Song Dynasty female artist

Chapter 1092 Extra : Cao Yuyan (I)

My name is Cao Yuyan.

Born into a family of military generals, I was the apple of everyone's eye when I was young.

My father died when I was fourteen.

My mother made the decisions on all matters at home. She never thought of letting me enter the palace. She just hoped that I could marry a loving husband and live a happy life like an ordinary girl.

When I was sixteen years old, my mother arranged a marriage for me and chose the Li family.

The Li family was not as good as the Cao family, but it was also a good choice at the time. They just had to wait for the right time to get married.

On the wedding day, I got into the bridal sedan and went to the Li family.

What I never expected was that the man I married didn't want to get married at all, he just wanted to cultivate immortality.

But unfortunately, I really don't have any talent.

At the age of eighteen, he still has no accomplishments. Even climbing over the wall is not as agile as me.

After I knew Mr. Li's attitude, I no longer wanted to stay in the Li family. I immediately told my mother about the matter, wrote a divorce letter with the Li family, and returned to the Cao family.

This incident caused an uproar at the time.

The comments from outside were very harsh, but fortunately the Li family still had some sense of responsibility and took the blame.

At that time, Your Majesty had already deposed the Queen, there was no Queen in the palace, and the Queen Mother had passed away. All the ministers in the court urged Your Majesty to appoint a Queen.

Our Cao family can't escape it either.

I never thought that I would enter the palace one day.

But when the imperial edict to enter the palace reached the Cao family, I accepted it calmly.

Because I am already eighteen years old, and this is an imperial decree, how can our Cao family disobey it?

After entering the palace, I was not immediately crowned queen.

Because His Majesty seemed dissatisfied with me, he summoned me into the palace only because my status was suitable for being the queen.

A few days later, I also heard some rumors.

The reason why Your Majesty is unwilling to come to my palace is because He has some concerns about my marriage.

I sneered: The emperor has so many women, why would he care about this? He had no choice. As an emperor, he could not make the woman he liked his queen. He could only be forced to welcome me into the palace under the pressure of his ministers.

He couldn't resist the others, but it wasn't difficult for him to intimidate me.

I endured this for nine months.

Nine months later, His Majesty could not find any fault in me, so the court officials tried to pressure me again and had no choice but to make me the queen.

After becoming the Queen, I met His Majesty more and more often.

This is the Queen's privilege.

As long as Your Majesty still has concerns, you will not ignore my face.

But I can still feel that His Majesty dislikes me.

I have always been a proud and arrogant person, and your Majesty's attitude makes it difficult for me to warm up to him.

Before entering the palace, I understood that the emperor and the empress were not an ordinary couple. Since I had decided to enter the palace, I should not expect His Majesty's love and should be a good empress.

But knowing is one thing, being able to do it is another.

I told myself countless times to guard my heart, but as we spent more and more time together, I gradually fell in love with Your Majesty.

The more I like it, the more difficult life becomes in this palace.

There are too many beautiful girls in the palace.

There is the flamboyant and bright Yang, the childhood sweetheart Miao, and the latecomer Zhang.

I told myself again and again that I was the queen and did not need to compete for favor with those people. But when Zhang's favor grew more and more, even to the point where she was on an equal footing with me, I found that in addition to admiration for Your Majesty, I also hated her.

I am the queen, and Your Majesty has repeatedly embarrassed me for Zhang's sake. Zhang even provocatively asked to borrow my queen's ceremonial guard, but Your Majesty let her do as she pleased.

Today is the Queen's procession. Will I have to give up my position as Queen to her tomorrow? I don't care about competing for favors, but I can't let others threaten my position as Queen!

Zhang is flamboyant, so I will make her even more flamboyant, make her forget her identity, and let her ambition be revealed to the public.

Your Majesty loves her, but is Your Majesty really willing to make enemies with the court officials for him?

No one is more important than his imperial power.

I am not, and Zhang will not be either.

My guess turned out to be correct!

But His Majesty is really good to her. As long as she doesn't threaten the imperial power, he is willing to pamper her.

In fact, a woman is already very satisfied if she can get these.

At least if the person favored by His Majesty was Miao, she would never do such stupid things.

As a woman, I hate Zhang, but at the same time I feel a little distressed.

But the little bit of compassion I had was eventually wiped out because I found out the truth that I was not pregnant. It was not because of a problem with my body, but because someone was plotting against me.

Any woman would hate being deprived of the right to be a mother.

I put away my compassion and realized that in order to survive in the harem, I had to be ruthless to stay alive.

After recuperation, my health improved and I became pregnant as I wished.

But Zhang was also pregnant.

She had lost her first three children and I had heard that she was in poor health, so after she became pregnant with this child, she was very careful without His Majesty's instructions and was not as arrogant as before.

I am the first child, so I am also very cautious.

The harem was peaceful and stable for a while.

But I didn't expect that one night, someone would come to the palace to assassinate Your Majesty.

There are four people in total, all of them are sword cultivators with impressive skills.

I was really panicked at that time because Lord Pan had not arrived yet. Lord Pan was the person we trusted most in the palace, and I felt uneasy when he didn't come.

The assassin naturally failed.

His Majesty was furious and asked the Censorate to investigate, but nothing was found. Later, he asked Gu Qingjue and Su Yixin to investigate. I know that things are definitely not simple, but it is not convenient for me to ask about the affairs of the court, and I don’t know what happened in the end.

I gave birth to a prince safely, and Your Majesty named him Zhao Rui.

The child is very healthy and is your Majesty's legitimate son, so your Majesty naturally values ​​him.

I thought that after Zhang gave birth to the prince, she would show off in the palace. After all, it was impossible for her to keep a low profile with her personality.

But what was unexpected was that Zhang, who gave birth to the prince, became silent. Not only that, His Majesty also sent people to guard the Renming Hall.

It was even more low-key than when the princess was born.

Lian Qiao, who was serving him, said that His Majesty attached too much importance to Renming Hall and even sent people to guard there to guard Qingshou Palace.

I also thought that Your Majesty had this intention at first.

But as time went by, I felt that things were not as simple as they seemed.

Your Majesty has finally had two princes. It is impossible to hide one of them from the public. He still has to hold the third month bath and the full month celebration.

Even these are not allowed to be prepared by me, the queen.

Unusual, very unusual.

When I thought of Zhang’s three dead children, an idea popped into my mind: maybe there was something wrong with this child.

The more I think about it, the more I think this is the most likely possibility.

Zhang is so low-key because there is something wrong with the child, and Your Majesty will not let the child appear in public.