He respected her as a mother, but he was the most perfect rival and confidant she had ever created.
From relying on each other in the snow to confronting each other at the top of the throne, Chu Minghui gave He Lanshuo thousands of miles of land and mountains, and also gave Ling Chi a seventeen-year love-hate relationship.
"You taught me to love my people as my own son, but what about you? You took away my flesh and blood, and killed those I loved..."
She stood in front of the Buddha and taught him to open his eyes to the cruelty of the world. He finally learned how to transform his delusions into a statue that looked like her but had no eyes.
"Even if a thousand Buddhas are made, you will still be in the endless hell."
The blue rain is silent, and the sandalwood smoke lasts forever. This game was finally settled in life and death, and there was no trace left between them except for a brushstroke in the annals of history.
Purpose: This is an ultimate inquiry about love and power, shaping and resistance, fate and freedom. When the caregiver becomes the controller, an unconventional mother-child alliance turns into a life-or-death showdown where love and hate share the same origin. In the end, only an eyeless statue remained, becoming a cold witness to this cruel closed loop of kindness, betrayal and pursuit.