[Strong women and weak men + Machiavellian]
We first met her when she was five years old. She was Princess Zhaoyi, the emperor's only heir.
He turned the cold and unpredictable imperial power into a soft nursery rhyme and told it to an ignorant child; he hid the interlocking court calculations into a sweet dessert and fed it to her who was ignorant of the world.
She grew into an indestructible imperial power blade. Once it was unsheathed, it could injure three people and cut itself into pieces.
Anu personally taught her how to balance the government and the opposition, and control the ministers. Every word of instruction was wrapped in a hidden pain that could not be expressed.
When she was eighteen years old, she wore a yellow robe and came to the Ninth Five-Year Plan. The palace was full of civil servants and bowed down. She looked past the thousands of bowing figures and looked straight at the hunched back covered in dust in the corner of the palace.
Anu grew up with her and raised her to sit on the throne of God. He was kneeling on the ground and was as humble as dust at this moment: "Your Majesty, I finally lost to the passing years and the humble fate that I was born with, eating my bones and eroding my soul."
Sitting alone on the cold dragon couch, she vaguely recalled the scene when Anu leaned over to pick up the broken phoenix paper kite for her when she was five years old.
It turns out that from the first moment they met, the thread that led to the fate of the two people was held in his palm from beginning to end.
But the lowliness engraved in his bones and blood is a shackles that he cannot break free from forever.
She was his only lifeline, and he was her untouchable defense.
Sitting high on the dragon platform, her voice trembled: "You have been with me for thirteen years and taught me the way to be an emperor. How come you became so infatuated first?"
Anu's forehead was close to the blue brick, and he endured the pain for half his life: "I have been playing chess for thirteen years, and I have laid out all the plans in the world. When I reach the end of the game, I alone have no way out."
