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Chapter 275: Heavens Will Or a Man-Made Disaster?
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    Prince Jin spread misinformation in Prince Wu’s faction that he was preparing for something big to wrest the throne, putting Prince Wu on edge. His frequent visits to the imperial palace implied that he had the Emperor’s favor and that the emperor was teaching him secrets about governance and the state, when they were just reminiscing about their childhood and family. At the same time, Prince Jin also leaned heavily on an emotional persuasion as family to the emperor to let the form a more positive impression of him. Prince Wu, not knowing that YZX isn’t against him, and seeing all the big movements Prince Jin was making, was finally pushed into doing something drastic: plotting rebellion for a throne that he doesn’t know is already his.

    However, the Emperor’s perspective of all this is fascinating. He knows what Prince Jin is doing, he’s not stupid. However, the emotional angle still works: the emperor begins to feel bad for not naming Prince Jin heir. Did he knowingly let Prince Jin sway him, or was he already vulnerable? Who knows, the emperor is a very flawed character. Nonetheless, he sticks to his original plan of naming Prince Wu crown prince, and gives the edict to Prince Jin, telling him to smile. Prince Wu sees Prince Jin smiling with the edict and assumes the worst. Now, did the emperor know everything Prince Jin was planning? Probably not. He knew Prince Jin was aiming for the throne, he knew Prince Jin was messing with Prince Wu, and he definitely knew that Prince Jin wanted to safeguard his people against the possibility of Prince Wu’s ascension by sending them out of the capital… so he helped Prince Jin while keeping Prince Wu as heir, but he did so in a way that was ridiculously easy to misunderstand from the outside, so I HAVE to conclude that the Emperor is playing the exact same political games as the princes, except his meager quality time spent with Prince Jin managed to sway him juuust enough to hand Prince Jin a MAJOR psychological tool in his arsenal against Prince Wu.

    This all combined creates a powder keg situation with an emotionally unstable, anxious, paranoid Prince Wu, where the single spark that makes it all blow up is a completely uninvolved dude who can read auras saying that Prince Jin’s aura is sliiightly purple and has a faint chance of maybe-probably-who-knows becoming Emperor at some point.

    Wow
    This translator is amazing
    I did manage to see things but one thing I like more than beautifully crafted plots perfectly falling into place is someone else's analysis of it, be it by the narrator, a character, some commenter, or a translator <3
    They so often see something slightly different, I interpreted Prince Jin's actions as confidence in his success (regarding the ambush which by extensions to and from his succession) while the translator saw it as feeling threatened
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