In the novel "A Lifetime of Beautiful Bones", Zhou Shengchen and Cui Shiyi's past life marriage is regrettable, but also ends in tragedy, and the two of them are victims of political struggle. The power of The King of Xiaonanchen was too great, so big that the empress dowager and the crown prince were jealous of him, and at that time the Cui family was in power, that is to say, the Cui family chose to help anyone between the king of Xiaonanchen and the prince, and they could eliminate the other side, so how did the Cui family do it?
Of course, the scheming Cui family was not guilty of both sides, first of all, the unborn Cui Shiyi was given to the crown prince, and of course, the empress dowager also hoped that the Cui family and herself were on the same front. Later, after Waiting for Shi Yi to be born, he also sent Xiao Yi to Zhou Shengchen, that is to say, both sides of the Cui family bet on treasure, and in the future, no matter which side of the Xiaonanchen King and the crown prince was destroyed, the Cui family would not fall. Although we said earlier that King Xiao Nanchen had no intention of taking the throne as emperor, but the prince had his own calculations, what should the prince do?
The crown prince was the one who did not want to be the empress dowager's puppet, and if he wanted to get rid of the empress's control, he would have to cooperate with the Cui family, and he did not want anyone's power to be too big, so big that it would affect his succession to the throne, even if it was the emperor's uncle Xiao Nanchen. The most important thing is that the prince saw the cui family's skills, so he threw an olive branch to the Cui family, and the Cui family also agreed to cooperate with him, and then they conspired together to kill Xiao Nanchen King.
I mentioned the process of Xiao Nanchen's murder earlier, so I will not repeat it here. We can't help but ask, what kind of person is this prince? The prince was weak from birth, taking more medicine than eating, so he had always been taken care of by his mother, and the former emperor loved this imperial concubine the most, and before his death, from among the few princes, he and his beloved concubine's son were appointed as princes.
After he became the crown prince, he was taken away by the empress, only seven years old when he was taken away, he was extremely afraid, standing in front of the palace gate for a day and night, unable to move or dare to move, since then the empress dowager has been taking care of the prince, and has always regarded the prince as a thorn in the eye and a thorn in the flesh, and has been grounded in the eastern palace for many years, until the death of the princess's mother, the empress dowager promised the prince that she could go to send off the mother concubine, and when she bid farewell to the mother concubine, the prince's sadness did not dare to show it, nor did she say a word and left.
In order to consolidate her own power, the empress dowager helped the prince and the Cui family to make a kiss very early, and the little prince did not dare to refuse, so he kept it hidden until he grew up and saw the situation clearly, and the prince threw out the cooperation conditions to the Cui family: as long as he wanted to become the real emperor, let Cui Shiyi be the empress, and the Cui family was promoted from the Wang clan to the royal family. The Cui family's years of cooperation with the empress dowager also understood that the empress dowager only wanted to balance her forces and ensure the safety of her own life.
After the crown prince threw out the conditions of temptation, the Cui family agreed, which led to their joint murder of King Xiaonanchen, and in this way, the prince ascended the throne with the support of the Cui family and became the Emperor of Tanglin. The crown prince who had been a puppet for decades was now the emperor, and he no longer had to endure it--the empress dowager died violently, and at the same time summoned The Qinghe Cui clan to enter the palace, but Shiyi knelt outside the Eastern Palace for two hours, and only in the middle of the night did the eunuchs come to see him.
Those four hours of punishment kneeling may be the emperor's punishment for Shi Yi, he knew that Shi Yi really liked Xiao Nanchen King, of course, the Tanglin Emperor also fulfilled his promise, let Shi Yi enter the palace to prepare to be an empress, but after Shi Yi knew the truth of the matter, she chose to commit suicide. The Tanglin Emperor was not in good health, and three years after he ascended the throne, he also died violently, without heirs, and the world was in chaos again.