Death can't be beautiful. The series tells the story of a state under the yoke of conquerors who treat the conquered people as garbage and humiliate their nobility, forcing them to recognize their power. Within the state, discontent grows and the nobility conspires to find a convenient moment and overthrow the conquerors, putting a wise and courageous leader in the place of the Sovereign. The matter is complicated only by the fact that the two most worthy and possible leaders are friends, the sister of one is the wife of the other and one of the friends is brave, and the second is wise.
Everything turns into a simple situation, on the one hand, one of the worthy to ascend the throne, having won the power of friends two wives, both pregnant, and the oracle of the current state predicts that because of the daughters born to this man, the state will be conquered by the enemy, so both daughters must be killed. The current sovereign believes in the oracle and orders the murder of the daughters of his likely rival, whom he suspects of plotting a coup d’etat. However, one of the wives of this man turns out to be cunning enough for her daughter to survive and substitutes the second wife, whose daughter seems to be killed, sending a young boy with a pierced heart in a boat, in which a young boy is put together with a newborn.
Tyranny on the part of the invaders instills anger, hatred and the desire to revenge in the people, as well as depressed nobility slowly and faithfully preparing a coup d’etat, betting on two outstanding friends who must carry it out.
What to think about, it would seem, when there is no choice, to live under oppression or to be freed, whether personal interests can be considered and whether they can exist and influence something. Time dictates to be cruel and not to think about your own well-being, otherwise you will not succeed in overthrowing the oppression of the invaders and you will have to endure what you do not want to tolerate.
On the other hand, children are born who are sentenced to death. What about the father whom the people of the conquered country hope to do? If he now protects his children by demonstrating his disloyalty to the regime, he will jeopardize the planned coup. Can he afford to think of his own children when the children of the common people die of starvation and the tyranny of the ruling invaders? A man cannot answer this question, let alone rein in his more aggressive wife, when she pierces the heart of a rival’s daughter with a hairpin and bribes an oracle to save his daughter’s life.
Let the man who took the throne lower all the dogs on her and give her daughter for the upbringing of his other wife, what she wanted, this woman achieved. Her daughter will be called a princess, and she will not be a beggar, and her brother's family will be humiliated before them so as not to lose their position. In addition, her husband is wise, people like his qualities, and he will not make mistakes that can lead to the collapse of the state or its collapse.
The strongest neighbor of the Nannan state, the Gogurye state, bursts in, dreaming of conquering Nannan and its wealth. The military approach is not started out of hand, so Sovereign Gogure has another way out, he wants to marry his son to the daughter of Sovereign Nannan and subjugate him.
The lives of children of powerful families are largely not their own, and if they behave rashly, they become victims of more skillful rivals. You can avoid forced marriage, but if you avoid illiteracy, but your path will be covered with shame.
The illegitimate heir, due to not too strong insight, could not outplay his father’s wife, gave in, did not resist and showed himself softly, caused the wrath of his father and began to manifest himself not as a possible heir, but as a simple man. The father, of course, began to wonder whether he needed such an heir, whether he could govern the state, and whether it was possible that everything invested in it was useless, since it went for nothing. Although the son promises to conquer the state they need, will he be able to do it after the implementation of his idea, will he be able to dispose of it?
And two fateful for the state of Nannan girls are alive, growing up in different conditions, one on everything ready and less wise and the second in poverty, which aims to find out who her parents are and why she lives in the world. As a result of different twists and turns, both fateful girls fall in love with Prince Gogure and if the prince himself falls in love with one, poor, then he intends to use the second rich princess to conquer her state.
What to do with a daughter who could have died from the moment of birth, was deceived by her mother and was made a princess? For her father, it was a blow that she could die and that his second daughter was as if killed, he had no more children, there is no heir to the throne, it remains to invest everything in the only daughter, teach her, teach her various wisdoms on the management of the state and succumb to her persuasion to make her the wife of the one she loves, even if everything cries out that her husband is dishonest and does not want a wedding, but uses her stupidity to conquer the state.
The red line is this idiot of a rich young girl and the mistrust of her parents, which is easily used by a fairly cunning and calculating guy to conquer her homeland. Absurd, of course, looks, but quite clearly says that if you stupidly follow emotions and feelings, you can lose everything, even without really twisting your hands. How often this happens is quite common, so today many rich families do not strictly monitor who their children communicate with, so that no one is superfluous, so that no stranger enters the family, the primacy of paranoia, not mind. What should be emphasized here is that a strong ruler builds a strong state, a weak one cannot build it and an already existing state cannot govern, whether it is worth spending time on such a possible sovereign is not of course. There are many people living in a large state, and if an illiterate Sovereign is on the throne, he will not be able to protect and protect anyone, and will not be able to give them a decent life and the state will collapse. So the father of the prince, seeing that his son is weak, compliant and unwise, decides that he is unlikely to be able to transfer power to him after himself, the wisdom invested in him and the trials of the ruler did not make him, this is an ordinary boy who does not think about the prosperity and strengthening of his state.
What this series is about is that there is no place for emotions in state affairs. In fact, everything can be phrased and ended. You can separately emphasize that you can always do differently if you think through your steps and achieve the cherished goal with little blood, but the main characters did not have enough and therefore the goals were achieved by secondary heroes who turned out to be smarter.