pinksprings01:
Will the ml and fl reconcile in the end?
The drama is a remake of Xiaozhuang Epic,
Dayu'er-FL
Duo Er Gun-ML
Watch from 27 minutes hmmm
The First Beauty of the Mongol race Dayuer, later known as Empress Xiao Zhuang, is privately pledged to marry Duoergun. However Emperor Tai Ji takes Dayuer as an imperial concubine and therefore seeds the hostility, quarrels and combats between Duoergun and himself.
Emperor Tai Ji passes away two years later. Duoergun prevails over dissenting views and makes Xiao Zhuang’s son Fu Lin, subsequently known as Emperor Shun Zhi, the ruler of the Qing empire. To protect the future of her son and the dynasty, Empress Dowager Xiao Zhuang keeps her relationship with Duoergun at arm's length.
Shun Zhi is a passionate emperor but his relationship with his true love Concubine Dong-e triggers animosity from the imperial family. Although Empress Dowager Xiao Zhuang manages to settle the problem, the depressed Shun Zhi dies not long after.
The deaths of her husband, lover and son wears Empress Dowager Xiao Zhuang immensely, but for the continuity of the Qing Empire, she returns to court politics and grooms the son of Shun Zhi, later known as Kang Xi, to be the new ruler