The Sequel to My Fair Princess

Continuing from the original story, Xiao Jian comes seeking his family, only to discover that Xiao Yanzi has already mistaken her enemy for her father. After weighing things up, he gives up on revenge. Just then, his uncle □□ is also coming to the capital to find his family, so Xiao Jian asks Qing'er to help arrange an introduction. Unexpected events follow, setting off a huge chain reaction. The matter involves the mystery of Qianlong's own parentage, as well as Qing'er's origins and Xiao Jian's background. All of these secrets come to light together...

The main thread of this story is Yongqi and Xiao Yanzi's ultimate fate. Set against the history of the time, it draws on some phenomena of modern society, using the past to comment on the present, and other people's wine to drown my own sorrows. There may inevitably be some oversights. This is just for discussion, not for profit.

Among China's five thousand years of unsolved mysteries, one concerns the identity of Qianlong's birth mother. Official history records her as "the daughter of Ling Zhu, formerly a fourth-rank ceremonial official and later honored as a first-rank duke of grace." There are many unofficial accounts: Li Jingui, a palace maid from Rehe; a bondservant woman from the Imperial Household Department; a simple-minded girl; a country girl; and Lady Chen of Haining, among others. The question of an emperor's birth mother is unique among the twelve Qing emperors.

There is a Consort Fragrance tomb at Taoyuanting in Beijing, said to be a tomb containing her clothes and ornaments. Its gravestone bears an obscure inscription: "Vast is the sorrow, boundless the calamity; in the luxuriant tomb lies emerald blood. Even emerald fades in time, and blood too will vanish one day. Yet a wisp of fragrant soul endures without end. Is it true or false? It became a butterfly."

In Kangxi's later years, the princes schemed against one another to seize the throne. In the end, the fourth prince, Yinzhen, prevailed. Yet the matter did not end there. During the Qianlong era, the eldest imperial grandson, Hongxi, became embroiled in a palace dispute and was ultimately branded a rebel, stripped of his title and removed from the imperial clan register.

Going further back to the Ming dynasty, after Zhu Yuanzhang died, his eldest imperial grandson succeeded him as the Jianwen Emperor. Unfortunately, he had barely settled into the throne before his uncle's army reached the capital, and he disappeared without a trace...

Theme: Only by staying true to your original aspirations can you see things through to the end