With Xie Mi leading the uprising, Xiao Jingxi, their dictatorial director, was officially stripped of power.
He lost the right to change the script at will and could no longer refuse anyone else's requests to change it.
And so...
The most unhinged play in history began taking shape.
First, Lai Bingxuan pointed out that the empress she played did nothing but obey the emperor. She was far too brainless.
She proposed making the empress a spy from an enemy nation.
"The empress had been feeding the emperor slow-acting poison for years. By the time he discovered it, it had seeped into his bones. The emperor fell to his knees and begged for the antidote, but the coldhearted empress slit his throat with her sword."
Qiu Chengye: "?"
"Are you underestimating the intelligence of a nation's ruler? As the emperor, of course he saw through her schemes long ago. He never drank the poison she'd prepared. He simply played along, and on the day the empress thought her plan had succeeded, the emperor had her torn apart by five horses. She died with her eyes wide open."
Lai Bingxuan laughed.
"OK, the emperor has a brain. But he's only thinking one move ahead, while the empress is thinking two moves ahead. She already knew he'd seen through her identity and only pretended she didn't. On the day the emperor thought his plan had succeeded, her reinforcements had already surrounded the palace. The emperor was drowned in a pig cage, castrated, subjected to death by a thousand cuts, and finally chopped in half at the waist."
Qiu Chengye was furious.
"Fine, the empress is thinking two moves ahead, but the emperor is actually thinking three moves ahead. He already knew that she knew he'd discovered her identity and was pretending not to