A Usurping Chair

In 420 AD, Liu Yu rose from the bottom of Jingkou and established the "Southern Dynasties Liu Song Family Co., Ltd." On the ruins of the Eastern Jin Dynasty, kicking off the management of the troubled times of the Southern Dynasties. This "chair" symbolizing imperial power has since become a whirlpool of desire. The entrepreneur Liu Yu laid the foundation with the iron and blood of Beifu soldiers, but failed to solve the deadlock of internal strife in the family. Liu Yilong initiated the "Yuanjia Reign" and was eventually killed by his own son; Liu Ziye imprisoned his uncle as a "pig"; Liu Yu massacred the clan after ascending to power through assassination; underage monarchs Liu Yu and Liu Zhun became puppets of powerful ministers; the fifty-year-old foundation was finally usurped by Xiao Daocheng and turned into the "Southern Qi Xiao Family Studio". The novel takes the rise and fall of the Liu and Song dynasties as the main line, tearing away the gorgeous cloak of "accession" and revealing the mutiny and massacre behind the change of power. During the Northern Wei Dynasty's invasion from the south, the struggle of the poor families to counterattack, and the helplessness of the gentry's decline, the madness of the emperor, the Buddhist tradition of the literati, and the suffering of the people were melted into an ukiyo-e of the Southern Dynasties. It does not conduct a moral judgment in history books, but deconstructs absurdity in a humorous way, allowing readers to see the distortion of human nature and the undertone of survival in the game of power in the black plot of "family cleanup" and "powerful ministers' mergers and acquisitions". It turns out that the lessons of history are hidden in every bloody scratch on this chair.