The original owner was the least favored illegitimate son in the family.
When the old emperor was alive, he had arranged a marriage between her and the regent, Xiang Linyuan.
A man wants to marry another man as his principal wife.
This was a tremendous humiliation for both men.
At that time, the bridal sedan chair was carried to the front of the Regent's Palace.
However, Xiang Linyuan refused to accept it.
He didn't even glance at it before ordering the bridal sedan chair to be carried to the palace.
He even brought a group of ministers who were loyal to him, and they jointly submitted a memorial, forcing the old emperor to take the original owner into the harem.
Xiang Linyuan was the old emperor's ninth brother.
Eccentric and ambitious.
Because of his high prestige in the army, he wielded more power than the old emperor.
The old emperor had no choice but to keep the original owner in the palace and bestow upon her the title of a beauty. He had failed to humiliate her and was instead humiliated himself.
From then on, the original owner became the biggest laughing stock in the capital.
It also became the most interesting topic of conversation among the imperial concubines during their leisure time.
The original owner was a person who didn't compete or fight.
Since we're here, let's make the best of it.
He lived a peaceful and predictable life in the harem.
However, the appearance of one person disrupted his peaceful state of mind.
That was the third prince at the time, now the emperor, Xiang Yinghan.
Xiang Yinghan is attracted to both men and women, but she prefers men.
He liked the original owner's gentle nature, so he secretly sent him snacks every day and helped him drive away the concubines who bullied him.
Gradually, in the original owner's eyes and heart, there was only Xiang Yinghan.
However, this period of good fortune was short-lived. As the old emperor's condition worsened, the princes began a fierce battle for the throne.
Having finally secured the position of Crown Prince, Xiang Yinghan was terrified of being overthrown by others and was eager to ascend the throne. He even went so far as to send the original owner of the body to poison the old emperor.
Knowing that the original owner was weak and incompetent, the old emperor had no suspicion of him and drank the tea that the original owner had brought him.
He died from the poison, and the original owner was imprisoned.
Under severe torture, the original owner of the body refused to confess to identifying Xiang Yinghan.
Because Xiang Yinghan had told him that he would come to rescue him.
He believed in Xiang Yinghan.
Cats have nine lives, but in the prison, the original owner lost eight of them.
Later, Xiang Yinghan successfully ascended the throne and released the original owner of the body.
The original owner was overjoyed and waited for Xiang Yinghan to say he wanted to marry him.
But to everyone's surprise, as soon as she was released from prison, she was directly made Empress Dowager, and watched helplessly as Xiang Yinghan married the Empress and went through the wedding ceremony with another woman.
Xiang Yinghan's explanation was: "I will marry the eldest daughter of the Prime Minister's family first, secure my throne, and then I will have the power to marry you openly and legitimately."
The original owner always believed in him, endured countless insults, and sat on the throne of Empress Dowager.
It was only later that the original owner learned that Xiang Yinghan had never intended to save him.
However, upon ascending the throne, Xiang Yinghan, in an effort to establish his authority, slaughtered the old emperor's entire harem, an act of brutality that outraged the people.
Fearing the loss of popular support, Xiang Yinghan, in order to demonstrate his benevolence, insisted on calling a deer a horse and saying that the original owner had not poisoned him, thus establishing him as Empress Dowager, winning over the people's hearts, and also fulfilling his promise to rescue him from prison.
Later, in order to undermine Xiang Linyuan's power in the court, Xiang Yinghan brought up the fact that the original owner had been rejected by Xiang Linyuan in marriage.
On the grounds of disrespecting the Empress Dowager, Xiang Linyuan, a high-ranking regent, was demoted to a lowly worker in the Eastern Depot, a mere "Nine Thousand Years Old".
The man got married, was rejected, and then became the Empress Dowager.
This incident made the original owner a laughing stock once again, making it increasingly difficult for her to survive in the harem, where she had to watch Xiang Yinghan favor other concubines every day.
More than a decade later, Xiang Yinghan's power gradually stabilized. The Empress died in childbirth, and in order to seek excitement, he wanted to try making the original owner of the body his Empress.
A man went from being a princess to a concubine, from a concubine to an empress dowager, and then from an empress dowager to an empress.
People have grown tired of laughing anymore, and even foreign tribes who come to pay tribute know that there is such a puppet who can change his mind at will.
However, the original owner didn't care.
He thought Xiang Yinghan loved him.
He didn't care about anything as long as he could be with Xiang Yinghan.
The original owner thought that after waiting for so many years, hope had finally arrived.
He happily put on the women's wedding robe and happily married Xiang Yinghan.
Unexpectedly, Xiang Linyuan launched a coup on the day of his wedding and assassinated Xiang Yinghan.
When Xiang Yinghan was on the verge of death, he did not hesitate to pull the original owner of the body to take a sword for him.
The original owner of this body perished at this point.
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