The rulers lacked the wrist to check and balance power and could only watch helplessly as the mighty Great Chu slowly headed towards its decline.
In that lifetime, the ruler was not Chu Heng, nor King Heng Chuye, but the young Sixteenth Prince who was forced to take the throne; in that lifetime, Xiao Ruiyuan was assassinated, and Chu Heng's poison was also unsolved. Before his death, he used his power to annihilate the Lin Family, killed nine princes including King Heng who were involved in the assassination of Xiao Ruiyuan, as well as Lin Imperial Concubine, and then died from the poison.
After Chu Heng died, within a few years, Emperor Huian's health rapidly declined, and on his deathbed, he passed the throne to the well-groomed Fifteenth Prince. However, the Fifteenth Prince was shot and killed on his way to the palace to accept the decree, and in the end, the throne fell to the Sixteenth Prince.