Yu Jingchen suddenly remembered that Nan Zhiyun seemed to have liked to stick to him when she was seven or eight years old.
Perhaps because of that incident, Nan Zhiyun was left with a lot of trauma, so the Empress Dowager took her to live in the imperial palace for a long time, and she did not return until the following year.
At that time, the Empress Dowager was still the Empress, while he... had not yet been named the Crown Prince.
A year later, when the Empress Dowager returned with Nan Zhiyun, a little tail always followed behind her, impossible to shake off. It called out "Your Highness, Your Highness, Your Highness" all day long.
To be honest, I didn't feel that much aversion towards her at that time. Less than six months later, I was appointed Crown Prince. Back then, the struggle for the throne was still a very serious matter.
However, he was a prince adopted by the Empress at the time, so his status was among the most noble. Moreover, the Empress was backed by the Nan family. He had always been an ambitious person, so he felt that the greater the power, the better.
Later, the Empress made Nan Su her master, teaching her martial arts. Everything seemed to be going according to plan. Until later, he overheard someone telling him that his birth mother had actually been murdered by the Empress so that he could be adopted into her family, since the Empress had no sons.
I was quite young then and lacked the ability to discern these things, plus I was constantly being instilled with these ideas. Moreover, whenever others mentioned me, they would discuss the powerful figures behind me. So I gradually grew to resent this kind of thing.
Nan Su was actually a very strict person. Even though he was the Crown Prince, he wouldn't go easy on him or show any leniency. He had been scolded, punished, and even beaten by him many times. Not only him, but the Empress Dowager was the same; they were truly strict with him.
So I gradually started to dislike them, developed a rebellious streak, and began to put on airs. But every time, they would punish me, so I felt my position was being challenged.
Moreover, some people told him at that time that he was merely a puppet emperor they had cultivated. They said the Nan family's goal was to control the emperor and command the feudal lords. Perhaps he was instilled with this idea at that time, so as he spent more time with them, this idea became more and more deeply ingrained, and eventually he could no longer change it.
This was probably the beginning of the misunderstanding. Ever since I had this idea, I have been trying to break free from their control and take back what belongs to me.
The same applied to Nan Zhiyun. At that time, the people who served her told her every day that Nan Zhiyun was someone the Nan family had specially arranged to be by her side.
Having grown up together like this, they naturally developed a bond. When they grew up, entered the palace, became empresses, and gave birth to princes, there was no need for them to remain as emperors, because they would support the young emperor to ascend the throne and completely seize power.
That's why he disliked Nan Zhiyun so much, especially when she kept expressing that she liked him and wanted to marry him.
Originally, he thought that if she didn't bother him later, he wouldn't bother with a young girl. But Nan Zhiyun just happened to enter the palace, and the Empress Dowager even asked him to make her a Consort.
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