After dismissing the weeping concubines, Shunzhi kept only his mother and son, wanting to say a few more words.
After the two finished speaking, Yunyi walked out from the side.
Looking into her niece's eyes, Empress Dowager Xiaozhuang sighed, then pulled her grandson away from the room.
What she didn't know was that Yunyi hadn't come to reminisce, but rather to annoy her.
Shunzhi's vision was already blurry, and it was only when Yunyi walked over and called his name that he came to his senses.
"You are, you are Meng Guqing?" Shunzhi stared wide-eyed, propping himself up with his hands.
He found it hard to reconcile the calm, simply dressed yet stunningly beautiful woman before him with his own hot-tempered, jealous, and extravagant empress.
"Fulin, it's been a long time!" Yunyi had a faint smile on her lips; she was in a very good mood.
Shunzhi didn't understand why Meng Guqing was here. Hadn't she been moved to a separate palace? "How did you end up here?"
Hearing this question, Yunyi genuinely found it somewhat amusing.
Seeing that the other person still looked puzzled, and fearing that he would leave immediately, Yunyi didn't waste any words and went straight up to him, whispering a few words in his ear.
Yunyi had been waiting for this day for a long time. Since she had just transmigrated, she had made so many plans, and she had been waiting for this day to tell Shunzhi in person.
He swapped children with Tong Yurou, framed Dong E Wanning, helped Dong E Wanning conceal her pregnancy, and then helped her enter the palace.
Later, Yunyi framed Dong'e Wan Ning for faking her pregnancy and let Shunzhi hear the news, thus breaking their relationship.
Many other things happened afterward, including her son's smallpox, which was also Yunyi's doing. Because of this, she caused Dong'e Wanning to be completely defeated and sent to the cold palace.
In the end, by exploiting Dong E Wan Ning's resentment towards Shunzhi, Yun Yi arranged for Shunzhi to contract smallpox and frame Tong Yu Rou, so that Empress Dowager Xiaozhuang would take action to eliminate Tong Yu Rou. All of this was part of Yun Yi's plan.
Now everything is coming to an end. Once Shunzhi is gone and Xuan Ye ascends the throne, all of Yunyi's missions will be completed.
"You, you..." Despite his shock and anger, Shunzhi's body was too weak. He could only manage to keep himself from collapsing back onto the bed, but he no longer had the strength to scold Yunyi.
Yunyi raised her hand and slapped away Shunzhi's hand that was pointing at her, laughing with satisfaction.
The original owner of this body was truly innocent. Her entry into the palace was arranged by Empress Dowager Xiaozhuang and Dorgon. Emperor Shunzhi could not resist, so he took his anger out on the original owner of this body, the empress.
The cold violence and endless punishments and scoldings made the original owner feel uncomfortable. When had the pampered little princess of the grassland ever suffered such treatment? She was puzzled and did not know why.
Perhaps the original owner of this body was indeed jealous and extravagant, but she never harmed any of the concubines in the palace.
Because of the original owner's temperament and background, Shunzhi treated his wife this way. How wronged the original owner was.
Through his relentless struggle, Shunzhi finally gained the power to overturn his mother's decision.
The first thing he did was to depose the ruthless and short-tempered empress.
Because of his own selfish desires, he never considered how distressed the original owner of this body, a teenage girl, must have felt, coming from the grasslands to the capital, from a free and open place to the closed palace.
All he knew was that this empress was someone he disliked, someone he didn't like, and that she had a bad temper, wasn't gentle or considerate, and often talked back to him.
Therefore, Shunzhi would only be happy to depose the original empress, and he would never consider what kind of life the deposed empress would lead in the future.
Upon hearing Yunyi's words, Shunzhi was filled with anger. He hadn't expected Meng Guqing to harbor such deep resentment towards him, nor had he imagined that all the events of the past few years were actually orchestrated by Meng Guqing.
He was already in poor health and on his deathbed; now, after getting so angry, his health has deteriorated even further.
As Shunzhi's complexion worsened and his breathing grew weaker, he finally collapsed onto the bed, unable to support his body any longer.
But he still refused to close his eyes, as if there was something on his mind that he couldn't bear to close them.
However, time is cruel. Even though Shunzhi was an emperor, he could not stop the passage of time. Before long, his eyes began to glaze over and he became delirious.
Yunyi knew that Shunzhi was really leaving now. She stood there watching him without reacting, waiting patiently.
When Yunyi turned to leave again, Shunzhi behind her had completely stopped breathing. Only after seeing Shunzhi's death did Yunyi feel relieved enough to leave.
When the emperor died, the whole country mourned. Since the third prince had been designated as the successor and Empress Dowager Xiaozhuang was still alive, there was no unrest in the court, and the transition of power was very smooth.
Three days later, Xuan Ye ascended the throne, becoming the second emperor of the Qing Dynasty after it entered the Central Plains. Empress Dowager Xiaozhuang, as the Grand Empress Dowager, began to rule from behind the curtain again.
With Dorgon's help, she ruled from behind the curtain with her young son, Fulin. Less than twenty years later, she is about to rule from behind the curtain with her young grandson.
After Shunzhi's funeral was completed, Yunyi went to the Qianqing Palace to bid farewell to Xuan Ye.
In the past two years, she has been by Xuan Ye's side and taught him a lot. Moreover, Xuan Ye is not a real child. As an adult, Yun Yi believes that he can manage this country well.
Hearing his mother's words, Xuan Ye was stunned, not expecting the farewell to come so soon.
He opened his mouth as if to say something to persuade her to stay, but he knew that his mother was a free spirit and would never be willing to be confined to this deep palace.
She could switch children to leave the palace back then, but she won't choose to stay now because of me.
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