Emperor Yongxi looked at the bound Liu Huilan and didn't recognize her, but his expression changed. "Royal sister, why did you kidnap a commoner girl?"
"A commoner girl? Didn't your royal brother recognize her?"
Princess Fu'an looked strange.
Emperor Yongxi looked carefully at the frightened Liu Huilan and finally felt a resemblance. They had the same facial features, but now Liu Huilan looked dull and haggard, with poor skin. "Well, she does look like the Queen."
"What do you mean by look-alike? She is the real Liu Huilan."
Princess Fu'an said unhappily.
Emperor Yongxi was shocked and looked at Princess Fu'an in disbelief, but he felt that his sister could not have lied to him.
"Liu Huilan?"
He frowned and looked at the woman he thought was a commoner. "You are Liu Huilan, then who is the queen in the palace?"
Emperor Yongxi couldn't believe it. It's not that no one in the palace suspected that Empress Liu was wrong, but because they looked exactly the same, no one would have thought that they were two different people.
In addition, Emperor Yongxi had only seen Liu Huilan's information and portrait, and had met her once during the talent show.
Later, I heard that Liu Huilan fell into the water and was frightened, so I went to the Liu family once. At that time, Queen Liu had been replaced.
Since they had never gotten along, Emperor Yongxi naturally couldn't fail to notice that something was wrong.
I didn't expect that the queen in the palace was fake.
"Liu Huilan, why don't you tell the truth?"
The Duke of Fu'an growled angrily.
Emperor Yongxi had a cold face, sharp eyes, and murderous intent.
Liu Huilan's face was pale. After she ran away, she was panicked and scared at first, worried about being recognized. But in the past few years, she has lost her youth and color. She is no longer the dignified and beautiful eldest daughter of the Liu family.
Sometimes she would look in the mirror and feel very uncomfortable when she saw herself looking dull, pale, exhausted and out of shape.
But this is all her choice. As long as her cousin treats her well, she will not regret it.
Now looking at the young, handsome and imposing Emperor Yongxi, Liu Huilan felt a faint regret in her heart.
If only...
No, she shook her head in her heart, she loved her cousin the most.
In the past few years, she has not been pregnant again since her miscarriage, but her cousin has always stayed with her and never blamed her. Even when he was angry, he never hit her.
He only bullies her in sex.
She married the man she loved, lived a simple life without intrigue, and was respected as the master's wife. What else could she be dissatisfied with?
Her younger sister entered the palace in her place, but I heard that she didn't have a good life in the palace, otherwise her cousin wouldn't be so angry all the time.
Liu Huilan sighed in her heart. She was the one who harmed her sister, and she felt extremely guilty.
If she had known this earlier, she would not have listened to her mother and would have pretended to be sick and not participated in the audition.
It was no use regretting it. Facing the angry Emperor Yongxi and Princess Fu'an, Liu Huilan was at a loss.
"Destroy the entire Liu family for me."
When Emperor Yongxi said this, Liu Huilan was frightened and quickly shook her head. "I beg Your Majesty to spare the Liu family. The Empress in the palace is also the legitimate daughter of the Liu family, my own twin sister. My parents and brothers are unaware of our exchange..."
"Oh, I don't know. Everyone knows that after Queen Liu fell into the water, her temperament changed drastically. She became timid and cowardly, crying at the slightest provocation, and she looked unpresentable."
It was okay in the harem, but even at the palace banquet, when the concubines secretly criticized him, his eyes turned red and he cried in public.
Who can respect and admire such a queen?
Only the emperor's younger brother is so stupid that he always protects her. Otherwise, Empress Liu would not have survived in the harem until now.
As if he understood Princess Fu'an's contemptuous look, Emperor Yongxi felt helpless.
He also looked down on Queen Liu and wanted to depose her countless times, but after all, she was the queen and a daughter of the Liu family.
If he didn't protect her, Queen Liu's clever tricks would be useless in the harem.
If someone dies and the throne becomes vacant, more people will miss him and he will be in more trouble.
Instead of this, it is better to keep the person.
At least he could see through Queen Liu's cleverness and tricks, and she was easy to control.
Emperor Yongxi also succeeded, using Empress Liu to portray almost all the concubines in the harem as villains.
After all, no matter how weak and incompetent the queen is, she is still the queen. If the concubines bully the queen, it is a great disrespect to the queen.
Isn't it hateful?
However, there was one exception, and that was Concubine Yu. Emperor Yongxi had known her for more than 20 years. Because the Empress Dowager had a good relationship with Prime Minister Yu's wife, Emperor Yongxi and Concubine Yu were childhood sweethearts and playmates.
At that time, the Prime Minister's wife wanted to pair them up.
However, because of Concubine Jiang, the Queen Mother did not give in.
However, among the candidates for Crown Princess favored by the late emperor, there was neither Noble Concubine Yu nor Noble Concubine Jiang.
The late emperor doted on the empress dowager, but he would not listen to her on state affairs.
The young Emperor Yongxi initially thought that Concubine Yu was quite suitable to be the Crown Princess. She was dignified and noble, calm and witty, steady and generous. Most importantly, they grew up together and knew each other well, and Concubine Yu had always liked him.
Rather than choosing someone with unknown personality as the Crown Princess, it is better to choose Concubine Yu.
Just when Emperor Yongxi was considering going to the late emperor to ask for Concubine Yu to be his Crown Princess, he saw Concubine Yu with one of his royal brothers.
The way Concubine Yu looked at her brother was the same as the way she looked at him, with stars in her eyes and a face full of admiration.
Then, Emperor Yongxi discovered that Concubine Yu treated the same way to several other imperial brothers.
Emperor Yongxi was stunned!
It’s hard to put it into words.
Since then, Emperor Yongxi became estranged from Concubine Yu.
After observing for these years, I found that Concubine Yu was very scheming and cunning. It seemed as if she was born with a perfect mask. She did things very smoothly and kept herself clean.
Now looking at Liu Huilan in front of him, he thought of Queen Liu in the palace and Bei Lingyao outside the courtyard.
Emperor Yongxi quickly analyzed the pros and cons in his mind.
I had thought about deposing the queen before because Queen Liu was not suitable.
Afterwards, she gave up the idea of deposing the queen, firstly because of General Liu, and secondly because she stopped Concubine Yu and Concubine Jiang.
Recently, because of Bei Lingyao, the idea of deposing the queen has arisen and cannot be suppressed.
Now that the Liu family has given him evidence, Emperor Yongxi feels that his fate with Bei Lingyao is not over yet.
Bei Lingyao had no idea what Emperor Yongxi was thinking. Although she had not been there, she knew the situation on Liu Huilan's side.
Liu Huilan ran away because she had made an appointment with her sister. She and her cousin left, and her sister entered the palace in their place.
The two sisters discussed it, but kept it a secret from Madam Liu and her half-sister, Madam Hao.
However, cousin Hao, who ran away with Liu Huilan, knew about it.
Bei Lingyao couldn't help but think of a conspiracy theory. Did Queen Liu want to replace her twin sister to match her elder brother (cousin) Hao Wencai and Liu Huilan, and let them get away?
Bei Lingyao couldn't help but walk in and said to Liu Huilan, "Do you know that if you're engaged, you'll be my wife, but if you run away, you'll be my concubine?"
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