In the seventh year of Taihe, during the Peach Grove of Pingcheng, Feng Run, the concubine of the Feng family, fell in love with the young emperor Yuan Hong at first sight. At that time, he was controlled by the civilized Queen Mother, and his ambitions of Chinese culture had nowhere to display. Only she understood his ideals of mountains and rivers; she was trapped in the concubine and inferiority, only he promised to be employed by thousands of miles of mountains and rivers, and made her his queen.
She suffered from a persistent cough, and the senior officials in the court took the opportunity to criticize her. The Queen Mother sent her to the Yaoguang Temple to practice hard at the Qingdeng Temple, and they were separated for seven years. In the deep palace, Yuan Hongkong guarded the sixth palace, and was forced to appoint his sister Feng Qing as his queen; in the mountain temple, Feng Run saw the warmth and coldness of people, his love heart gradually grew cold, and he devoted himself to planning to regain his own honor.
When Yuan Hong came to power in person, he welcomed her back to the palace with royal honors. He treated her with great favor, but it was difficult to eliminate the estrangement between the two. The loneliness in the palace breeds paranoia. Suspicions, witchcraft, and battles for supremacy separate the affection layer by layer. What was once full of joy is only an endless pull.
In the 23rd year of Taihe, Yuan Hong died of illness and stayed in Luyang Palace. A posthumous edict ordered Feng Run to commit suicide and allowed her to be buried in Changling with the empress rites. One emperor and one empress fell in love and killed each other for thirteen years. The peach blossom promises of young people eventually turned into loess and eternal regrets. The history books wrote a "secret empress", hiding the deep love and regret that could not be controlled by the shackles of imperial power.
The full text is accompanied by two character notes, which respectively describe seven years of loneliness and half-life guilt from the first perspectives of Feng Run and Yuan Hong.
Purpose: Based on the historical facts of Emperor Xiaowen of the Northern Wei Dynasty, Yuan Hong and Feng Run, to write about the two-way tragedy of imperial power, legitimate concubines, and the rules of the times. It analyzes how the pure love of young people is destroyed by court games, loneliness in the palace, and low self-esteem. It shows the involuntary fate of women in the harem under the background of Chinese reform, explores the growing hatred in life when power and sincerity are difficult to balance, and conveys the core of cherishing pure true love and objectively viewing the shackles of human nature in the feudal era.