The imperial concubine is charming and charming, and only seeks power and wealth

In the ninth year of Jingtai's reign, on the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, it was the Lantern Festival.

There have been fifteen days since the beginning of the year, and it has rained in the capital for fourteen days, and it only stopped today.

Although the rain had stopped, the sky was still covered with dark clouds and the wind was cold, as if it was covered with a layer of dust.

Dark and gloomy.

Inside the Changyue Palace, the colorful ribbons decorated to celebrate the festival have not yet been taken down, but the atmosphere is solemn, with a faint sense of impending storm.

Several beauties in palace costumes were terrified and silent, without any festive joy on their faces.

Next to one of the beautiful women was a child of about four or five years old, whose face was pale, as if he was very frightened.

Including the palace maids and eunuchs, no one in the palace relaxed at all.

The reason for all this is that the mistress of Changyue Palace, the most favored imperial concubine in the harem, is about to die.

The thick curtain was lifted from the inner room, and Jin Yu came out with an anxious look on her face, "Has the imperial physician not arrived yet?"

The palace maid guarding outside shook her head in fear.

"Where's His Majesty?" Jin Yu took the maid's hand and asked anxiously, "Have you gone to ask for His Majesty?"

"He's gone. Eunuch Dehai has been gone for about half an hour."

Today is the Lantern Festival, and His Majesty is currently entertaining his ministers in the Taiji Hall. Although the Taiji Hall isn't far away, the trip back and forth...

Suddenly, there was a cry of surprise from inside. Jin Yu's face changed and she ran back inside.

Inside the curtain, Jiang Lingyue opened her heavy eyelids and woke up.

Her face was as pale as gold paper, revealing the paleness of a dying person. Her beautiful and lively eyes had become a little unfocused. She was trying hard to keep them open and look at Jin Yu and Jin Shu who were kneeling beside the couch. Her dry lips were slightly open.

"Don't cry... This day should have come a long time ago," she said with difficulty. "After I die, you two should leave the palace. Don't die with your master, and don't stay here guarding Changyue Palace for me. I'm worried about you."

He spoke incoherently and was almost out of breath by the end.

Jinshu and Jinyu covered their lips tightly, tears streaming down their faces.

"Your Majesty will be fine. The imperial physician will be here soon. Your Majesty...and Your Majesty, Dehai is going to fetch His Majesty!"

Jiang Lingyue no longer had the strength to shake her head. She moved her lips and continued, "I have no children and few relatives. Now that I am dying... the only thing I am worried about is you two... Please don't let me die with regrets, okay..."

At the end of the sentence, his voice was almost inaudible, but he still managed to hold on and look at them.

The two maids' eyes were red and they nodded hurriedly.

Seeing that they agreed, Jiang Lingyue, who had been holding on for a breath, relaxed.

She wanted to turn her head to glance at the door to see if the man had come, but she had no strength left.

...That's fine, let's just not see each other.

Her eyelids became heavier and heavier. Amidst the crying, Jiang Lingyue slowly closed her eyes with a relieved smile on her lips.

Outside the palace, hurried footsteps were heard, and the door was pushed open forcefully. Cold air poured in, and the wind blew the lavender bed curtains. The palace maids knelt on the ground.

The next moment, a familiar breath suddenly approached, but the person on the couch could no longer open his eyes.

…is that you?

A monarch who is high above and looks down upon the world.

After death, consciousness may be the last sense to dissipate.

At least Jiang Lingyue can still recall her short life.

She was born in the general's mansion, was born prematurely, and her mother tormented her for two days and two nights before she was born. She lost her mother from birth.

Her father scolded her for being born to bring bad luck to her mother and said she was not a blessed person. So he remarried and had another daughter, but then he treated her as if she didn't exist and never asked a single question about her.

Her two biological brothers joined the army early and only came back a few days a year, so they were unable to take care of her for long.

Her maternal grandfather's family was the hereditary Yongle Marquisate, but her younger sister died giving birth to her, so her uncles treated her, their niece, very coldly.

When her grandmother was alive, Jiang Lingyue had a relatively easy life with the protection of the Marquis' Mansion. But after her grandmother passed away, her uncle and aunt watched coldly as she was tortured by her stepmother and did not care.

