I finally finished reading it. The third volume was the least interesting. Reading it, I feel the transience of life, the rise and fall of empires, the highs and lows of existence, and the unpredictable nature of life. One should not rejoice when good things happen, nor despair when bad things happen. Life seems to have waves and ripples; the ends of great figures were almost always tragic deaths. Even the lives of great men were subject to drastic changes, so we should not simply envy their