In the deepest dungeon of the Imperial Palace, Shen Qingxi once again had that nightmare! “Queen Shen Qingxi, for poisoning concubines and harming princes, disrupting the imperial harem! You are now stripped of your title as Queen and imprisoned here, never to leave! Since you are eight months pregnant, your child will not be spared. We shall open your womb and take out the fetus within. This child will then be raised by the Consort Wei. By Imperial decree— ”Pain! Piercing, bone-deep pain! Her husband, Emperor Chu Qi of Daqi, held a long blade in his hand and personally cut open her abdomen, savagely pulling out the unborn child from her womb! Two years have passed, yet Shen Qingxi still vividly remembers the agony of being ripped apart. That soul-shattering separation of bone became a recurring nightmare, tormenting her day and night! Shen Qingxi was born as the eldest daughter of Prime Minister Shen Huai Xin, with exceptional beauty and noble lineage. Her mother came from the prestigious An Ding Hou Mansion, making her highly esteemed. She should have been a paragon of fortune, but due to her mother's early death and her stepmother's cruelty, she was abandoned to a distant estate, forgotten. Until the age of twelve, when a severe illness struck, she was rescued by her paternal aunt, finally returning to her family home.

I thought that returning home would bring peace and prosperity, but I was wrong. My stepmother's kindness and my younger sister's goodness were just illusions. All the nightmares stemmed from Shen Qing, the world's first kind and gentle sister!"Xi'er, the empress dowager of Yong Wang is of humble birth and disliked by the Emperor. In the future, he will be banished to Liangzhou, a cold and desolate place as king. Your sister is weak, she couldn't bear such hardship. You are her elder sister, this time when you get married, marry Yong Wang instead."At that time, Chu Qi was the most unfavored prince. He had his eyes on Shen Qing, but what Shen Qing wanted was to become a concubine or empress in the harem. Thus, with the support of the entire Prime Minister's residence, she was "forced" to marry Chu Qi.

At fifteen years old, she married into a hopeless situation. For five years, she poured her heart and soul into making Chu Qi, a man with no ambition for the throne, emperor. And for four more years, she devoted herself wholeheartedly to being his empress, pulling strings to secure him allies among the court officials and helping him create sound policies, finally allowing this man without any background to firmly establish himself on the throne.

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