On a snowy night in the twenty-third year of Yongxi's reign, Xiao Che, the deposed seventh prince, drank poisonous wine in the cold palace and sat there until he died. He saw with his own eyes that the prince he had worked so hard to assist ascended the throne, but was charged with treason; he personally pushed his half-brother to a high position, only to be stabbed in the back; what was even more ridiculous was that his father, who he had revered all his life, had always been using him to check and balance the forces of all parties. On his deathbed, Xiao Che only hated himself for not knowing people well, for being indecisive, and for playing a passable hand of cards to pieces. ?
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Purpose: revenge