Demoted from wife to concubine? Reborn, the mistress of a noble family plots another high-status mar

Chapter 816

Wasn't the Empress Dowager just like Yun Xiyue in the past? She was the legitimate daughter of the Prime Minister's family, loved by her parents and brothers from birth, and also got to know the late Emperor.

The two were childhood sweethearts and deeply in love.

She married him without any problems, and her life was much smoother than Yun Xiyue's.

She started as the Crown Princess, and then became the Empress.

The only setback was that later, when the crown prince became emperor, many conflicts arose within the Great Xia Dynasty.

In order to consolidate the court, the late emperor began to take concubines, first the Noble Consort, then the Virtuous Consort, then the Wise Consort, then the Imperial Concubine Selection held every three years.

At that time, she had given birth to the eldest princess and had been unable to conceive again, unable to give birth to a prince. All the officials in the court advised the emperor to bestow his favors evenly.

The late emperor did not want to depose the empress, and it was in order to protect her that he began to favor the concubines. Then, Prince Cheng, Prince Liang, and other princes were born.

They were all illegitimate sons, and the emperor still had no legitimate son. As the empress, she was under great pressure and had to bear the thought of her husband being taken away by someone else. At that time, the empress dowager was devastated and could not accept it for a long time.

She quarreled with the late emperor... Gradually, the late emperor went from liking her to disliking her, and began to groom his eldest son, Cheng Wang.

Just when she was about to give up and resign herself to fate, she became pregnant with a prince, but it took her a lot of hardship to give birth to him.

All the women in the harem have sons. If the empress gives birth to a legitimate son, then their sons will have no chance to inherit the throne.

Let's all unite against her.

At that time, the late emperor did not pay attention to her, so she could only save herself. Therefore, she used the prince in her womb to devise a plan to kill all those women one by one.

When the late emperor found out, he was furious, thinking she was ruthless. But she acted recklessly because she was pregnant with the emperor's child, and was not afraid of him at all.

Finally, she also killed Consort Su, the late emperor's most beloved concubine.

"Haha... Do you think I was wrong? To protect my son Murong Yu, I stained my hands with blood and became a wicked woman in the eyes of the late emperor. In the end, after the child was born, he took him away... He wouldn't allow me to see my son."

"I should be punished for killing his beloved concubine..."

Thinking of her past life, which had become unrecognizable, a hint of madness appeared in the Empress Dowager's eyes. "I couldn't fight against the Emperor. I also wanted to be close to my son! I wanted to raise him myself, but he wouldn't allow it. I had no choice but to adopt someone else's son. When I saw my son, he was already several years old. He looked at me with a cold gaze, just like his father."

As she spoke, her expression turned hateful. "If the Emperor were like the late Emperor, always cold-blooded and ruthless, that would be fine, but he isn't. His treatment of you..."

The Empress Dowager looked up at Yun Xiyue, her heart filled with envy and jealousy. "Even the Emperor hasn't achieved that yet."

"Well, so you should be able to let it go now!" Yun Xiyue didn't say anything more, because it was good that her resentment in this life could be resolved by a misunderstanding.

The Empress Dowager said, "I'm relieved! So you don't need to worry about what I'll do to you anymore. Fangfang won't be favored by the Emperor anymore. I just hope she can live a peaceful life."

"Now everyone outside is saying that the Emperor is ruthless, that he assassinated his own uncle, and now he has banished his cousin to the cold palace. This is not good for the Emperor."

"Although I don't have a deep mother-son relationship with the Emperor, he is still a piece of my flesh and blood, and I don't want to see him being blamed."

Yun Xiyue said, "Prime Minister Pei's death has nothing to do with the Emperor."

"It's almost as if the Emperor himself handed over the knife." The Empress Dowager sneered, clearly not believing it.

That explanation would be futile.

Murong Yu has never explained, nor does he want to.

It just means I don't care anymore.