In the spring of the third year of Qingyuan, the eighteen-year-old Pei Yanzhi won the title of No. 1 Scholar, stunning Bianjing City with his appearance as the only son of the late Crown Prince. In the Jinluan Palace, he knelt down and accepted the order to assist the prince. He worked hand in hand with Chu Huaijin to manage the government, quelled the locust plague and eliminated corruption, and his reputation was at its peak. However, the whirlpool of power lurks murderous intent. The right prime minister Xu Changnian and the third prince Chu Huaiyu are eyeing each other, fabricating the crime of treason and pushing him into an abyss of eternal destruction.
On the night when Emperor Jing of the Ming Dynasty died, the palace doors were closed tightly and arrows were flying. Pei Yanzhi, the protector, broke through, but found that the late emperor's edict was incomplete, and Chu Huaiyu ascended the throne with a false edict. In order to protect the crown prince, he broke his sword and was eventually charged with treason, and Caishikou was stained with blood. The life and death of Chu Huaijin became a mystery, the entire Pei family was exiled, and the former glory turned into smoke in the south of Lingnan.
Ten years later, Emperor An was assassinated and the dynasty fell. Legends of loyal people being wronged spread among the people, but the cold word "rebellion" in history books cannot cover up the unfulfilled ambitions under the crabapple trees in Bianjing City, nor can it describe the bloody tragedy inside the red walls. A power game that fell into dust from the clouds, an elegy to the fate of unfulfilled ambitions
Purpose: Chasing power, the difficulty of sticking to one's true heart