When Shen Qingci was empress, the emperor’s entire assessment of her came down to four words: “all pretence and affectation.”
As empress, she arranged concubines for the emperor and helped him marry the woman he loved.
She watched them climb the ranks step by step, until they even wanted her to give up her throne and make way for them.
So be it. She would spend her days admiring flowers, walking her birds, and playing with sparrows, while teaching those women how to be concubines.
Years after leaving the palace, she heard that Xiao Jin had told a later palace consort, “I once had a wife who was gentle and bright, virtuous and gracious. I made her empress, and I cherished her dearly...”
He hates the female protagonist but is too soft-hearted, and he is soft-hearted to the male protagonist again and again, and the male protagonist is too scumbag