"Red Trim on the Sleeves", the story of a king falling in love with a palace girl, let me see the truth of the love of the emperor for the first time in the TV series.
The love of the emperor requires unconditional fulfillment and sacrifice.
Cheng Deren, a palace girl who wants to control her own destiny. A woman who sticks to her heart and does not want to become a harem has finally lived a legend.
She understood that once she became a concubine, he was all she had, and she was only one of his harems, so she only wanted to be a palace maid who guarded the king.
Choose the Protector King, and choose the Ming Emperor for the sake of the world.
The male protagonist, Li Qi, is a prince who grew up under the influence of power, and his father, Si Mourning Prince, is a contrarian son who threatened his grandfather's throne, and was executed as a sinner who plotted rebellion, which is the unspeakable pain of Li Qi's original family.
Thus, from the time of remembrance, he was both the son of a sinner and a prince.
Noble, but sensitive and dangerous, in the palace in the center of the whirlpool of power, he has no affection, lack of trust, and no sense of security.
Therefore, his goal in life engraved in his bones is to become a supreme king, to become a wise king admired by all people, to wash away grievances, to prove himself with wisdom, and to use power to protect those around him.
Love, for him, is nothing more than a coriander on a fish, an embellishment. Yes, very good, no, no tight, as long as the country is still there, as long as the people need him, he can live ambitiously.
The male protagonist, Li Qi, is the emperor who loves Jiang the most.
In history, obsessed with emperors, beautiful people will lose their vitality when they die, and die early, such as Shunzhi, the son of Empress Xiaozhuang, while the emperors who love Jiangshan are much more fraternal.
Therefore, a qualified emperor is mostly not a qualified husband.
The Ming Emperor needs balances of power, needs to sacrifice small love into big love, needs to protect the world, and needs the understanding and sacrifice of the pillow people.
The harems who understand this, if they do not love the emperor, they can live in peace for a long time in this life, and if they truly love the emperor and suppress themselves for a long time, they often die early.
A woman who can be favored by the emperor of the ages and admire for life is an ordinary person?
Zhu Yuanzhang's Empress Ma and Li Shimin's eldest grandson Empress, both suppressed cain in the harem and tried to become a famous empress in history, but both died early.
"Sleeve Red Trim", the heroine Cheng Deren is such a woman who is ice and snow smart, courageous and insightful, virtuous and virtuous.
She reads a lot of books, adheres to etiquette, is unyielding, and wants to have him around her, regardless of her friends or enemies.
In the end, she became the canary of the emperor's harem, and in order to fulfill the emperor's life, she was willing to be locked up in a square space like the other hall, and took the waiting for the emperor's blessing as a lifelong career.
A capable woman like Deren, if outside the palace, could have lived her life freely according to her own wishes, but she had lost her vitality early in the repression of the harem.
The death of a friend became the last straw that overwhelmed the camel.
At the beginning, we all didn't understand Deren's insistence, thinking that she was arrogant and had a "domineering president in love with me", why should we refuse? Only after seeing the end did I understand how cruel it was for the "overbearing president" to want to trust the only one who belonged to himself.
Originally there were friends to accompany, busy to work together, idle time together embroidery chat, life can go on, but the friend because of secretly pregnant with a child and died, as the king's favorite woman, she also pinned her hopes on Li Qi, but was rejected by Righteousness.
The whole world knows that she is the king's favorite woman, what can be done?
Even if you bow your head and pray, you can't save your friend's life.
Watching her partner Yingji being tortured, watching her best friend die in front of her own eyes, but there is nothing she can do!
Ying Ji is just pregnant with a child, obviously Li Qi can save her life with a word, but he is not willing!
Not only that, but we must also listen to Li Qi's words for the sake of the great righteousness of the world, we must not violate the royal law, we cannot violate the preaching of etiquette, no one is wrong, but we cannot live anymore.
This deep sense of powerlessness made DeRen see the helplessness of being a harem again.
Just like as a great princess and a concubine, watching her brother die in a foreign land but unable to do anything, just like Zhen Huan, watching her daughter marry far away and suffer a lot but unable to do anything.
Everyone in the vortex of feudal power is a tragedy, both the maker of the tragedy of others and the bearer of his own tragedy.
The struggle for power, the checks and balances of power, revenge and revenge, these never-ending modes of mutual harm, once opened, will only become more and more tragic round after round.
In order to seize power, Li Qi will inevitably remove the obstacles in front of him, and in order to retaliate, all the enemies will naturally point all their hatred to the palace maid on the tip of his heart, Deren.
