In the third year of Funing, the regent Pei Zhaoheng vomited blood and went to court. Rumors spread throughout the city that he was going to die.
No one knows why he went to court with such a strong body - because the Queen Mother sent a message yesterday that she wanted to resume the post of Governor of Water Transport Yu Zhizhou.
And Yu Zhizhou's only daughter, Yu Zhaoning, was standing in the shadows outside the court, watching the man who had suppressed her father for three years step by step towards Danbi.
She was the daughter of a powerful official in the former dynasty, and she was also the "living map" who grew up in the Governor's Mansion of Water Transport - Pei Zhaoheng was in charge of the court, but he could not figure out the undercurrents of the water transport channel. That was the only blind spot on his power map and the only bargaining chip in her hand.
The Queen Mother wanted to use her, the Young Emperor wanted to use her to overthrow the Regent, Pei Zhaoheng... The way Pei Zhaoheng looked at her, he never just looked at a "remnant of the previous dynasty's daughter".
He raised the young emperor for the late emperor, maintained peace for the world for three years, and saved her father's life.
But the only thing he did not leave a way out for himself.
"My lord, aren't you afraid that my father will rebel against you?"
"Afraid." He looked at her and said in a very soft voice, "That's why I'm keeping you."
The real power is not to stand beside the throne, but to have someone willing to stand on the edge of the abyss for you.
Motto: "Borrowed power will eventually be returned, and there is no need to settle for a borrowed life."
——Pei Zhaoheng borrowed the imperial power to serve as regent but had no name and no way out; Yu Zhaoning borrowed his father's surname to survive but never really lived. Both of them are struggling in their "borrowed life", and whether he can live for himself before returning his power; whether she can return to Yu Zhaoning in addition to her identity as a remnant.