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[–] Keld@hexbear.net 15 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

That would be Li Shuxian, whose testimony of him is basically that he was totally besotted with her. There is certainly a queer angle to puyi. His tutor/advisor Reginald Johnston and his first consort Wanrong both paint him as someone rather uninterested in sex, and someone for whom romantic interest in women did not come naturally, and I think someone else in his orbit once wrote that his only sexual interest was in anal. But it is possible that given that basically his sole human contact for years besides Reginald Johnston were eunuchs and Li Shuxian was the first person whom he engaged in a relationship for love (Publicly at least) that he was just a very late bloomer and Li Shuxian was the first woman he actually liked.