25. One of This Emperor’s Sons Choked a Lover to Death With His Bare Hands
Emperor Jing might have been great, but his sons were not. Prince Tuan was gay and had no taste for women. Nonetheless, he still had an obligation to continue the imperial line by impregnating at least some of his wives or concubines. The tension eventually got too much, and got to him. Prince Tuan had a boy lover, but his lover was bisexual and also liked the ladies. Especially Prince Tuan’s ladies of the harem, whose needs the prince was doing nothing to satisfy.
When Prince Tuan found out that his boy lover was also loving his harem ladies, he failed to see it as a win-win, relieving him of a task he was neither willing nor able to perform. Instead, he flew into a rage and choked his boy lover to death with his bare hands. He was not the worst of his brothers.