The Country Bears the Dust

Introduction to the work "Dusty Bones" Ah Chen, a grassroots man in Mobei, rescued the dying young prince Xiao Jin from a mass grave ten years ago. He exchanged half a piece of wheat cake and a scar on his body for the promise of "when I take power, I will promise you a stable life." Ten years later, Xiao Jin ascended the throne and patrolled the south to look for him, but he was thrown into a prison in the name of "collaborating with the enemy" - the empire of the emperor has no room for weakness, and the promise of the past became the first knife to stab Achen's heart. He was imprisoned in a deep palace, from a sinful slave to an emperor's secret concern, struggling between humiliation and tenderness; Xiao Jin was torn between imperial power and love, while killing all his dissidents for him, and at the same time pushing him into the abyss for the court. Threatened by enemy countries, political marriages, and humiliations in public, love was crushed into dust and dignity was trampled underfoot. When Ah Chen carried the blueprint of the small courtyard that he had been drawing for ten years and heard Xiao Jin's decree on the city wall: "If the country refuses to give up an inch of land, why should a sinful slave care about it?" The blood he vomited dyed the last trace of warmth in the emperor's eyes red. In the end, Ah Chen, who had run out of oil and burnt out his lamp, said goodbye with half a piece of wheat cake that he had treasured for ten years; while Xiao Jin, who was thousands of miles away, could only hide his ashes in his dragon robe. Every night, his last words, "I will never meet you again in my next life", delayed the rest of his life. This is a prison in the name of love, a betrayal marked by the country. In the end, only the emperor is left alone in the prosperous age, spending endless years of atonement with a pile of dusty bones.