Beile Yongqi, the twelfth son of Emperor Gaozong.
Died in the forty-first year of Qianlong's reign.
Posthumously granted the title of Beile in the third month of the fourth year of Jiaqing's reign.
Draft History of Qing, Biographies
This prince is like a riddle. Could those few brief lines really tell the story of his whole life?
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Yongqi never knew what set a legitimate imperial son apart from the other princes.
The two princes born to Empress Fuca before him had died before he was born, so he never had the chance to find out.
When his turn came, he was simply a child everyone ignored.
Sometimes he wondered if perhaps the Emperor hated him. One heir after another, born to the woman the Emperor loved most and eagerly awaited, had died. Perhaps the Emperor resented Heaven for letting him, of all people, survive, and had ignored him ever since.
The nobles and servants in the palace all believed that Yongqi's cold nature was caused by his frail health.
In truth, Yongqi had seen far, far more darkness than most people.
The Forbidden City: a prison where the living and the dead mingled.
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