Chapter Eighty-Six When shall one lie drunken? (I)
Word Number：223
Author：一曲雨霖铃
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Release Time：2025-10-08
It is said: Fate comes and goes with no constancy; gatherings and partings leave burdens hard to forget. Worldly debts and grievances now have ended; life and death cast us to distant shores. Love deep as the sea must at last be spent; intent heavy as mountains cannot be borne. Looking back upon past days is like a dream’s shadow—only lingering longing coils the heart. In the second year of Xiantian (713), after Li Longji’s victory the palace settled into its new order: civil and military officials fell into place, allegiances shifted and were mended, and the retired emperor, resigned, composed an edict enumerating the crimes of Cui Shi, Xiao Zhizhong, Xue Ji and others. Xue Ji was sentenced to death in the prison of Wannian County; Cui Shi was exiled to Lingnan. With that proclamation issued, the retired emperor knew the imperial authority would never wholly return to him; that night he could not sleep, thoughts in turmoil. Yet Heaven’s way advances and retreats; men must know when to stop. Though unwilling, he accepted his fate. At dawn he brushed off the sorrow of the night, and in the hall watched birdcages compete in song. Joy rising in him, he murmured to himself, “One ought to dream, not to nurse resentments—life is for joy, not endless parting.” A
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