"And in the final moments of her life, she merely admonished her own husband, to seek wise counsel and to be as cautious in the end as at the beginning, and then, she passed away with a smile on her face.
"And her husband, after enduring countless hardships, his heart had long become as hard as iron and stone, yet at that moment, he could only weep uncontrollably!
"For looking back upon his own life, the Empress was the anchor in his heart, the sheath that could contain his sword, and from then on, he lived not for anyone else, but for the common people of the world!
"Widowed, bereft, solitary, alone; having lost his father early on, his wife in his middle years, and his son in his later years—even as an Emperor, his life was filled with anger, sorrow, and doubt.
"His childhood 'losing parents and siblings in succession, too poor to afford a proper burial' was just a microcosm of the struggles in his life; fate had always dealt him pain, with hardly a touch of warmth.
