A single, glistening tear fell to the ground.
Consort Que saw this and sighed softly. She and Sang'er were both pitiful people. She had lived with her aunt in a remote courtyard since she was a child, while Sang'er had been an orphan since she was a child.
At the tender age of first love, Sang'er fell in love with the eldest prince, but their social statuses were vastly different.
Sang'er?
He must have been hurt in a relationship.
Afternoon (5-7 PM)
News spread from Changchun Palace that Consort Rui had given birth safely to a princess. The little princess weighed seven pounds and nine ounces, was chubby and very cute, and...
Upon learning that she had given birth to a princess, she was so shocked that she fainted.
Three days later
The 23rd daughter of Consort Rui was given a third-day ceremony.
When Consort Rui awoke from her coma, she couldn't accept that she had given birth to a princess, and her mind became somewhat unstable. At the baby shower for the twenty-third daughter of the emperor, she kept shouting that someone had switched her little prince and that she had given birth to a prince, not a princess.
Xu Lejin and Consort Que sighed in unison as they looked at Consort Rui's erratic behavior.
That night, Emperor Kangxi arrived at Yikun Palace. After having dinner with Xu Lejin, he dismissed the palace servants, embraced Xu Lejin, and spoke in a deep voice.
"Consort Rui is currently insane and unable to take good care of the Twenty-Third Princess. I am considering finding another foster mother for the Twenty-Third Princess and amending her imperial genealogy, after all..."
After a pause, Kangxi continued, "Although she is a princess, she is still my bloodline. If she has a mentally unstable or insane mother, it will have a bad influence."
Xu Lejin nodded.
"Your Majesty's considerations are thorough, and indeed it is so. However, among the high-ranking concubines in the palace today, those without children who are suitable to raise the Twenty-Third Imperial Daughter are Consort Que, Consort Wan, and Consort Ning."
Looking up at Emperor Kangxi, Xu Lejin spoke softly, "I wonder, Your Majesty, which sister do you intend to entrust with the upbringing of the Twenty-Third Imperial Daughter?"
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