When she was four years old, her biological mother looked back at her for the last time as she was being dragged out of the palace.
Zhu Luyu failed to "remember" that face. She only remembered that everyone said that Concubine Cao Duan deserved her death because of her conspiracy to commit regicide due to the "Renyin Palace Incident". But the father held her in his arms late at night and said in a hoarse voice: "Yu'er, you look more and more like your mother and concubine."
She is the daughter of the regicide and the most cherished flesh and blood of the emperor. Her adoptive mother, Concubine Shen Huang, treated her as her own child and taught her to be wise and self-protective; her father, the emperor, squeezed out all his tenderness during the break in alchemy to make up for her lack of maternal love. But she always remembered that question, asking herself over and over again in all the late nights when no one knew about it: Mother and concubine, did you really want to kill your father?
Later, when she grew up, she learned to deal calmly with Yan Song's smile, and gave in with a smile before Queen Fang's temptation. She swallowed the secret, turned her hatred into filial piety, and turned all her doubts into the words she said when she held her father's withered hand: "My daughter is here."
Until the day her father died, she found an old edict under his pillow. The ink had been dry for twenty years.
——"Concubine Duan, Mrs. Cao, was innocently wronged, and I feel ashamed."
That was the only time in his life that her father admitted that he could not keep the woman he loved most.
A princess caught between the hatred of killing her mother and the deep love for her calf spent her whole life forgiving herself for her parents.
Concept: Memory is the weight that the living bear for the dead.
And forgiveness is never about letting others go, it is about letting yourself go.