Didn't love you enough

chapter 1

Chapter 1 Past Life

In the 33rd year of Qitai's Xuande

Palace, the imperial study room was brightly lit with candles. A middle-aged man in a bright yellow dragon robe was seriously drawing on the desk. On the paper was a young man in a bean green palace attendant, with a thin figure. , with a handsome face, the boy stood beside a small pavilion with exquisite painters, with a faint smile on his face.

"Yuan Fu, look, does my painting look like it?" Xuanyuan Hancheng asked Yuan Fu, the eunuch who was serving at the side. Yuan Fu has been the head of the internal servants for more than thirty years. He is several years older than the emperor. His temples are frost-white and his face is already covered with deep wrinkles. Yuan Fu sighed secretly in his heart. Replied: "Back to the emperor, this servant looks like Lin Guiren when he was a teenager."

"Does it look like that?" Xuanyuan Hancheng whispered, in fact, the boy's appearance is already a little blurred in his memory, the most memorable thing is that the boy had a pair of With big watery eyes and a pair of small dimples, she is very cute when she smiles. Thinking of the boy's last blood-stained smile, and the scene of that night thirty years ago, just thinking about it still hurts his heart.

Yuan Fu knew that the emperor was thinking about Lin Guiren again. Today is the emperor's birthday. Originally, the emperor's birthday was naturally celebrated with a banquet for all the officials in the harem. But the emperor's birthday has been a taboo in the palace for thirty years. What happened at the emperor's birthday banquet thirty years ago has made the palace people who knew about it keep it secret.

Thirty years ago, Xuanyuan Hancheng specially held a family banquet to celebrate his twenty-fifth birthday, hosted by his beloved Concubine Shu. Concubine Shu was originally the daughter of the fifth-rank Zhizhou, and was given to him, who was still the prince at the time, to be the prince's concubine. Xu Xueying is a woman with a beautiful appearance and a gentle personality, who is deeply loved by Xuanyuan Hancheng. If Concubine Shu hadn't been able to do anything for many years, Xuanyuan Hancheng would have wanted to make her a noble concubine a long time ago. Xue Caiyu, the queen of Xuanyuan Hancheng, is the direct daughter of the side branch of the Empress Dowager Xue's mother's family, a marriage bestowed by the emperor's grandfather before his death. Xue was the successor, the younger sister of Minister of the Ministry of Officials at that time. Xuanyuan Hancheng's father, Huang Xuanyuan Zhaoshen, was the third son of the first emperor, the son of the queen of the Yuan Dynasty, who died of dystocia and blood collapse during childbirth. After that, the first emperor appointed Xue, who had always loved Youjia, as his successor. The Xue family even used their advanced age to give birth to the tenth prince Xuanyuan Zhaohong for the first emperor in his later years. Xuanyuan Zhaohong is the old son of the late emperor, only one year older than Xuanyuan Hancheng.

The first emperor was greedy for power and position and preferred the youngest son of the Xue family and refused to establish a crown prince for a long time, which led to fierce struggles among the princes. In the end, the eldest prince of the first emperor joined forces with the fifth prince to force the palace and killed the second prince, and was finally suppressed by the third prince, Xuanyuan Hancheng's father. The first emperor was shocked and angry, and could not afford to get sick again, so he could only pass the throne to Xuanyuan Zhaoshen in desperation. Although the youngest son of the Xue family was also a legitimate son, Xuanyuan Zhaohong, the tenth prince, was only fifteen years old at the time, and there was nothing he could do if he wanted to be the throne.

Therefore, the Xue family begged the first emperor to make Xuanyuan Zhaohong the king of Li, and bestow it on a feudal land rich in supplies, and also married the daughter of Xue's offshoot to the emperor's grandson Xuanyuan Hancheng. Over the years, the Xue family's influence in the court has continued to expand, and they have been secretly helping King Li with constant tricks. It wasn't until the empress dowager passed away that the Xue family restrained themselves. Xuanyuan Hancheng had always wanted to get rid of the Xue family, but the Xue family was already deeply intertwined in the court and there was no way to hit it off with one blow.