The cousin who was betrothed to her since childhood treated her gently and kindly, but her uncle and aunt did not recognize the previous verbal engagement and quickly married another noble lady for him.

In the 32nd year of Yuanxi, when she was 14 years old, her stepmother changed her mind about her marriage and wanted to marry her to her nephew, a young man from a noble family who was greedy for men.

After her father learned about this woman's character, he felt that it was not wrong for a man to be romantic, and he thought that she could try out a new woman for the time being. With her beauty, she would be able to win her husband's heart after marriage, so he did not oppose the marriage.

Her uncles would not go against the General's Mansion for her.

She had few relatives in the first half of her life and suffered from the cold eyes and cruelty of her family. If it were not for the death of the previous emperor and the national mourning, her marriage would have been arranged when she was fourteen years old.

In the third year of Jingtai, after the mourning period, the new emperor began to select concubines. Jiang Lingyue did not want her marriage to be controlled by her stepmother, so she took the initiative to enter the palace to participate in the selection and met the current emperor.

The trajectory of life changed from then on.

She was selected into the palace at the age of seventeen and was initially given the title of Baolin. She was later promoted to Cairen, Guiyi, Jieyushi, Zhaoyi, and finally to her current position of Imperial Concubine.

It took her only five years to complete this journey.

The most favored concubine in the harem.

At first, she respected and feared him like all the other concubines. Later, her girlish heart, which was not hard to begin with, melted as they spent time together day after day and spent nights together in intimacy.

Jiang Lingyue was born unloved and received very little warmth.

So little, that the occasional glance from the emperor, the gentleness he casually showed, and his effortless favor, all made her fall deeper and deeper in love with him.

I was young at that time and always thought that I was different in his harem. Those gentle and sweet words were the favor that belonged to her alone.

He forgot that he was a king who ruled the world, was rich, and could decide life and death with a single word.

After the young emperor passed the mourning period, his harem became increasingly filled. Some were selected to enter the palace, while others were presented by officials from vassal states and various places. At every palace banquet, countless noble ladies from prominent families would try to win his favor.

But the king's favor is destined to be short-lived.

In the harem, all the flowers bloomed and everyone enjoyed the same benefits. In the court, he concentrated the military power and suppressed the generals, causing the Jiang family to be demoted again and again.

When her father came to her for help, Jiang Lingyue avoided him and turned a deaf ear to him.

In the Jiang family, she received only cold eyes and poor treatment. Except for her second brother who showed her some warmth, everyone disgusted her.

But later, her second sister frequently went in and out of the palace, and was favored by him, becoming another Concubine Jiang in the harem.

Sisters share one husband.

What my father said was right. It is not wrong for a man to be romantic, and it is not wrong for the emperor to have a large harem.

She didn't blame him for suppressing her mother's clan, nor did she blame him for marrying her second sister, but the passionate love they had in their youth was indeed gradually cooling.

Especially when he learned that the spices she had used over the years had contraceptive effects, he even felt hatred.

Most of the warmth she had received in her short life came from him.

When she was seriously ill, he recruited the most famous doctors from all over the world to come to the palace to treat her. He stayed by her side every day and couldn't sleep at night because he was worried about her condition.

When her condition gradually improved, he could bring her sister into the harem and give her the utmost honor and favor.

She once regarded him as a king and father, respecting, obeying and fearing him.

She had treated him like her husband and given him her wholehearted love.

Now, she is about to completely disappear from this world, her heart as still as water, and her love and hate become empty.

Jiang Lingyue thought that if there was an afterlife, she would live more soberly and would no longer yearn for this illusory love from an emperor.

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Let me add a reading guide: This article is about the crematorium of chasing a wife, torturing the male protagonist, with many foreshadowings and progressive developments. Some parts that you don’t understand will be explained in detail.

The first chapter is from the heroine's perspective, and the second chapter begins the emperor's journey to pursue his wife.

Double rebirth, dual perspectives, the heroine is in an invincible position emotionally.

The author has a good background and will never mistreat the female protagonist, so female protagonists can read it without worry.