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황녀, 반역자를 각인시키다 [Hwangnyeo, Ban-yeogjareul Gag-insikida] (Novel) #1
황녀, 반역자를 각인시키다 1 [Hwangnyeo, Ban-yeogjareul Gag-insikida 1]
7황녀 이뷔엔로즈는 한 번 죽음을 맞이했다.
그녀의 마지막 기억은 반역을 일으킨 호문클루스들에 의해 황실이 망하고
그들의 편에 선 동생의 계략에 빠져 독약을 삼키고 죽었던 기억이었다. 그런데
“나…… 안 죽었어……?”
다시 눈을 떴을 때, 그녀는 자신이 8살이나 어려진 채 과거로 돌아왔다는 사실을 깨닫는다.
그것도 다음 대 후계자가 되는 3황녀가 정식으로 후계자로 낙점되기 전으로.
‘이건 기회야.’
3황녀 브리지테를 누르고 후계자로 인정받아 황실의 몰락을 막을 기회.
그 대비의 일환으로 이브는 황제의 마음을 얻고 자신의 가능성을 시험하기 위해
호문클루스들의 왕이자 공중감옥의 괴물 ‘미카엘’을 자신의 기사로 들이기로 하는데.
“미카엘 그대가 필요해. 아주 절실하게 말이야.”
과연 이뷔엔로즈는 그를 얻고, 무사히 황실을 지켜낼 수 있을까.
그녀의 마지막 기억은 반역을 일으킨 호문클루스들에 의해 황실이 망하고
그들의 편에 선 동생의 계략에 빠져 독약을 삼키고 죽었던 기억이었다. 그런데
“나…… 안 죽었어……?”
다시 눈을 떴을 때, 그녀는 자신이 8살이나 어려진 채 과거로 돌아왔다는 사실을 깨닫는다.
그것도 다음 대 후계자가 되는 3황녀가 정식으로 후계자로 낙점되기 전으로.
‘이건 기회야.’
3황녀 브리지테를 누르고 후계자로 인정받아 황실의 몰락을 막을 기회.
그 대비의 일환으로 이브는 황제의 마음을 얻고 자신의 가능성을 시험하기 위해
호문클루스들의 왕이자 공중감옥의 괴물 ‘미카엘’을 자신의 기사로 들이기로 하는데.
“미카엘 그대가 필요해. 아주 절실하게 말이야.”
과연 이뷔엔로즈는 그를 얻고, 무사히 황실을 지켜낼 수 있을까.
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August 19, 2025
This is a surprisingly disappointing novel, even though it had the foundation for excellent worldbuilding. I consider the biggest problem here to be cowardly writing, even insulting for its reckless handling of such heavy themes. The story has an interesting premise involving plots dealing with slavery, manipulation, and even physical and sexual abuse, but it fails precisely in its handling of them.
The first problem for me arises from the complete lack of dramatic tension for a story based on political struggles and even the conquest of power. Even though the FL is a character who travels back in time for a purpose, even if it's quite convenient for the story, her interactions with her family are almost devoid of tension. She does indeed manage to manipulate her self-centered family members to her advantage, but for a family so powerful that it creates individuals to enslave them, all the members lack any gray complexity, sounding almost silly in their interactions.
Scenes that should be distressing and even provoke feelings of anxiety and curiosity about the political game feel superficial and almost silly due to an unintentional humor. This is quite contradictory and ironic coming from a family so troubled by the physical and even sexual enslavement of beings they create as objects.
And thus arises my second problem: the author uses her heavy themes almost as decoration in the story itself. The ML, part of the enslaved species, decides to take over the imperial family simply because he was obsessed with a princess he barely interacted with. The FL's sister, who should have been one of the main antagonists, is an airhead who only knows how to use her own beauty to get things done, and the detestable, slave-owning emperor is so easily manipulated that he can change his attitude toward the FL just for a cup of tea.
