Ambitious Favored Consort: How To Become A Wangfei

Extra III: Tang Shishi's Previous Life

Imperial Concubine Tang, who was at her peak, died in the cold palace.

In the winter in the first year of Tianshou.

The winter in Jinling was wet and cold, especially in the twelfth lunar month, which was very hard to bear. In the end, Tang Shishi still did not get to see the fireworks of the New Year. On the thirtieth of the twelfth month of the first year of Tianshou, Tang Shishi died in the Chonghua Palace.

When Tang Shishi was at the pinnacle of her life, she used to be more lively and more pompous, but when she was dying, her residence was already completely deserted without anyone there.

She laid in the smoky bed curtain, looking towards the north. After exiting the city gate of Jinling City and going up the canal would reach straight to her hometown, Linqing. When she left, she took so many unreconciled, indignant, and even secretly vowed in her heart that she would never return to Linqing if she could not get ahead.

Unexpectedly her words turned out to be tragically prophetic. Until she died, she never saw her hometown or her mother again.

Tang Shishi’s eyes slowly shed tears. Until this moment, she was still surprisingly beautiful. Did she regret it? Tang Shishi did not know, she only knew that she was unreconciled.

Unreconciled to enter the palace for no reason, unreconciled to be sent away for no reason, unreconciled to become Zhao Zixun’s concubine for no reason, and even more unreconciled to fall out of favor for no reason.

If there was an afterlife…

Tang Shishi had not figured out what to do if there was an afterlife. Her last trace of strength has been exhausted. Her wrist fell heavily on the edge of the bed, and the luminous pearls on her wrists suddenly broke, broke into individual pearls, and bounced back and forth on the ground.

When the little eunuch heard the movement, he came in to check. He saw the shining luminous pearls on the ground and became greedy. He immediately squatted on the ground to pick up the pearls and wanted to stash them covertly. He just picked up two and was suddenly hit hard behind his head. He looked back displeased and found Qian Gonggong, the most well-regarded man in front of the Emperor, standing behind the door and looking at him coldly.

“These are things that can cause your life. Is this something that you can take?”

The little eunuch was so frightened that he apologized in haste. He put down the things dejectedly and ran away. After the little eunuch ran far away, only then did Qian Gonggong pick up the pearls on the ground, raise his head to see the breathless but still astonishingly beautiful woman on the bed, and sighed slowly.

“Niangniang Concubine Tang, I’m just acting according to imperial orders. If you want to blame, blame the Master. Who made you look too outstanding, attracted the attention you should not have, and accepted things that you should not accept? And now, you’ve caused your own death.”

Tang Shishi did not know whether people were like this after their death. She just felt that she was exceptionally light. She suddenly broke free and floated in the empty palace hall of Chonghua Palace. She turned around and stared at the woman on the bed.

She knew that was her.

She was dead.

When the little eunuch came in to pick up things, Tang Shishi did not turn around. When Qian Gonggong came in to berate people, Tang Shishi did not turn around. It was not until he said “according to imperial orders” that Tang Shishi finally moved her eyes and turned her head to look at him.

Qian Gonggong was an old eunuch whose appearance was not very good. It was said that he was promoted to the Imperial Grand Eunuch by Zhao Zixun after making an extraordinary meritorious deed. Tang Shishi did not know what Qian Gonggong’s so-called “extraordinary meritorious deed” was, but obviously, he had something to do with her death.