Living in everlasting beauty is really peaceful. I am bought back to the days that i have little peach with me but now the child is replace with my own son. We spend our days playing, eating and taking naps. Nothing is upsetting here. Till the empress comes visit. "How is life in here. You have carry the crown prince to a desolated place to stay. Do you know how noble his status is?"
"Before his status, his tittles, i am his mother and since i can't walk out of the palace with him, i have to choose a place where he can stay and grow up to be a righteous person."
"You already have chosen the wrong person to believe in the first place. What do you think you can teach him to be a righteous person?"
"Why are you here in this desolated place?" I ask angrily.
"The emperor is going to fetch my sister into the palace. Her children in future will be listed as mine. My son will be born through her. He will be the crown prince instead of this boy. Aren't you ..."
"Isn't it better? You have your wish. Then in this case, you should chase us out of this palace."
"I can't chase you both out yet because the dowager still hold that your son is the crown prince. Once my sister gives birth to a son, i will raise him up even better than you. My father the prime minster and his men in the court will support my son to be the next ruler. Only that happens, the dowager won't be around. You and your son will be exile never to return. "
"I am looking forward for that day. Now i think you are a busy person, you can leave now after saying so much."
She is furious for what i said and slap me hard across the face. The eunuch see this try to stop the empress from doing more. "I am the empress here! You are talking to me like a street person! How dare you! Qiuo Man, bring her to get punish! Let her remember how she lost your first child!" The maids try to drag me off the grounds of everlasting beauty. The eunuch try to reason with the empress. My son is also crying with the chaos infront of him. Everlasting beauty is in a mess. As i try to break free, i slip on a stone and fall. Open my eyes, i see blurry image infront of me. Eunuch is running and screaming. The maids are in panicky state. I see my son is grab by the personal maid of the empress. I have to get up and grab my son back. I struggle to get up and see there is blood on the floor but i can't be bother with it. My little dragon is more important than anything. With all my strength, i get up with a scream. I knock the maids who are standing and blocking. Reaching the personal maid of the empress, i hit her eye. My son run to me and grab my legs. The empress rush up to me and grab my hair. She takes out her hairpin with a sharp point and aim to stab at my neck. I struggle to hold her arm away from me.
"How dare you!" The eunuch and the maids when down on their knees and bow. The empress seeing they all on their knees, she look to the direction. She lower down her hairpin. She release me and bow to the dowager. While i stump onto the floor like a broken doll. All i can hear is my little dragon crying and shaking my tired body. Madame Cui walk over and pick up my little dragon. The dowager walk up to the empress and slap her hard. The empress slump onto the floor holding her cheek. "I know you have your ambition but now you already an empress but still you want more. I don't know how your father had educate you. I really regret to allow my son to marry you, a person who goes against tradition. You believe you can be a better ruler and abolish all men from court? Are you crazy? Don't think i dont know what is going on. I have eyes and ears to hear in this palace!" She walk away from the empress. she pat little dragon gently who is tearing on madame Cut's shoulder. "I also know what you have been doing in your bedroom. I closed one eye but you want the emperor to give in to your control." She turn around. "The emperor is not someone you can control nor take advantage off. Also today you try to harm the crown prince and his mother."
"No dowager i did not! This vixen! She harm me in the first place! She boost her status to me!"
"I don't care who is started this but what i see, you are the one holding the sharp hairpin aiming at Lady Su, did you?"
"She provoke me!"
"Enough! Today i will do what the emperor should have done along time ago. You have harm him enough. My son's sons are supposed to be born but you kill them all. Also you plan to separate Lady Su and my son by causing the maid accident in the library and getting your sister to climb on the emperor's bed is so dramatic, is it?" The empress eyes open wide and keep quiet.
"I shall personally sent you to the cold palace. May you find your peace there."
The empress shake her head and keep say no. While the dowager had someone to pick me up and attend to my wounds. The empress maids are sent for flogging and thrown out of the palace. Her personal maid did not want to be separate from the empress, the dowager order her to be executed instead.
Five days have pass, the dowager had summon the prime minster into her living quarters. I don't know what was the conversation was but he had left in a disgrace. With his head down he left the palace. Rumours says that he did not know that his oldest daughter is such a person. All this time, he assume she has a happy marriage and abide the laws of traditions. He did not know that she had harm herself to the extend of not having children. Yet she is planning to take her own sister's son once that boy is born. Unfortunately for the empress's sister, she had lost her maidenhood to the emperor for nothing. She is arranged to marry a man from another county. Even thou she will marry far, people will know who she is. The man who is going to marry her had protest. In the end, she is to be enter in his household as a concubine.
The Empress is confine in the cold palace for two months now. She has no maids or anyone to talk to. Three meals a day was sent to her by different eunuch each day via secret door. They say she keep silence and have her meals in peace.
All those time when i am living in everlasting beauty, the emperor had been poison by the empress. The empress did not allow any physician near him except for her own physican. The empress had been sitting on the throne less than a month which she had cause a mayhem. The dowager who sees this had to stop what she had done. Slowly behind her back, she imprison the ladies officers and their families. The emperor is taken back to her inner palace for treatments. She rush to everlasting beauty with her guards but she sees her grandson crying. She is more determined to arrest the empress.