The Concubine’s Daughter Becomes Empress: The Emperor’s White Moonlight Is Her Older Sister

[Empresses in the Palace Fan Fiction] [Yixiu's Tragic Life]

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She was a concubine-born daughter of the Ulanara clan. When she entered the prince's manor, she carried three parts girlish longing and seven parts anxious caution.

At the time, Fourth Prince Yinzhen's gaze had not yet been wholly claimed by her legitimate elder sister, Rouze. She personally managed his household,

warmed a pot of wine for him on cold nights, and even when she was pregnant with Honghui,

she secretly thought: Perhaps she could have a little taste of an ordinary couple's warmth.

But then Rouze arrived.

The crabapple blossoms were in full bloom. He built a private garden for her, painted her likeness, and even when he called out to her, his voice held a distant tenderness meant for someone else.

Her birthday was forgotten in a corner. The purse she had embroidered herself was casually tossed onto his desk. The child in her womb, Honghui, became her only hope.

Until that rainy night, when she lost the baby.

Kneeling before the spirit tablet, she heard him speaking tenderly to Rouze outside. Her fingernails dug into her palm until blood welled up. So the child of a concubine-born daughter was not even worth a single tear from him.

Later, Rouze died, and Yixiu was elevated to the position of principal consort. Later still, she became the empress of the Forbidden City.

The more firmly the phoenix crown sat on her head, the wider the hole in her heart grew.

They called her cruel, called her wicked, but who had ever seen her silently weeping late at night as she held Honghui's fetal hair?

Who knew that Yongzheng's words, “You should be more like your sister,” had pierced her like a needle for thirty years?

When Zhen Huan entered the palace with a face remarkably like Rouze's, Yixiu stood beneath the plum tree in the imperial garden and suddenly laughed.

Within these palace walls, there had never been a “Yixiu.” There was only her elder sister's shadow, a pawn of the Ulanara clan, and a mother who had lost her child forever.

In Empresses in the Palace, her tragic ending was written the day she first entered the prince's manor.