Compared with Ma Zitang, the third prince in the TV series "Shangyang Fu", I have a deeper love for him in the original book. Because he's a man with a lot of personality. In the TV series, in order to highlight the macro perspective of the heroine and the personal charm of the male protagonist, Zitang is portrayed as too weak, incompetent, and powerless to resist.
In the TV series, in order to better shape the image of the heroine and strengthen the outstanding contribution of the male protagonist, a completely different character personality was created.
In the original work, Zi Tang is a person who looks down on fame and fortune and is not bound and controlled by others, but he still maintains his unique temperament and charm. He misses her deeply and has infinite expectations for himself. From the beginning to the end, Wang Yi always had a deep affection for him. She has a deep understanding of past love and later family affection, she knows the pain and unspeakable helplessness that Zitang has experienced, and she understands what the life he is pursuing.
Zitang and Xiao Qi, the king of Yuzhang, have been in love since childhood, and the two have been close since childhood, but for some reason, they are involved in a power struggle and are imprisoned for up to five years. In the end, Wang Yi was chosen as the pawn of the family and married Xiao Qi, the king of Yuzhang. He is him, she is also him, and both are trying to find their own happiness. Because of the mismatch between yin and yang, those who once loved deeply have lost the opportunity to express their love since then.
By the time the two meet again, their identities have changed dramatically. Wang Yi was a high-ranking princess and the consort of the most powerful ruler. And Zi Tang has become a down-and-out prince, manipulated by others, like a puppet of the walking dead.
In Wang Yi's heart, he thinks that Ma Zitang is the most beautiful person in the world, he is better than the crown prince and the second prince Zilu, and even better than his brother.
Zitang is the child of the emperor's beloved concubine Concubine Xie, and is also the emperor's favorite prince. He has a suave appearance and outstanding temperament, inheriting the noble demeanor of the royal family, but his character is indifferent and never competes or snatches with others.
He originally did not want to compete for the throne, but because he was the emperor's favorite prince, this became the biggest threat to the queen and the Wang family to compete for the throne. After the death of Concubine Xie, he lost his support, and the queens all went to the imperial tomb to guard filial piety, although they claimed to be filial piety, but in fact they were under house arrest, and since then they have been far away from the court and have lived a hard life of being guarded every day.
The originally quiet Zitang has become even quieter since then.
The situation in the court is changing, many forces are fighting fiercely for the throne, the situation is extremely tense, blood and fire are intertwined, life and death are at stake, the winner is the king, and the loser is the villain. Wang Yi and Xiao Qi were killed from Ningshuo to the capital, and they became the party with the most military power.
The empress poisoned the emperor, the crown prince conspired with Xiao Qi, and the empress and the Wang family's hard work for many years finally ended in failure. When Xiao Qi ascended the throne, he quickly rose to prominence as the regent of supreme power, and no one could match him.
The good times didn't last long, and the new emperor was too playful and accidentally fell and died while riding. Xiao Qi could only support the succession of the newborn prince once, but it didn't take long for the emperor who had just learned to walk to suddenly become demented, and only Ziyu, who was far away in the imperial tomb, and Zilu, the second prince who had rebelled, could inherit the throne.
After five years of house arrest by Xiao Qi, Zi Tang finally found the potential value of using Xiao Qi. Zi Tang was once again invited to return to the imperial city that person was no longer the imperial city of the past, and was named the imperial uncle. This time back, Zitang will face a bloody conflict between brothers, because in the process of fighting Zilu, Zitang is undoubtedly the most suitable person.
Xiao Qi gave him the name of a true commander, and led the army south to fight as a royal member, completely eliminating the members of the royal family in Jiangnan. This was just a war within the royal family, and there was a bloody killing since then, and it was not directly related to the regent Xiao Qi.
As we all know, slaughtering the clan is a never-ending notoriety, and Xiao Qi uses this trick to eliminate everyone, which is really a very clever technique.
Although Wang Yi had learned of Xiao Qi's conspiracy and saw an irreparable abyss in front of Zi Tang, she could not conflict with her husband. She didn't dare to anger Xiao Qi, because she had lost many relatives and would not lose her son again.
Although Wang Yi has no love for Zitang, it represents the deepest family emotion, and this feeling of growing up together since childhood has always occupied a place in her heart.
However, judging from the whole book, Wang Yi does not care 100% about Zitang's past feelings, at least the person who is most heartbroken for Zitang is also Wang Yi.
Zitang ascended to the throne under Xiao Qi's crowded rule, and he became a nominal emperor with supremacy, but no real freedom. Xiao Qi regarded his queen Hu Yao as his pawn. It took a lot of effort to finally give birth to a prince, but unfortunately, he was finally ended by Wang Yu himself.
Wang Yi's bad behavior was just to ensure that Xiao Qi would no longer have follow-up worries. Xiao Qi believes that only when the royal blood is cut off will a new successor not appear, and he will have a good reason to become the new emperor.
Song Huaien rebelled, and Wang was afraid that it would take too much time and too many dreams, so he forced Zitang to draft an edict on the Zen throne, and gave him poisoned wine, so that he and Hu Yao pretended to be dead. It was claimed that the emperor was killed by the army commanded by Song Huaien.
Zi Tang and Hu Yao were assigned to leave the palace, and two days later they woke up and were told to stay away from the land of strife, enjoy a life like a paradise, and never set foot in the capital again.
Xiao Qi succeeded in becoming emperor, and Wang Yi was canonized as empress. Zi Tang and Hu Yao chose an incognito lifestyle, and although they lived in simplicity, they lived a free and easy life.
Zitang's life was full of ups and downs and changes, but the second half of his life was quiet and stable. Leaving the court full of blood and violence was also the best end of his life.