1.
Song Linghui was the late emperor's favorite young daughter. She and her consort Zhao Yanqing were a young couple who had a deep love for each other.
Unexpectedly, only a year after getting married, Zhao Yanqing was framed by a traitor and sent to jail. He also implicated many of his former close friends who had their homes ransacked and were exiled.
Song Linghui knelt in front of the palace for three days. He did not wait for the emperor to come, but instead he waited for the emperor's newly rich favorite, the chief minister of the cabinet Li Gao, known as the "Living King of Hell".
She said coldly: "If your conscience is still intact, let them live."
Li Hao looked at Song Linghui who was lying on the ground, and his tone was as indifferent as he said, "Life is gained by fighting for it, not by asking for it."
Three months later, Zhao Yanqing was sentenced to exile instead of beheading. On the same day that he set off for Lingnan, Princess Dingguo remarried Li Gao, the chief minister of the dynasty.
Everyone lamented that Song Linghui was unkind and unrighteous, and ignored the love between husband and wife; some also criticized her for not distinguishing between right and wrong, and actually colluded with sycophants like Li Guo.
Only Song Linghui knew that she and Li Hao were just using each other, but after all, they had different paths and did not work together.
2.
Li Yu first met Song Linghui at the Qionghuatai palace banquet.
When he was leaving the banquet to drink, he met Princess Dingguo, who was dressed as a young eunuch, by chance. That person's smile became the fate that he could not avoid in his life.
Li Hao thought that the marriage she had carefully planned for could make her look back a little bit, but she had always only seen the glorious Zhao Yanqing. Even every night when the candles were dim and the tents were dim, the only thing she called out was that person's name.
Not long after, Zhao Yan came back from his grievances and was restored to his original position. She went in and out of the Zhao Mansion several times, making Li Hao the laughing stock of the world.
Since her heart is no longer here, Li Hao doesn't want to force it anymore.
But before the written letter of Heli could be handed over to Song Linghui, she broke into the bedroom first, put a dagger in front of his neck, and asked: "Were you the one who caused Zhao Yanqing and others to be imprisoned?"
Li Hao held her hand and let the knife edge pierce deeper into the flesh, and gurgling blood poured out from the wound.
Song Linghui threw down his dagger and said coldly: "Li Hao, I mistrusted you in the past. From now on we will go back to our own way, and we will have nothing to do with each other anymore."
A sad smile appeared on Li Hao's face, "Princess, when did you ever trust me?"
3.
When we meet again, a generation of powerful officials have become prisoners despised by everyone.
All new laws enacted, good or bad, were repealed. All the achievements he made, no matter how big or small, were wiped out.
From the royal family to the common people, they will call him a treacherous person. Those who have different opinions are regarded as Li Hao's comrades.
For a time, no one in the whole court dared to complain about Li Min's injustice or cry out for injustice.
But in the eyes of everyone, Princess Dingguo, who always acted according to the changing circumstances, did not switch to the new Hubu Shangshu Zhao Yanqing this time.
One day, the sound of drums was heard loudly in the ban.
"Why are the people in this hall complaining about injustice?"
"For my husband, former chief minister of the cabinet, Li Tuo."
Intention: Different paths lead to the same destination
