I Let Historical Figures Die Without Regrets [Historical Livestream]

Because the author loves digging up historical gossip, this novel is also called "Shipping CPs in Ancient Times" (rose in mouth, mischievous grin).

Lin Xiaoqiu makes a series of historical gossip videos on the Bilibili-like site:

"The Kong Who Made Me Say, 'Well, Would You Look at That'"

"After Learning the Truth, These Ministers Told Wu Zetian and Li Zhi: You Two Playing Dumb to Catch the Tiger Are So Perfect Together"

"Official History and Wild Tales! Stories of Wu Zetian and Her Minister Di Renjie"

"How Many Idioms Created by Guan Hanqing Do You Know?"

"Cao Xueqin Never Expected His Characters to Still Be Starting Fights a Century Later"

As the videos aired, historical figures in desperate straits sat bolt upright on their deathbeds:

Kong, over seventy, asked the heavens when his lifelong dream of spreading the Way would come true. A voice came from the sky screen: "There are Kong academies all over the world, and people everywhere spread Kong's teachings..." The villagers, who had thought Kong had "achieved nothing": ???

After the coup, trapped in Shangyang Palace, Wu Meiniang, in her eighties, spoke to her reflection:

"Was my life truly destined to slip through my fingers like grains of sand?"

A vision of a beautiful woman in a sheer nun's robe appeared in the mirror:

"Actually, Wu Zetian was a political genius. Li Zhi wasn't simply with her because he was captivated by her beauty. The two of them were clearly partners and comrades, fighting the aristocratic clans side by side!"

Wu Zetian rubbed her bleary eyes and saw a comment:

"That's a fair point. But didn't you take too many male favorites? Even I didn't have that many!"

Only later did Wu Zetian learn that the comment had been sent from the underworld by her long-dead husband, Li Zhi.

After his death, Di Renjie saw the emperor weeping for him and lamenting, "The court is empty," and he was moved to tears. Then the sky screen in the underworld played: "Descendants found a letter from the empress among his belongings: 'At court, I trusted you completely.'"

Li Zhi: Minister Di, what brings you here?

Di Renjie: I came to tell Your Majesty a thing or two about Empress Wu and her male favorites.

Li Zhi: Tell me about yourself first.

Guan Hanqing, a low-ranking entertainer who had regretted never getting the chance to sit the imperial examinations, was writing his face-saving work, The Copper Pea, with all his might when scrolling subtitles appeared before him: "More than 200 idioms we still know by heart today were created by the same person: the great playwright Guan Hanqing!"

Cao Xueqin could never understand why, despite being so poor he had to beg for food, he still poured all his strength into revising again and again the story called The Story of the Stone, which his neighbors mocked as an imitation of The Plum in the Golden Vase. Until one day, he and his neighbors saw a sky screen: "They're fighting, they're fighting! Lin Daiyu and Xue Baochai's supporters are at it again!"

Lin Xiaoqiu received some strange comments:

"Allow me to add that taking male favorites was also necessary to balance the court."

"Stop fighting, you two! The final forty chapters are in my hands. Come get them if you want to read them."

And a flood of comments:

"Thank you so much. I can die in peace now."

Under 200,000 words in total. Parallel worlds, not official history.

Theme: Finding the bright spots in life