The Heir Emperor
嗣皇帝
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- Historical
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- Alternate History
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- 10d ago
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- The Defiant Son of HeavenEnglish name
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The more I look at it, the angrier I get. A bunch of brothers are constantly vying for the throne, creating all sorts of obstacles. The courtiers also have many complaints about the Crown Prince, engaging in various forms of double-dealing. Doesn't the Emperor know this? Of course he does! Knowing this, why does he leave the Crown Prince in this predicament?
The protagonist is written in a stupid and pretentious way, like a female-oriented novel. It's incredibly stupid, affected and effeminate. It's basically a Qing Dynasty novel with identical plots, just repackaged.
Halfway through, I felt something was off. This feeling of frustration seemed so familiar. Then I realized it brought back memories of when I was young and naive, discovering the grand history of Tang Dynasty bricks by following the history section's rankings.
I thought it was a problem with the book title.
The story of the father and son vying for position has been going on for dozens of chapters, and many readers have already become annoyed and stopped reading. The author seems to think it's because of the title. 😅
I remember an author named Yan Jiu who wrote "My Father-in-Law is Kangxi." It started off well, but it got increasingly off; it just repetitively described meals and jealousy between women, offering nothing substantial and ultimately ending poorly. This novel is starting to follow the same trend. The Confucius family, with such power and yet so foolish, dared to join the struggle for the throne.
The Great Zhou Dynasty depicted by the author is simply a joke.
The emperor and the crown prince should have decided their fate long ago. The crown prince tricked the emperor into giving him military power and then controlled the economy; a bunch of ministers would have rebelled long ago. Not to mention, the emperor, weighing his options, would have forced the crown prince to commit suicide long ago.
I've read the latest chapter. In short, everyone can scheme against the protagonist, but he only resists, then schemes again, then resists again. No one dies from beginning to end. In this feudal society, he's separated from his family, a member of the royal family, and his father is involved in spreading rumors detrimental to the crown prince.
The emperor was somewhat disappointed, the emperor was surprised, the emperor was happy, the emperor felt threatened, and the emperor was pleased. Two, two, three, four, one more time! The emperor was disappointed…
There are basically no satisfying moments; the protagonist suffers throughout. It follows the same old formula. It's supposed to be about "lying down and doing nothing," but there's no real depiction of that. The whole story is about lying down, getting betrayed, resolving the situation without knowing who betrayed him, and then continuing the so-called "lying down and doing nothing."
Is the author a girl? The open schemes at the beginning were alright, but when it came to using violence, it became very far-fetched, giving the impression of someone trying to be virtuous while pretending to be innocent.