Liansheng Imperial Palace, Lingyang Palace.

Lingyang Palace used to be a palace for favorite concubines, but now, after this area has become a cold palace, it has become so deserted.

Later, many concubines who fell out of favor and made mistakes lived in it one after another, and after these concubines who were beaten into the cold palace died, they went crazy, and this Lingyang Palace has not seen anyone walking around here for a long time.

Especially the last concubine Dan who lived here, because she poisoned a five-year-old prince with a dim sum she made herself, which caused His Majesty Long Yan to be furious and was beaten into this cold palace.

Even her daughter, Princess Yidan, was implicated and demoted to a palace maid. At first, she was still strong and lived in the cold palace for her daughter, but in the end, she was forced to commit suicide by jumping into the lake under all kinds of difficulties for the concubine Yin Guifei, who lost her prince.

So since then, this cold palace has been empty.

At this moment, in the dim and cold moonlight, a ragged palace maid, covered in wounds, limped in the garden grass and walked blankly.

This palace maid doesn't look very old, and at first glance she is the kind of little girl who has not been in the palace for too long and is still a little immature.

It's just that although she is wearing the clothes of a palace maid, she still has a faint demeanor of a lady in her gestures, and even the kind of innate noble temperament that can only be formed if she has been pampered since childhood.

Judging from the way she staggered and was about to fall down with every step she took, she should have been extremely weak and exhausted, but the little palace maid persistently walked towards the lake in the center of the garden.

He also whispered softly: "Mother, Dan'er will come to accompany you soon, there is no room for Dan'er in this palace, and Dan'er doesn't want to live in this world, as long as Dan'er jumps into this lake for a while, she will be able to come to you soon." After all, you just jumped into this lake and left Dan'er forever, so Dan'er thought that the only way to return to you was the same way, right? Mother, Dan'er really misses you, are you alone in that world? Well, now that Dan'er is with you in the future, you will never be lonely and lonely again. ”

Maybe it's because there is nothing to love, so even though she walks alone in this deserted cold palace garden without a trace of light, this palace maid who calls herself Dan'er is not afraid at all.

After all, she is not afraid of death, what else can she be afraid of in this world?

It stands to reason that the palace is so big, and palaces with gardens abound, this Dan'er doesn't need to choose such a bleak palace to seek death, he can choose a magnificent, flowering garden lake to leave this world, and he will not let his last day in this world be so miserable.

The reason is mainly because in this cold palace, her mother once lived, that is, the concubine who poisoned the prince, and she was the princess Yidan, who was degraded to a palace maid who was high in the past and was deeply favored by His Majesty.

Since she was demoted to a palace maid, she has been working as a palace maid in the palace of Concubine Yin who forced her mother to death.

According to that Yin Guifei, that is, she lost the prince, and she would never let their mother and daughter have a better day!

Therefore, the days of Princess Yidan can be imagined, a small fight in three days, and a violent fight in five days, which is already a commonplace.

It's just that every time after beating Princess Yidan, he would wash the wounds and blood stains on her body with cold water, then bandage it briefly, change into clean clothes without blood stains, and deliberately let her continue to go out to run errands.

also threatened her not to expose what she had just been beaten in front of others, not only to pretend to be very healthy, but also to ask her to smile at all times, so that other concubines and even His Majesty felt that Concubine Yin had not abused her.

In order to show that Concubine Yin is generous-minded, forgiving and forgiving.

So when Princess Yidan went out to do errands, when she saw the other concubines and His Majesty, she had to grit her teeth and pretend to have a smile and a happy expression, as if Concubine Yin really treated her well.

Concubine Yin Guifei also specially sent someone to secretly monitor Princess Yidan's every move, if she dared to show a trace of pain, not only would she have to be beaten again when she came back, but even her mother in Lingyang Palace would be affected, so Princess Yidan, who was sensible since she was a child and loved her mother very much, naturally lived every day with a smile.

Although the mother and daughter's life in the palace is extremely unsatisfactory, because of each other's concern and being in the palace, sometimes the mother and daughter can occasionally meet and chat in private, so they are quite fulfilling.

However, the good times didn't last long, one day Yin Guifei's favorite cat, I don't know why she accidentally died in the lake of Lingyang Palace, which completely angered Yin Guifei, thinking that Princess Yidan's mother must have taken revenge on her to do so.

So he took many palace maids to Lingyang Palace to question, and asked each palace maid to take turns to slap Concubine Dan, and even claimed that if she couldn't give her favorite cat a sincere compensation, then her baby daughter Princess Yidan would end up like a cat.

Regarding Yin Guifei's deliberate threat, Princess Yidan's mother also understood that if she couldn't make a punishment to relieve Yin Guifei's hatred at that time, then her daughter Princess Yidan would probably really be murdered.

