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what’s confusing i can try to help

I dont know i cant like theres so much going on

well for starters, it began with mia, who’s the leader of the mu tribe, entering the palace as a palace musician, only until the end of the festival. her goal was to see what kind of a person the current raja was. at this time, taga min was engaged to simeya and her little sister was to be engaged to the raja. simeya’s goal is to rise from her low rank upbringing as a daughter of a concubine and thus sought to be with the most powerful man, the raja, and her actions will come to fruit later on as i tell what happened before that. btw the reason why the raja and simeya seem sort of intimate and calls raja by his name is cause they used to play chess together and if she won, she could call him by rajid.

so the run tribe was also to support the raja and his rule. however shahar (the one who hates the rajas guts) decided to conspire against the raja and with the paho tribe instead. there was a hunt coming up and the raja decided to bring mia with him and there shahar and the paho tribe decided to ambush the raja. at night while he’s with mia he gets ambushed by these assassins but manages to survive with mia. while this was happening, shahab, shahar’s older brother, asks him if it was his doing and after shahar confesses it was him shahab poisons and kills him and instead takes the place of shahar to conspire with the paho tribe.

now with both paho and run tribe working together to overthrow the raja(the run tribe provides resources and goods for the paho tribe through trade) the raja falls through a lot of stress and is mentally troubled. in order to win this war he needed the help of the mu tribe and thus went to their temple and called for their help. his mental state contributed his stress and fear from killing so many ppl and the bloodshed makes him question his rule as a king like when mia asked him what kind of a ruler he was. when he goes insane like this he prefers no company or he relieves his anger and frustration through means of violence or sex. he was injured from the hunt so his ppl believed he needed rest and that was when mia came in to help and tell him that it wasn’t his fault and they spend their first nights together. mia disappears after their first night and the raja has fallen in love with her. however, after she disappeared the paho tribe attacked Istania with brutal forces. At first, the raja tried to appease them through negotiation and commanded taga min to go talk to them, which was a fail bc he and his men got attacked but were saved by mia and the mu tribe. in the palace, as the raja fights off the paho tribe’s invasion with his military, the paho tribe broke through the wall Amal-(sorry i forgot the name of the city) by digging underground and breaks into the palace. the raja is fighting the leader of the paho tribe and almost dies but mia suddenly appears as the leader of the mu tribe. her cavalry and aid made the paho tribe retreat. okay u might wonder why didn’t she show up and help the raja earlier? why did she hide her identity for so long? well for the mu tribe they have aided the past rajas with military force and they countless ppl from their tribe have died protecting istania. this blood and hatred from the mu ppl accumulated through generation and thus they sought to be a free tribe that only follows their own orders, not anybody else’s. however, they have also promised the raja that they will help him in any situation if he needs help and so mia comes back with her tribe to help him and in return she asks for her tribe to be free.

so now that it’s known that mia is the leader of the mu tribe, gossip surrounded her since she was previously the personal court musician of the king. after the retreat of the paho tribe, the raja decides to hold a meeting with all tribes present. At first ppl shared their beliefs in appeasing the paho tribe and try to negotiate with them but mia steps in and says that no they shouldn’t. the goal of the paho tribe is to gain control over istania and use it as a stepping tool to reach the southern continent. ultimately the raja agrees to send the mu tribe off to battle. pahos tribe next target is heroifa, the second largest city of Istania. so the mu tribe went over there to protect it. while this is happening, simeya has stayed quiet for a little while but decides to take advantage of this situation and demands abazir (the father of simeya and elder of min tribe) to help her ascend to become rani(queen). she threatens him with evidence of his corrupted ways in getting money from the treasury and his misdeeds. so he decides to help her and asks the raja to bestow the name of rani to simeya. obviously this is beneficial to the raja bc he is in need of money since war is expensive and the amt of refugees keep increasing. with abazirs funding of all this, it would help the empire greatly and thus he decides to undergo this political marriage. taga min learns of this news and tries to coax simeya to not do it if she wants to be happy but (relating back to what i said in the beginning) she desires the most powerful man and that is the raja.

this was abt it until chapter 27 , hope this helped.

Oh........wow so wait simeya was the blond hair gurl right...so her and the raja are gonna get married while mia is going out o battle.....

P.s thank you for that good ass summary

yep he needs the money $$ and np

I didn’t really need it but I would like to commend the effort you put in making this summary