25 Chapters (Complete)






As far as court intrigues go, this one is a bit more intense than your average historic royal court concubine manga.
It opens brutal enough.
The main heroine, Lady Li, is chosen as concubine of the human trash of the emperor even though she already has a finance. Thrown into a snake pit dominated by an ex courtesan who is emperor's favorite, she needs to adapt and try to survive all the cruelty that goes her way, and survive and get on top or die... for that, she will need to get rid of her own humanity and her naivite, kindness and become a monster in order to fight monsters.
And the palace doens't lack monsters.
The emperor is the biggest one. the mad king Aerys Targaryen's peer in every sense, he is vain, cruel, deranged, plus being an overal ugly. the best favor to readers is not seeing his face. spoiler: he DOES kick the bucket at one point and it's oh so satisfying.
Art is georgeous and that's a a huge plus.