Just one pregnancy and four babies, but the prince actually pledged his love to her

Chapter 558: Concubine Rou attends to the sick in Qiankun Palace

Xie Ruiyuan returned to the capital, but did not go back home immediately. Instead, he secretly entered the palace.

In Qiankun Palace, Emperor Wuwen had just fallen asleep with the service of Concubine Rou.

Looking at the sleeping emperor, Concubine Rou showed a trace of pity in her eyes, but it was quickly replaced by indifference.

She cannot be soft-hearted. Since she has chosen to take action, she must proceed with determination.

Only in this way can her son, the eldest prince, ascend the throne, and she will become the most honorable woman in the palace.

Thinking about how she had been caught in an endless struggle for the emperor's favor ever since she entered the palace, she didn't know how many women she had harmed and how many unborn princes she had killed to have her current status.

She knew her hands were covered in blood, but she had no choice.

After all, looking at the magnificent palace, it is the darkest place in the world. Countless people die unjustly every year, and countless innocent souls are buried in every dry well.

But so what? Since she entered the palace, she must not fail. After all, this not only concerns her future destiny, but also the rise and fall of her family.

However, in the process of her efforts to win the emperor's favor, no matter how much thought she put into the emperor, it could not compare to the position of the queen in the emperor's heart.

She had been to the gates of death twice and gave birth to the eldest and fourth princes for the emperor, but still failed to gain his true love.

Although she knew that a woman could no longer have romantic feelings once she entered the palace, everything she thought, did, and took, had to be for the sake of her son and family.

But even though she had a clear mind, she still couldn't control her heart and fell in love with Emperor Wu Wen.

As soon as she entered the palace, she knew that Emperor Wu Wen's favorite woman was the Queen. The Queen occupied a very important position in the emperor's heart. Even if there were three thousand beauties in the harem, no one could replace the Queen.

She was jealous. Every time she saw Emperor Wu Wen and the Empress, they had such a tacit understanding that they could tell what the other was saying and what they were going to do with just one glance, she also wanted to have such a tacit understanding with Emperor Wu Wen.

But she knew that this was impossible. Emperor Wu Wen took her into the palace in order to balance the various forces of the previous dynasty.

To put it cruelly, she was just a tool, a puppet used by the emperor to win over the Rou family.

But why? She is also a human being, and she is also a woman who needs the nourishment of love.

Why can the queen get the emperor's love and be the only one in his heart, but she can't? She is unwilling to accept it.

But what could she do even if she was unwilling? She couldn't force the emperor to fall in love with her.

They all said that she was a noble concubine and had the highest status in the palace.

In reality, she is always inferior to the Queen, and sees the Emperor only a few times on a daily basis. How can she cultivate feelings with the Emperor?

It is said that if a woman who enters the harem wants to live a better life, she must give up love and focus on her career. Only in this way can she survive in the cannibalistic harem.

Of course, although the harem is full of women, it is filled with murderous intent. If you are not careful, you will die without a burial place and become an unknown soul.

And she did it. In the harem, except for the queen, she and Concubine Sheng had the highest positions.

But even so, she still felt that something was missing. She knew that only when her son, the eldest prince, ascended the throne, would she feel that her entry into the palace was worthy.

She had not originally planned to treat Emperor Wu Wen like this. After all, even if Emperor Wu Wen did not love her, he was still the father of her two sons. As long as the emperor could pass the throne to the eldest prince, she would no longer care that the emperor did not love her and would only have the empress in her heart.

But Emperor Wu Wen's actions really disappointed her. It was not enough to give his heart to the empress, he also wanted to pass the throne to the empress's son, the third prince.

How is this possible? The eldest prince is also the emperor's son. How can the emperor not even consider this?

When she learned that the emperor had issued an imperial decree to the third prince, stating that as long as he handled the task of providing relief to the disaster victims in Qingshan Prefecture, he would be made the crown prince upon returning to the capital, she went crazy and even had two palace maids beaten to death, but she still felt unsatisfied.

She was very panicked. She knew that with the Third Prince's ability, not to mention that the court allocated 600,000 kilograms of grain to the Third Prince, even if the Third Prince did not receive a single kilogram of grain, he would still have a way to resettle all the refugees.

As for why she thought so, it was because the Third Prince was too lucky, like an indestructible cockroach. No matter how many moves she made or how many people she sent out, it was like a drop in the ocean, with no news at all.

She knew very well that the Third Prince had taken care of all the people she sent out. Facing such a strong opponent, the First Prince had absolutely no chance of winning. She knew this very well.

But even so, she had to do everything she could to help the eldest prince ascend to that position. Only in this way could she become the empress dowager, the most honorable woman in the palace, and step under the empress's feet.

After much thought, she made up her mind to treat Emperor Wu Wen cruelly and drugged him personally.

The result was just as she expected. Emperor Wu Wen's health was getting worse day by day. All the imperial doctors in the Imperial Medical Bureau took turns to feel his pulse, but they could only find that Emperor Wen was overworked, had caught a cold, and needed to rest.

She was personally appointed by Emperor Wu Wen to take care of him, but under her care, Emperor Wu Wen's health not only did not improve, but became even weaker.

But when she was waiting for Emperor Wu Wen's health to fail, somehow, Emperor Wu Wen's health inexplicably improved.

No one knew better than her why Emperor Wu Wen's health was in trouble. Under the effect of the medicine, he would become weaker day by day and would never get better.

But what seemed to her to be a done deal suddenly changed, causing her to feel anxious for no reason.

Although she was panicking, she was still rational. She knew what she was doing and what was most important at the moment.