The Abandoned Empress

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As proud daughter of House Monique, Aristia was raised to become the next empress of the Castina Empire. But with the appearance of a mysterious new girl, everything has fallen apart: the Emperor has turned his back, and Aristia’s miserable life as a lower queen is cut short by death. However a second chance to change her fate sees her reborn ‒to 7 years earlier! “Is this a dream or reality? Will my destiny repeat?”

Original Webtoon:
KakaoPage, Lezhin

Official Translations:
English, French, Indonesian, Thai
•Print: English, German, Spanish

Type

Manhwa

Related Series

The Abandoned Empress (Novel) (Adapted From)

Associated Names

Aristia la Monique: Die gefallene Kaiserin

Hoàng Phi Bị Ruồng Bỏ

L'impératrice abandonnée

La emperatriz abandonada

Ratu yang Dibuang

Suterareta Kouhi

Terk Edilmiş İmparatoriçe

Брошенная императрица

الإمبراطورة المهجورة

จักรพรรดินีที่ถูกลืม

捨てられた皇妃

被废弃的皇妃

버림 받은 황비

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TappyToon

The One Man Army Scans

Wandering Willows

Latest Release(s)

c.137-138 by Wandering Willows 4 years ago

c.135-136 by Wandering Willows 4 years ago

c.132-134 by Wandering Willows 4 years ago

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Status in Country of Origin

145 Chapters + Prologue (Complete)
9 Volumes (Complete)

S1: 46 Chapters (1-46)
S2: 41 Chapters (47-87)
S3: 58 Chapters (88-145)

Completely Scanlated?

Yes

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Average: 5.9 / 10.0 (293 votes)

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Last Updated

March 17th, 2025 5:00pm PDT - 3 months ago

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Genre

Drama Fantasy Psychological Romance Shoujo Tragedy
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Author(s)

Yuna (정유나)

Artist(s)

Ina (인아)

Year

2017

Original Publisher

DNC Media

Kakao

Serialized In (magazine)

D&C Webtoon (D&C Media)

KakaoPage (Kakao)

Licensed (in English)

Yes

English Publisher

Kross Komics (Expired)

Tappytoon (146 Chapters - Complete)

Yen Press (9 Volumes - Complete)

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6 Month Pos #2963

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Year Pos #3400

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My Opinion: No Hating

by Sylphenne
5 years ago

Rating: N/A

This is my opinion but....

We have to accept that our FL and ML have their own faults. We have too look deeper as to why they acted that way. Both of them were puppets and a doll used masterfully by their factions. Our female lead is only focused on her and the prince and forgot to look at her surroundings.
As his second wife and for being in a political marriage, our FL has a duty to give birth to the next Emperor.
I think our ML despite being poisoned and being controlled as a puppet is still rational. He never slept with his Empress ( Jeiun ) and his Queen ( Aristia ) despite everyone pishing him to sleep with them so that they can have a baby. Of course this is politics people, the nobles wants to control the baby for their own political gain. But yes, he never did... not until the said 'rape' happened.
When our ML ( Ruveliss ) told our FL ( Aristia ) to strip and forced her, he was just fed up with her faction, the imperialist always bugging him to sleep with her already so that her baby can represent the Imperialist faction. Our ML thought that our FL is asking them for her ... or so he thought.
Actually if you ask me she can really push him away but she didn't ... instead of thinking such thing, she though that maybe if she make love to him, if she give her whole self to him then maybe she can gain his attention and love. She also gave him her wholeself because she is after all his queen, his concubine. [ As such our ML even thought that she might be aiming to be his favourite concubine by doing so ]
The killed her child part ... in this, she was already slowly poisoned. Hence for her weak body. The ML did push her but it was but an accident but of course we won't look in that right? Our FL was standing so close to our ML, if you remember Aristia almost fell due to dizziness but Ruveliss caught her, then Jeiun barged in the room without even knocking and went mad at them so Ruveliss tried to stop Jeiun to explain and forgot the Aristia was standing so close to him.
In the POV of our ML ... he hated her because of the report that was given to him. When Aristia went to work the next day as if nothing happened to her. She just had a miscarriage! Yet she worked the next day?! Amazing right? She didn't even mourn for tge lost child and it made Ruveliss hate her more ... she thought of her as a cruel woman who won't even mourn for the death of their child.
So Aristia worked the next day as if nothing happened. I do think she was stupid and cruel... this FL... the reason she didn't mourn for the child is because she was more hurt for the fact that since she can never have a child anymore, she can never have his attention anymore. She was just planning on using the child as a way to gain his attention and live and now that the child is gone, he'll never look at her anymore.
With this both of them felt like they are no longer needed. Ruveliss felt that Aristia was happy because she doesn't have to carry his child. Aristia thought that Ruveliss will now leave her for good and she can no longer win his heart because of this indcident. Again, they think too political here... because that's their environment they grew up with.

