to be empress?" Gao Wei agreed with her, and he created Consort Mu "Right Empress" and gave Empress Hu the title "Left Empress." Around the new year 573, Lady Lu would further carry out adverse action against Empress Hu. She intentionally acted angry before Empress Dowager Hu and stated, "What kind of niece would use that kind of language?" When Empress Dowager Hu asked her about it, she initially refused to say anything, and then when Empress Dowager Hu persisted, she said that Empress Hu had told Gao Wei, "The empress dowager's behavior is immoral and should not be followed." Empress Dowager Hu was incensed, and without verifying the information, she ordered Empress Hu be expelled from the palace, and then had Gao Wei depose her. However, at times, Gao Wei missed her, and he often sent gifts to her. When rival Northern Zhou launched a major attack in 577 and threatened the capital Yecheng in the spring of 578, she, along with his other deposed empress Empress Hulü, was summoned to the main palace, probably for her protection. Yecheng fell a few days later, and Gao Wei was captured in flight. Northern Zhou took over Northern Qi's territory. She subsequently remarried, although her new husband's name, unlike Empress Hulü's, was not recorded in history. It is not known when she died. References Northern Qi empresses Northern Zhou people 6th-century Chinese women 6th-century Chinese people