Im confused. In this chapter they showed that Yona was comfortable being basically locked in a library reading books. Like she didn’t seem to be struggling or anything. Now I feel like that makes sense because if not reading books then what the hell did she do to pass time for 16 years of her life. I know Hak and Soo-Won played with her, but not all the time.
At first I thought that she played with the court ladies that you always see in movies and go to parties or have merchants come to buy jewellery together, but that doesn’t seem to be the case. Because the ladies she would spend time with would be noble ladies. But she didn’t even know Lilly, the daughter of one of the generals. She knew TaeJun because he was courting her, but he is not shown to have a sister. The Earth general doesn’t have a daughter that is Yona’s age. And Yona didn’t even know the people in the Wind Tribe even though Mundok was the closest general to Il.
She was REALLY sheltered. Like really really sheltered. I cannot think any of the nobles in the tribes would go to the castle when literally no one liked Il. And it is mentioned in the early chapters that Yona is lonely when Hak is not around. Because she doesn’t really have friends. We saw her 16th birthday and we didn’t see her with anyone her age or anything (aside from her cousin and Hak).
So for me it is possible that she would spend at least some of her time reading, since there was probably nothing else to do at the time. I know that she is really unaware of the current state of the country and the living conditions of the citizens. But for a person that seemed to have no one but servants around most of her time, I find it hard to believe that she knows absolutely nothing. Like of course she isn’t a scholar by any means. But isn’t is possible that had like theoretical knowledge? And all her adventures were like wake up calls so she could actually connect the dots? Like I don’t get why people are reacting to the scene of her in a political meeting as if she was an absolute ignorant who had a 180 change in 24 hours. But well I could totally be wrong 🤷🏻♀️