Fu Bing's lifelong mission is to kill the emperor.
The Doubt Palace has spent years preparing for this, even changing Fu Bing's appearance to make him look like Su Qingshi, who died young.
Su Qingshi, the noble young master of the Su family of Lanling, was the emperor's beloved, and died amid the flames of war seven years ago.
After that, the emperor wiped out the entire rebel sect, left the empress's seat vacant, and searched the realm for any trace of someone who had died without a body.
The Palace Master of the Doubt Palace told Fu Bing, "As you are now, the emperor will fall in love with you as soon as he sees you."
Because his life experience was so limited, Fu Bing often came across as not very bright, but he knew the Palace Master's plan couldn't possibly work.
But the Doubt Palace held the power of life and death over him. So Fu Bing, a not particularly clever assassin, could only obey its orders, enter the secular world, and wait for a chance to assassinate the emperor.
Fu Bing just hadn't expected the emperor to be even less clever than he was.
His attempts to test the waters were full of obvious flaws, but no matter how flimsy his excuses or how bizarre his behavior, the emperor always turned a blind eye.
The emperor's favor grew ever greater, his indulgence boundless, and he treated Fu Bing with such careful humility that he seemed almost servile. At last, Fu Bing's conscience got the better of him. He decided to abandon his first assassination attempt, leave the palace, and return to the Doubt Palace to accept the consequences of failing his mission---
But he couldn't leave.
Li Wang took Fu Bing's hand and plunged the dagger into his own heart.
He said, "Don't leave me... Don't leave me; or just take my life first."
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At first, Fu Bing thought Li Wang had gone mad. He couldn't accept Su Qingshi's departure, and would rather deceive himself and die in the arms of a false phantom like Fu Bing.
Only later, lying weak and limp on the bed, did Fu Bing understand: damn, this bastard had known all along. The beloved who died young was none other than himself.
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He truly knows you, and he truly is mad.
Emperor gong: Obsessive and dark inside, courteous on the surface x sickly beauty shou: Cold and heartless on the surface, kind and righteous inside
Theme: In the end, they will meet again through the passage of time
