Your Majesty, Please Kill the King

In the twenty-fourth year of Emperor Yong Changning's reign, the emperor died suddenly. In order to prevent chaos in the world, Pei Du, a prisoner on death row, was secretly taken into the palace, put on a dragon robe, and sat on the chair that everyone dreamed of. The chief assistant told him that he only had to pretend to be the emperor for thirty days. Thirty days later, when the prince succeeds to the throne, he can leave alive. But on the first night after he ascended the throne, Pei Du received a secret edict from the real emperor: Kill the prince on the seventh day, depose the queen on the thirteenth day, and burn the jade seal on the thirtieth day. Otherwise, he will become the ninth emperor to die. Pei Du originally thought he was pretending to be a dead person. Until he saw eight corpses wearing dragon robes under the palace. Until another emperor appeared at the border, holding a jade seal passed down from the country. Until the civil and military officials of the entire court knelt in front of him, knowing that he was a fake emperor, but they still shouted long live. He finally understood that the most terrifying secret of this dynasty was not that the emperor was dead. But in the past twelve years, no one has ever cared about who is sitting on the dragon throne. Is what the world needs a real emperor, or a lie that can never be exposed?