This is so fucking funny. Its really so fucking funny big spoilers for a story that may never be written but my character is a 'good king' archetype the Zhou empire is the Evil Empire and the whole point of this character and the Empire's princess meeting is that they're super blatant foils, in every single way, and the question is what is a good king? Someone who rallies the people, and fights against the yoke of the oppressor and wins the war and frees and benefits the people? And then? And what did it take? It's the fantasy archetype it's freaking Aragorn, but the enemy isn't some kind of pure evil and the war won't end all wars. And this girl in this webnovel story is a good lord the best in the world and she has somebody tortured to death and everybody in his service murdered and launches a war as revenge AND in my story it all ends when our main character finally GETS her revenge - she conquers the capital (she IS the barbarian hordes) and she rescues her brother and she murders every last member of the family who killed her father.
And she looks at all these heads rolling and all the blood flowing and she does NOT feel righteous. A 'good' king wins wars. A good king kills only out of necessity. A good king....
