Concubine Yan sighed and looked around the room in this cold palace. The cobwebs on the shabby tables and chairs, the dirty bedding on the bed, and the smell of mold in the air were all places where people lived.
She covered her nose and sighed: "You and I have been fighting for more than ten years, but in the end you still lost."
"Yeah?"
Queen Han raised her eyebrows, picked up the cup with a mouth missing on the table, took a sip of cold tea and said, "I don't think so."
Concubine Yan's eyebrows slightly moved and she looked at Empress Han suspiciously: "What do you mean by this?"
She didn't believe that Queen Han and the Han family could stand up. It would be as difficult as climbing out of this place. The Han family had fallen, the prince had been deposed, and her son was about to become the crown prince of Beichen, his majesty's only candidate.
Empress Han pursed her lips and did not answer her words. Instead, she spoke about her youth, with a somewhat sad look on her face: "Do you think it would have been great if he had chosen me back then?"
Concubine Yan's expression changed slightly, she looked at Empress Han and said, "Are you regretting it?"
Empress Han laughed at herself: "How can I not regret it? Back then, because of love and hatred, I single-handedly destroyed the person I loved, married someone I didn't like, and helped him ascend the throne and become emperor. But in the end, this is what he gave me in return.
The deep silence of the palace."
She said with tears in her eyes.
Concubine Yan looked at her, a little sad. Who would have thought that Prince Chen, who was the most powerful prince in the world, would be destroyed at the hands of Queen Han.
She admired Prince Chen but could not get him. In the end, she grew to hate him because of her love and conspired with Yuan Hao to frame Prince Chen for rebellion.
The reason why the Yan family and the Han family were able to reach a consensus and control the harem and let Yuan Hao have no other children except the children they gave birth to was because she had mastered the secret of Queen Han's plot to murder Prince Chen and frame the Crown Princess.
They have been fighting in the harem for decades, but in fact they were close friends when they were young, and they also had heart-to-heart conversations and shared their concerns.
Back then, she discovered Empress Han's letter in which she framed the Crown Princess. At that time, the Yan family wanted to win over the Crown Prince and send her to the East Palace as a concubine.
But he was rejected by Prince Chen.
At that time, Prince Chen was young and vigorous. In order to stop the courtiers from sending their daughters to the palace, he actually said that they would be together for the rest of their lives, saying that he would not have concubines or concubines in the future.
Little did they know that this offended the courtiers. Since ancient times, the former dynasty and the harem were closely related, but Prince Chen insisted on going his own way. He was deceived by Ye Jialan, the missing and found young lady from the Zhenguo Palace. He would not marry her unless she was there, and even set up a false harem for her sake.
As a result, the courtiers became wary, and many of them turned to the second prince Yuan Hao.
Empress Han somehow learned that Ye Jialan's identity was fake and that she was the princess of Nanyue, so she forged a letter to frame Ye Jialan.
She learned about this incident, and for the future of the Yan family, she chose to join forces with Queen Han, causing the Yan family to defect to the second prince, in exchange for the title of the Yan family and her status as a noble concubine.
Now when she heard Empress Han mention that time again, she couldn't help but feel a little sad. In fact, she had also had an admiration for Prince Chen back then, and she held on to some fantasy and hoped to become his woman.
When the marriage was rejected, she felt that she had been humiliated and resentful, so faced with Empress Han's temptation, she agreed without any hesitation.
Now think about it, is their admiration for Prince Chen love or profit?
Concubine Yan lowered her eyes, brushing away the desolate past in her heart, and said in a calm voice: "Your Majesty has issued a decree today to accept Mu Xuechu as your concubine, and she will enter the palace next month."
When Mu Xuechu was mentioned, Queen Han was stunned for a moment. After a while, she sneered: "Your Majesty is really very affectionate towards her. Even though she has been married before, he still insists on marrying her as his concubine. It turns out that he is also
Do you have a heart?"
Concubine Yan said: "That's not necessarily the case. You also know that our Majesty is very thoughtful. How could he know that by marrying Mu Xuechu as his concubine, he is not taking revenge on Mu Rufeng and trying to control the Mu family?"