The Last Empress of China: Living in a "pig pen", having an affair with a guard and the ending

Phi YếnMar 16, 2025 at 15:08

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Everyone thinks that being an Empress will bring more favor than others and control the harem, but for Uyen Dung, it was different. She had a stormy life beside Emperor Pu Yi.

Despite being granted the title of the main queen, Wanrong was imprisoned by Puyi in a squalid place for 10 years. According to the news site Sohu, this place was not a literal "pig sty" as people thought, and the scene when Wanrong was found was not much different. So what happened between her and the emperor?

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Wanrong was born into a family of the Manchu Zhengbaiqi lineage. Her father was an official holding an important position in the imperial court. Her ancestors had also served the Qing Dynasty for a long time. It could be said that her family was a typical official family.

As the daughter of a prestigious family, it is easy to imagine how noble Uyen Dung's status and position were. Thanks to such a family background, Uyen Dung received a good education from a young ag.e.

An outstanding woman like Uyen Dung should have found a family of equal social standing or a man she loved to marry. But unexpectedly, her father had another plan, which was to have Uyen Dung enter the palace to participate in the selection of concubines, becoming the emperor's concubine.

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Afterwards, thanks to her father's efforts and a series of underhanded tricks, Wanrong successfully passed the imperial examination and became Pu Yi's concubine. Just like that, the two never met, only for the benefit of the two families to come together.

After marrying Pu Yi, Wan Rong discovered that he had another concubine, Wen Xiu. She had married Pu Yi two years before Wan Rong and had been living alone in the ruined palace for a long time. What Wan Rong did not expect was that her nightmare had only just begun.

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First, according to common sense, after marrying Pu Yi, Wan Rong should have enjoyed her wedding night. But unexpectedly, on her wedding night, Pu Yi spent the night with the eunuchs and did not return to his room. Even after that, he did not consummate the marriage with Wan Rong. Not only her, but even Wen Xiu did not. It was only later that people learned that Pu Yi had serious physiological problems and could not perform sexual acts.

Pu Yi made a very wrong decision. This decision not only affected his fate, but also changed the thinking of his two concubines. That was to restore the dynasty in times of chaos. What was even more ridiculous was that he relied on the strength of the Japanese army to establish the "Great Manchu Empire", becoming a puppet emperor in the hands of the Japanese.

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Pu Yi's act of selling out the country for glory made his concubine Wen Xiu extremely indignant. She did not want such a man to be her husband, and even resented Pu Yi. Therefore, Wen Xiu later decided to write a divorc.e petition, "abandoning" this emperor. This is the famous revolutionary Dao Phi event in history.

On the contrary, Uyen Dung was used to the lavish life of the royal family, so she did not want to take any risks. She was only infatuated with the current rich and luxurious life, spending lavishly, going to big shopping malls, buying gold and silver jewelry to satisfy herself. This choice of hers was also burying her own future.

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Pu Yi began his plan to restore the dynasty. Everyone knew that the times had changed, and restoration was no different from a daydream. Therefore, in the end, Pu Yi had no choice but to place his hopes on the Japanese. Even many of the old court officials did the same as Pu Yi, Wan Rong's father being one of them.

In this situation, Wanrong naturally lost Pu Yi's favor and care. She began to fall into the temptation of opiu.m and became emaciated and unrecognizable. Pu Yi found out and imprisoned her in her room.

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Every day, she could only stay in here, living a lonely and empty life. This made her more and more depressed, the whole room reeked of cigarett.e smoke, garbage stench everywhere, just like a literal "pig sty".

Wan Rong stayed there for ten years, living in a daze every day, or one could say living a life worse than deat.h mentally. Loneliness, mental emptiness, and physical needs later led her to have an affair with a guard named Qi Ji Zhong. The two even had a chil.d together. However, their chil.d later died.

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According to Sohu and Sina, it was Qi Jizhong who took the initiative to approach Wanrong. Even though she no longer lived in the palace, Wanrong still enjoyed special privileges and attentive service. She was always surrounded by many palace maids, eunuchs, and people planted by other forces. How could she risk doing such an immoral thing?

As for guard Qi Jizhong, he was different. He had already joined the Japanese army and was tasked with monitoring Pu Yi. He also knew about Pu Yi's illness and had always coveted Wan Rong. Therefore, he took advantage of the opportunity to sneak into Wan Rong's room. Everything that happened next seemed inevitable.

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The story between Empress Wanrong and guard Qi Jizhong finally reached Pu Yi's ears. Pu Yi was extremely angry and wanted to punish both of them, but he could not do anything to Wanrong because she was the victi.m. In the end, Pu Yi had to give Qi Jizhong 400 oceans to shut him up and chas.e him away.

With the mone.y he had saved, Ky Ke Trung rose to the rank of General in the Japanese army during the Manchukuo period. After Japan surrendered, Ky Ke Trung was imprisoned and subjected to the judgment of the people.

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As for Wanrong, she was guarded more strictly by Pu Yi, until her younger brother Run Qi found a way to rescue her. After being rescued, Wanrong said something heartbreaking to her father: "For the sake of becoming the national father-in-law, you have ruined my daughter's lifelong happiness!"

A short sentence contained so much bitterness in Wanrong's heart, and so much pai.n and resentment. Although she was rescued, Wanrong could not escape her cruel fate. Because she was Pu Yi's Empress, and Pu Yi was guilty of treason, she was also imprisoned. In the end, she died tragically in prison due to illness. After her deat.h, her body was thrown into a stinking ditch.

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