A SOLILOQUY OF FATE. — a wip by @vaelinor
❝ In her dreams, she pretends she has control. She imagines that she kills the emperor, that she can control her fate and ten million others’ as well. She envisions that she has a home with colorful walls, that she has food that is not mulberries, and that her blood is her own.
She is tired of pretending, but she does it anyway. Pretending is her survival.❞
genre ; young adult / new adult, high fantasy, coming of age
status ; first draft, writing
pov ; third person with occasional second person, present tense
themes & tropes ; anti-hero, poc representation, mutual pining, sapphic representation, symbolism, chosen one, mythology
trigger warnings ; blood, death, violence, child abuse, gore, sexual assault, body hatred, abduction, mental illness, misogyny
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SYNOPSIS.
Every year, the Mulberry Council of Shen Guo chooses twenty girls to serve the emperor. Known as the mulberry girls, their purpose is to provide blood for the emperor, who believes their blood is the key to achieving immortality.
To be chosen by the emperor is the utmost honor. All the girls in the land know this.
What no one knows is that this year, a phoenix is rising in the midst of the mulberries.
When Yun Xueying passes her evaluations, she has no choice but to walk the tightrope of being both a mulberry girl and a part of the emperor’s court. As she begins to train at the Meishu Academy, the school for royal courtesans, she discovers a set of rare powers lying dormant within her that could be her means to an end. And the world does not take this lightly; the ministers of the court follow her. The Mulberry Council worships her. The legend fear her. Yet, she refuses to bow to an emperor who uses her blood for his own gain. With the royal court at her command as she rises among the rankings, the help of the mulberry girls, and a power only held by one other living person in the world, Xueying orchestrates a plan to kill the emperor.
But walking the tightrope has always been dangerous. As she enters this game of treachery and ambition, Xueying must decide how much she is willing to sacrifice in the name of retribution and justice. For, after all, vengeance always comes at a price.
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