"The most ruthless emperor's family" comes from the poem "Ci of the harem" written by Bai Juyi, a poet in the Tang Dynasty. This is Bai Juyi's complaint for imperial secretary.
The whole poem of "Ci of the Harem" is as follows:
Tears wet the scarf, and the temple sings before midnight.
the beauty is broken before she is old, and she leans against the smoking cage and sits in the light.
The poor beauty is always unlucky, especially the heartless imperial family.
Translation:
Tears soaked Luo Jin and she couldn't sleep. It was a dream. I heard the sound of singing to the beat from the front hall late at night. Beauty has lost the favor of the king before she gets old, and she leans against the smoking cage until dawn.
Extended information
The first sentence reads: Sleepless at night, dreaming that the king is lucky; The second sentence suddenly smells the singing in the front hall, and the king is fortunate and hopeless; Three sentences write that the beauty is still there, and your grace has been broken; After writing four sentences, I imagined that the king might be lucky, so I reclined in the smoking cage and sat until dawn, and finally it was a bubble. The language of the whole poem is bright and natural, and the feelings are sincere and multi-layered, which finely depicts the psychological state of the ladies who have fallen out of favor.
The whole poem turns from hope to disappointment, from disappointment to bitter hope, from bitter hope to final despair; From reality to fantasy, from fantasy to fantasy, and from fantasy to reality, the poet poured his deep sympathy for the unfortunate.
reference: Baidu encyclopedia-harem words