Originally, these contents should be placed in the public chapter, but I found that sometimes some readers will not notice and skip them when they post in the public chapter, so I will post them here, but tomorrow morning I will replace them with a new chapter, and the content of this chapter will be moved to the public chapter.

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Some thoughts on Marie Mancini:

Marie Mancini was true in history, she was indeed Louis XIV's first love, and of course, she was not a witch.

Before I created this character, I had read a lot of articles and materials about the Sun King, including not much, but not very little, about this Madame Marie, whose uncle or uncle (in both accounts) was indeed Bishop Mazarin, and Louis XIV had offered to marry her, rather than seeing her as a "royal lady" in the usual sense It was also a matter of course that this idea was immediately rejected, the king at that time was bound to marry a princess, and Marie's background was not high, and she was able to appear next to the king entirely because she was a relative of Bishop Mazaran.

Sometimes I think that Bishop Mazaran may have had this intention—the people at that time were not ashamed to be extramarital lovers to the king or other nobles, but to be loyal to the king, to fulfill the duty of vassal, and the bishop may have had a plan, but the plan may have been just to install a credible person around the king, which was recognized at that time as a beautiful woman of the Mancini family. But things changed, or rather, they didn't know enough about the love between young girls, and the king and Mary—almost made it true, and their feelings, as far as I could see, were at least at that time on both sides, reciprocal.

Louis quarreled with the bishop on this matter, and accused him of being too greedy because he feared that he would be accused of being too greedy—at that time Bishop Mazarin was almost equal to a regent, and if his niece became queen again, he would be almost an uncrowned king, and Bishop Mazarin did not want to be the target of public criticism, so he quickly married Marie Mancini.

Marie Mancini was actually married to Colonna, the Italian nobleman Lorenzo Onofrio Colonna, who was also an admiral, (Marie is said to have remained pure at that time) from 61 years they had three children together, but unfortunately, their marriage was not happy, Marie Mancini once complained that her husband wanted to poison her, so she fled Italy, and did not dare to return to Italy until her husband's death, where she spent his last days.

From '72 to '89, Marie Mancini lived in a convent, and although her sisters were married to prominent men, they did not provide her with much support, so much so that she had to write memoirs for a living.

In my original premise that Marie Mancini ended up marrying someone else, just like the real history, but her husband always loved her, and even brought Louis back to Rome himself when he lost patience with her, which I tried to write, and I also intended for Marie to give up her love and become the wife of the Duke of Colonna...... Out of duty, not out of love, as Louis once fantasized about, living a peaceful and prosperous life, with children and grandchildren around his knees, and so on......

But as a writer once said, when you write a character out of nothing, give her a soul, shape her body, give her memories and personality, she doesn't belong to you anymore — she belongs to herself, on paper, on a computer screen, in control of her own life.

And so, the Marie Mancini you saw appeared.

Like my protagonist Louis XIV, Marie Mancini was by no means perfect, she was born in a closed and narrow world, at the top of all wizards, and at the same time disregarded because of her status as a witch, although she was not so gifted - she was sent to Paris, and from her father to the bishop of Mazarin, she was tacitly accepted as a playmate of the young king and his brother, or as a future "royal lady", and it is no exaggeration to say that she paved the way for her brother and any male in the family...... Tool.

In that era, in that context, the idea was very reasonable, and there was nothing that would be blamed - but.

Marie was first noticed by Louie, not because of her looks, her voice, or anything else—it was her strength, which she had saved her own life and that of Louis, something that was ridiculed and despised by the male wizards of Mancini.

She may be a weak witch in front of her father, but in front of Louie, she is a strong one.

Don't ignore this, some readers may have wondered why Mary loved Louis so deeply - any emotion will be slowly worn away like gold leaf plated on a vessel, especially like Louis, who may have poured his only love into Marie, but as a young king born in internal and external troubles, almost imprisoned and even executed by his own subjects, this meager emotion cannot overcome his rights and obligations to the country and Bourbon, so he is destined to not be able to repay Marie in love.

Mary wasn't stupid, she could certainly feel it.

But Louis had the same advantage that the men of his time did not have—in the time of the Sun King, women were seen as crippled, irrational, and incapable of acting autonomously like children...... There existed (don't be fooled by chivalric literature), and witches were no exception, but Louis XIV saw and did things differently when women and men were almost completely equal.

He inevitably owes Mary a debt of affection and marriage, but at the highest level of Maslow's theory, he gives Mary the highest grade.

He gave her power and honor, things that only men could grasp.

In other words, what Mary may have needed initially was a third level of love and belonging, and Louis did not give her all of them, but gave her the respect of the fourth level and the self-realization of the fifth level.

With both, it is impossible for Mary to be the naïve little witch who is a little stupid, her love for Louis has not wavered, but the way of love will definitely change.

She no longer mistakenly thinks (as Louie did when he first came to the inner world) that Louie would be content with her and as a wizard.

However, she still retains some remnants of the past, which in the madame de Montespan's conspiracy, catalyzed by drugs and spells, made her almost do the wrong thing to keep Louis in Gayola—and when she came to her senses, she also realized that she had a problem - if she killed the queen and the crown prince on impulse, Louis would have to execute her, and if she was executed, there would have been an irreparable rift between Luciano and the king...... The king's arrangements, from the surface world to the inner world, would be affected and destroyed, and she could not guarantee that she would not fall into such a trap again, so she would be willing to enter the Bastille and accept captivity and bondage.

