Chapter Fifty-two The carved balustrades and jade terraces should yet remain (II)
Word Number：214
Author：一曲雨霖铃
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Release Time：2025-09-28
It is said: When did this feeling come to me? When will this fate end? All the deep affections of the past — are they nothing but the unwillingness of the heart? It is told that after Di Renjie and the others were demoted, the court had few competent hands left. To fill posts, the Empress secretly ordered her confidante Shangguan Wan’er to scout out talent for governance. Time passed and secrecy leaked; those at court began to flatter Shangguan Wan’er, each hoping for her recommendation to rise swiftly and attain high rank. Among them was a man surnamed Zhang, given name Changzong, childhood name Liulang — a scion of the former chancellor Zhang Xingcheng from the Taizong era, of aristocratic birth. Zhang Changzong too sought Shangguan Wan’er’s favor. He spent money to ingratiate himself and presented her with a poem: Turning back toward the east of Weiqiao, I long from afar for the shared spring hue. Silken tresses fade beneath the lowering sun, embroidered cloth dallies with the spring breeze. Shangguan Wan’er read the poem and thought Zhang had talent; she wanted to meet him. When she did, she found his face like a mid-autumn moon, his complexion like spring dawn blossoms; sideburns neatly cut, brows like ink strokes, eyes
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