The palace gates that cannot be closed, and surprisingly Cixi played with foreign eunuchs!

Cixi's romantic history has always been a topic of interest. From emperors and ministers to eunuchs, all have been rumored to have had affairs with Cixi. More eye-catching is a key historical document written in English that points out that there was indeed a sexual relationship between Empress Dowager Cixi and the British man Edmund Backhouse, who was fifty years younger than her. However, the person Backhouse loved most was not Cixi, but the head eunuch Li Lianying. Cixi joined these men's "multi-person sexual encounters" out of curiosity. Regarding this claim, historians say: it's possible, but there's no record.