The identity of this body is the daughter of the Great General, now the Imperial Concubine of the Tianqin Kingdom, the most respected woman in the harem.
Upon the previous Emperor’s passing, the Empress dowager followed him in death. The new Emperor did not establish an empress, making her the highest-ranking individual naturally.
Everyone in Tianqin Kingdom knows that the Imperial Concubine is very favored. The Emperor cherishes the body of the Imperial Concubine and promised to wait until she comes of age before serving him in bed.
When she turned fifteen, her health was still not good. The Emperor said to wait another year, fearing that acting too soon would hurt her body.
Yesterday, she just turned sixteen, and the matter of serving in bed could not be avoided.
The world thought that the emperor cherished her, adored her, and doted on her. They believed he abandoned the entire harem for her, allowing her to serve him first before attending to any other concubines.
However, the truth is often cruel, cruel enough to break one’s heart.
Xuanyuan Mo was reluctant to summon the original owner to serve him in bed because he already had a white moonlight in his heart, who was also in the palace.
The current political situation is complex, and there are many women in the harem. Initially, he used the excuse of the Imperial Concubine’s poor health, waiting for her to come of age before serving in bed, thus avoiding visiting those women.
Later, as the Imperial Concubine grew up, he had to attend to the women in the harem. But for the sake of his beloved, he was unwilling to touch any other women in the harem.
As for the original owner, the Imperial Concubine, he was also unwilling to touch her.
He believed that the love between him and his beloved should be pure and unsullied, not allowing a third person to interfere, which made him seem like a devoted person.
But he was also a cruel person. Today, the Imperial Concubine still had to serve in bed, but the one who came was not him, but his twin brother, Xuanyuan Mie.
The existence of Xuanyuan Mie is known only to the closest confidants of the royal family. No one else knows that Xuanyuan Mo has a brother named Xuanyuan Mie.
The late emperor was unwilling to part with any of his children. So, he left Xuanyuan Mo in the open as the heir, while Xuanyuan Mie was made the Hidden Emperor, guarding the Tianqin Kingdom from the shadows.
Both parties restrain each other, and neither is allowed to use means to gain control over the other’s power.
This meant that Xuanyuan Mie could not usurp the throne, and Xuanyuan Mo could not kill Xuanyuan Mie.
Although both had their own thoughts, their relationship was quite good. At least in the entire royal family, they were the closest to each other.
Xuanyuan Mo, for the sake of his beloved Bai Yueguang, and to help her and her family grow quickly, had no choice but to set up a target in the harem.
That target was the original owner, now Tang Guo.
He asked Xuanyuan Mie to help him with this favor. From now on, every night, Xuanyuan Mie would replace him in attending to the favored Imperial Concubine. During the day, he would also elevate the Imperial Concubine, pampering her exclusively, so that everyone would believe that the most favored woman in the harem was the Imperial Concubine.
In reality, the one he cherished even more was his beloved, An Ningxiang.
Xuanyuan Mo was playful when he was a child. Once, he sneaked out of the palace, avoiding the palace attendants, to play in the water. He accidentally fell into the river and was later rescued by a little girl. In his daze, he only managed to clearly see the exquisite sachet hanging from the girl’s waist.
Later, he heard that the little girl had fallen into the river again, her fate unknown. He was saddened by this for a long time.
One day while wandering in the harem, he suddenly noticed a beauty who’s waist had an embroidered sachet hanging from it, exactly the same as the one he had seen before.
He began to pay attention to this beauty and ordered an investigation into An Ningxiang.
He learned that on the day he fell into the river, An Ningxiang had indeed sneaked out to play and returned drenched. He then ordered a secret search of An Ningxiang’s former boudoir and found that familiar sachet.
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