It is difficult for ordinary people to imagine that a queen whose mother was devoted to the world was reduced to a commoner due to the destruction of her country and family. She took her daughter-in-law's hand, walked to the land of fireworks, and began to live a life of resignation. This is Hu, the queen of Gao Zhan, the fourth emperor of the Northern Qi Dynasty. After Hu lost her throne as empress dowager, she quickly adjusted her mentality, put down her arrogance, found her position, and regarded bed exercises as the best form of entertainment. The famous saying she left for future generations is that it is much happier to be a prostitute than a queen.

It is said that when Empress Hu was still in her mother's womb, a monk told her parents that her house was auspicious and that a noble person would be born. Sure enough, Empress Hu was later selected as the princess of Gao Zhan, the then King of Changguang, and later gave birth to two sons for Gao Zhan: Gao Wei, Gao Yan. After Gao Zhan ascended the throne, she became the principal queen, but it was this change in status that caused a major turning point in her life.

It is said that Gao Zhan became obsessed with his sister-in-law Li Zu'e after he ascended the throne. He even took her away from his brother and took her as his own. From then on, he ignored Empress Hu. "People have seven emotions and six desires." Queen Hu had been neglected by Gao Zhan for too long. Not willing to be lonely, she also took the opportunity to hang out with Emperor Wu Cheng's favorite minister and Shikai, but Gao Zhan ignored her and said that they should live their own lives. Without disturbing each other, He Shikai took advantage of his affair with Queen Hu to gain power and was named King of Huaiyang, becoming a famous figure in the Northern Qi Dynasty.

Gao Zhan died after only three years in office due to his promiscuous private life. Therefore, the relationship between Queen Mother Hu and He Shikai was openly displayed in front of the public. Her son Gao Wei He succeeded to the throne, but because of his cowardly nature he did not dare to take any action against his mother's actions. However, his younger brother Gao Yan had a personality that was exactly opposite to his. He was already dissatisfied with his mother's actions and the monopoly of Heshi, so he led his troops. He killed He Shikai and gathered three thousand troops outside the Qiu Gate of the capital. Empress Dowager Hu was angry and helpless about her son Gao Yan's actions. After all, even the emperor was helpless. The emperor also realized the threat Gao Yan posed to him and immediately murdered him.

Empress Dowager Hu had no sympathy for the death of her husband and son. However, after the death of He Shikai, Empress Dowager Hu became even more lonely and unbearable. She could only go out to "hook up" and "kung fu" in the name of worshiping Buddha. "It paid off." Sure enough, she hooked up with a monk named Tan Xian and often had private meetings with him. She even moved all the gold and silver treasures from the treasury into the temple, and even moved Gao Zhan's dragon bed into it. Enjoy a life of sexual pleasure with other monks. Everyone in the palace knew about these things, only Gao Wei was kept in the dark. However, "paper cannot contain fire." Once when Gao Wei was greeting his mother, he saw two newly recruited female nuns on the queen mother's bed. They were both beautiful and beautiful, and he couldn't help but salivate.

After leaving his mother's palace, he secretly summoned two nuns into the palace, but the two nuns refused to obey. In a rage, he took off their clothes and found that the two nuns were young men disguised as women. Monks! He immediately understood his mother's dirty deeds, but he was just afraid that he would not let the two monks enter the palace in disguise. The next day, Gao Wei ordered the two young monks and Tan Xian to be beheaded, and the Empress Dowager Hu was kept in seclusion in the Beigong.

She did not end her claustrophobic life until the fall of the Northern Qi Dynasty. At that time, she was already forty years old and her charm was still there. Together with her daughter-in-law, Mu Huanghua, the first wife of Gaowei, they went to the downtown area of ??Chang'an, the capital of the Northern Zhou Dynasty. Publicly be a prostitute. Who wouldn’t want to sleep with the queen? So the business of the two former queens, Queen Mother Hu and Queen Mu, was booming, and they enjoyed it. Queen Mother Hu even said to Queen Mu: It is better to be a prostitute than to be a queen, it is endless fun

Until many years later, a salt merchant fell in love with Mu Huanghua and took away the money earned by Empress Mu and their mother-in-law and daughter-in-law. After losing her young daughter-in-law Mu Huanghua, Empress Dowager Hu was living alone like a year. Later, around the time of Emperor Kaihuang of the Sui Dynasty, He died of illness in Chang'an, ending his life full of criticism.