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Can any character besides Shimin get a description of something unique about them other than their names? Hair color, height? Clothing style?

The level of violence and coercion in the first months, as well as dividing of the populace to different centers of power would make GRRM orb the French Revolution blush!
If it doesn’t all crash at the end I’m going to riot myself

“Through my lessons with Wan’er, I’ve learned that there are two different types of freedom. Negative freedom is the absence of external interference against doing something, while positive freedom is having the resources to actually do it. Removing the ban on girls going to school doesn’t make a meaningful difference to a mountain peasant with no easy way of getting to one.”

“Blurry figures pass in slow motion around us on this street spun from his memories. Bittersweet sentiment flows freely from him like blood from an open wound, so tender that, for once, I don’t doubt his sincerity. Not when it comes to this, the mission he values above all else.“

First fight?! My god

Omg, so they can’t meet and she gets special shots. They still can’t meet. The shots make her sick, and now those are gone and no other thing has changed?!

We have no relationship to Yimin, I forget why I should care.
This whole structure is really janky

First female pilots should have happened in the first third, not endless political theory.

Sooo much time repeating the “this needs to happen” and describing every little detail but very little plot or world building is happening that isn’t telling than showing. Other than the coronation and body doubles