All in all, their first timeline is too political and their minds got distorted. But we have to remember that this is set during medival times and political marriage is common and accepted, especially for nobles like them... also they are no ordinary nobles... they are raised as the future Emperor and Empress.

This story is an emotional roller coaster and our author made it so. But we have to be honest that what happened to them in their first life is the fault of their own upbringing, they weren't ordinary people nor nobles. But because they were all starving for love becuase they do not know it, they became twisted and lonely.

Their second timeline is a good what if they were like this in the first then the first timeline didn't have to happen.

You also have to remember the madness of politics and nobles and human's greed for power can cause one to be twisted. They were playing a game of tactics and people treated them as chess pieces. This isn't a story that only focused on love but also politics and freedom from past trauma.

Its just ironic that the one who freed Aristia from her trauma is none other than the person who gave it to her... although its the second timeline him. None of them changed, what changed is that they realized what could have happened if they continued to go on that path and that triggered the changes.

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drags on and the love interest is a dick

by mojoyoyo
5 years ago

Rating: 2.0 / 10.0

she has three dudes and the main one is the worst one. the author and the protag have such bad taste.

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Not recommended

by kujika
5 years ago

Rating: 4.0 / 10.0

Compared to other works of its genre it´s boring and has a dangerous message (redemption and forgiveness is a fine concept to explore in literature, but to me there is a limit.)

I got spoilered and the ending is not to my liking at all. Also, the plot is pretty boring. I recommend trying other works and to not take this webtoon as the epitome of its genre.

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This is really a disappointment

by Btissam
6 years ago

Rating: N/A

I hate it , cause I loved it so much .. a cruel prince who made the MC see hell while she is alive .. yet they get to fall in love again .. f### it.. I can't tolerate playing with my emotions , I can't accept such an ending , well well I've been angry Cos of the ending for 4 hours .. it already 3h morning yet I can't sleep Cos of this sh### ending that ruined my mood .. I want a strong MC .. I thought she was but she turned up to be a stupid one who forgot all her suffrage . Who killed her father, who made her lose her unborn son ,who made her kneel down to kiss his shoes , who cheated on her , who made her like a servant for the Queen , who trashed her pride , who mistreated her .. .. this not about love or anything is about a woman's pride a woman's heart a woman's dignity , The MC threw all this away once she called in love again with the bas### .. if there's some to be loved, she should've fall in love withthe green haired guy who tried his best for her .. or the red one who also made lot of achievement for her .. yet she blush Cos of the psycho stupid prince who was jealous of her .. yeah he had a though childhood .. oh wait he didn't he was loved by his father , .. oh yeah and he already promised her mom to protect her . Yet he did the opposite , no matter what, she is just repeating the same past... Okay as a woman I don't like such a girl to represent MC. the art is good , the characters are so so , the process in which the story is developed is so slow , we are already in chap 78 yet nothing is clear only focusing on the prince (whenever I see him, I got angry) ... Oh and there's lot of things kept hidden. Whatever I lost interest and I'm so disappointed , really , I'm saying that as someone who lived within the story , I see myself as the MC yet it hurt not to be able to revenge... Author I never hated a manga/Manhua as this, Cos u made me have a high expectations of it , yet In the end u only crushed them .. my heart can't take it ..

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Nope. Barf.

by Pebble_
5 years ago

Rating: 1.0 / 10.0

Yeah, no.

Even though the author tries hard as they can to make us accept the fcked-up prince as a reformed love interest, just thinking of the protagonist going back to her fcking rapist makes my skin crawl. Yuck, no. Mommy issues are not an excuse for everything, and very very much not for what he fcking did. That fcker can choke. Dropped.

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Perhaps Not for Everyone

by Nike ☀️
5 years ago

Rating: N/A

At first, I was really interested in this story.

However, as the story continues to progress, I learn that she has little to no self-respect, she lingers on and assumes Prince Ruve's feelings and vice versa (even though Tia should be escaping from the shakles of her so-called fate; really, what was the point of the name 'Pioneer'?), and the plot seems long forgotten.

I really don't quite understand why everyone is so set on having Tia seated on the throne. I get she'd make a good Empress, but I don't think she particularly stands out, either. Also, it's absolutely shoking how little Tia knows. I get that in her first life all she did was remain within the walls of the palace and follow Ruve around, but like what the heck? All these characters keep popping up, and my god is Tia overdramatic:

in the most recent episode (94), she thinks that because the Princess of Lisa is pregnant, it'll result in a war if the other nobles were to find out. She also assumes that the Prince would be furious, which is an odd assumption, considering HE DOESN'T EVEN LIKE HER.

