When the imperial power changes, who is behind the scenes? Who is that chess piece that thinks it is smart?
When Jamel Xiao returned from Northern Xinjiang, the emperor was already in trouble. The emperor is seriously ill, the prince oversees the country, the third prince controls the imperial army, and the fifth prince marries into an aristocratic family. However, the national advisor who seems to have nothing to do with the world actually holds a secret edict left by the late emperor. In this gluttonous feast of power, everyone thought that the deposed prince was just another piece of meat on the chopping board.
But they were wrong.
In the past three years, Jamel Xiao not only practiced martial arts at the border, but also weaved a dark web covering both the government and the public. When the princelings fought with the third prince and both sides lost, it was he who secretly helped the fifth prince to raise an army; when the foreign relatives' forces were about to move, it was he who brought the foreign tribes from the frontier into the situation to check and balance; when the civil and military officials of the Manchu Dynasty thought they were sure of victory, it was he who made the traditional jade seal that had disappeared for many years reappear in the world.
The most frightening thing was the counselor "Mr. Qingluan" who suddenly appeared next to Xiao Jamel - no one knew that this civilian scholar who thought he had no plans was actually the empress' confidant who faked his death to protect the young master. When Jamel Xiao finally wore the yellow robe, the officials were shocked to realize that there was only one player in this power game that lasted for ten years from the beginning.
And the deposed prince who once shivered in the snowy night had already become a true emperor through the tempering of blood and fire.
