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C2.15

Chapter 2.15

"ChongFeng, are you really going to accept this drama?"

After reading the entire script, Gou Liang furrowed his brows.

《River Mountains》—This movie was an imperial court drama full of sadomasochistic feelings.

The dynasty's Empress Dowager had given birth to two sons which resulted in increasing internal struggles with schemes and ambitious people everywhere. In the end, she decided to give up the healthy and hard-to-control younger son, supporting her eldest son who was impotent to ascend to the throne.

She had originally thought that this would be an era where she alone ruled; but who would've expected that her eldest son, who appeared to be weak and submissive, actually had his own agenda. Using a secret medicine, he managed to bear a child with the Empress. He also bestowed the title of Crown Prince to the child, causing the Empress Dowager to be infuriated. Over the next few years, under the hands of ambitious people, the Emperor fell gravely ill and was unable to attend to the court. The Empress Dowager and her relatives then seized control of the court. The Empress Dowager was unhappy with the Crown Prince whose talents blossomed as he grew older. Instead, she preferred the Eldest Prince who was the child of her youngest son who had been adopted under the Emperor's name. The Eldest Prince had been spoiled useless since he was young. If he ascended to the throne, she would be able to further solidify the power she held.

The mother and son pair fought openly. The Crown Prince had always been precocious, causing the Empress Dowager to be on guard until the trusted attendant she had sent out to monitor the Crown Prince accidentally found out that the Crown Prince actually held those sorts of intentions towards males. Thus, a plan formed in the Empress Dowager's heart. She would use male beauties to befuddle the other and expose the other's shamelessness before replacing him with her own candidate.

Indeed, Guan Hui, this character, was destined to have a tragic end with the prince from the beginning.

He was a spy placed beside the Crown Prince by the Empress Dowager, with the mission to bewitch the Crown Prince. In the end, although familiarity breeds fondness, and even though he had staked his life to fight the enemy troops back for the Crown Prince, their relationship was destined to be full of contradictions.

This wasn't a likeable role at all. Although the drama was considered to have two male leads, the screen time and spotlights were mostly given to the Crown Prince. At the beginning stages, the Crown Prince fully displayed his abilities and intelligence, but his influence in the court remained weak—he lived in the cracks and shadows and was completely devoted to Guan Hui; at the later stages, he learned of Guan Hui's identity, enduring his indignation in silence as he blackened—on one hand, he used honey traps to incite Guan Hui; while on the other, he plotted as he prepared to pull the Empress Dowager and his Grand Uncle from their high horses.

In the two people's relationship, love and hate were tangled. In the end, Guan Hui died in battle and the Emperor was able to achieve a grand cause. Before his death, he passed on an imperial verdict to have Guan Hui, who was lying in an ice coffin, to be cremated together with him and be spread across the lands of the nine states...

It was an honest-to-goodness tragedy. The screenwriter tried to white-wash Guan Hui, this character, by specially arranging a pitiful past for him. He was the grandson of a marshal and his clan was ordered to be exterminated by the former Emperor. However, he had received help from the Empress Dowager. His paternal grandmother, mother, and younger brother were all in the Empress Dowager's hands, so he had no choice but to follow her orders, making the Crown Prince be deeply infatuated with him as he handed his heart over to a white-eyed wolf. However, the audience wouldn't forgive his scummy behaviors just because he was pitiful.