My Reign as Emperor

Author: Su Tong
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Publish Date: 2001-04-01
Features: This book tells a wildly absurd and intriguing story from the first-person perspective of a teenage emperor who ascends the throne. At a young age, he is thrust into the swirling vortex of court intrigue, witnessing the bloody and cruel feuds among concubines, between his mother and the empress dowager, and among his brothers. How many people envy the noble status of an emperor, yet this emperor is more akin to a tightrope walker in a circus troupe. Later, after his older brother seizes the throne again, he is demoted to commoner status and banished to the. He wanders the world together with the eunuch who accompanies him, and later unexpectedly reunites with a deposed concubine who was also exiled by the wind. The emperor's heart suffers immense torment until, finally, he becomes a tightrope walker, leading his small troupe toward the capital. But what awaits him is another even more bloody slaughter.