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<p> A long time later, I began to understand the value of a golden palace. </p> <p> If Wei Zifu loved you, then her story could only have ended the way mine did. </p> <p> People often said that the limits of love lay in one's ability to endure – to endure the fact that the man we loved would have three wives and four concubines. </p> <p> Wei Zifu managed to tolerate. So, she accompanied you by your side for thirty-eight years. </p> <p> She could accomplish this because she did not love you. </p> <p> All along, what she wanted was never love. </p> <p> If, from the beginning, all I wanted was only the precious throne belonging to an Empress, perhaps I would not have lost you as quickly as I had. </p> <p> — Translator's Notes: </p> <p> This oneshot narrates the true story between Emperor Han Wudi (Liu Che) and his first wife, the deposed Empress Chen Jiao. Their story has been encapsulated into a famous chinese idiom called "金屋藏娇" (jīn wū cáng jiāo), which literally means 'putting (Chen) Jiao into a golden house'. </p>
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