The Queen - Vol. 1 Ch. 40 - A perfect Curtain Call

[MangaDex]

 

[Mims]

Now that you have realized that the cheap romance in The Queen was only meant to distract you from the great political alliance that has been made, let us play with some hypotheses. None of these are spoilers but rather my own musings.

Four main characters. Two are major main characters, two are minor main characters. Two are emotionally stunted, two are emotionally labile.

Four ways to approach war. Assault. Defense. Flight. Capitulation. Two ways to keep one’s liberty. Two ways to become slaves. Two ways to deceive the enemy.

To make a court, one needs an Emperor, an Empress, an Army and Scholars.

Three characters whose actions belie their words. All three of them have power. Two with real power, one with nominal. Two are secondary characters, one is a main character. Two have went to bed together to topple the third.

A well-trained guard dog has been lent and has loyally done its duty.

Two women used, abused and discarded by the most important men in their lives. In the name of the greater good. In the name of power.

Everything is but illusion, everything is but ...

Now is the time to sit down, go back to the beginning and ACTUALLY read The Queen.

(It took this humble translator about three reads to get where TUTU was going with this. Mind you, TUTU is the one artist who actively rewards readers who are able to strip themselves of preconceived judgments and hypocrite moral tenants that have no place in a world where genocide and ethnic cleansing are the daily realities of most nations.)

 

[proulout]

Anyone who read ahead can tell me (in spoiler or pm) if mirage princess will reapear?

 

[beeqwop]

Where’s the part where this idiot MC can read the future? Because that’s never actually come up in the A plot. She’s only had plot flashbacks.

 

[Yatsuki]

@beeqwop Yeah I actually was also wondering about that power as well, as far as the RAW chapters go, I don't remember ever seeing her use it or being able to predict anything in the future :v

@proulout To answer your question

Spoiler

No, that's the last of her

 

[Ufaaa]

God
What a perfect way to start the story 😣

 

[Glomoro]

@beeqwop I'm pretty sure she's seen things in past chapters relating to the future. It just wasn't the useful kind of future sight that's straight forward. It's the ambiguous "What the fuck does that even mean?" kind that you might not understand until you're already too late to do anything about it. It hasn't come up in a while, though for sure.

 

[proulout]

@Yatsuki thanks.

 

[keks503]

Wow, this was kind of an amazing plot twist XDDD I wonder how consort Ling will survive this time; maybe through the help of the snow king? But gosh, with such a 'betrayal' by the emperor, how will she ever believe anyone again X'D? I don't want her to turn into a ruthless and cruel character ;A;

 

[DerpySausage]

Not gonna lie, I was reading this chapter and the moment the proclamation started I thought "He's going to discard her, RIP."

 

[kyara]

How is she going to get out of this one

 

[beeqwop]

@glomoro Do you remember approx when those visions happened? I know she was a bit of a seer during her village life, and that ended with her being cast out, but all the visions I recall of hers since then seem to be about when she was a princess of the spirit people.

 

[Glomoro]

@beeqwop She had that vision of the emperor strangling her when she had to drink alcohol that one time (if she wasn't just having an adverse reaction to the booze and dreaming about her fears for what would happen if she was seen, that one seems rather relevant at the moment for vague vision fuckery). Sometime around then something had given her the impression a bit later that one of those beasts the Fire people brought to the palace was an important clue for her search too. That was how she ran into the Snow king so that did arguably help with her search for information.

 

[beeqwop]

@glomoro I didn’t parse the strangling as prescience, but that seems like a fair read! The beasts thing seemed like a flashback to her childhood before the spirit people country fell. For a while I thought that her “sin” had to do with getting maimed or seemingly killed by one, lol. Or was there a flash of her getting attacked... now that I think of it, yeah, that’s a second premonition.

 

[Cleesus]

boy i saw this coming, MC is 0-10 terrible record

 

[Mivas]

Quite happy it happened this way tbh

 

[Lunagaia]

Ya damn bastard
maybe you're lying but for now
ya damn bastard

 

[KenOne]

Like I said, the long game. This is the turning point, either she toughens up or she dies.

I know quoting Got may annoy people, but when you play the game of thrones, you win or you die. Also, the foreshadowing was there from the get, I not surprised.

 

[Maaaary]

Oh my ghad even I has catched some feelings towards their relationship! How could he not catch even a little bit!

 

[BlobfishBeautySchool]

I’ve changed my mind. Now I’m kinda hoping they hate f*** first and then Ling busts Huan outta jail so they can rip the Emperor a new one. Huan still gotta die tho. You don’t pull a kid’s eye out.