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Okay, so after our MC is with the beastmen (as mentioned in canon, beastmen are discriminated against). Because MC's kingdom announced that they now have the miko, the rival kingdom (I'll just call them K & RK for short), is amping up their enslavement of beastmen & invading other villages. A group of survivors (cat beastmen) end up meeting with MC & the wolf village.

The 7th Prince of RK (13 years old, emo, sad, has no political power) is forced by his dad to lead a troop to invade the villages. His men invaded the cat village & later captures Gaius' dad, who chooses to die rather than give up the location of the wolf village.

When Gaius' dad doesn't come back, Gaius runs into the woods to look for him, but is nearly captured by the Prince's men. MC rushes in to save him & her miko powers create a massive whirlwind that forces them to give up & leave. (7th Prince will remember this....)

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MEANWHILE, back at K castle - The church is suspecting Alice to be a fake miko. One of the priests who received a prophecy from God about the miko finally woke up (they all got knocked into a coma shortly after getting the prophecy) & tells them that Alice can't be the miko because the miko should be brunette. So the priest is put under house arrest for a brief while since they have to figure out how to handle this as they already publicly announced that they have the miko. Also, because of Alice's displeasure with the Princess, she was forcibly engaged to the politically unimportant 7th Prince of RK as a pseudo-exile/punishment (she is around his age).

They exchange letters & the 7th Prince asks her if her country really has the miko. Through their letters, 7th tells her about his encounter with the MC & Princess tells him of her suspicions regarding Alice. They slowly manage to put together the real truth from the bits of information they have.

K Kingdom is seemingly falling into ruin with bad harvests & bad weather, even Alice's mom becomes ill. The church, after interrogating the parents about whether or not they had another child, finally are forced to admit that they don't have the real miko. They also condemn the parents, who are defiant & self-righteous to the end. The parents even go so far as to blame Alice for not helping them escape house arrest & blaming MC for all their problems.

The twins' mom used to be from fallen nobility & has become obsessed with regaining her former standing - which is why she's so fixated on Alice (because of her noble-like looks) & hates MC, thinking that she's creepy & uncute. The dad's just a dick who agrees with everything she thinks. She's in complete disbelief of her illness, yelling that she's the miko's mother & should be blessed by God.

Alice is also under house arrest & being charged with the crime of pretending to be the miko. She's outraged & shocked that people aren't treating her with love & respect, but after spending some time in her cell, she self-reflects & realizes that the weird ones were the villagers & her parents, who lauded everything she did, even if it was just existing. Their fanaticism had completely brainwashed her & now that's she's away from any fawning or adoration, she becomes aware of her own failings.

K Kingdom breaks into civil war because of the natural disasters & the fake miko, one of the princes uses the unrest as an excuse to depose the king in a coup. Princess is forced to submit to his faction as she has no power. The nobility in this faction are going to put all the blame of the civil war on Alice, who again - is a freaking KID, & have her executed to appease the ignorant masses.

Princess goes to visit Alice in her cell & to rescue her. They chat briefly & when Princess asks Alice about MC, Alice is like ".....sister? I have a sister? You mean that person who lived in my house?" which shows just how AWFUL the parents treated MC. (I mean Alice didn't even fucking know they were related????)

Anyway, Princess takes Alice to her estate way out in the country to be her maid & to teach her common sense since Alice lacks any real-world knowledge because of how fucked up her village & parents were. Alice is genuinely happy & adapts fairly well, although she is a bit saddened over her label as "fake miko" & how people literally want her dead because of it. A gardener almost tricks her into sneaking out of the estate, but Alice respects Princess' efforts to help her too much to betray her promise to stay on the estate. The gardener grows impatient & attacks her, but luckily Alice is saved by the other staff. Alice asks Princess if she's not allowed to leave because she's the fake miko, but Princess informs her that it's because of Alice's unique looks, which unfortunately make her a prime target for the slave market.

Alice & Princess develop a very close bond & Princess is the person that Alice loves & respects the most, & wishes to always stay by her side & help her. Alice does occasionally think about how MC is doing, but not that often since she's not familiar with MC at all.

The mother dies from illness & the father is captured as a slave during the civil war. He swears vengeance & hate on both of his daughters, blaming them for everything. He escapes & runs into the same woods they abandoned MC in, except since he doesn't have God's blessings, he is immediately killed by a monster. He does not regret or repent his actions even as he's being torn to shreds.

The priest was released from house arrest & sent by the church to go look for MC. He travels into the woods with a female swordsman as his companion. This whole episode has disillusioned him from the church & he just wants to serve MC faithfully.

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MC comforts Gaius over the loss of his father. The wolf village is forced to relocate in order to avoid RK's armies. They encounter an elf village, which is cold to them even though they allowed them to stay. The elves refuse to tell them their names.

MC's spiritualness causes her to run into the elves' elder, who is surprised by her ability. It's revealed that the elves were planning to sacrifice the wolves to a demonic creature that has been holding the elves' spirit tree hostage (it's what sustains their village). MC is able to use her spirit powers to defeat the creature & the elves are shown that the creature was never going to uphold its promise as it already drained the spirit tree dry. The spirit tree grants MC a seed to create a new spirit tree (& thus a new elf village) as it dies. The elves & wolves reconcile, although it takes a while for the wolves as they acknowledge the apologies but will not forget this. The elves swear to make up for their error, no matter how long it takes.

