- Officially adopt Tingsheng then, and you’ll be good? That happened a lot, historically. This is a fake problem. You’re going to be emperor: make it happen. Or have Tingsheng marry some cousin of his who's a princess. ‘UwU, the clan system is strict!’ If a stable bureaucratic system that valued the rights and prerogatives of imperial family members held sway, the emperor couldn't have enabled and been complicit in the massacre of Prince Qi without proper proof. You can’t have it both ways.
Chapter 169
- Officially adopt Tingsheng then, and you’ll be good? That happened a lot, historically. This is a fake problem. You’re going to be emperor: make it happen. Or have Tingsheng marry some cousin of his who's a princess. ‘UwU, the clan system is strict!’ If a stable bureaucratic system that valued the rights and prerogatives of imperial family members held sway, the emperor couldn't have enabled and been complicit in the massacre of Prince Qi without proper proof. You can’t have it both ways.