Empress Hesheli lived to the age of eighty-six, passing away eight years after the death of the Empress Dowager at her son Yinqi's residence.

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Consort Chen

Chen Lanyin was the daughter of a humble family in the Han Banner Army.

In the thirty-fourth year of the Kangxi Emperor's reign, Lady Chen, along with another Lady Chen (Ziyan) and Lady Liu, were selected to enter the palace as concubines. Although they were called concubines, they were not formally conferred the title.

Before Chen Shi and Chen Ziyan, there was already a concubine named Chen Shufei in the palace, so Chen Shi and Chen Ziyan were referred to as Concubine Lanyin and Concubine Ziyan in the palace.

Chen and Chen Ziyan lived in Qixiang Palace.

In Qixiang Palace, the highest-ranking person at that time was Consort Xiang, of the Chun clan. Consort Xiang was the birth mother of Princess Kejing of the First Rank. At that time, Princess Kejing was already betrothed to Dunbudoburji, the heir apparent of the Khalkha Prince, but she had not yet married.

Three years after entering the palace, Lady Chen finally became pregnant.

Later, before the Imperial Noble Consort, Lady Chen gave birth to the twenty-first prince, Yinqi. After the Imperial Noble Consort was made Empress, Lady Chen was also granted the title of Noble Lady by the Emperor and was also given the honorary title of 'He'.

At the time, Lady Chen did not understand why Emperor Kangxi would bestow a title upon her, especially since she had just given birth to a prince.

Many years later, when Yinqi grew up and reached the age for betrothal, Chen Shi finally understood that it was all because of the Empress, the Empress's youngest brother, Xu Muer Shi Huaiming, who had an eldest daughter born out of wedlock, only three months younger than Yinqi.

Yinqi married the Empress's niece as his consort.

After Emperor Kangxi abdicated and became the Retired Emperor, he passed away at the Changchun Garden Palace. Empress Chen was posthumously honored as Imperial Concubine He by Emperor Yonghe. Many years later, she was again honored as Imperial Ancestral Consort He.

Although Chen's son, Yinqi, married Xu Muer's family, the Empress's niece, he eventually became a Prince of the First Rank because of this relationship.

Compared to the other princes, who were around the same age as Yinqi, Yinqi only ever held the titles of Beile and Junwang. Yinqi, on the other hand, climbed to the highest rank in the imperial clan through nepotism.

Of course, Yinqi's wife, having grown up under the care of the old lady of the Xu Muer family and later spent several years by the side of the Empress Dowager, possessed excellent manners and etiquette.

If it weren't for her illegitimate birth, she could have become an imperial concubine.