The Secret History of the Great Sorrow

This story is purely fictitious. There are countries of various sizes on an imaginary continent. The largest of them, the Qinhuai Ancient Kingdom, unified most of its territory. Just two hundred years later, political corruption emerged again on this continent, and the story unfolds... Emperor Qiankang had a dream at night. In the dream, he returned to the time when Emperor Taizong and Queen Mother Yun were still alive, and the family was happily together. After waking up, he was so sad that he could never sleep again. This year, he was over fifty years old and had experienced the ups and downs of politics, but he burst into tears because of his dream about the late emperor and queen mother. For decades, he was used to seeing the squabbles in the court, fathers and sons, and brothers killing each other in history. It was really touching to see the tender scene of the late emperor. "We've only met two or three times." "Two or three times is really not much." "But life is only seventy years old. After ten years of ignorance and ten years of oldness and weakness, there are only fifty years left. In these fifty years, half of the night must be removed, leaving only twenty-five years. You can really stay with the one you love. The time you spend together is very little." "If you meet someone more beautiful and better than me in the future, there's no guarantee you won't be tempted." "If I meet a more beautiful and better woman, there will naturally be a more beautiful and better man to match her. What does it have to do with me? No matter how weak he is, I will only drink a spoonful. Compared with losing the person I really like, whether he is an official or not, what does it matter?"