Dayan country Yong'an for five years.

It has been two years since Empress Kang Yi died of illness, and there is still no concubine in the harem. The Queen Mother has been seeing the show girls who have entered the palace for a year, and no one has been favored by the emperor, so she is almost sad to death. She had no choice but to ask the painter to copy many more portraits of Empress Kang Yi and disperse them to various states and counties, claiming that as long as she was similar to the appearance and charm in the portrait, the family background was innocent, and the girl was pure and jade, regardless of her status as rich or poor, she could be selected as a show girl and sent to the palace.

Two months later, all the girls who had a slight resemblance to Empress Kang Yi were sent to the palace to wait for the emperor's final reward.

Early on this day, Emperor Yong'an came to the Qinzheng Palace. Unexpectedly, I found that the Queen Mother was standing in front of the dragon chair, and all the civil and military officials were kneeling on the ground and were silent.

"Queen Mother, why are you here?"

The Queen Mother stood in front of the dragon chair with an angry face and said: "Since the Great Yan Kingdom has taken over the world since Taizu raised his army, there has never been such a rebellious descendant, if you still admit that you are the descendant of Taizu, and want to continue to sit on the throne of the emperor, immediately recruit concubines and spread the branches for the royal family, otherwise, immediately abdicate and give way to Xian, and give the imperial throne to other princes." ”

If the Queen Mother was not his own mother, and he was not her only son, Emperor Yongan would really think that the Queen Mother was forcing him to abdicate. But he knew that the queen mother did this just to be anxious for the royal heirs.

Under the persuasion and coercion of the queen mother and the ministers, Emperor Yongan had to come to see these newly elected show girls in the palace. When he saw the fish rushing in, these young girls standing in front of him were stunned. These women, or eyebrows, eyes, noses and mouths, or charm and temperament, are all a little similar to Empress Kangyi. Pity the parents of the world, and want to come to the queen mother in order to let him accept a concubine, she also tried her best.

Among these show girls, the daughter of a wealthy businessman named Lin Min'er from a small town not far from the capital, her appearance and charm are the most similar to Empress Kangyi. So, Emperor Yong'an sealed one concubine, four concubines, and five Shuyi in one go. Ten people were sealed in a row, which naturally made the Queen Mother overjoyed. Among these ten people, the most noble status is Lin Min'er, who was named a noble concubine, and the remaining four concubines are Concubine Lan, Concubine Mei, Concubine Rong, and Concubine Li. As for the position of the queen, because Emperor Yong'an once said to the queen mother, after this life, his queen can only have one person, and it can only be the deceased Empress Kangyi, so the concubine in the harem is the highest grade.

Lin Min'er's title is also the best, the word "Yi", and since then she has been called Concubine Yi in the palace. This Yi Guifei is Long Xiao's biological mother. At that time, Long Jie's biological mother was just a Shuyi who didn't attract much attention from Emperor Yong'an.

Because Lin Min'er is the most similar to Empress Kangyi, she is the most favored by Emperor Yong'an. Emperor Yong'an was fortunate that she had many days, and she became the first concubine to conceive a dragon fetus. A month after she was found pregnant, Concubine Li, one of the four concubines, was also pregnant. There were two concubines who were pregnant all of a sudden, which made the Queen Mother happy, and also made the civil and military officials breathe a sigh of relief.

Concubine Yi was pregnant, and under the Queen Mother's daily thoughts of rain and dew, Emperor Yong'an also began to often say goodbye to Concubine Chang Shuyi, and the battle in the harem was naturally inevitable.

In October, she was pregnant and gave birth, and Concubine Yi and Concubine Li gave birth to princes successively. is also a prince, but Emperor Yongan loves the son of Concubine Yi very much, that is, Long Xiao. As for Concubine Li's son Long Hao, because Concubine Li mistakenly thought that the dragon son who came down from Mr. would be made the crown prince, so she secretly asked the imperial doctor to give her the medicine to induce birth, but she still gave birth a few days later than Concubine Yi. And because of the lack of term, coupled with the side effects of the drug, Long Hao was weak and sick after he was born, and naturally he was not loved by Emperor Yong'an.

As the saying goes: A mother is more expensive than a child, but Concubine Li has not tasted this, so she naturally regards Concubine Yi, who is deeply favored by the emperor, as a thorn in her eye and a thorn in her flesh. Lin Min'er has a gentle and weak personality, loves to read poetry and Buddhist scriptures, and naturally does not know how to intrigue more and more. But in this deep palace, if you don't provoke others, it doesn't mean that others will let you go.

When Long Xiao was six years old, Long Hao finally died. Concubine Li, who lost her beloved son, blamed Lin Min'er for all this. Concubine Li asked people to secretly investigate Lin Min'er's past, and unexpectedly discovered a big secret, when Lin Min'er was not in the palace, she once had a cousin who was married. In order to curry favor with the Queen Mother, the Lin family sent Lin Min'er, who looked like Empress Kangyi, into the palace in order to become a relative of the emperor, regardless of the existing marriage contract.

When Lin Miner was still the daughter of a rich family, she liked to live in a quiet and elegant courtyard of the Lin family. And this courtyard, because of the beautiful scenery around it, was also designated as a palace after she became Concubine Yi. Every year, Emperor Yong'an will let her go back to this courtyard to live for a while, and also let her save her relatives by the way. This shows how much Emperor Yongan loves her.

Lin Min'er doesn't like pomp, and every time she goes back, she only brings a few eunuchs and palace maids, so there are still many servants of the Lin family serving there in the courtyard, and the head of the courtyard is her cousin who used to be married.

