The late emperor was seriously ill and could not recover in his later years. In order to prolong his life, he brought an eighty-nine-year-old girl from among the people to the palace and made her a noble concubine of the Song Dynasty.
The emperor managed to hang on to his life for several more years. After a long period of illness, he was afraid that the adult princes would form powerful factions, so he deposed many princes. Finally, he violated the ancestral system, abandoned the eldest son and established the young prince, and established the young prince as the prince of the East Palace.
The eldest princess, Qin Ling, has always been arrogant and domineering. She relied on her father's preference to secretly cultivate power and secretly compete for the throne. Her ambitions are clear.
Just as the undercurrent of the dispute over the reserve was surging, Mongolia from the north sent envoys to the court, insisting on seeking a marriage to the princess of the Great Zhou Dynasty to put pressure on him.
The emperor was old and soft-hearted. After all, he was unwilling to leave his own flesh and blood to marry in a barbaric and foreign land. He was in a dilemma.
Qin Ling peeked into the emperor's heart and took the opportunity to make a suggestion: he ordered the palace to announce that Concubine Song died unexpectedly and suddenly, and then adopted the daughter of the royal family, Qin Qingxu, as the queen's righteous daughter, canonized her as Princess Dingjiang, replaced the royal children, and sent her to Dameng for marriage.
This move not only preserved the bloodline of the imperial family, but also safely quelled the diplomatic crisis, winning the Holy Heart.
Since then, the eldest princess Qin Ling has become more and more trusted and favored by the emperor, and is favored by no one.
No one expected that the young prince, who was established as the crown prince at that time, had already been getting along day and night, and had a secret love for the innocent and gentle Song Qingxu.
Witnessing with my own eyes that my sweetheart was turned into a pawn of power and forced to marry in a foreign country, the hatred and obsession were deeply buried in my heart, which also laid the fatal seeds for future feuds in the court and antagonism between flesh and blood.
