The Abandoned Empress

Description

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

Groups Scanlating

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

Anime Start/End Chapter

N/A

User Reviews

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Forum

1 topics, 2 posts

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User Rating

Average: 5.9 / 10.0 (293 votes)

Bayesian Average: 5.93 / 10.0

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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)

Activity Stats (vs. other series)

Weekly Pos #788 (No change)

Monthly Pos #1596

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3 Month Pos #2579

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6 Month Pos #2963

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Year Pos #3400

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On 179 wish lists

On 513 completed lists

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Very interesting, well-developed story if not for pairing a former abuser with his rape victim...

by moonmystery
5 years ago

Rating: 7.0 / 10.0

Art: 7/10 The fashion design and general panel layout are really well done. The characters are aesthetically pleasing, although Ji-eun's eyes look kinda wack in the first 10 chapters. Overall, love the aesthetics.

Characters: 7/10 Everyone (aside from crown prince) has an interesting backstory. I especially enjoy the female MC's progression from a doormat to a girl with sense and ambition. The one sad part is... though the characters are interesting, the author kind of forgets about some of them halfway through the series. They end up just making cameos every now and then... What a pity for the characters I love.......** ngl, i'm mainly reading this still for the precious redhead knight **.

Plot: 6/10 It's interesting how the story antagonizes Ji-eun, the typical exotic-heroine-from-modern-Asia with magical powers. I enjoy the twists and turns this author sets up, even if some of them are not well-executed. Unfortunately, this story gets dinged for pairing a rape/miscarriage/cheating victim suffering from chronic PTSD with her former abuser... This abuser also broke the MC's heart countless times...The author gratuitously bombarded MC with abuse only to gloss over it when convenient. Ew.

Ok... about that situation with the crown prince...So our female MC did consent; she did not say no to intercourse per se, but definitely wasn't a happy/loving moment either. After all, she didn't have the authority to necessarily refuse, although she could have at least tried to...Yeah, for all intents and purposes that ... was rapey. Also he was cheating on the so-called love-of-his-life at the time when he forced MC to screw him. A cheating rapist? Not a good start... Not to mention his lover didn't even find out until MC got pregnant and showed morning sickness in public. Wowwwww. What a lying, two-faced, cheating a*shole... He totally abuses his powers as the crown prince...The MC girl that wants him despite all his abuse? Absolutely idiotic.

And to top it off, he goes and says he will never accept the MC's children as his even though he chose to screw her... I see people online cussing out the girl that crown prince chose to be his lover, but the reality is that she has every right to be angry about the situation since she didn't know he was going around raping the MC. From that girl's point of view, the MC was the mistress to her prince charming.

Then, in a moment of absolute lack of spatial awareness, as*hole crown prince accidentally causes the pregnant MC to fall, leading to her miscarriage. We find out that the miscarriage ruined her frail body--she can't conceive again. WOW. Isn't that just swell? The crown prince's list of abuses against her and her family just continues to escalate until her very death.

Overall I would recommend new readers to read this despite the ultimate pairing of abuser x victim... The story has really good pacing and keeps you on your toes. Just remember to be critical of the elements mentioned in the spoiler above.

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I disagree with how the plot turned out to be, but it's still worth to continue to read.

by mallika23
5 years ago

Rating: 7.0 / 10.0

In the early chapters, I really hate the male lead, the prince, for the cruelty he did to the female lead, Aristia. In my perspective, it's not merely neglectment. It's abuse! He raped her, made her pregnant and lose her baby, and killed her father without any signs of regret. As a woman, I felt anger and sadness when I read that. I was not surprised when she closed herself when the prince tried to touch him in her second life. Traumatic events such as abuse is not that easy to be forgotten, and household abuse should not be forgiven easily.

This reminds me to the plot on "Iris, the Lady with the Smartphone". In that plot, Iris made grand plan to take revenge on those who abused her, and those who abused her are trash from the beginning.