When Concubine Li found out about all this, she began to spread rumors, saying that Long Xiao was not Emperor Yong'an's flesh and blood, but was pregnant by Lin Min'er's fornication with her cousin when she was in the province. After the rumors reached the ears of Emperor Yong'an, Emperor Yong'an did not attack immediately, but secretly sent someone to investigate, and found that there was really such a cousin who had been married to him. But that year, he still let Lin Min'er go home to save his relatives as always. Concubine Li in the palace immediately sent someone to buy Lin Min'er's cousin with a lot of money, so that he could meet Lin Min'er more privately and talk.

Emperor Yong'an, who was suspicious, secretly sent someone to monitor Lin Min'er's every move. When he learned that Lin Min'er and her cousin did meet in private, when Lin Min'er returned to Beijing, he immediately locked the young Long Xiao in the house and forced Lin Min'er to confess everything between her and her cousin. I think that Empress Kang Yi was the lover of her childhood sweetheart who never forgot her, and after being forced to marry him by Emperor Yong'an, she finally died of depression. The woman he likes but doesn't like him, this is Emperor Yong'an's biggest hidden pain, so when he found out that Lin Min'er was also like this, his anger can be imagined.

The young Long Xiao was locked alone in the palace maid's room and cried, and Lin Min'er also claimed in tears that she had never done anything to be sorry for him, but Emperor Yong'an still sent her into the cold palace. On the night she entered the cold palace, Lin Min'er committed suicide by hanging herself from a beam and died to make her will.

Lin Min'er left a letter to Emperor Yong'an in detail about his love for her, her love for him, she claimed that although she knew that she was the shadow of Empress Kangyi, she was still very happy to be this shadow, because this man was the man she really admired and loved, as long as she could stay by his side, she was willing to be a stand-in for a lifetime. But if she didn't even have a chance to stay by his side, she would rather die than survive. In the end, he also wrote that if he suspected that Long Xiao was not his own flesh and blood, then he could kill Long Xiao and let their mother and son be reunited underground, and one day after the truth of the matter was revealed, so that Emperor Yong'an could live in remorse for killing his own flesh and blood.

Perhaps it was this lingering and grief and indignation that moved Emperor Yong'an, who hurriedly asked people to release Long Xiao who was locked in the house. After opening the door, I found that Long Xiao had already passed out because he had knocked over the brazier and his forehead was burned.

The Queen Mother, who learned of these changes, rushed to Emperor Yong'an, and asked him which villain who sow discord that he was misled, and he was so confused that he couldn't see that Long Xiao was his own flesh and blood, not to mention anything else, as long as Long Xiao and Long Jie, who was three years old at the time, were put together, it could be seen that the two looked like brothers.

Seeing the dying Long Xiao, Emperor Yong'an was full of remorse. Especially when Lin Min'er's cousin confessed that someone had bought him with a lot of money and asked him to meet Concubine Yi in private, after Shun Teng found out that all this was Concubine Li's troublemaker, Emperor Yong'an regretted his sloppiness and suspicion. Although a glass of wine killed Concubine Li, Long Xiao also came back to life, but in the end, Long Xiao still had an ugly scar on his face, which also made his temperament change greatly after experiencing this incident at a young age, and became a cold and extreme in the future.

Long Xiao experienced the disfigurement and loss of his mother, and completely closed himself, and at the same time, because of the scars on his face, the strange eyes of those who saw him for the first time made him feel ugly at a young age, so he made people create a mask and wear it on his face. At first, Emperor Yongan and the Queen Mother didn't care, but after seeing him, they actually wore that mask to see people every day, so they were in a hurry. But no matter how much they threatened and coaxed him, he refused to show his scars in front of others. As the days went by, everyone became accustomed to his increasingly cold and eccentric personality. In addition, there are more and more heirs of Emperor Yong'an, so naturally no one pays attention to this great prince who no one loves and protects.

If he hadn't met Jia Qianqian, Long Xiao would probably have to wear a mask for the rest of his life. It was Jia Qianqian, an eccentric and unusual freak girl, who influenced him and opened his frozen feelings. But when Jiang Shan and Jia Qianqian chose together, Long Xiao's reason, who had been cold for too long, finally overcame her feelings and gave up on her. When Jia Qianqian and Long Jie got married, Long Xiao found that he had followed in the footsteps of his father, and it was impossible for him to love other women in his life. His father's lover is gone forever, and his lover is someone else's wife. I can see it but I can't get it, and this emotional torment is better than that of my father.

After all the princes got married, they had to leave the capital and go to their fiefdoms, and Long Jie and Jia Qianqian also went to Anyang City. Although Jia Feiwen and his wife still stayed in the capital, fortunately, Anyang City was only two days away from the capital Kuaima, so it was still easy to meet.

After Long Xiao became the crown prince, the queen mother, who had lived in the deep palace for a long time and was old and did not care about the world, took pity on him for not having his own mother to take care of, so she personally asked him to marry the crown princess. Who knew that Long Xiao actually took out a portrait of Jia Qianqian, claiming that he wanted to find a girl who looked like the woman in the painting before marrying a wife.

The elderly Queen Mother was stunned, alas! How did this history repeat itself?

After Emperor Yong'an found out, he took the portrait, tore it to pieces, and said coldly: "Jia Qianqian is not as good as my queen, do you want her to see all the women in the palace who look like her in the future?" She is now your royal brother's wife, how do you let the world comment on her? I will drive you out of the capital now, when will you find a wife you are satisfied with, and when will you return to Beijing. ”