"Hands down to stand at dusk"
From the abandoned daughter of Yeting Palace to the empress in the main hall, she walked the entire journey stepping on the blood of her brothers. Everyone in the world is afraid of her - except one eunuch.
His name is Ah Fu. He entered the palace at the age of seven and had nothing. On a snowy night in the cold palace, he blocked an insult for her, and from then on he stood half a step behind her. That stop lasted seventy years.
When she kills people, he cleans her sword; when she criticizes memorials, he grinds ink; when she can't sleep at night, he stays three steps in front of her bed until dawn. She never asked him why he was loyal, and he never told her what she was afraid of. There was no romantic love between them, but it lasted longer than any love in the world - it grew so long that the two of them hugged the sycamore tree planted when she ascended the throne, and it grew so long that when the historian wrote, his name was only worthy of being shrunk in the gap of "Palace Person", and faded away when the candlelight flickered.
But she knew that a hundred years later, that person would still be standing next to her. She called "Ah Fu" and he replied, "I'm here." He answered these two words all his life.
Standing at dawn and dusk with hands down, Chang'an is half a step away.
