On the first day of reading the book, the princess spent half a stick of incense to accept the reality, and another half a stick of incense to make a decision - she would not let go of any of the romantic, young, and political marriages that Qin Zhaoning rejected in the original book. You've come here, but if you don't open a harem, wouldn't it be a waste of time?
The day before leaving for the north, she pinned her childhood sweetheart Zhou Yanshen under the crabapple tree. He couldn't even breathe, and the tips of his ears were so red that they were about to bleed. She said: Write me a letter and wait for my return.
Then she traveled a long distance, captured Yanjing, changed the four states, reformed the old prison system, overturned the unjust case in the palace, ascended the throne as the empress, and gnawed down the "efforts to govern" mentioned in the original book one by one. In the process, the meaning of those men to her has quietly changed. The taciturn secret guard Shen Du stood in front of her during the Yanjing rebellion until he was exhausted, becoming her "first choice when in darkness" in her words. The gentle and innocent bamboo horse Zhou Yanshen is her best support when she is tired, and is the person she "most wants to be by her side during the day."
Qin Zhaoning originally thought that as an empress, she would be able to easily have beautiful men, but she discovered that loving is also a kind of ability, and a person's mental strength is limited after all. In the end, she chose to let go of her political marriage partner. If you can't give love, you can at least give freedom.
This is a princess with a modern soul. She originally wanted to include all the "difficult" male characters in the original book into the harem, but in the real life and death, she understood the weight of love and responsibility. In the end, she only left two people, but settled everyone down. From "I want them all" to "Two are enough", this is not a compromise, but a trajectory for a soul to truly take root and mature in another world.
Purpose: From the cool declaration that "children make choices, adults want everything", to discovering after life and death that "loving people is a kind of ability", and finally understanding that "wanting them all" is not greedy possession, but settling everyone with freedom and respect. What the work really explores is the boundary between love and power - true strength is learning to make choices and protecting those who should be protected.