Mingyu was taken aback. What was it? Of course, it was all about her, thinking of her in everything, and bringing her all the good things.
Always available whenever needed, and always on my side no matter what...
Le Wuji suddenly felt bored and thought it was time to leave the palace.
He went to drink with Shangguan Jin as a farewell. They used to always be together as a trio, but Mingyu was not there today.
"I'm leaving tomorrow, could you please tell Consort Yu for me?"
Shangguan Jin stared at him blankly. He used to dislike him for sticking to Yu'er's side, but now that he was leaving, he felt a little strange.
In particular, his address of Yu'er as Consort Yu created a significant distance between them.
"knew."
"Your Majesty, I take my leave now. Take care."
Shangguan Jin remained silent, knowing that with this parting from Le Wuji, their past friendship could never be restored.
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Xiao Li had a leisurely life, so she started planting flowers in the Cold Palace. Anyway, she had plenty of seeds, which was a good way to pass the time.
When Shangguan Jin stepped into the Cold Palace again, he was stunned. When did it become so beautiful? It couldn't even compare to the Imperial Garden.
When he saw that graceful figure, he felt even more sorry for himself all these years.
Mingyu wasn't exceptionally beautiful, but her interesting soul attracted Shangguan Jin. Now that their intimacy was gone, he slowly looked out of the filter and into the real world.
Yang Xiaoli's body was pampered and raised in a very good manner. Even after ten years in the cold palace, she still maintained good living habits.
Not only is she slender, but her eyes are also exceptionally clear, giving her a pure and innocent look.
After Xiao Li arrived and recuperated, her natural temperament became even more outstanding, making her a true standout in the harem.
At this moment, Xiaoli is pruning the branches of a peony to make its shape more beautiful.
“Ah Li…”
Shangguan Jin still remembered that when Yang Xiaoli first entered the palace, he was also attracted to her because her eyes were so pure. However, later, he was attracted to Mingyu and lost her.
Xiao Li turned around. "What are you doing here? Did you come to see when I'm going to die?"
Shangguan Jin was a little embarrassed. He had come here precisely because he had seen the information about the secret guards.
Mingyu was extremely jealous. When she heard that Xiaoli was growing flowers in the Cold Palace and that the flowers were blooming exceptionally well, she was afraid that Shangguan Jin would be attracted to her, so she ordered the palace servants to sabotage the plants and even poison Xiaoli.
The secret guards found out about these things and reported them to the authorities. He wanted to come and see for himself if those flowers were really that beautiful.
"I've come to see the legendary flower. You're still as outspoken as ever."
Xiao Li smiled and said, "Now that we've seen the flowers, let's go, lest Consort Yu tries to poison me again."
Shangguan Jin remained silent for a while before leaving. However, he instructed his men to protect Consort Li and prevent her from being harmed, as she was the Crown Prince's birth mother.
Fearing that Consort Yu would harm Xiao Li, Shangguan Ti confessed to Shangguan Jin that he knew his mother was Consort Yang. He only asked to save his mother's life and said he would deal with everything else when he grew up.
Shangguan Jin did have the idea of eliminating Xiao Li, but in the end, he chose to give up. It was not easy to raise a crown prince, and he no longer had any sons to choose from.
But Mingyu refused to give up. She kept framing Xiaoli and using all sorts of poisoning methods.
Xiao Li wasn't afraid at all; she would take as many as they came, then refine them and return them.
Mingyu started getting pimples, losing hair, her skin turning yellow, and even gaining weight.
She sent messages to Yue Wuji, but they never reached her. The imperial physicians were helpless, and in the end, Shangguan Jin stopped coming to Yuheng Palace altogether, and she completely fell out of favor.
Those in the palace are very good at reading people's expressions. Yuheng Palace has become like a cold palace, and Mingyu can no longer cause trouble.
Five years later, the emperor passed away, and Shangguan Ti ascended the throne. He was already a qualified emperor. In recent years, Shangguan Jin had been in poor health and often fell ill. He was the one who read the memorials and attended court in place of his father.
Now that he has ascended the throne, it is in accordance with the will of Heaven.
The first thing Shangguan Ti did after ascending the throne was to reveal the truth of what happened back then, to make Xiao Li the Empress Dowager, and to restore the Yang family's official positions.
However, Yang's father was getting old, so he did not return to the imperial court. Instead, he chose to send the promising children of his family to the Imperial Academy to cultivate the next generation.
Xiao Li held the highest position in the harem. After living there for a while, she grew tired of it and, after discussing it with Shangguan Ti, left the palace under the pretext of going to Phoenix Mountain to worship Buddha.
From then on, Xiao Li traveled throughout the entire dynasty, and only left this world after Shangguan Ti's son was made crown prince.
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Side Story
Mingyu and Shangguan Jin lived in a small house in the imperial mausoleum.
After Shangguan Ti ascended the throne, he dismissed the former empress's palace and made some of the concubines with children into dowager concubines, who then went to their fiefdoms to live out their retirement with their children.
Those who have no children should return home to live out their days in comfort.
Only Mingyu was sent to the imperial mausoleum to guard the emperor's tomb.
Shangguan Jin, however, miraculously came back to life. This was obviously because Xiao Li had given him a fake death potion. His son had already grown up, so what use was there for the old emperor like him?
He woke up in the coffin, but he had already been sent to the imperial mausoleum. Everyone knew that once you entered the imperial mausoleum, you could not leave. So he stayed in the imperial mausoleum.
Mingyu curses loudly every day; she is completely different from the gentle, considerate, kind, lovely, beautiful, and generous person he remembers.
He often wondered if he hadn't been so arrogant and had simply lived a good life while preserving his ancestors' legacy, would he now have a large family?
Instead of living like this, guarding the imperial tombs, facing a lonely and helpless future.
They spent the rest of their lives in despair.
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Hengshan Sect is a small sect nestled among mountains. Its main peak is named Hengshan, and it has several peaks and hundreds of disciples.
The sect leader's name is Gu Yongyuan. He is a master in the Nascent Soul stage. He was nearly two thousand years old when he had his daughter Gu Qiqi, so he doted on her very much.
This fostered her willful and capricious nature, and none of the sect's elders or peak masters escaped her misfortune.
Gu Yongyuan has many disciples, but the one he relies on most is Lin Qiu, the disciple of the Grand Elder. Every time he goes into seclusion, he entrusts her with handling all matters, big and small, of the sect.
Lin Qiu was an abandoned baby who was picked up by the Grand Elder at the foot of the mountain. She grew up in Hengshan and devoted herself to helping her master, treating Hengshan as her own home.
When Gu Qiqi grew up, she became extremely jealous of Lin Qiu because she was inferior to Lin Qiu in both appearance and cultivation.
On Gu Qiqi's eighteenth birthday, while hiking down the mountain, she found a little boy named Shen Qianmo. He looked to be about ten years old. When asked anything, he wouldn't say anything and just silently followed Gu Qiqi.
Gu Qiqi brought him to the sect and had her father accept him as a disciple. From then on, she had a little follower.
Lin Qiu questioned Shen Qianmo's identity, but Gu Qiqi made trouble and caused chaos, which made Shen Qianmo hate Lin Qiu.
Gu Qiqi kept Shen Qianmo because she discovered a cultivation manual on him, but this manual was an evil technique.
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