Novel introduction: "The Childish Redemption of the Gloomy Emperor"
Emperor Lan Che, at the pinnacle of imperial power, was a gloomy tyrant known to both the government and the public. The difference of eight years is the distance between him and the childish shadow in the palace, and it is also the only light in his dark life.
He was still the crown prince that year. He was ambushed by assassins on his way back to the palace and was fatally wounded. Fortunately, he was rescued by a farmer's family. In the farmhouse, he met a boy who was only ten years old - he had been diagnosed with a high fever at the age of three, and his intelligence would always remain at that of a three-year-old, but his features had already begun to show signs of beauty. Before he could repay his kindness, the assassins massacred the farmers in order to eliminate the roots. Only the boy was hidden in the woodshed by his parents and escaped.
The prince found him who was helpless and kept him secretly in the East Palace. He sent someone to take good care of him and regarded him as a treasure in his heart. He has a paranoid and violent temperament, is cold to the courtiers, and is alienated from the harem. Only when facing this child who is always innocent and ignorant, his eyes reveal a tenderness that no one else has seen. Feeding, putting him to sleep, and patiently answering his childlike questions, for ten years, he was the emperor's only weakness and preference.
At the age of twenty-eight, Lan Che ascended the throne as the emperor. The boy was already twenty years old, and his appearance was astonishing, but he was still the childish child in need of care, and he had not yet differentiated. The emperor brought him into the palace and kept him company day and night, eating and sleeping together. This excessive love hurt the imperial concubine who was the prime minister's legitimate daughter. She regards the boy as a thorn in her side, hates that he monopolizes all the gentleness of the emperor, and is even more afraid of the unknown variables he may bring. A deep palace conspiracy targeting naive children is quietly brewing.
And Lan Chezao
Concept: In the extreme darkness (the gloomy violence of the emperor), pure innocence (the naivety of the nephew) can become the salvation; true preference is to transcend the secular world and be willing to fight for the other person against the protection of the whole world.