This book is the fifth part of the "The Last Princess" series. The heroine is Yang Xu, the last princess of Huainan in the Sui Dynasty. This princess is often overlooked. Many people think that Yang Guang only has two daughters, Princess Nanyang and Li Ke's mother. They have not noticed that both "Old Book of Tang" and "New Book of Tang" mention Princess Huainan who married the little Khan of Tuli. Since Tuli was born in AD 603, the Sui Dynasty fell when he was fifteen years old, and there were one or two years of turmoil that blocked the exchanges between the Sui palace and the Turks. It can be seen that Princess Huainan was not a married clan daughter, but a real princess who fled to the north after the Jiangdu mutiny. She was protected by the Turks and then married Tuli. As the "Old Book of Tang" says: "The Sui Dynasty Princess Huainan was from the north, so she became his wife."
Tuli died in 631 AD. There is no historical record of Princess Huainan's fate after that, but this book will describe Princess Huainan's entry into Li Shimin's harem based on Li Shimin's seeming preference for widows. This book describes in detail the system of shifts for concubines in the Tang Dynasty and Li Shimin's unconventional style. I believe it will be of interest to readers. The time and space background of this book is roughly the same as the first part of the author's "Tang Palace Series", "Zhenguan Love and Enmity", and the characters also overlap. Readers can refer to each other.
The most distinctive feature of this book is that the main story line uses the different relationships between three men, Yang Xu, Li Shimin, Tu Li, and Prince Siam of the Turkic clan, to describe the love psychology of men and women in detail, and to deeply explore the nature of love and being loved. I hope this book can bring useful enlightenment to female readers in their emotional life!
Intent: To explore in depth which is happier: loving or being loved