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Long ago, there existed a land divided into four countries: Sou, Kou, Do, and Ah. The King of Ah took on a wife from Kou and soon thereafter one from Do, creating a shaky alliance between the three nations. When the Second Queen gave birth to a son, the King cast aside the sickly First Queen and her daughter Aki into the depths of the Palace. But as Fate would have it, Princess Aki encounters a slave named Hakusei, who has peculiar golden hair and sky blue eyes. He promises his life to her and helps her train in the Six Arts under the guidance of the enigmatic merchant Seitetsu. However, when Aki outshines the Prince during a hunt in an attempt to gain her father's acknowledgement, she inadvertently sparks a war by besmirching Do's honor and drives the Second Queen to poison her mother. With nothing left but her faithful Hakusei, Aki is banished to the small country of Kou with a vow to return to Ah one day for revenge. But in the face of the mighty allied nations of Do and Ah, will the two survive long enough to carry out Aki’s vow?
Winner of the 60th Shogakukan Manga Awards for Best Shoujo. |
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I hope not. Partly because I'm bored with that pattern. Partly
Love how the women in this manga are all savage.
I wonder if this will be the kind of manga in which Aki will realize that she shouldn't live for revenge.
can someone please fix the order of chapters? this is so hard to read the way it is,
It can be the "three kingdoms" of China or the smaller kingdoms of Korea. It's just a fictional universe with a medieval East Asian setting. Most of the weapons and armors are chineese.
Just when I thought I had passed over Seitetsu's arc of feels , I get hit with it all over again...
Oh, interesting!
I'm not looking forward to a tragic ending.
So all the chapter orders are fucked up in the reader. B is before A for some reason.
I don't know about anybody else but these last couple chapters turned me into a sobbing mess. I also found Seitetsu and Hakusei's chat rather funny and heartwarming but also tragic. Still even with the messy tears, or maybe precisely because this story draws them out, I will continue to happily read on through my eye sweat.
thanks phoenix serenade and transcendence ^^
No he did a pretty shit job, there were way better ways to handle things, he just wanted a son
Well played!
I like this princess very much, but I do like li chang ge a bit better :3
Thank you to the scanlators! I'm really enjoying this manga![:D](https://vatoto.com/forums/public/style_emoticons/default/biggrin.png)
It's always a tricky thing to make a serious and believable story of political intrigue. It's obvious that the MC can't die and is bound to some degree of success in the end. at the same time she isn't knowledgeable of everything. She will fail, but the author has to convince us that the failures won't be too big. Or else that term "plot armor" is going to be uttered. If she makes mistake where it's obvious that anyone would get their head chopped off, it might irk some.
But from what we have here, this is a pretty good start.
So tragic!
Really, just goes to show that the current princess would be smarter to get out while the getting's good, before she ends up in a situation so bound up that it becomes impossible and she becomes a sacrificial pawn . . . again . . . Of course since she's the heroine I'm sure she'll transcend all that somehow, but gambling that you're the heroine and so it will all work out is a mug's game.
lol that was kinda random but ok