Rong Fei is not honored

If the victim is unwilling and retaliates against the perpetrator in his own way, these people will only accuse the victim of being vicious and sigh, "When will the cycle of revenge end?"

But they forget that the so-called injustice is the cause sown by the perpetrator, and the result of the victim's actions is just to seek justice for himself.

"Have you forgotten Hershey's hysteria? Hysteria doesn't just mean madness; paranoia is also a type of it. When do you think she developed hysteria?"

"When Chenghu died? No, it should be earlier."

"Ever since her throne as queen was shaky and she made stupid moves time and time again, she must have been trapped.

Hesheli's hysteria and paranoia meant that she would never stop unless she got everything she wanted.

She couldn't get out of it on her own, and she didn't dare tell others about her illness, so no one helped her and she got deeper and deeper into trouble.

Perhaps she herself was aware of the danger, so she took a gamble and told the Hesheli family about her illness, hoping that they would help her treat the disease and keep it secret. Who knew..."

"Who would have thought that the Hesheli family would sell her out for their own safety, and blame all the evil she had done on Hesheli's hysteria in order to distance themselves from the matter."

"The family member who should have been closest to her betrayed her at the most critical moment, and Chenghu, who would always stand by her side in this world, was destroyed by her own hands. How could Hesheli not be devastated?

Everything that happened afterwards, including her scheme against Kangxi and the birth of Yinreng, was not so much a last-ditch effort to save herself as it was to say that she had already become a puppet of the Hesheli family, having been squeezed dry of her last bit of value by the family.

"Oh, I forgot. Hesheli was ill, and her hysteria was not fake. So in that case, could she really manipulate the chessboard and plot against Kangxi and the harem?

Even if she planned it when she was sober, didn't the Hesheli family fear that she would suddenly go crazy and cause a terrible disaster?

This is a feudal dynasty, and there is no such thing as mental illness being a golden ticket to immunity from death. Kangxi would not let Hesheli and the Hesheli family go again and again because of her hysteria.

Therefore, the real chess player is actually the Hesheli family, and the Hesheli clan is just a puppet controlled by them and a scapegoat pushed to the front.

As for Hesheli, it's impossible for her not to know the Hesheli family's intentions. In other words, when she wasn't ill, she was conscious and walked on the road to death that her family had arranged for her.

Yuan Xu looked at Ji Nai, and the other person's expression told her that she was right.

Yuan Xu, however, did not feel the slightest bit of excitement or joy about his own progress. He felt heavy-hearted and unhappy.

"If that's the case, then Hesheli is actually a pitiful person."

“It’s pitiful, but there must be something hateful about pitiful people.

From the moment she developed evil thoughts towards others due to her greed, she no longer deserves sympathy.

Besides, if she hadn't been willing to sacrifice herself for her family during those last few months, she might have survived."

There was no need for Kangxi to execute a patient who had already gone mad. Ji Nai and Huipin did want revenge, but if they could watch their enemy live in complete madness, there would be no need to force him to die.

"What about the Grand Empress Dowager? Kangxi will hesitate because of Chenghu's treatment of Hesheli, and I'm afraid the Grand Empress Dowager will make Kangxi even more entangled. After all, if it weren't for the Grand Empress Dowager's support, who would be sitting on the throne now is uncertain."

“Indeed, Kangxi became emperor, firstly because he had suffered from smallpox, which gave him an advantage over the others, and secondly because the Empress Dowager chose him.

But don't forget that the person who really calls the shots is Emperor Shunzhi. The Empress Dowager's preference will indeed affect Shunzhi, but who can say how much influence it will have? This is different from the situation of power transition between Huang Taiji and Shunzhi.

Moreover, great favors can be likened to great hatreds. Even if everyone knew that the Empress Dowager had played a significant role in Kangxi's ascension to the throne, who would dare to speak out openly?

A picture emerged in Yuan Xu's mind: a little man yelling at the emperor sitting on the dragon throne:

"Without me, you would not be able to sit in this position! I want something now, but you refuse to give it to me. Aren't you ungrateful?"

