After she finished washing up, at three quarters past ten, a young eunuch came and carried her to the Yangxin Palace.
On the way there, Li Shushu's mind was busy as she was quickly thinking about her next plan.
First of all, the most important thing is to rescue my daughter as soon as possible.
In her previous life, she was framed and died, which was her greatest pain. Perhaps it was because she died with her eyes open that she had this chance to be reborn, so she must seize it firmly.
There are still about five months left since the accident in her previous life. If she wants this life to be different from the previous one, tonight is her biggest chance to change her fate.
Must grasp it well.
In the current situation, she has no other choice but to have the emperor's favor. Perhaps it is the only chance she can dream of to make a comeback and ascend to the top.
She must perform well tonight and make the Emperor remember her, so that she can make a comeback in the future.
However, in her previous life, she was forced to do so and was too nervous and afraid, so she never dared to open her eyes or make a sound while lying on the dragon bed. As a result, even though she had served His Majesty three times, she was unable to see his appearance clearly and had almost no interaction with him the entire time.
All I remember is that he was extremely tall, and his movements were not very gentle but rather rough. He also seemed not very keen on sex. He would always do it quickly and routinely, and then have someone carry her back.
At that time, Li Xiaodie always sneered when she saw her being carried back so quickly: "This Emperor is really old and in poor health, otherwise why are his stays so short? No wonder he has been on the throne for ten years and still has no children in the harem..."
Seeing that she was getting more and more outrageous, Aunt Liu quickly interrupted her, "My lady, be careful, there are ears!"
Li Xiaodie didn't take it seriously: "What are you afraid of? I'm just telling the truth..."
Nanny Liu: It's a sin to follow such an unreliable master.
However, Li Xiaodie was right about one thing. The current emperor of the Dasheng Dynasty, Gu Jingyan, ascended the throne at the age of sixteen. He has been in power for ten years and is already twenty-six years old.
Although the country is now prosperous and the people are strong and wealthy under his governance, his only regret is that he has never left any offspring.
Although His Majesty has always been dedicated to governing the country and rarely visits the harem, he has held three rounds of selections after all. Excluding the concubines who died halfway through, there are still more than 20 concubines alive in the harem, but none of them has been able to give birth to a child for him.
In the early years, two concubines had become pregnant, but unfortunately they both had miscarriages and were unable to give birth safely.
In recent years, there hasn't even been a single pregnancy.
As time went on, not only was the Empress Dowager urging him to give birth, but even the people and the court were worried about him. The rumor that the emperor was infertile became more and more intense among the people.
It happened that two years ago, the queen died of illness. The queen mother was desperate and issued a death order: no queen will be appointed in the harem for the time being. Whoever gives birth to a prince for Your Majesty first can immediately become the queen.
Regardless of origin!
For a moment, the concubines in the harem were all eager to try, and it was quite lively.
The emperor may have felt the pressure, so he came more frequently recently.
But after a long time, there was still no movement.
This caused the emperor to start doubting himself: Could it be that I am really not capable enough?
Because he had to carry out tasks every time and forced himself to engage in monotonous and boring activities with people he didn't like very much, the emperor became increasingly bored and had little interest in the matter of sleeping with his brother.
Even began to give up on themselves.
It's been a while since I last went to the harem.
This time, Li Xiaodie was chosen to sleep with the Empress Dowager. She went to the Empress Dowager's palace to pay her respects today, and only agreed after the Empress Dowager strongly requested her to do so.
It is said that Prime Minister Li and the Empress Dowager are somewhat related. Because the news of the emperor's difficulty in childbirth spread among the people, families who have the means and sincerely love their children are unwilling to let their children come to this palace to be widowed and see no hope.
This indirectly leads to the quality of the contestants becoming increasingly uneven in each round of the talent show.
The Queen Mother had no choice but to privately ask Prime Minister Li to arrange for one of his daughters to enter the palace, under the pretext that it would consolidate his power in the previous dynasty.
Prime Minister Li was a man who was very good at scheming and taking advantage of others. Back then, he took in so many concubines and let them have children as much as they wanted, which is why he had six daughters.
He had already planned to send these daughters to the homes of powerful people to build relationships and consolidate his position.
So, of course, he agreed to the Queen Mother's request...
A legitimate daughter must naturally enter the palace, and he doesn't care whether his daughter is happy or not.
Fortunately, Li Shushu's mother had long seen through all of his schemes. When she was very young, she and her mother started to play dumb. Other girls learned everything from music, chess, calligraphy and painting, but she spent her days taking cats and dogs for walks, doing nothing, and even dressed slovenly and unkemptly...
This caused Prime Minister Li to dislike her. He did not take his fifth concubine's daughter seriously and even allowed the eldest lady to bully her and her daughter. In the end, she was reduced to the status of a maid.
Because in Li Xiang's opinion, since his daughter couldn't even win the fight in the harem, then she was basically a useless person.
This is how Li Shushu escaped the fate of being sent to be a concubine to those old men in their seventies and eighties.
It's a pity that in her previous life, although Li Shushu didn't become the old man's concubine, she still couldn't escape a miserable end in the end...
Li Shushu sat in the sedan chair and thought for a while. At this moment, no matter what, he had to deal with the tonight's sleeping arrangements smoothly.
But if I were to continue to be as conventional as in my previous life, I would definitely not be successful. I must...
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