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I think she'll beat the shit out of him for this
Tales of Scarlet Palace ~Legend of Shougyoku~ - Vol. 1 Ch. 4
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ok fuck the ML. you forced her to become empress and then you take away all of her freedom? what? I really like the FL, but I really hate the ML. If it isn't resolved in the next chapter, where Bunrin at least kneels down and swears never to hurt her again, i'm unfollowing.
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@PanzerIVF Where did you read the raws?
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Man, that escalated. Surprising, but also not.
So I understand the bloodlust you've all got, but you have to understand that what she did was a potentially Major MAJOR Problem. Like we're talking 'Could get them both killed' level of problem. We're talking 'Could Literally start a Civil War' level of problem. See, and admittedly what I'm referencing comes from the history of the Eastern Roman Empire but I'm going to assume that similar things happened in Imperial China and even if they didn't the Manga suggests that a similar situation exists in their fictional Empire, Sports, especially Team Sports, are massively important. In particular, backing a specific team can be, for a politician, less about team loyalty or love of the sport as we would understand it and more like a Political Statement. Some historians even go so far as to suggest that the Byzantine's Blue and Green Teams were comparable to modern Political Parties.
The Manga does explicitly state that the North and South teams are extremely competitive, and showing favor to one team is almost assuredly an unofficial way for politicians to make statements of who and what they support. Given the description of the soldiers of the North Branch as 'Snobbish' they are probably tightly connected to the Nobility. Likely this would have been explained to her in the lectures she stopped paying attention to. For the Emperor or Empress to show favor to one team or another could seriously compromise their standing with the other team and thus compromise their standing with the Nobles and Politicians that support that team. And by "Show Favor" I mean the comparatively simple and easy act of even complementing one of the participants in public. For the Empress to actually take part in the games on a specific team's side would not only be a major faux-pas but is all but declaring "The Emperor has decided that this is the only team he cares about everyone else should go fuck themselves", even if he didn't even know about it let alone order it.
For Reference, the Nika Riots of Justinian started with mounting taxes against the nobility causing discontent, challenges to legitimacy due to a not particularly spectacular war, and anger from a remarkably balanced legal decision.
The Nika Riots ended with 5 days of Riots burning down much of the city including the Hagia Sophia, an actual literal attempted Coup against the Emperor that went so far as to bring in a new candidate and literally Crown Him as Emperor, and 30000 Dead.
So I understand the bloodlust you've all got, but you have to understand that what she did was a potentially Major MAJOR Problem. Like we're talking 'Could get them both killed' level of problem. We're talking 'Could Literally start a Civil War' level of problem. See, and admittedly what I'm referencing comes from the history of the Eastern Roman Empire but I'm going to assume that similar things happened in Imperial China and even if they didn't the Manga suggests that a similar situation exists in their fictional Empire, Sports, especially Team Sports, are massively important. In particular, backing a specific team can be, for a politician, less about team loyalty or love of the sport as we would understand it and more like a Political Statement. Some historians even go so far as to suggest that the Byzantine's Blue and Green Teams were comparable to modern Political Parties.
The Manga does explicitly state that the North and South teams are extremely competitive, and showing favor to one team is almost assuredly an unofficial way for politicians to make statements of who and what they support. Given the description of the soldiers of the North Branch as 'Snobbish' they are probably tightly connected to the Nobility. Likely this would have been explained to her in the lectures she stopped paying attention to. For the Emperor or Empress to show favor to one team or another could seriously compromise their standing with the other team and thus compromise their standing with the Nobles and Politicians that support that team. And by "Show Favor" I mean the comparatively simple and easy act of even complementing one of the participants in public. For the Empress to actually take part in the games on a specific team's side would not only be a major faux-pas but is all but declaring "The Emperor has decided that this is the only team he cares about everyone else should go fuck themselves", even if he didn't even know about it let alone order it.
For Reference, the Nika Riots of Justinian started with mounting taxes against the nobility causing discontent, challenges to legitimacy due to a not particularly spectacular war, and anger from a remarkably balanced legal decision.
The Nika Riots ended with 5 days of Riots burning down much of the city including the Hagia Sophia, an actual literal attempted Coup against the Emperor that went so far as to bring in a new candidate and literally Crown Him as Emperor, and 30000 Dead.
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The problem isn't that she took up in the competition, the problem is she did it in a competition that could cause discontent if the imperial family took a side, she may have caused a massive political incident by taking part in the competition that could lead to civil strife.
The problem isn't that she took up in the competition, the problem is she did it in a competition that could cause discontent if the imperial family took a side, she may have caused a massive political incident by taking part in the competition that could lead to civil strife.
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@Tatsuya-Kai that makes so much more sense. I would have also been tempted to slap her in that case, lmao. What was she freaking thinking!
@skytempest I download from Manga Magazines called Princess when I saw the cover of the Empress. And hold behold, she command entire army! I just hope the translator will translate this much faster cause it's interesting.
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@PanzerIVF Thanks for replying, that does sound interesting!
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🤬🤬I don't care what kind of massive political issues it could have caused. You don't slap your wife like that. If he had sat down with her and explained alllllll of this and she refused to listen, then, maaayyybe some punitive action as Emperor would be justified. But STILL not slapping your wife and Empress. You knew what kind of woman she was when you married her, dammit.🤬
I hate stories where someone marries/dates a quirky person and tries to straighten them out. If you want a dainty princess who follows all the rules, you have a ton of them in your harem already.🤬
I hate stories where someone marries/dates a quirky person and tries to straighten them out. If you want a dainty princess who follows all the rules, you have a ton of them in your harem already.🤬
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Thank you so very much for translating this!! I really want to know what happens next! I am really curious to know how someone totally out of their comfort tries to fit into a place that goes against everything they are used to.
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