Also known as “Be Careful, or the Empress Will Get Jealous” and “Power and Beauty Under Heaven”
That year, Empress An Lingjunlan sneaked out of the palace to see how ordinary people worshipped the gods. Instead, she came across a handsome young man in ragged clothes.
Despite his poverty and lowly station, he was both exceptionally talented and true to his principles, always keeping his word.
“A true gentleman indeed!”
So she recruited him into her service.
Several years later, the empress personally hosted a banquet in the palace to celebrate the young man’s return from the frontier, where he had put an end to the border wars. At the feast, she promised that she would marry him to whichever princess he chose. But the young man shook his head.
“Unfazed by honor or disgrace, humble and courteous. A true gentleman indeed!”
After the banquet, the empress summoned him to her side and asked why he had refused. The young man shook his head again.
“I want a princess, and I want you too!”
Whenever the empress is tormented by that young man in the years to come, she will scold him in a flustered rage:
“You’re no gentleman at all!”
Watch the young man wield his blade, battle corrupt ministers, slay rebellious princes, pacify the surrounding tribes, and conquer north and south until his name shakes the world!
Awake, he commands all under heaven; drunk, he rests with beauties in his arms.
Good-looking, good-looking, good-looking, good-looking