For me, the prince should not be forgiven for his sins. The plot turned out to make the prince as a misunderstood character, a cruel but turns out good character, and made us symphatize with him. I disagree with this. There should be justice for the main character, and punishment for what the prince had done. I honestly hoped in the beginning that Tia would end up with Allen or Sein so that she will be safe, but it seems it would not be so.

But well, the story turned out to still made the prince as the main partner for Tia. I strongly disagree, but the plot is getting quite heated, now that on the recent chapters Jieun came back. She's the main reason on how Monique House first got their downfall. I really wish all the best for Aristia. I bet this one would be different from previously, since Aristia has made a lot of changes and connections since her comeback in the second life.

... Last updated 5 years ago

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Disappointed

by Azure_1802
5 years ago

Rating: N/A

Here i was shipping her so bad with the red-hair boy, he was arrogant and obnoxious at first but he gradually got better and better. Yet she still chose that cheating abusive murdering rapist?

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Good

by CaravanHearts
6 years ago

Rating: N/A

But I REALLY hope that she does not end up with the prince (like she does in the book) because he is a literal r*pist. No thank you..

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Other similiar or better manga

by Lordmaou97
6 years ago

Rating: N/A

https://forum.novelupdates.com/threads/second-chance-manga-or-anime.92116/

Here some other similiar or better manga if anyone interested

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My introduction to Korean web novels

by suki_san
6 years ago

Rating: N/A

This started off as a super popular fantasy romance novel on a Korean web novel site. I think it was among the first that had a main character who would be considered the "rival girl" in a typical "travel to a fantasy world" type story. It spawned a lot of knock-offs that imitated the idea, and I think the author took it down after a while because there was too much copyright-related drama happening.

I don't really know if this is the first of its kind or not, but to me it was the first. So, it holds a special place in my heart. I remember the author's storytelling was really smooth and attention-grabbing. Though it's unfortunate that a lot of it is lost in translation, I'm grateful that there's a comic version of this so more people can recognize this author's work.

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Disappointing

by chochips
6 years ago

Rating: 2.0 / 10.0

Art is amazing, I really love it. The female main character... I like that she's smart and kind and hard working.

But I wish she wouldn't made the same mistakes of her past life... otherwise, what's the point in going back in time?

I read up until Chapter 21 because there was a spoiler of the story's ending left by the translator, at the end of the chapter. It was a very, VERY disappointing and undesired ending, that I just couldn't keep reading, I dropped it.

after everything that happened in her past life, all the trauma, it didn't matter because she still will end up with the Prince in her second life? The same Prince who was selfish, who raped her, killed her baby, killed her father, made her kneel and lick his booth and humiliated her just because his pride got hurt or whatever. What kind of ending is that? What's the point in going back in time? And the prince isn't even different in the second life... he still has the same awful arrogant personality. Ugh. So. Disappointing.

... Last updated 6 years ago

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this manhwa kinda sucked

by connectedwizzard
4 years ago

Rating: 6.0 / 10.0

Story starting pretty good but story writing got worse trough the chapters ...

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Too sugary... But not bad

by StellaStar1
3 years ago

Rating: 5.0 / 10.0

While I can't fault this as being a terrible piece of manhwa, the sheer sugary feel of the art just put me off. One of the male contenders for the FL's hand has a intensely green hair and my eyes just hurt from looking at it! The plot even shows some faint promise (being different people in different timelines, due to change of circumstance - possible of not?), and I love it when a pseudo 18th century ML has the hairdo and attitude of a 16 year old emo-spoiled brat from the 21st century. But that's isekai for you! FL wasn't too impressive but had a powerful and understandably emotional moment pretty early on so it did surprise me, but not enough to continue reading it. Since I am not a big shojou fan, maybe this was all pretty predictable. But stil, I repeat, not that bad!

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I cannot wait for more.

by moshia
4 years ago

Rating: N/A

I really enjoyed reading this, though I was hoping she would end up with allendis. I feel like it would've been better her for her in the end and they were very cute together. Who knows maybe she might but from where this is going it will probably be the prince. He has changed compared to her past but its still heartbreaking that he did all that to her and she refalling for him. But I cannot wait to read more!

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