Hao Shuai held Ziyuan, a middle-aged woman who had lived for over two thousand years yet still went around saying "thank you," in utter contempt.
As a member of the First Emperor's harem, she had brazenly carried on with one of his generals.
Any man would have flown into a rage over such a humiliating betrayal, let alone an emperor.
So when their affair was discovered, the First Emperor had her lover torn apart by five horses, but spared the adulterous woman.
Ziyuan, however, wasn't grateful. She instead held a grudge and, while the First Emperor was off guard, used a curse to seal him away.
With the First Emperor gone, the newly unified realm immediately descended into chaos. If Liu Bang hadn't later risen up after slaying the White Serpent and reunited the realm, the land might have reverted to the Warring States period, with the various states standing side by side once more.
From that perspective, Ziyuan had resented the First Emperor for killing the man she'd had an affair with, then cursed him and destroyed an empire.
To put it bluntly, Ziyuan had nearly become the greatest threat to the unity of China. Calling her a wicked woman who brought ruin to the realm would be going too far—given that face of hers, she could barely even pass for a Witch Maiden.
A woman who let her emotions take over and stopped caring about the consequences might be called devoted, if one were being charitable. Less charitably, she was a bitter shrew—a bitter shrew who had indirectly destroyed an empire.
And people like her wouldn't realize their own mistakes. Instead, they'd put themselves on the highest moral ground and condemn everyone else's actions.
That was clear from how Ziyuan kept calling the First Emperor a "tyrant" and