The royal palace is no place for fun and games—here, only the most cunning and powerful survive. After Soon-ock becomes queen consort thanks to the machinations of her scheming father and his allies, she finds...

Haegu, a proficient and merciless hitwoman, executes a man in front of his own daughter and takes the child under her wing. She decides to name her Mian, the word for "sorry" in Korean, and gives her one...