I find it sad how the author downplays such dark themes without any social conscience while trying to be moralistic in her own story. If you can't write dense and dark stories, don't use such heavy themes as something interesting in your story. (I ended up getting a spoiler for the ending and I'm honestly glad I dropped the story earlier.)
The first problem for me arises from the complete lack of dramatic tension for a story based on political struggles and even the conquest of power. Even though the FL is a character who travels back in time for a purpose, even if it's quite convenient for the story, her interactions with her family are almost devoid of tension. She does indeed manage to manipulate her self-centered family members to her advantage, but for a family so powerful that it creates individuals to enslave them, all the members lack any gray complexity, sounding almost silly in their interactions.
Scenes that should be distressing and even provoke feelings of anxiety and curiosity about the political game feel superficial and almost silly due to an unintentional humor. This is quite contradictory and ironic coming from a family so troubled by the physical and even sexual enslavement of beings they create as objects.
And thus arises my second problem: the author uses her heavy themes almost as decoration in the story itself. The ML, part of the enslaved species, decides to take over the imperial family simply because he was obsessed with a princess he barely interacted with. The FL's sister, who should have been one of the main antagonists, is an airhead who only knows how to use her own beauty to get things done, and the detestable, slave-owning emperor is so easily manipulated that he can change his attitude toward the FL just for a cup of tea.
I find it sad how the author downplays such dark themes without any social conscience while trying to be moralistic in her own story. If you can't write dense and dark stories, don't use such heavy themes as something interesting in your story. (I ended up getting a spoiler for the ending and I'm honestly glad I dropped the story earlier.)
July 8, 2025
he turned back time, knowing he would lose his memories, his throne, everything, just so she could live again????? not even so that she could fall in love with him, but because he loved her and purely just wanted her to live?? what the hell💔
(novel ch1-34)
(novel ch1-34)
July 11, 2024
Not sure what to make of this yet. I'm going to keep reading the series , but the writing could definitely be better. At this point, it's still mostly telling and no showing (and telling in a very detailed way). In the first few chapters, it was almost like in a play where the actors do little asides to the audience like, "My evil plan is complete. Now that she's out of the way I can have this man to myself!" *winks and walks back into the scene* Anyway, by the end I wasn't really noticing it too much, but I don't know if I just got used to it or if it actually toned down, lol.
Now as for the story itself, we are tackling some heavy stuff although none of it has been on the page yet. There's a whole race(?) of enslaved people who are manufactured through alchemy and they have been used by the imperial family for decades in every way you can imagine and discarded like toys. We start off with our main character, Eve, dying after these people rebelled and executed the imperials Vive la révolution! style and she wakes up eight years younger in the past. She had previously tried to fight for the rights of the enslaved people, but failed to convince anyone because all she did was become the outcast of the imperial family and get shoved to the side. This story is her trying to do it right this time.
And a warning: "heavy stuff" includes sexual assault to the point it's basically a tradition of the imperial family and one character in particular is giving mega ick vibes, but as mentioned earlier, there's nothing on the page yet. It's just something the main characters explain happens. I have no idea what direction the rest of it is going to go in regards to this or any of the other heavy topics. In my opinion, the thing that might be most triggering to people is
Now as for the story itself, we are tackling some heavy stuff although none of it has been on the page yet. There's a whole race(?) of enslaved people who are manufactured through alchemy and they have been used by the imperial family for decades in every way you can imagine and discarded like toys. We start off with our main character, Eve, dying after these people rebelled and executed the imperials Vive la révolution! style and she wakes up eight years younger in the past. She had previously tried to fight for the rights of the enslaved people, but failed to convince anyone because all she did was become the outcast of the imperial family and get shoved to the side. This story is her trying to do it right this time.
And a warning: "heavy stuff" includes sexual assault to the point it's basically a tradition of the imperial family and one character in particular is giving mega ick vibes, but as mentioned earlier, there's nothing on the page yet. It's just something the main characters explain happens. I have no idea what direction the rest of it is going to go in regards to this or any of the other heavy topics. In my opinion, the thing that might be most triggering to people is
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