Does 'silence' mean being unknown or unnoticed?
Hesheli suddenly felt a strange irony, but life had to go on. After living in Shou Kang Palace for several years, the fifty-five-year-old Hesheli was taken by her son to live with her at his residence outside the palace.
More than twenty years later, when Hesheli was old and gray-haired, she was honored as Imperial Ancestral Consort Mo by the next emperor, Emperor Gan'an.
An ordinary, unremarkable life.
Oh,
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Consort Yi, née Chen
Lady Chen was selected to enter the palace in the thirty-fourth year of the Kangxi Emperor's reign, along with Consort He.
After entering the palace, it took three years for Lady Chen to become pregnant. When Lady Chen was two months pregnant, the Imperial Noble Consort Xu Muer was also one month pregnant.
Later, because the Imperial Noble Consort was pregnant with twins, she gave birth before Lady Chen.
Riding on the coattails of the Imperial Noble Consort's birth of twins and subsequent elevation to Empress, Lady Chen, who had just given birth to Emperor Kangxi's youngest son, was also elevated to the rank of Noble Lady.
Compared to the others, who had endured many years as a concubine and only received the title of Noble Lady after having both a son and a daughter, Lady Chen was already considered very fortunate. However, it seemed that this was the only time in her life that she was so lucky.
For more than thirty years afterward, Chen was never promoted again. From his prime to old age, to his gray hair, he never received a promotion.
Later, in the tenth year of Emperor Yonghe's reign, he honored Lady Chen as Imperial Noble Lady Yi. Then, after who knows how many years, Emperor Yonghe passed away, and Lady Chen was honored as Imperial Concubine Yi by the next Emperor Qian'an.
For over fifty years, Lady Chen had finally risen from a lowly concubine to the rank of Imperial Concubine. She had her share of resentment and bitterness, but there was nothing she could do. During his lifetime, and especially after the thirtieth year of his reign, Emperor Kangxi was extremely stingy with the ranks of his concubines.
Powerless and helpless.
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Lady Liu, the Noblewoman
In the thirty-fourth year of the Kangxi Emperor's reign, Lady Liu was selected to enter the palace as a concubine. In the thirty-seventh year, she gave birth to a princess, but she did not have any more children. In the thirty-eighth year, she was granted the title of Changzai.
Liu's daughter was granted the title of Princess Heshuo Minjing and married into the Tongjia clan.
In the tenth year of the Yonghe reign, after the new emperor ascended the throne, Lady Liu was honored as the Imperial Concubine. Not long after, she passed away in the Shou Kang Palace.
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