Li Guihua said, “Li Ergou, the Crown Prince is going to lose big again tonight!”
Her eunuch brother grips a chipped die, while his sister, a chef in the imperial kitchen, serves poisoned osmanthus dishes. Together, the siblings turn the imperial palace into a gambling table.
Salt boats burn, canals become bridges of bones, and dice lodge in the throats of thirty-seven remonstrating officials. Roll a one, and you sink into the river; roll a six, and you become a marquis; roll a nine, and you topple the throne.
When the dice rattle, fortunes are won. When the salt fires blaze again, the empire changes hands.
Watch a lowly palace servant from the manure pits roll his way to unimaginable wealth and gamble the Great Cheng Dynasty into ruin!
