With or without publications, they are concubines. They get raped, and that's the best things that happens to them.
In the west, we don't have fancy harems, so they are just whores.
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With or without publications, they are concubines. They get raped, and that's the best things that happens to them.
In the west, we don't have fancy harems, so they are just whores.
Imperial palace intrigue is a fun genre I guess. I liked The Apothecary Diaries.
I call dibs on being that strategist guy. (I only saw the first season tho, I hope he didn't get weird in the second season.)
Nah they put all that in the misdirects and outright shojo bullshit plot twists in the first season, he'll stay in his overprotective dad mode for the rest of the series, assuming you mean Lakan and not his nephew.