UPDATES EVERY SATURDAY. #116 in feminism
DISCLAIMER: This is a work of fiction. Any similarity to actual persons, living or dead, or actual events, is purely coincidental.
Independence. Knowledge. Love. It was a progressive imperial world of June 1892 when the latter is what ladies aim.
But, this goal does not apply to a nineteen-year-old Japanese woman, Ayako Yamaguchi. Believing that she will make her father proud, she leaves her home country intending to study in Great Britain. There, she is under the care of the Steinfeld family.
On the dangerous hand, secrets do not stay forever. Being independent is Ayako's true reason to leave with the help of Yui Tanaka, a former diplomat, and personal mentor. A golden rule of royal marriage that the wife's free-will remove in this full-fledged ceremony pushes her to run and hide from the hideous Imperial Prince Takahito Yokohama.
Although Ayako is seeking this major goal, her own definition changes when she becomes a tutor of a half-Japanese boy, Hiroto Kujo. With her knowledge, she spares him ideas of culture and language for his upcoming political career. Yet with mindful conceptions and lingering past from this man, she doesn't expect that there was a story before everything.
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Ryu Thanzerkes has never been the daughter her parents wanted. Raised in wealth but rejecting the expectations that came with it, she lived life on her own terms dressing how she wanted, loving who she pleased, and never taking anything too seriously. But when her family arranges a marriage not for her, but for her brother she finds herself drawn into a world she's always avoided.
She never cared about high society, never cared about arranged marriages. Until now.
As secrets unravel and emotions stir, Ryu begins to question everything. Was she really free, or had she been trapped all along?
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Note: This story was born purely from my imagination. I wrote it as a way to explore emotions, mystery, and hidden truths between characters. Afterwards, I used AI (ChatGPT) to help translate and refine the writing into a smoother, more detailed story style.