The original heroine of this plot is Cui Yue, the eldest daughter of Prime Minister Cui.
Although Cui Yue is the eldest daughter, she is born out of wedlock and has been bullied in the Cui family since she was a child.
Women in ancient times did not have a strong desire for revenge. She just wanted to hide and marry a powerful man, staying away from this deadly Cui family.
And the target she chose was Regent Shen Qingmo.
Perhaps because of the attraction between their fates, Cui Yue was certain that she would be able to trap the Regent.
After a series of deliberate encounters and approaches, Cui Yue successfully attracted the attention of Shen Qingmo with the good fortune of the heroine, and incidentally also attracted a wave of hatred from Liu Huiyin.
Liu Huiyin is the cousin of Regent Shen Qingmo. The Liu family is the Regent's maternal family. Liu Huiyin has known Shen Qingmo since childhood and considers themselves childhood sweethearts.
When Cui Yue and Liu Huiyin met, one relied on Chen Qingmo's love, and the other relied on the fact that they were relatives since childhood. They were at loggerheads and neither of them would give in.
But Prime Minister Cui was the emperor's man. Although the emperor was not old, only sixteen years old, he was also an ambitious man. He had always been dissatisfied with having a regent uncle weighing on his head.
As the relationship between Cui Yue and Shen Qingmo became better and better, after obtaining Shen Qingmo's consent, the emperor granted Cui Yue and Shen Qingmo their marriage, and privately found Cui Yue and asked her to assassinate Shen Qingmo on their wedding night.
If she succeeded, she would be allowed to leave the Cui family and be given a large sum of money to take her biological mother, Aunt An, and flee far away from the capital. If Cui Yue refused, then Prime Minister Cui would take action against her biological mother.
This is simply an unfair clause.
Cui Yue had no feelings for the Cui family, but she was very filial to her biological mother, Aunt An. Faced with the naked threat, she weighed the pros and cons and agreed to the emperor's request.
In this time and space, the constraints on women are not very high. As long as there is money, a mother and daughter can live the rest of their lives well without a man to take care of them.
Rather than marrying the Regent herself and leaving Concubine An to continue suffering in the Cui family, it would obviously be better for her to gain freedom with Concubine An.
On the wedding night, Shen Qingmo's guards and secret guards were sent far away. It was a good opportunity for Cui Yue to take action, but at the critical moment, facing Shen Qingmo's tenderness, Cui Yue hesitated.
She seemed to have really fallen in love with Shen Qingmo. Her hand, hidden in her wedding dress, tightly grasped the dagger. She broke out in a cold sweat, but she couldn't bring herself to do it.
While they were hesitating, a group of assassins broke into the bridal chamber. They were obviously targeting Shen Qingmo, but they sneaked up on Cui Yue at the last moment.
The dagger pierced Cui Yue's chest, and the dagger in her hand fell out of her wedding dress. Although Shen Qingmo wondered why she carried a dagger with her when getting married, he pretended to be stupid because he believed her and did not ask any more questions.
Cui Yue did not die because of this, but needed some time to recuperate from his injuries. Because of this, he had not yet consummated his marriage with Shen Qingmo.
As Chen Qingmo investigated the assassin's origins, all clues pointed to Cui Yue. Recalling the dagger that had fallen from Cui Yue's wedding dress, he grew increasingly suspicious of her motives. Perhaps the injury was merely a self-torture tactic? The dagger had pierced the right side of Cui Yue's chest, clearly not intending to kill her.
But in fact, all of this was planned by Liu Huiyin. She was the one who hired the assassin and specifically instructed that the regent should not be harmed. She also specifically instructed that when attacking Cui Yue, there must be obvious signs that the assassin did not want Cui Yue to die. Then she arranged the clues behind the scenes and prepared to defeat Cui Yue.
The dagger hidden in Cui Yue's wedding dress was nothing but a pleasant surprise for Liu Huiyin.
Given the Regent's suspicious nature, no matter how much he likes Cui Yue, he can't help but connect these things one by one.
However, for Cui Yue, agreeing to the emperor's assassination of Shen Qingmo was in the wrong.
Shen Qingmo, who had basically determined that Cui Yue was the mastermind behind the assassination, did not investigate further. Not long after, he received a report from his subordinates that Prime Minister Cui was the emperor's man and seemed to understand the reason why Cui Yue assassinated him.
Shen Qingmo could no longer contain his anger at being betrayed. He found Cui Yue and asked only one question: "Why did you want to assassinate me?"
Cui Yue's silence made Shen Qingmo completely lose the last bit of hope he had. He believed that the assassin was hired by Cui Yue and never set foot in Cui Yue's yard again.
Seeing that the servants were becoming more and more negligent, refusing to call a doctor to check Cui Yue's injuries or to make medicine for her, resulting in Cui Yue's injuries not being effectively treated and gradually worsening, Shen Qingmo never came to see her again.
The maid that came with Cui Yue as a dowry was transferred to a place where she had to do rough and hard labor. She secretly ran back to Cui Yue's yard and told Cui Yue a piece of news that broke her heart.
It turned out that on the second day after the wedding night, the emperor learned that Cui Yue's assassination had failed, so he ordered Prime Minister Cui to give Aunt An a three-foot white silk and hang her in Cui's mansion.
During this period, Liu Huiyin had been flirting with Shen Qingmo. Shen Qingmo also knew that Liu Huiyin and Cui Yue were not on good terms, and wanted to abuse Cui Yue, so he took Liu Huiyin as his concubine.
But Shen Qingmo didn't like Liu Huiyin at all and refused to touch her. She was upset and went to find trouble with Cui Yue. She also caught the maid who secretly passed on information to Cui Yue and beat her to death with sticks. She went to Cui Yue's yard every day to laugh at her and make fun of her.
Unable to withstand the physical decline and the pain in his heart, Cui Yue finally died in the old courtyard in the corner of the Regent's Palace. Even his body was thrown into a mass grave by Liu Huiyin.
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