Li Mao’s mother is Wu Huifei, who is Wu Zetian’s niece. Li Longji is Wu Zetian’s grandson. Therefore, it can be said that Li Longji is actually Wu Huifei’s cousin, and Wu Huifei is Li Longji’s younger cousin. , when Li Xian and others launched the Shenlong Coup to deal with the Wu family, they thought that Concubine Wu Hui was young, so they did not harm her, but stayed in the palace and became a maid.
Concubine Wu Hui was smart since she was a child. She understood that the emperor liked girls who could dance and were sensible, so she kept developing in that direction. Finally, when she was still young, she met Li Longji. Li Longji fell in love with her at first sight, and soon they fell in love with her. She turned her little cousin into her own Concubine Wu Hui.
Concubine Wu Hui was actually ambitious. Perhaps at first she wanted to imitate Wu Zetian to seduce Li Longji and become the second Wu Zetian herself. However, it turned out that Li Longji was not a fool when he was young. Concubine Wu Hui knew that this method was not feasible. , so he planned to have a child and compete for the crown prince's position for his child. In the future, he would imitate Wu Zetian and treat his son as a puppet emperor. Maybe he would still have a chance to become a female emperor in the future.
Because they were married by close relatives, Concubine Wu Hui and Li Longji gave birth to two sons and a daughter in succession, both of whom died in infancy. Of course, at that time, they did not know that there would be such a big danger in marrying close relatives, so they just thought It was due to bad Feng Shui or something like that, so after giving birth to Li Mao, Li Longji quickly moved Li Mao to his brother Prince Ning's Mansion and asked Princess Ning Yuan to nurse Li Mao.
In the end, Li Mao did not die young and was considered alive. As Li Mao grew older, Concubine Wu Hui also had many thoughts about the position of crown prince, and tried to find ways to frame the then crown prince Li Ying, so that Li Longji forced the three brothers Li Ying, Li Yao and Li Ju to death in one day. Li Hao was already somewhat sensible at the time. Looking at this bloody storm, Li Hao must have thought that he would never be willing to participate in it in his life.
Li Hao just wanted to get married and have children as soon as possible. After seeing Yang Yuhuan at a banquet, Li Hao asked his mother Wu Huifei to do everything possible to marry Yang Yuhuan home. Such a beautiful Yang Yuhuan, Unfortunately, Li Mao was unable to get his wish due to his infertility. Instead, Concubine Wu Hui here wanted to make Li Mao the prince.
Perhaps Li Hao did not want to become the prince, because even if he became the prince and later became the emperor, with Concubine Wu Hui's methods, Li Hao would probably become a puppet emperor, which would be even more sad then. While Li Mao was hesitating, Concubine Wu Hui and Li Linfu were very active. Unfortunately, Li Longji never expressed his stance.
Later, because of Concubine Wu Hui’s poor psychological quality, she always dreamed of Li Ying’s ghost coming to claim her life, and she was frightened to death. After Concubine Wu Hui passed away, the prince Li Heng recommended by Gao Lishi successfully became the crown prince. Li Hao After missing the crown prince, Li Linfu had a strong opinion of Li Heng and wanted to kill Li Heng.
At this time, Li Longji was no longer the wise and mighty Tang Minghuang back then, but an emperor who was obsessed with looking for beauties among the people. In order to find beauties for him, Gao Lishi traveled all over the country and finally found one. Mei Fei, a folk beauty, was sent to the palace to Li Longji.