Glorious Chaos — The Autumn Without the Emperor

Author: Cheng Wei
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Publish Date: 2004-11-01
Features: This is a new historical novel narrated by the renowned poet Cheng Wei with modern concepts, depicting historical facts. The story is set in the mid-Ming Dynasty, where the emperor was indulgent, eunuchs held power, and feudal princes sought to repeat the "clearing the side of the Ming" story from the early Ming period. —When the painter Yin, the traveler Gui Wujie, and the assassin Li Cang arrived in the Southern Capital almost simultaneously. The hereditary imperial prince of the Southern Capital was planning a large-scale armed rebellion and was tormented by an ancient sword imbued with the secret desires of a previous life's curse. The sword had mentally castrated him in his dreams. The painter came to paint the queen and fell in love with her beauty. The assassin came to assassinate the king but was instead targeted by the traveler as a dangerous object. The king's closest bodyguard and intimate lover were in fact dangerous recluse. Swordsmen, hermits, bandits, merchants, geishas, martial artists, and other outsiders from various paths converged in the Southern Capital, falling into the maze, and even the onlookers could not escape the image of their nightmare. At this moment, the king, the painter, the assassin, and the queen were all trapped in their own destinies. Killers and the killed, lovers and the beloved, bodies without souls, and souls without bodies. They entangled, lost, sank, and struggled with each other in their mutual dispositions. On one side was the bloody slaughter, and on the other was the fragrant love. In the middle were the great hesitation and vacillation of the king, the warrior, the beauty, and the scholar. The pain of castration was the century-old pain of that era. An eunuch vented his private hidden illness and hatred onto the masculine men and the gentle women, in an era of swordsmen, he wanted to use a sword to make up for his eternal lack. Classical desires, love, plots, confusion reflected the dark corruption of the eunuch system in human feudal society. A brand-new modern concept also narrated a magnificent, filthy, chaotic, and violent plot and transformation, a flamboyant yet decadent sorrow, and a burst of wounded flowers.