I am Prince Showa. My mother is from the Miao tribe. The Miao people are rare and have lived in seclusion in the mountains all year round. She should not have had the opportunity to marry into the palace.
When my father was on a personal expedition, he was injured while chasing the enemy and mistakenly entered the Miao tribe. If the tribe leader had not recognized the emperor's clothing and was afraid that any mistake would lead to the dynasty's hunt and affect the entire tribe, he would not have allowed my father to stay in the village for a few days to recuperate.
The patriarch probably never thought that in just a few days, his daughter would win the emperor's favor with her beauty.
My mother also fell in love with my father, so she resolutely followed him into the palace.
At first, my father liked my mother very much, so even though he discovered some unusual things in the Miao village, which might even include the witchcraft that the royal family hated the most, he did not vent his anger on my mother.
The love of an emperor has never been about eternity. There are so many beauties of all kinds in my father's harem. My mother had been in the palace for only one year, and she fell out of favor just after she gave birth to me.
My mother, however, truly and sincerely loves my father. My mother has always been a kind person. She would feel sad because my father no longer loves her and goes to another concubine's womb, but she just feels sad in silence.
Because I am just a princess, not many people in the palace would pay special attention to my mother and me who have fallen out of favor. My mother and I should have lived a peaceful life until I grew up and got married.
Maybe it was because my other half's bloodline came from the emperor, I was naturally extremely sensitive to the relationships in the palace. At that time, I really had never thought of causing any trouble in the harem. I even thought about how to take my mother out of the palace after I got married.
My mother, Qi Wei, was the best at refining Gu among the Miao people of her generation. She taught me everything.
Although my mother said that I couldn't use this to hurt anyone, in my young mind at the time I always felt that I was just using the insect to control some people and then taking my mother out of the palace to live with me. How could this be hurting others?
Out of my mother's kindness, I did not tell her about my plan.
I regret it.
Watching the constant conspiracies and plots in the harem, I once thought that fortunately I was a woman, a princess, and my worst fate was to marry a foreign prince. These did not matter to me because I was confident that I could go and marry a foreign prince with my mother and survive well.
But later I thought I might as well be a man. My mother had never harmed anyone in the palace. She was in favor for such a short time that others didn't even have the chance to use any cruel means to harm her. Also, because I was just a princess and not worthy of anyone's attack, she had no defense against other concubines.
Later, I always wondered why a kind-hearted woman like my mother had to suffer such hardships?
A case of murdering the prince was linked to my mother, and was closely related to witchcraft. So even though he knew that my mother was innocent, my father still chose to sentence her to death.
I think it was probably because my father realized the danger of witchcraft belatedly at that time, so the heartless emperor was afraid that my mother would have some bad intentions and attack him.
I was just thirteen years old at that time, but as soon as I left the palace, I heard the news that my mother had been sentenced to death. The drink she chose was poisoned. She lay there quietly as if she was just asleep.
Eunuch Su, who was beside my father, came to announce the imperial decree, saying that I was specially conferred the title of Duke Zhaohe, and that I did not need to marry a foreign prince and could marry freely in the capital.
Is this compensation? Probably.
My mother has been very tolerant to the palace maids and eunuchs over the years. A little palace maid told me that my mother left me a secret code, so I knew that my mother told my father that I had never learned any evil arts, and she was willing to die in accordance with the emperor's wishes in exchange for my freedom.
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