Which characters in Ruyi’s royal love survived last in real history?

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Which characters in Ruyi’s royal love survived last in real history?
In Ruyi's Royal Love, most characters were truly existed in real history,
but one day became higher rank consort, and one day passed away were different with real history.
Can you guess which characters survived to last minute in real history?
The Emperor Qianlong passed away at 89. During his life, he totally had about 50 emperors and
concubines. 29 of them were in the last three ranks, which was 58% of total Qianlong's imperial women.
In October 1735, Qianlong became the emperor. In this year, he had one empress,
one noble consort, and two consorts. In 1737, noble lady Jia was promoted to noble concubine Jia.
Four years later, noble concubine Jia was promoted to the consort Jia.
Two lower rank concubines were promoted to noble concubine. Meanwhile, a 13-year-old girl
came into the inner court. She was directly promoted to noble concubine Shu.
1754 was a very special year. In beginning of this year, Qianlong's true love, noble consort Gao
was seriously sick. To pray for her, Qianlong widely promoted his imperial women.
Noble consort Gao was promoted to imperial noble consort, but she passed away three days later.
Consort Xian and consort Chun were promoted to the noble consort at the same time.
This was the first time in Qing dynasty, the emperor had two noble consorts at the same time.
Noble concubine Yu was promoted to consort Yu. Noble lady Wei became noble concubine Ling.
In 1748, Qianlong's first empress Xiaoxian passed away. Imperial women's ranks widely changed again.
Noble consort Xian was promoted to managing inner court imperial noble consort.
Consort Jia became noble consort. Noble concubine Ling and noble concubine Shu
were promoted to consort. One year later, Qianlong promoted noble lady Chen
to noble concubine Wan. But noble concubine Wan's living conditions were same as noble lady.
In 1750, the imperial noble consort became Qianlong's second empress.
One year later, Qianlong promoted two noble concubines from noble lady.
In 1753, Qianlong promoted a new noble concubine, the noble concubine Xin.
In 1755, noble consort Jia passed away. She was posthumously promoted to imperial noble consort.
In 1757, noble concubine Yi passed away. Four years later, Qianlong promoted consort Ling
to noble consort and two noble concubines to consort. Meanwhile, noble lady Du was promoted
to noble concubine Yu. In 1760, noble consort Chun was promoted to imperial noble consort
and passed away one month after promotion. In 1762, Qianlong promoted noble lady He
to noble concubine Rong. One year later, the noble concubine were promoted to consort.
But consort Xin only was consort for a month and passed away in 1764.
In 1765, Qianlong's second empress cut her hair for unknown reasons, and she was demoted
based on facts. Several months later, noble consort Ling was promoted to the imperial
noble consort to manage the inner court. One year later, the empress passed away.
By 1766, almost all women who were married with Qianlong before he became the emperor were gone.
In 1768, consort Qing was promoted to the noble consort. Noble concubine Rong became consort.
Noble lady Chen was promoted to noble concubine after she stayed in the Forbidden City for two
years. Three years later, Qianlong promoted noble lady Rong to noble concubine Du. In 1774,
Qianlong lost noble consort Qing and consort Yu. Noble concubine Du was promoted to consort
because she was pregnant. One year later, consort Dun gave birth to Qianlong's last kid.
In 1775, imperial noble consort Ling passed away. Consort Shu became the highest-rank imperial
In 1776, Qianlong already was 65 years old. This year, an 18-year-old girl came into the
Forbidden City and directly became noble concubine Xun. Meanwhile, noble lady Lan,
after coming into the inner court for 20 years, she finally was promoted to noble concubine Cheng.
Noble concubine Xun was promoted to the consort Xun. One year later, consort Xun passed, consort
Shu passed away. In 1778, consort Dun was demoted to noble concubine Dun because she
killed an imperial maid. But because Qianlong really loved noble concubine Dun's daughter,
in 1780, Qianlong restored noble concubine Dun's consort title.
In 1784, noble concubine Cheng passed away. Four years later, consort Xun was demoted
to noble lady for unknown reason and died in this rank in 1790. Also, in 1788, consort Rong
passed away. Four years later, consort Yu passed away. Qianlong posthumously promoted her to noble
consort. In 1794, Qianlong already was 83 years old. He decided to retire in following year.
So, in 1794, he last time widely promoted his imperial women. Noble concubine Wan was Qianlong's
After being noble concubine for 45 years, she finally was promoted to consort. Her story
tells us, once we were still alive, everything could happen. Noble concubine Xun was in this rank
for 28 years and finally became the consort. In this year, Qianlong also promoted two noble ladies
to noble concubine. Both of them were stayed in the court as lower rank concubine for very,
very long time. In 1797, consort Xun passed away. One year later, consort Yang was promoted
to noble consort and noble concubine Fang became consort. In 1799, Qianlong passed away. He totally
had nine surviving imperial women, four of them still in last three ranks. So, for the characters
in Ruyi's Royal Love, consort Yang and noble concubine Yi survived to last minutes in real
history.
