this was beyond just love. This was political and simply the lack of respect. Emperors usually didnt marry their empress for love. Even if he didnt love her he disrespected her as empress and honestly who know what really happened because even historians are limited in thier knowledge. They can only go by what is written down. Even if he didnt love her he seemed to have been abusive. And during that time if he displaced her, she and her family would have been in ruined. Its WAY more than just "love" her livihood and the livlihood of her son and clan were at stake.

@@oraclesofthemoirai4258 you are contradicting yourself by saying not even historians knows everything that happened yet you’re saying based on your opinion that he was disrespectful, aren’t most people disrespectful, especially to people that they are not emotionally drawn to? Isn’t that a human trait for most humans. Isn’t fair to conclude that since he had no political gain with consort Ling proves he must’ve had some deep emotional affection for her? Unlike the step Empress who he clearly had a political gain from and is the person at topic here? You mentioned her son was at stake, so her only ambition was to have a child to become a king one day so she could continue to have the ultimate power of being a Empress Doweger, is that also true love on her part or is it lust for power? The point is The Emperor clearly Did not love her and the fact that she cursed him and his mother by cutting her hair is enough to prove that she wasn’t happy which as I’ve said is not the Emperors fault, The heart wants what the heart wants and he clearly followed his heart as he should. These women were a custom that he followed, it’s how things were, these girls families are also responsible as they willingly gave their teenage daughters up in exchange for power also. Let’s be grateful that our generation doesn’t have to live like how they lived, in order to create societies, sadly there were lots of severe sacrifices, although being in a harem must’ve been difficult, lots of girls that didn’t have that life actually experienced worse situations from men in those days also, so in fact for some, it was a dream compared to some others that had to sell their bodies just for a day’s meal because their families were so poor.

eh, she would be worse if she had a child. but she'd definitely be better with kinder friends, who don't use her as an attack dog and would reign her in if she gets too mean

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exactly calling her weak and narrow when it's him who's calling an act of bravery as lowly act

@@12forceswillreunitetoopena77 Act of bravery? How? You curse someone and their parents for not loving you back? We can’t force someone to love us.

​@@Winter74575 I stated it as act of bravery as of during those era women have always been oppressed by patriarchy; cutting her hair as a form of rebel is more respectful. Cutting hair represents mourning of emperor or Qing dynasty + also being the wife implies that it was meant to cut-off their relation/mourn for qing dynasty empress The actual history is destroyed by then emperor, so we don't know the original cause of cutting her hair, but that unknow cause must have hurt his ego as his reaction says it all... so this person saying the reason behind as she was jealous of a consort's love is invalid... So the love factor is completely baseless; even she was jealous being empress the controller of harem she could have taken cruel path

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