The aftermath of Ruyi's Royal Love in the Palace (C-3) Next life (following Queen Ulanala Qingying/Ruyi chapter)

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August 20, the day before yesterday, is the four-year anniversary of Ruyi's Royal Love in China.
And this series of mine has been successfully dragged by me (?!) until now!!

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The heroine Ruyi is my favorite character in this drama, and it is also the character I feel most injustice when I see her being bullied and humiliated.
Therefore, at the very beginning of this series, I decided to put Ruyi as the finale of the character introduction.
Ruyi's prototype in history is the successor of Emperor Gaozong Qianlong of the Qing Dynasty. In fact, the information left by this successor in history is really pitiful, so so far, it is still impossible to clarify whether she is "Ulanala", "Huifanala" or "Nala".

And it is precisely because of the pitifully scarce historical materials, and the posthumous name that does not even have a posthumous title, in most of the film and television dramas adapted for Qianlong's harem life (?!), most of the successor queens appear as villains in the role of the villain. in people's memory.

It's like saying that she's still pearly.

Or her in the story of Yanxi Palace.

Therefore, Ruyi's Biography's adaptation of this historical fact, or rather the person "Second Empress", is indeed unconventional and ingenious.

In the setting of this drama, Qianlong was not favored, Yongzheng didn't even want to see his prince, and Ruyi when he was a child (he was not transferred to Ruyi at that time, still called Qingying) was a descendant of Jingui 's eldest daughter.
They first met at a court banquet.
At that time, the world was at peace, the emperor was in his prime, and he worked hard to make the people prosperous and the country strong.
The banquet of the palace is more naturally silky and bamboo sweet, and the singing and dancing are noisy, creating a scene of romance and wealth.

But this kind of drunkenness only makes the children present feel bored and suffocated.
As a result, the bright, bold and lively queen's concubine Qingying escaped from the banquet with Hongli, the fourth son of the emperor who was sensitive and unpopular, and climbed the high city wall.
"Look!!" The girl's voice was clear, pointing to a distance under the city wall: "That's my aunt's Jingren Palace!!"

Looking at it, the girl has grown into a big girl, and the fourth son of the emperor, who is sensible and sensitive, has grown into a prince because he hugged his thighs correctly.

For the sake of Hongli, Qingying deliberately lost the selection of the favored third son of the emperor at that time, and Hongli also for Qingying did not hesitate to offend her father's hatred for the queen, that is, Qingying's aunt, and asked her father to marry Qingying. .
Later, the father and son gave each other a step. Hongli could marry Qingying, but he could not be the right wife (heirloom Fujin), but could only be the side Fujin.

But even so, on the wedding night, the overwhelming redness reflected the joy in the eyes of the two who were in love with each other.

After the fourth son of the emperor, Hongli, became the emperor, Qingying was ridiculed and embarrassed by various forces in the harem of the previous dynasty because of her aunt's involvement.
Therefore, she asked her aunt's mortal enemy when she was still alive, Hongli's mother, the queen mother who was the winner of the previous palace fight, and asked for a new name.

"What are you looking forward to most?" the Queen Mother asked.
"Love is deep and righteous, and the two hearts promise each other." Qing Ying said.
So the queen mother gave her the name Ruyi.
Yi means beautiful and quiet.

"Yi is very good," Ruyi asked, "Why Ruyi?"

The Empress Dowager's pair of Yuan Shan Dai, which she had described in detail, raised slightly, but there was a look of emotion in her eyes: "You are still young, so it is too rare to understand the perfect beauty of this world, so Ruyi is very good."

"The Queen Mother means perfection is hard to find, and sometimes the next step is to be satisfied." Ruyi kowtowed deeply, "The Queen Mother's teachings should be kept in mind by the concubines."

But Ruyi, who was given the name by the Queen Mother, did not play the role of the emperor's favorite concubine wholeheartedly as she hoped.
The dirty and unfavorable things in the harem, one after another, all point to Ruyi.

And Ruyi was imprisoned in the cold palace by Qianlong in the name of protection.
She thought she would be able to spend a few days in the cold palace and have a happy birthday, but she was subjected to all kinds of harsh diet, murder and poisoning, and she was almost burned to death by a fire.
So Qianlong let her go out of the palace generously, and gave the people who bullied her a first-class meal.

Later, Empress Fucha , Qianlong's former wife, died of illness, leaving the palace in limbo. At this time, Qianlong was no longer the new emperor with an unstable foundation. He had grown into a man who could ignore the noble family and the border tribe. Power, choose the Queen's ZTE Lord based on your own preferences.

So, he was finally able to hold the hand of Ruyi that he wanted to hold for a long time, step by step to the most honorable seat in the Qing Dynasty.

If the show could end here, it would be a perfect fairy tale.
But in this world, the most indispensable thing has always been fairy tales.
After Qianlong and Ruyi got married, they did live a peaceful life.
But as Qianlong got older, he had all the faults that a bad leader of ZTE would have.
He began to be very happy, and favored the concubine and the courtier of Israel.
Yes, don't look at others, Wei Yanwan is talking about you

As an empress and the most intimate person around the emperor, Ruyi can only helplessly watch the person who used to be warm and pure in her heart, becoming strange little by little.

In the end, although Qianlong knew it was his own fault, Xiang Ruyi relented: "Don't take the things from the past to heart."
Ruyi said to him, "Your Majesty, do you know what Lan Yinxuguo said?"
"When I was young, I always felt melancholy when I read it, but now I understand it."
"Flowers bloom and fall, and there are times."

The other concubines realized at the moment before their death that maybe meeting Qianlong, or entering Qianlong's harem, was the beginning of a tragedy in itself, but Ruyi issued a message when she was still some distance away from death. Such an exclamation.
Flowers bloom and fall from time to time. Some things, many things, are beyond your control.
In the harem, even more so.

Perhaps this drama can see such an unbearable ending from the name of Ruyi.

Her original name was Qingying, which is opposite to the word Hongli. The love finally fell apart in the marriage siege.
Later, it was renamed Ruyi, Yi has the meaning of beauty and quiet, but also the meaning of the queen.
She spent her whole life wanting to stand by the emperor's side, to be a real queen in terms of etiquette and emotion, but she would never be.
Similar, but not after all.