The Feise Empress Dowager, who is also the birth mother of Duke Fa Xiao Yi, is thirty-eight this year.
At the age of fourteen, she was presented as a tribute from a foreign, alien race to the late Emperor. Due to her beauty, she was the most favored in the harem during the late Emperor's reign. Unmatched at the time, she was solely cherished for five years. If not for the Empress Dowager conceiving the Dragon Seed early on, her status would have been long gone.
When the concubines of the late Emperor thought she would be sent to the Cold Palace upon his death, she was soon honored as the Consort due to her virtues and good reputation after Emperor Fa Xiaoyun's ascension to the throne.
The rest of the late Emperor's concubines have either been sent away or scattered, and besides the Empress Dowager, only the Consort holds the most secure position in the palace now.
It is rumored throughout the palace that the Monarch had coveted the Consort's beauty since his youth.
