Emperor favored princess and ignored Ruyi,son helped Ruyi take revenge&took off his disgusting mask! 

He was so suspicious of Noble Consort Chun and her son but never of yanwan? The emperor was so stupid as he got older

Is this not history repeating itself? Didn't this Emperor himself benefit because his brother another Third Prince fall from favor because his mother was Ruyi's Aunt and for similar reasons? Poor Ruyi. This Emperor is making a fool of himself over this new favorite only because he can't win her affection away from some average guy. His title should be Narcissist of the First Rank.

He treated Consort Chun so bad but treated Yanwan innocently

Him literally praying to Buddha for this woman is so horrible. He truly BELIEVES that he feels pure-hearted about her. Delusional. Psycho. Poor Ruyi

No puedo imaginar la tristeza de Ruyi cuando el emperador le dijo que estaba enamorado de otra y de paso quiere que ella lo ayude a conquistarla, yo creo qué aun existen hombres (Cara de Tabla) que no ven mas allá de su ego...

Siento pena por la consorte Chun 😢 ni ella ni sus hijos fueron nunca favoritos del emperador. Desde este punto de la historia aborrezco al egoísta emperador.

This part disgust me the emperor desperately asking the empress to help him to get the Han gurl to sleep with him n of coz the empress gonna try n make the emperor happy poor ruyi have to go through so many suffering coz of him

Consort Chun's death always gets me because she was so average compared to the others. She wasn't the most beautiful, the most elegant or erudite. She was like a Fjord pony - hardy, fertile and able to plod on through life. Many of the others were like thoroughbred race horses who threw a tantrum at the first sign of something unpleasant and can only be consoled by pretty gifts, words or promotions from the Emperor. Concubine Rong really marks the end of Hongli in his entirety and the start of Qianlong. Two very different men. Hongli quashes Qianlong once Ruyi points out all of Ling's misdeeds and as if to make the prophecy of 'flowers bloom and fall, there is timing to them' become real, Ruyi offs herself with Rongpei. Only the letter for her child remaining as Ruyi. It fascinates me how the series opens and closes with the same image of Qingying at the palace as a young girl. Despite how everyone else despises the Emperor, I honestly pity him more. Taking the historical context from its box, concubines would never, ever refuse the Emperor if he wanted her unless she was sick, pregnant, menstruating or in mourning. It was _treason_ if she refused without a valid dispensation, and around him were whispered words who told what he wanted to hear not what was true. Anyone can get to the emperor's situation with those influences, and all it did was destroy him in the end.

Consort Ying is a real one 🔥

I guess when you are raised that you are all important and can do no wrong, that your every whim is important, it warps your sense of reality and stunts you. He is acting like an infatuated teen boy.

He ignores the one who truly loved him and created such discord in the harem.

Consort aging got brass balls!

I don’t quite understand, so I asked you whether your emperor also worships God. For example, the emperor believed in celestial phenomena. For example, the emperor rarely listened to other people's opinions. For example, the third elder brother's kind words and advice showed the emperor's egotistical character. These are different from what God requires of man. How is this going?

I want to know whether your emperor and you people are believers in God?