This was another severe test for Mary, and if she passed, she and her love would become more mature—as the Bible says—that love would be long-suffering and gracious. Love is not boasting. Not arrogant.

Such a woman will not allow her love to be dusted, no matter where it comes from.

So, when I realized what Mary was going to become, I knew that my predetermined ending was no longer suitable for her.

I've been thinking about her death for a long time, how she's going to die, or she's going to go on with her life until the end of the book, where we can't see it.

In the end, I realized that that kind of ending was also not what she liked, and it was not something she would encounter. She was Louis XIV's lover, in a way, one of his closest people, Louis XIV was the sun, around whom even a piece of grit would glow, and even the smallest of people would be affected, not to mention his lover and the mother of his children. She even welcomes a conspiracy that deliberately exploits her, because she is confident that she will thwart it and save her lover from a calamity.

But she will not die as a lover, a wife, or a mother, she will die like a valiant warrior.

That's what I told you on her behalf in the previous chapter.

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Next, let's talk about Louie.

Mary must have been content when she died. But for Louie, as I said, people always have a wrong idea about things that are commonplace, like the sun always rises the next day – and before something happens, you always tell yourself, it's okay, there will be a lot of opportunities – and Louie is no exception.

The heart-wrenching pain is terrible, but the most terrible thing is the state of Louis now.

Dazed, confused, confused......

For in his imagination, he and Mary should not be separated in this way.

Unlike fairy tales, kings and princesses cannot live happily together, unlike plays, where knights and priests do not arrive in time, not even poems or articles—Mary did not wait for him, nor for their son, who died in a coma, leaving them not a word, a look, a gesture...... She died quietly and without a trace.

Her lover could not even attend her funeral, and they would not sleep side by side in the same mausoleum.

It's not that Marley's sudden death has made Louie's love for her deep and strong, it's just that Louie's love for Marley has become the only relic between them except for little Lucy.

There is no present and no future, and he can only hold on to the past.

It was also the only love that Louis XIV had.

Fate is so cruel, but life has to go on.

Louis will take revenge, and there are more than one party who planned and carried out this plot, so revenge will not be limited to one place, please be patient.

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There's a little more to spare, so let's talk about the rest.

Last month's update cooed.,I'm sorry.,Because it's almost the end.,So it's a little stuck.,Like the previous chapter.,It's also repeatedly revised and brewed before it finally came out.,There's another volume next.,Maybe to be written before the Spring Festival.,Open a new book before the editor's holiday.。

Now I was a little hesitant, and I was going to open "Nero".

That is, to go back to the past to be Nero, and it is also the kind where fantasy and history go hand in hand.

Some readers may have already seen the beginning, and there have been a few times when I used it to make anti-theft ...... The reason why I wanted to write Nero is because when I read the book review of "I am Louis XIV", some readers said that there is something bad about wearing Louis XIV, and it is really bad to wear Nero!

That's why I came up with the idea – in short, I wanted to write a story about "my slaves go out and can make cans for beer, and they meet nine men who want to kill you!".

It's such a bad start, but after reading the information about Nero, I can only say that this guy is indeed a complicated person, and there are definitely not a few emperors who are more cruel and crazy than him, and there are definitely not a few emperors who are notorious for two reasons, one is to shake the interests and foundation of the Roman Senate, and the other is the persecution of Christians caused by the suspicious Roman fire, the latter thing is done by more than one Roman emperor, but Nero is obviously the most remarkable one- He may have done so to appease the anger of the homeless Romans, who at the time were at odds with the traditional Romans—not just demons and humans.

After the fall of the Roman Empire, the barbarians divided the vast empire, but at this time the funny thing happened, the Roman emperors were all well educated - Nero was a terrible poet and musician, but at least he could write and read. But most of the barbarians, that is, the Germans, Slavs, and Celts, were almost illiterate, and they relied on the clergy for all the clerical things. Of course, the clergy would not say anything good about the Roman emperors who had persecuted them, so all but a few Roman emperors who were more tolerant of Christians were programmed to be the most heinous demons, especially Nero.

And after Nero's death, the Senate carried out the work of destruction and "oblivion" from all sides, and this method was learned from the Egyptians - In short, the Roman emperors at that time, starting with Octavian, deliberately created themselves gods, and like the pharaohs of Egypt, they sent people to constantly proclaim their excellence in the streets and squares, engraved their military exploits on the walls, wrote their names everywhere, recorded their deeds in the history books, and put their own statues in the temple, Nero did the same, so the Senate shoveled off the heads of his statues, grinded off the reliefs related to him, erased his name, and burned the documents related to him...... In short, make it as if this person never existed......

This makes it impossible for future generations to observe this emperor from many aspects.

In addition, he also seems to have been influenced by some of the original family - his mother Agrippina Jr. is not to mention, his biological father is not a good thing, cruel and bloodthirsty, moody, when he sees the newborn Nero he screams that Agrippina Jr. gave birth to a monster - Nero's father died when he was three years old, the cause of death was not honorable, and then Agrippina Jr. married her uncle to the Roman emperor at the time, but it doesn't matter, her previous husband was also her cousin.

Your circle is really messy.

But in the past few days, I have read a few books with wasteland backgrounds, as well as the movie "Heavenly Dynasty", the leper king and Saladin...... Anyway, I immediately went to find information about them......

That one...... Each really has its own appeal......