What?
The crown prince, his eldest brother, kills himself right from the start, and the empress dowager hangs herself with a three-foot strip of white silk?
The unruly prince begins his story by leaving the capital to take up his fief.
Before he leaves: “Your Majesty, the Fifth Prince is still young. He should go to the battlefield and fight the Northern Di cavalry.”
After he leaves: “Your Majesty, this is terrible! The Fifth Prince has mobilized a hundred thousand cavalry and is already marching on the imperial capital! He says you must execute the traitors yourself and abdicate in favor of someone worthy...”
