Fate is a cruel master, to be sure, but it must have been in an especially perverse mood when it put one of the greatest poets in Chinese history on the throne of a kingdom in its death throes.
的確，明明是個絕代的才子，可憐偏偏生在帝王家，老天捉弄，擺錯了位子，結果成了亡國之君。