The King S Shadow

A few days following his enthroning a king of a vast kingdom, with millions of people, decides to destroy all the libraries of his country and burn all the books. He has the idea to initiate a new era. He named himself Luminous Sun. Within a short period he kills a great number of historians, writers and philosophers and sends thousands of them in agriculture and construction sites condemned to forced labor. The new king suffers from megalomania. He orders the opening of hundred construction sites all over the country, such as: routes, bridges, draining of the entire wetland regions and finally the construction of a great wall to protect his country from aggression. The new king is an illegitimate son of a royal guard officer. The queen has a passionate love for the officer. She is obsessed by him and after some years her lover decides to leave her. He escapes from the royal court and lives in a hidden place. But the queen finds him, visits him in secrecy and tries to convince him to continue with their love affair but the officer refuses. In revenge, she orders his castration and abandoned him in a remote and miserable place.The king is grown up in a climate of fierce hatred by his father. His older brother is selected to take the throne but he lost his life in war.