After bearing the love of the emperor, but also bearing the dangers from all directions, in the end, the only one who can protect her is the king, and if she wants to live, she can only stay in the golden cage and be a canary.
Even so, Wang felt that it was not enough, what he needed was the whole body and mind of Deren, and everyone could understand this
Love is miserable
But what I saw was naked
Possessiveness
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Li Qi had eaten the vinegar of Hong Delao, the vinegar of Deren's brother, and even the vinegar of Deren's three friends, as a king, fraternity was his responsibility, but the harem could only love him wholeheartedly.
In order to balance the harem, he could not look at him for ten days in a row after the first time, and he could go to the middle temple immediately after learning that Deren was pregnant.
However, he did not allow Deren to have friends, and he did not want her to do anything for his friends, and the only thing Deren could do was to wait for the king's blessing.
Several times when Deren's friend was in distress, Li Qi's calm and indifferent behavior made Deren see this clearly.
Companionship is the longest confession of affection, four friends who grew up together, complete trust each other, there is no slightest estrangement, they once met after retiring from the palace, built the house together, sent each other to the end, and slowly died together, they are each other's people who truly love each other.
For the love of the emperor, Deren gave up the life he had planned.
And the love of the emperor is mixed with too many conditions.
Between Li Qi and DeRen, first of all, the monarch, followed by the concubine, born unequal, life after marriage is no big or small, Deren can only unconditionally obey, can not be spoiled, can not have emotions, even the death of children, can not show sadness, let alone because of private affairs to affect the general righteousness of the country.
For another example, as the concubine of the emperor, she is not qualified to be jealous, even if she has more children, the concubine is not her, and the palace daughter with a lowly status is not worthy of being the mother of the princes and empresses.
Even if the son has just died, and the lover is close to giving birth and is sick, he can stay in the Huimin Bureau for three consecutive days, or even dozens of days without meeting.
The king has a busy career, but as a harem, he can only wait forever, waiting for the king to come and tease him in his spare time, what is the difference between such a life and a pet like a cat and a dog?
From a very young age, Deren understood that the emperor was not something she could afford to love.
Even if Li Qi pretended to be Hong Delao and planted a love root in DeRen's heart, even if she eventually became a harem, she clearly understood that she was only one of Li Qi's harems, and it was not a pity to die, while friends were the only ones for each other, so in her heart, the weight of friends was greater than love.
Therefore, before DeRen died, he most wanted to see his friends, not Emperor Li Qi.
Li Qi didn't understand what he had done wrong until he died, and the woman he loved the most didn't want to see him when he was dying.
As an emperor, Li Qi was not wrong.
Even this drama does not have a big villain, no one has done anything wrong, they have all done their best in their own world, but they have made the world a big tragedy.
That's the saddest part.
When I first watched "Crane and Hua Ting", I had the same feeling, under the dual oppression of imperial power and feudal etiquette with unlimited power, both the king and the subjects lived in an infinite cycle of pain of their own creation.
There are only two ways to get out:
One is to become a soulless feudal defender, and the other is to die.
The heroine becomes a deren
Losing herself, losing her son, losing her friends, losing the reasons that sustained her to live, she chose eternal relief.
Originally, Li Qi had the opportunity to keep Deren, but as a Ming jun, the right choice made him miss the opportunity again and again.
If only he could obey his heart and visit Deren as soon as he learned that he was pregnant, instead of having Deren wait with warm love all day and night.
If the purse representing Naruhito's true love could be sent out that day, and they could achieve a heart-to-heart connection between them, and Tokuno felt his importance at all times, he could keep Naruhito.
After Deren became pregnant, she was going to send out a purse representing the true heart, but Li Qi, in order to appease the middle temple and balance the court, did not come to her all day and night, a basin of cold water poured on Deren's heart, she saw the reality clearly - she was just a dispensable harem!
In this way, Deren left his true heart in the relic forever.
However, even if the purse was placed on the top of the relic, Li Qi was only unclear, so he looked at it and abandoned it, until he died and failed to understand the meaning.
Deren fell in love with someone he shouldn't love, and he was reluctant to leave, and he violated his ideals by staying.
To survive in such a difficult palace, there must be some reason for a noble soul like Naruhito.
So, the death of her friend became the last straw that crushed the camel, and she was completely desperate, and even the child in her belly could not keep her.
The so-called, "deep love does not live, wisdom will hurt" is like this.
Writing this, I cried again