What is love? I've never seen new people laughing, never heard old people cry.
Any love, any man or woman, after experiencing "you are the only one", will more or less go into such a puzzle.
Nguyen Hue Lan, the last queen of Vietnam, once wrote a romantic and beautiful love with King Bao Da. Unfortunately, the ending is tragic and lamentable.
At that time, Nguyen Hu Lan was a real bridesmaid, born in the family of the richest man in Vietnam: her maternal grandfather was the richest man in Vietnam, and she was the first granddaughter of her maternal grandfather, so she was most sincerely loved by her maternal grandfather.
Moreover, Ruan Youlan's maternal grandfather had only one daughter, that is, Ruan Youlan's mother.
This means that all the future of the richest man will be this daughter. You see, Ruan Youlan was born in such a family, and he can be regarded as a child who will be reincarnated.
At the age of 12, Nguyen Hue Lan was sent to Paris by his family to go to school, which was really rare in Vietnam at that time. For children her age, especially girls, staying at home and waiting to be married is the real life.
Ruan Youlan has been different from Vietnamese women since she was a child, and her appearance is beautiful, with the infiltration of Western culture, and her temperament has become the most obvious advantage of her individual when she grows up: the combination of East and West, and the charm is unique.
Of course, from a traditional family, Ruan Youlan is indispensable to the gentle and traditional genes in his bones.
After returning from school, he was as young as a flower, and his appearance like a flower, especially the posture of a soft body, attracted the attention of many people of the opposite sex.
At this time, Bao Da, the king of Annam, appeared, who was still young and had a look that had not yet grown: green, shy, and introverted.
However, in the face of beautiful women, even introverted men will be impulsive. Therefore, Bao Da relied on his status as king to pursue Ruan Youlan with his heart.
In fact, it is conceivable that when the king of a country pursues a woman, women usually cannot refuse. Not only because of power, but also because of the vanity that women often have.
Nguyen Hue Lan, pursued by the amorous king, also fell in love quickly.
In order to please the beauties, Bao Da even played the true love card: I am willing to maintain monogamy for you, and I will never marry a concubine.
Nguyen Hu Lan, who returned from studying in the West, has become very aware of the civilized reality of monogamy, so she is touched by the king's affection and enters into a loving relationship with him.
However, Bao Da's mother, the then Empress Annam, was not satisfied with Ruan Youlan.
In her opinion, the future Queen Annan should be a woman with traditional Buddhist followers, how can she be a Catholic?
Ruan Youlan believes in Catholicism, which may be related to her studying abroad since she was a child, but at that time, she did not think that this belief would also become an obstacle to marriage and love.
Bao Da saw that his mother refused to agree to this family affair, and as if he was in a hurry, he directly became "not filial piety": I did not marry Ruan Youlan.
In this regard, the old lady is also very helpless, after all, the son is the heart of the flesh, not to mention that he is still the king, who he wants to marry, what kind of person to marry, it already has the right to decide.
Under such circumstances, the old lady made another request: Nguyen HuLan must study the Buddhist scriptures.
This is probably the old man's last stubbornness, right? Bao Da was also clever, and he immediately reconciled in the middle: Nguyen Hulan could maintain his Catholic status and only learn Buddhist thought after marriage.
We have said that although Ruan Youlan studied abroad since he was a child, the tradition in his bones has never been eliminated. So she gladly accepted Bao Da's proposal and successfully married the person she loved.
That love may be what all women aspire to, or that's what love looks like in the first place: you have me in your eyes, and only you in my eyes.
Bao Da looked at Ruan Youlan, it was simply good everywhere.
As soon as he got married, he gave the title of "Empress of Nam Phuong" to Nguyen Woo Lan. The decision stunned everyone at the time, as it had never been done before in Vietnamese history.
Why? It is not how special the name "Queen Nam Phuong" is, but according to Vietnamese tradition, the wives of kings do not have the title of empress, they only have the title of concubine, or concubine. It was not until after the death of the king that their final titles would be defined.
That is to say, in the harem of the Vietnamese royal family, the title of queen has never been uncertain, and when the king died, it was a final word: I can no longer change the queen candidate, just the most favored one.
But Bao Da loved Nguyen Hu Lan too much, and he had said that he would marry him as a monogamous duo. Therefore, at the beginning of the marriage, she gave the title of Empress Nguyen Hulan. This can be described as a smile for the beauty, at the expense of breaking the traditional rules.
Moved? I believe that Ruan Youlan was touched at this time, but she would not have thought that when she was old and faded, her figure was out of shape, but there was only a scumbag left around.
It turned out that after Ruan Youlan became empress, she gave birth to 5 children in succession, with a fat figure and a look that was not as good as when she was young.
In the process, the old lady became a demon again: You are pregnant, who will serve the monarch? Moreover, the tradition is that monarchs are polygamous, how can it change when it comes to you?
In short, all kinds of big hats buckled over, and Ruan Youlan could only retreat frequently.
At this time, the old empress directly took her niece into the palace and asked her to serve her son.
The traditional Ruan Youlan final camp is not guaranteed, and the freshness and love of Bao Da at this time are also flat. As a result, there was no monogamy in the royal room, but more and more women squeezed in.
Ruan Youlan found out at this time that the love he had once had not only disappeared, but his own forbearance was only relying on people's sniffles. Moreover, because when she constantly advised Baoda to correct her behavior, she was already regarded as a thorn in baoda's eyes.
How could the newly educated Nguyen Youlan endure such disregard? Or maybe her disappointment in love has already exceeded her own endurance.
Eventually, the tradition in her bones was overwhelmed by self-esteem, and she took her 5 children away from the royal family and went to France.
In this regard, Bao Da did not have any opinion, even if the empress took away her heir, he would ignore his good life. Such a man really left Ruan Youlan speechless.
Fortunately, Nguyen Hu Lan has a house left by her mother's family in France, where she and her 5 children spent a very uneventful but peaceful period of time.
During this time, Bao Da never came to see them, but went farther and farther down the road of pampering the newcomers.
Nguyen Youlan has been in France for more than ten years, and all 5 children are slowly coming of age.
At the age of 49, she died of illness.
When the news reached Vietnam, Bao Da was like no one else, not to mention that he received the queen's body, that is, he did not look at the queen's remains.
He still lived his alcoholic life, and the woman he had promised monogamy and bijury was gone forever in a foreign land. Whether there is regret or not, whether it is pain, no one knows.