In "The Biography of Zhen Huan", the harem fight is extremely cruel, and there are almost no friends to trust. This was true of Concubine Hua and Cao Guiren, empress dowager and An Lingrong. However, Zhen Huan and Shen Meizhuang are a different kind.
Both were from the family of official eunuchs, and Zhen Huan's father was a young secretary of the Dali Temple, Zheng Sipin. Shen Meizhuang's father was a jeju consul, from Sampo. The two families have almost the same academic origins, but they are also childhood friends, and all participate in the draft into the palace, becoming harem concubines.
However, the two men's attitudes towards entering the palace were completely different. Shen Meizhuang is a typical bridesmaid, and she is also happy to accept the marriage of the matchmaker's words and the orders of her parents, which is a traditional woman under the feudal patriarch. For her, she didn't have the idea of becoming a country after shining on the lintel.
Just thinking about being successfully selected, for the sake of husband, managing inside and outside, not arguing. This can be seen from the fact that she was given the right to associate the six palaces very early, and after being harassed by Concubine Hua at every turn, she also chose to be extremely tolerant.
Her feelings for the emperor are very pure, she will not compete with the wind and jealousy like other concubines, she can understand the actual environment in which she is located, and she can safely accept that others share her husband with herself. However, this pure feeling was based on the emperor's love for himself.
In her eyes, everyone can be bad to her, but only the emperor can't. Therefore, after being framed by Concubine Hua for the first time, Shen Meizhuang did not blame Concubine Hua, because in her eyes, It was predictable that Concubine Hua would compete for favors, but she did not expect the emperor's behavior towards herself.
As she herself said, "Emperor, even though Concubine Hua framed me, what you did really chilled me." From this we can see that in her eyes, husband and wife should love each other, and the same is true for the royal family. Obviously, before entering the palace, she was ready to be framed by other concubines, but no one ever told her that the emperor had no love.
In the palace, in addition to the emperor and the guards, only the tai doctor could rely on her. And Wen Shichu's infatuation with Zhen Huan also made her extremely envious, and she hoped that there could be a person around her, with only herself in her eyes. So, in the end, he fell in love with Wen Shichu and had his child.
For love, she does not care about the involvement of the family, which also proves that Shen Meizhuang is a person who is full of fantasies about love, and this state has never changed. She did not grow in the complicated court struggles, and after hearing the news that Wen Shichu had become a eunuch, she eventually died in childbirth.
Zhen Huan was the complete opposite of Shen Meizhuang. At the beginning of the draft, she went to the temple to pray for blessings, hoping that she would not be chosen, and she wanted to meet the best husband herself. At this stage, Zhen Huan, much like the heroine in the novel, seems out of place.
After entering the palace, Zhen Huan saw the horror of the harem fight, so she firmly believed in the idea of avoiding favors and began to pretend to be ill. However, a concubine who is not favored in the harem is destined to be bullied. Therefore, during that time, in the Broken Jade Xuan, whether it was a palace maid or a eunuch, they all frowned at her.
Therefore, Zhen Huan arranged a perfect encounter in the Royal Garden and received the Grace as she wished. Even if Concubine Hua caused her own small birth, Zhen Huan could endure without any punishment from the emperor.
This patience is not only because of the love for the emperor, but for the sake of better overthrowing her later. After the death of Concubine Hua, Zhen Huan was also imprisoned for wearing the clothes of Empress Chunyuan by mistake, and from this incident, Zhen Huan began to be completely disappointed in the emperor and decided to leave the palace to practice.
When Zhen Huan returned to the palace again, her purpose was only to save the lives of her parents, and later, even more to protect herself and the children of the King of Guojun, step by step, she designed the emperor to death.
Although the two are friends, Shen Meizhuang and Zhen Huan are completely different personalities. Shen Meizhuang is naïve, kind, and has always held beautiful fantasies about love, so when she is frustrated, it is easy to go to the other extreme.
In her eyes, she does not care about the glory and rise and fall of the family, but only wants to live for herself. However, this unwillingness to compromise and unwillingness to accept it has just created her tragedy. Because in the harem of deception, truth is the least valuable and the most dangerous thing.
Zhen Huan was completely different, although she was reluctant to enter the palace, but from the first day she entered the palace, she began to constantly adapt and compromise. She could bear the loss of her child in order to avenge Princess Hua. It can also be to protect parents, give up love, and re-compete for favors into the palace.
For her, in the huge cold harem, true love is only a very small aspect of life, she still has family and power in her body, so she can sacrifice everything in order to achieve the desired purpose, and eventually become the empress dowager.
This constant compromise and adaptation to new changes is also the reason why her and Shen Meizhuang's fate are completely different.