In desperation, she jumped into the lake without hesitation, and in front of Yin Guifei, she drowned herself alive, which was considered to be a burial for the cat.

After that, he also implored His Majesty to give Concubine Dan a proper burial, so as to show that he was really a model of a noble concubine who convinces people with virtue and is virtuous and virtuous.

In fact, His Majesty also knows a thing or two about the competition for favor and grievances in this harem, but in His Majesty's mind, there is only Nalan Qiqing, the queen's mother, and he can't be said to be completely ruthless to other concubines, but it is still much worse than Nalan Qiqing.

So for what other concubines do, as long as it is reasonable on the surface, they will turn a blind eye, after all, some concubines are involved in some forces in the DPRK and China, so Your Majesty is not too discerning for the sake of national stability.

He knew in his heart that some concubines who were beaten into the cold palace may not have really made a big mistake, and some noble concubines may not be really virtuous and virtuous.

The real reason for this, if you dig deeper, will only make the harem restless and the court unstable, so he can only "do business" according to the facts on the surface.

It stands to reason that from the name of Princess Yidan, it can be felt that His Majesty still cares about Concubine Dan, but in the face of the "iron-like evidence" provided by Concubine Yin, she had no choice but to send Concubine Dan into the cold palace.

As for demoting Princess Yidan to a palace maid, His Majesty couldn't bear to do this, but Concubine Yin secretly instigated the ministers of the court and the central government to jointly play a concert, demanding that the murderer of the prince be severely punished and given the harshest lesson, so as to avoid more concubines in the future, leading to the innocent and tragic death of more princes.

So under the double pressure of the harem and the court, he had no choice but to do it, he thought that after a while, Concubine Yin would be discouraged, and then find a way to restore the identity of Princess Yidan.

But he didn't expect that he himself was assassinated later, and he also lost the imperial power, after a year of forbearance, he used the big money of fifteen years of ice to regain the throne, and after unifying the entire Liansheng Kingdom, in order to let the ruined Liansheng Kingdom return to the original prosperous era as soon as possible, naturally he couldn't take care of the old things in the harem.

It was still the queen's mother, Nalan Qiqing, who took back all the concubines who temporarily fled the palace due to the war in the harem, and settled everything again, without distracting His Majesty from the main affairs of the country.

Therefore, His Majesty will forget these former concubines even more, not to mention the matter of Princess Yidan.

As for the concubines in the cold palace, Li Zheng, who seized the throne, did not kill them all, but also felt that it was unfortunate to attack them, so they were left to fend for themselves, so although they did not escape from the palace, they all survived.

Since Concubine Dan's funeral was also presided over by the queen's mother, Nalan Qiqing, His Majesty did not attend.

And although Princess Yidan attended, she didn't shed a single tear that day, and she didn't cry, not that she wasn't sad or sad, but that this sudden accident hit her too hard.

So much so that she didn't believe that her mother was fine, why did she suddenly fall into the lake and drown!

So she insisted in her heart that her mother was not dead, and she also felt that once she cried, her mother might really never come back, so she went through the whole process without saying a word and with a blank face.

It wasn't until he returned to his room and closed the door that he suddenly collapsed on the floor and cried for a long, long time until he fainted.

After all, Concubine Dan is the only reason for her to live strongly, but now that this reason is lost, how can she not be grief-stricken.

So after she decided to keep filial piety for her mother for 7749 days, she jumped into the lake and committed suicide to accompany her mother.

And tonight happened to be the day when the period of filial piety expired, and when she was beaten by Yin Guifei during the day for no reason, and punished her to kneel in the garden of Lingyang Palace for a night as punishment, she once again thought of the suicide by jumping into the lake that she had planned for a long time.

She felt that the opportunity to be punished by Concubine Yin to kneel in Lingyang Palace today happened to be the day when the forty-ninth day of filial piety she had planned expired, maybe this was the will of heaven, maybe her mother under Jiuquan also missed her, knowing that she was not having a good time, so she came to pick her up.

So she took advantage of the time when the royal guards who guarded her were gone, and walked towards the lake in the center of the garden, knowing that after this day it would be all over, all the pain and suffering.

Just as she had come to the lake and had spoken to herself, she was about to jump into it, when she did not notice that an eight-year-old girl was quietly coming behind her, looking at her secretly, reminiscing about what she had just said.

This girl is none other than Yao'er, who slipped out of the Goddess's Palace before, her fingers began to rot, and her whole body began to transform again, and Yao'er had a new plan in her heart when she saw this Princess Yidan who was about to commit suicide by jumping into the lake......