give her the letter that Prince Liang wrote to the Queen Mother after he was exiled! So she wanted to torture me to death!"

Upon hearing this, Lin Qingya wondered in her heart, what secrets were hidden in these letters?

Why did the Queen Mother become so angry?

But Lin Qingya didn't believe what Hongxiu said. She believed that the Queen Mother would not torture Hongxiu like this.

But Lin Qingya didn't care about these. Lin Qingya asked again:

"Where did you put those letters?" Hong Xiu saw that things had come to this point.

There was no way to avoid telling him, so he told Lin Qingya a place.

Lin Qingya asked again: "Do you know where the midwife who delivered the empress dowager is now?"

However, Hongxiu was obviously unwilling to reveal more.

Her hesitation and evasiveness made Lin Qingya even more convinced that there must be some unknown secret behind this.

Lin Qingya did not continue to ask, she knew that Hongxiu was not unwilling to say it, but she could not say it.

She decided to first get more information from Hongxiu, and then look for an opportunity to uncover the truth of this history.

"The midwife who delivered the empress dowager at that time, do you know whether she is dead or alive now?" Lin Qingya asked again.

Hongxiu's face turned even paler when she heard this.

She hesitated again and again, and finally shook her head:

"This... this... um... I'm not sure either!"

When Lin Qingya saw her like this, she knew that she was not telling the truth, but she was not in a hurry to expose her.

She knew that Hongxiu was just a pawn in this palace struggle and her fate had already been controlled by herself.

In fact, Lin Qingya could guess it from some of Hongxiu’s little actions!

Maybe Hongxiu only said half of it. Every girl will have a crush on someone!

The Queen Mother treated her like this, most likely because two women fell in love with the same man at the same time!