Unaware that My Legitimate Sister is My Husband - Chapter 52
Chapter 52
(19.4)
At this time in her past life, the noble imperial consort, Chong Fei, was about to enter the palace.
At first, she was only the crown prince’s side consort, and was like all the other women. She maintained an ordinary relationship with him, not opening her heart to him. She satisfied herself with the rich and extravagant material lifestyle, and did not hope for the love of the crown prince.
In this life, Xi Xian felt that the noble imperial consort, Chong Fei, could wish for more.
She could help the noble imperial consort Chong Fei.
Although the noble imperial consort Chong Fei was now only a daughter from the Duke of Su’s residence, but planning ahead was always the right choice.
If the crown prince could fall in love with the noble imperial consort, Chong Fei, that would solve all the troubles from their roots.
(20.1)
Xi Xian knew that the noble imperial consort, Chong Fei, had been selected during the forty-ninth year of the Suiyuan era and had become the crown prince’s side consort. That year, the crown prince had a candidate for the position of main consort, that was a person chosen by the previous empress for him to marry before she died, but unfortunately that girl met an early death before she could even marry the crown prince.
Emperor Suiyuan disliked the crown prince, but he respected the previous empress, so he did not immediately choose a new main consort for the crown prince, and it was so until he ascended the throne. Not a few years later, he met Xi Xian, who was the daughter of a criminal official, and who couldn’t be given a good status.
(TL’s note : that is the official version of what happened, of course we know that the crown prince actually met Xi Xian much before he ascended the throne)
Although Xi Xian was a daughter born from an outside mistress, she grew up thinking that her mother and father were an official and legitimate husband and wife, so she always felt that being a concubine was a shameful thing. Then she later learned of her status as the daughter of an outside mistress, which made her feel inferior, humiliated and embarrassed.
She could not get rid of the deep-rooted notion in her heart that concubines were a shameful existence and that they should not see the light of day in a public setting.
Just like her concubine mother, even if she was wronged, she could only swallow her grievances down into her belly, because she was just a plaything, she didn’t deserve to feel wronged. Besides, concubines could not even wear the red clothes of an official wedding, and their children would also be born inferior, an old stigma that couldn’t be washed off for a lifetime.
Xi Xian was sensitive about her low status, although she was afraid of death, she made up her mind, if he ever married an empress, no matter what, she wouldn’t want to live any longer.
For her own sake, for the sake of his future empress, she didn’t want to live any longer.
She attracted people’s hatred, and had an unofficial status, which reminded her of the excrements that those neighbors used to throw on her door when she was young, of how those children used to jump around her house and recite degrading verses in a group…
If everyone was a concubine, she could convince herself to be a little happier, and to not mind so much.
But if he had a wife, Xi Xian felt that she would stink of a foul odor, that her body would rot all over inch by inch, a marriage was a fated string of a thousand miles, that should have two people loving each other without any doubt, but the red string would also be wrapped around a lowly concubine.
She deserved to be the spurned lowly concubine in those picture books.
Xi Xian did not tell her intention to anyone, unfortunately the emperor later did not establish an empress.
It was unsure whether or not his cold eyes had seen through her perfectly, but in the end, Xi Xian’s dark and decisive thoughts, dissipated with time.
The girl that was once betrothed to the emperor, she died before Xi Xian was reborn, there wasn’t much interactions between the two, because there had been no marriage between them, so at most her name would only be added on the history books, but he did not even recognize her as his own woman.
Xi Xian had no way to make a play on this woman, not to mention that her hand could not reach that far.
Therefore, the best way was to start with the noble imperial consort Chong Fei.
She was most likely to become the empress, and if she had some special qualities, it was not impossible for him to fall in love with her.
Of course, Xi Xian also knew that the relationship between the emperor and the empress dowager was delicate, her hands couldn’t reach that far, so it was necessary to rely on Chong Fei to seduce the emperor, in order to consolidate her position in the harem. Besides, in the first period of time where the emperor ascends the throne, he was also going to need strong in-laws. The Duke of Su repeatedly achieved military success, the reputation of the family was very high, it was a force that the young emperor emperor both had to use and guard himself against.
The fact that he didn’t make Chong Fei the empress, was not only because of his beloved woman, but also because he was on his guard against that family.
But what did this have to do with Xi Xian?
What did she care who the crown prince was going to marry as his main wife?
Translator : Laura
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