History Series / RuyisRoyalLoveInThePalace

* KickTheSonOfABitch: Yuyan slaps A Ruo. [[UngratefulBastard A Ruo]] has done plenty of things to deserve a slap, but Yuyan either doesn't know or doesn't care about them and slapped her only for [[DisproportionateRetribution walking in front of her]].

* In between Ruyi marrying Hongli and Emperor Yongzheng’s death, Langhua miscarried the first Princess and Zhuying died while giving birth to the second Princess, who also died.
* Qiying’s baby dies in-utero and the doctors have to induce labor to extract the fetus before it kills her.
* Meiruo loses her daughter from too much stress after Fu Gu’er suddenly attacks Jingsi.
* Ruyi’s third child Yongjing doesn’t survive his birth.

* ConvenientMiscarriage: Yihuan miscarries her baby.

** Wang Qin attempts to give Ruyi food that's cold at best and spoiled at worst. A Ruo orders him to eat the food as punishment.
** Zhen Huan is furious when she learns about Yanwan's behaviour, so she tells Rong Pei to slap Yanwan ten times a day.

* DeathByChildbirth: Consort Zhe died giving birth to her second child. [[spoiler: Subverted since childbirth wasn't the only thing that killed her; Langhua had her poisoned.]]

** [[spoiler: Jingsi]] dies as a toddler.

* DiesDifferentInAdaptation: In the novel [[spoiler: Ruyi commits suicide to make Qianlong suspicious of Yanwan]]. In the series [[spoiler: Ruyi is terminally ill, but she lives to see Yanwan's downfall]].

** Hongli emotionally abuses all of his wives.

** [[spoiler: Lianxin]] drowns herself after Langhua's death.

** Hailan happens to be right outside the door when Xiyue admits she framed Ruyi and [[spoiler: poisoned the pregnant women]].

* ForcedMiscarriage: Xiyue causes two miscarriages by tricking pregnant women into drinking poison.

** [[spoiler: Xiyue and A Ruo conspire to have Ruyi framed for poisoning Qiying.]]

** Later Yuyan frames Yunche for stealing her underwear.

** The Emperor finds a beautiful woman and forces her to be one of his wives when she is in love with another man, and she willingly drinks a bowl of soup that causes her to become infertile just so she can avoid bringing a child into the mess. (Yongzheng and Lanyi vs Qianlong and Xiangjian).

** [[spoiler:Yuyan]] tricks Ruiji and Qiying into consuming food and coal contaminated with cinnabar so they will have a miscarriage and lose their fetuses.

** [[spoiler: Ruyi]] develops one after catching tuberculosis.

* IWantMyBelovedToBeHappy: Li Yu loves Suoxin, but he knows they could never be happy together because he's a eunuch and Suoxin wants children. When she marries Jiang Yubin instead, Li Yu buys them farmland as a wedding present so they can live away from the palace.

** Strangely, no mention of Chunyuan (the previous empress before Yixiu, her sister) exists, with only Yixiu and Madam Na being related to Ruyi. (Though, this could be chalked up to being historically accurate, as the real Empress Xiaojingxian was Yongzheng’s legitimate wife before he ascended).

** Imperial Concubine Xun (Huoshuote Lanxi) is removed from the show. In the novel, she is a stoic woman, and had a tense relationship with Eyinzhu considering their tribes were on opposite sides of the Dzungarian war. She also has a cold relationship with the Emperor considering he immediately lost interest in her and he didn’t tell her about her father’s death until a year later when visiting the Mongolian tribes. She is caught with her childhood love who takes Yongji hostage, and she rants at Hongli that she never loved him and hated bottling up her feelings for her tribe’s sake. Yongqi takes ''her'' hostage and after her lover dies, she is stabbed and she drags herself to die beside her childhood love, saying that even in death she doesn’t want to be near Hongli.

** In the novel, [[spoiler:Yanwan]] messing with Yihuan’s pre-natal medicine causes her to become pale with sunken eyes, and she suffers from severe alopecia to the point that she starts wearing wigs to hide her bald head. This change is not present in the series, and Yihuan looks pretty much the same before and after her pregnancy.

** Imperial Concubine Xun (Huoshuote Lanxi), who was dismembered for infidelity and endangering Yongji when he became a hostage, doesn’t appear.
** Noble Consort Xin is removed, with some of her traits being given to Barin Meiruo in the live action series.

* EunuchsAreEvil: Played straight with Wang Qin, who forces Lianxin to marry him then abuses her, driving her to attempt suicide. Averted with most of the other eunuchs, especially Li Yu and Yunche.

** Hailan and Ruyi happen to be right in front of the room Yonghuan is in when he starts talking to his wife about how he thinks Ruyi is faking her love for him to use his status as the eldest prince to gun for the Empress seat.

* FaceDeathWithDignity: When she's dying Xiyue puts on her finest clothes to see Hongli and confesses her crimes to him.

** [[spoiler: Langhua]] acts as if she likes Xiyue while [[spoiler: poisoning her so she can't have a child]] and finally killing her so she can't reveal [[spoiler: Langhua]]'s crimes.

* ForcedMiscarriage: Xiyue causes at least two miscarriages by tricking pregnant women into drinking poison.

* UnwantedSpouse: Yunche and Miaoqian are this for each other. Yunche loves Yanwan and Miaoqian looks down on him for being only a guard.

* VillainousBreakdown: Ruiji goes from being composed to crying in despair after learning [[spoiler: Yuyan killed her baby and she nearly killed an innocent woman in her quest for revenge]].

** Qianlong removes Yongcheng from the imperial genealogy after he becomes suspicious that he was complicit in an event that almost lead to his assassination and his mother's crimes being exposed.

** Xiyue tricks at least two pregnant women into drinking poison that causes them to miscarry.
** Ruiji poisons Muping when she's pregnant.

* IncurableCoughOfDeath: [[spoiler: Ruyi]] develops one after catching tuberculosis.

* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler:Ruyi dies, Yongji is left with no one but his father, maybe Zhen Huan, and Hailan. Everyone who knew her mourns her than pretend for Langhua's funeral. Hongli finds out she died before he could reconcile with her. However, she reveals Wei Yanwan’s crimes and avenges everyone who died in the latter’s pursuit to become Empress and have power, and Yanwan spends the next 9 years being constantly fed poison and it’s antidote, before finally consuming one last poison dose so she doesn't see her son Yongyan becomes the Jiaqing Emperor. Qianlong spends the rest of his life mourning Ruyi, after realizing his actions brought immense pain to her and seeing how she was true to him towards the end, leading him to becoming a melancholic, regretful semi-recluse in a palace honoring Ruyi and her favorite flowers. He does die in peace in his old age holding a container that has his hair, Ruyi's hair, and a pouch of Ruyi's as the dead flowers Ruyi kept begins to blossom again.]]