Uh... I didn't lose my head on the spot because the emperor had such a good temper.

And recalling it, it seems that the Empress Dowager never mentioned what happened during the period when Kangxi ascended the throne. In fact, people in the palace deliberately avoided talking about it for fear of upsetting the Empress Dowager by mentioning the death of the late emperor.

Whenever the Empress Dowager mentioned the difficulties Kangxi had faced, she would start with Oboi's autocracy, but she never mentioned the cold treatment Kangxi had received during the previous emperor's reign.

For example, after contracting smallpox, he was sent out of the palace by his own father to die.

For example, even before his death, even after he had confirmed Kangxi as his successor, Shunzhi only gave Kangxi earnest instructions, without much father-son affection.

And it was precisely because of this that Kangxi was so sad when Empress Xiaokangzhang passed away. He had never received much fatherly love in his life, and his relationship with his mother was so shallow.

"No wonder Kangxi and Xiaozhuang had such a good relationship in history." Yuan Xu murmured.

After all, the only close relative of Kangxi who died was the Empress Dowager. Brothers did not count, because besides siblings, they were also people Kangxi needed to be wary of. Children did not count either, because apart from Yinzhen and Yinzhi who were sent out of the palace, there were also several princesses who died young.

Thinking about it this way, Kangxi was really a person with shallow family ties. He lost his father and mother when he was young, lost his wife three times when he was young, lost countless sons, and in his later years he became estranged from his most beloved son. I'm afraid he didn't have much father-son love with his other sons.

If Kangxi actually knew very well what his first wife had done and what his grandmother had done, but he could not say it out loud and was unwilling to expose the superficial beauty, then it would really be... how tragic it is!

However, this life is different.

Yuan Xu looked at Ji Nai.

In this life, Kangxi had Ji Nai by his side all the time, and their children all survived. Zhongcui Palace was a beautiful dream that Kangxi was unwilling to break.

But beyond the beautiful dream was the cruelty of Hesheli, the premature deaths of Chengqing and Chenghu, and the scheming of the Empress Dowager. If she were Kangxi, she would also want to stay in Zhongcui Palace.

So...was Kangxi really willing to end his relationship with Ji Nai at this point?

Even though they had argued so fiercely that day, and Ji Nai's words had been so cruel... Kangxi might not be willing to give up on this relationship outright. So, there was still a chance, right?

Ji Nai had no idea that Yuan Xu's thoughts would jump so much. He was still talking about the Empress Dowager and was worried about her relationship with Kangxi.

"Kangxi couldn't abandon either the love between mother and son or the love between grandfather and grandson, so he could only play dumb and pretend he didn't know what the Grand Empress Dowager had done, even though the Tong family had exposed the 'truth' to him, even though he might have already found 'evidence.'"

Ji Nai still remembered what Kangxi asked him afterwards: What should he do if he was temporarily unable to take revenge on his enemies? And how should he take revenge on his enemies?

At that time, Ji Nai's answer was to lie in wait for the opportunity and to kill the person and destroy his heart.

But after so long, Kangxi still hasn't made any move towards the Grand Empress Dowager. Is he still waiting? Maybe.

But is it possible that Kangxi was actually hesitating, wondering whether he should point the knife at his own mama in order to avenge his mother?

Empress Xiaokangzhang was weak, so the Empress Dowager must have taught Kangxi a lot on his path to becoming a qualified emperor. This can be summarized not only from the function of the dragon.

However, his mother did die at the hands of the Empress Dowager, and even died for him.

Therefore, it is normal that Kangxi was unable to make a choice for a while in the face of this century-long problem.

"But after his mother was murdered, the Empress Dowager is now trying to take action against her beloved. Do you think Kangxi can tolerate this?"

Ji Nai did not feel guilty at all about being Kangxi's sweetheart.

Even though Guo Luoluo had already entered the palace, and even even though she had become the new favorite concubine, Ji Nai dared to say that she must be the only woman Kangxi had ever loved.

"But isn't the Empress Dowager doing this for Kangxi's own good?"