Fruthermore, I have an issue with how blind Tia is to the feelings of others, and to their personaltites. Take Allen as an example; he is far from the fluffy Allen Tia knows, and even Carsein pointed out that Tia should have realized what kind of person Allen really is.

Honestly, at this point in the story, I'm kind of tired at how things are turning out. There are a lot of things I wish to know, and when we do get a glimpse of information, it's lost because of some kind of interruption:

when Tia was in the Crown Prince's study, she was looking into her mother's background, but that got interrupted as soon as the Prince woke up. I've gotten so tired of waiting for key pieces of information that I've resorted to looking through spoilers. Additionally, why did the author make out Allen to be the way he is? Out of all the male leads, I found him to be the most interesting ! (even though I know he got close to her in order to become the head of his family) , and then there's Carsein who is a very refreshing character. The Prince and Tia are way too similar, it's uncomfortable to read.

For those who stuck around for my rant, thanks! I may edit this post overtime.

Last tidbit: it would have been really interesting to see Tia aim for the throne rather than for her family house. Her competing with the Prince would have been an interesting story indeed.

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Dont bother to read

by Dynir
6 years ago

Rating: N/A

I read up until that chapter with the spoiler
the author mustve been on drugs when writing this since even after making it look like shell live differently the female mcs 2nd life ended up just like her 1st life marreied to that trash male mc so basically the entire story can be summed up to chapter 1 and the last chapter everything else in between is useless filler that doesnt matter so i lost interest.

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Don't waste your time reading this

by yuri_shibuya
1 year ago

Rating: 1.0 / 10.0

The art is pretty but the plot, characters and everything are terrible.
The victim falling head over heels for the abuser is just so sickening.
Does Trauma simply evaporate?
I also don't like how the author also justified the prince actions in the first timeline. It's simply lazy and does not make sense.
I regret reading this trash manhwa.

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Poorly written

by Y_Sasuke
3 years ago

Rating: 5.0 / 10.0

The plot is bad, the characters are bad. The art is mostly good, but I don’t like many of the “beautiful” dresses the female lead wears.

It bugs me that no one talks about how the FL marrying the prince means the disbanding of her house, the most loyal and third ranking in the Empire. Just weird. Are her children supposed to take over ?

Why did everyone decide she is the child of the prophecy ? The prophecy was extremely vague. Why didn’t she tell everyone she got a different prophecy about not being that child? It is true.

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Complicated Feelings

by Soshi0805
5 years ago

Rating: N/A

First I want to commend the art, like most reincarnation manga this has a very pretty consistent drawing. We can see the maturity of each character in every changes of season.

Second is the plot, it started out with typical tragic back story. The difference is that the FL (Tia) is not a villanous queen instead she's a naive and hopelessly in love albeit a bit cold woman who grew up with the mentality that she's the prophesied empress. But behold a woman (Jieun) who came from the modern world kick her out of the empress position. The FL ended up being executed by her one and only love.

Then she jumped back to her 10 year old self. She even had a talked with a god and announced that she will never submit to the same fate again.

She gained knowledge and strength, friends and supporters, respect as a woman squire(atm) and even gained the attention of the 3 young nobles and royal. At the moment, the story is still far from the main starting plot. So it's really hard to point out how the story will progress once the Jieun comes to the world. Since everything has greatly differ from the original story.

Third is the characterization of those characters who appeared in the original and reincarnated stort, in the original story Tia's world revolved around being the best empress candidate for the crown prince. She's cold, stoic but doesn't have any ill intention aside from gaining the attention of the crown prince. But it didn't ended up good for her.

The present Tia is more lovable, trusting and friendly. She has friends and supporters who are willing to give it all to her. One thing I didn't like about her is her inconsistency in achieving her goal. She doesn't have a direct strategy to keep her and her papa's head on their shoulder. She will start doing one thing then jump to another. She's not that smart like some of the reincarnated FL who have a good head on their shoulders.

Then we have the prince, the cold blooded prince who chose to marry and make Jieun the empress over Tia. The past and present preteen prince didn't show any love for Tia. He even purposely avoided and showed his disliked for her for some unknown reason(although there are some hints on the story why he did it). Like the typical ML he's stoic and rude at the FL but everything will change(?) on her new life. Personally, I don't like the prince that much even though we can already read his side of the story. Why? Because I can't really feel like he did love Tia before Jieun episode happened.

We also have the father, her father has been a consistent supporter of her although it's not really shown that much on her previous life - only during her last days. I will really cry if something will happen to Papa Marquess.

Lastly character relationship, Tia's web of relationship obviously became massive on her reincarnated self. She even has three men fawning over her. But her relationship with those men are still shakeable. It's also because of her wishy-washy attitude.

Overall, it's a good read for reincarnated manga but there are some scenes that could make you really frustrated at the FL's action.

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