So now it's MC, wolves + elves traveling together. They eventually find a nice spot to plant the spirit tree & settle down. They encounter a group of gypsies(?) (not sure what the term is, they look human but they have magic tattoos/markings on them, so they're considered demihumans like the wolves, cats & elves). Unfortunately, there is friction between them & one of the wolves is killed in a conflict that turned physical. The gypsies end up giving their leader's daughter to the village as a political hostage. The gypsies live in their own settlement outside the village for now, while the girl lives in MC's house.

A group of winged people are drawn to MC & fly down to the village to meet her, fighting with the wolves in the process. Nobody has ever heard of this race before (they look like humans but with bird wings) & apparently the winged race is aware of the land-locked races, but they just don't care about them. All they care about is their God & being around MC makes them have the same feeling they have when praying to their God. It's revealed that their God is in fact a massive dragon (wind god) & that MC's miko affinity is best with creatures of flight & wind magic (although she CAN learn all magics.)

Dragon summons MC for a chat & gives her a massive infodump on what a miko is. There is one miko in each generation, but it can appear in any race, which is why it took so long for a human miko to appear (think ATLA rules & how it takes like over a century between a Water Tribe Avatar & the next Water Tribe Avatar :]). Dragon has befriended (& fought) mikos of many races over the years (It was a demon race Miko who eventually befriended Dragon after many battles). A previous miko was on really good terms with Dragon & blessed the entire forest it lives in as a gift.

Mikos are loved by God, but it's more like uhhhh they're the Ultimate Lucky Student lmaooo? Basically, they can still die of natural causes or by just being really dumb, but they have a lower chance because of their high luck stat that extends to their home & surroundings. If they no longer consider an area to be their home, its luck stat abruptly reverses back to normal (which is why K Kingdom was falling apart & the village was in ruins), & it's made worse if the area relied entirely on that luck & didn't bother with putting effort into things.

Village: who cares about fertilizer or anti-pest defenses when we have amazing harvests every year!
Village, 1 year later after MC leaves: FUCK.

And that is why MC had such a shitty life. Because she only had a high passive luck stat & was not guaranteed happiness. Dragon points out that if God controlled how her life went, God would have to control everything & that would negate the whole point of humanity's free will, so while MC is favored by God, MC is not literally Jesus. She's just super lucky & has powerful magic.

Dragon then gifts its egg to MC, saying that the dragonet inside will immediately inherit its wisdom of many years & be a good companion to MC. The winged people are very excited about this & end up becoming a real addition to the village & not just mildly troublesome visitors. The egg hatches into a smol cute dragonet that can't speak yet (makes cute baby noises) but understands & knows basically everything already.

Priest & Swordswoman eventually make it into the village & they are put under house arrest until the village can determine their trustworthiness. MC is worried because the Priest is fanatically devoted to her & idolizes her, & she is afraid that he'll do something drastic if he perceives something to be a slight against her in any way. She tells him her fears upfront & how she does not trust him because of this. He is incredibly moved by her straightforward & honest demeanor & swears to serve her righteously & properly as a person, not as a perfect being. Also, he won't return to the Church or tell them where she is.

Swordswoman has a crush on the Priest & MC encourages her to confess. Priest refuses because he must remain chaste as he is a devoted servant of the Miko. MC tells him that she doesn't care about other people's relationships, so he & the swordswoman try out this awkward new dating thing.

MC also blessed Gaius as a Miko's knight, which unlocked his true potential (he can now turn into a full wolf) & his fur turned silver. MC eventually has the village reconcile with the gypsies & has a proper conversation with the hostage. The hostage is no longer a hostage but lives in the village & she also gets blessed by MC, which unlocked her ability to buff people with her dance (kinda useless in battle since it buffs everyone, not just allies).
She also celebrates her 12th birthday with the villagers.

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7th is seriously against all the beastman slavery but feels helpless to do anything but to obey his father. Princess reams him out for being a coward & this pushes him to drastic measures. He now is secretly organizing a beastman slave rebellion against RK Kingdom, buying up tons of beastman slaves & secretly freeing them, letting them escape to beastman freedom movements & to the forest where MC's village is. He also cuts off his engagement with the Princess as to not implicate her in the chance that he fails in his rebellion. Because of his slave buying, he's slandered in RK as a beastman obsessed prince/pervert.

It's revealed that the cat beastmen from earlier were all captured & enslaved. One of them (the one most prickly to MC) was bought as a plaything by a noblewoman. He sucks up to her instead of trying to escape as he wants power in order to free ALL slave beastmen, not just his fellow villagers. The other catbeastmen lambast him as a traitor because of his simpering behavior. 7th makes contact with him & he teams up with 7th in order to fully realize the rebellion. He provides him with contacts to the dragon beastmen rebels, who provide 7th with a water spirit stone to enhance his water magic.

RK is now in open civil war with the slaves & 7th & his troops fight battle after battle to meet with the other princes & to plead with them to join their cause. The princes refuse each time & 7th is forced to kill them one after the other with water magic before finally besieging the castle & killing the king. Now crowned the feared & bloody king of RK, 7th grants a pardon to the cat beastman & reveals how he was assisting with the rebellion & wasn't actually a traitor in order to clear his name among his kind. The nobility fear 7th & the beastmen, expecting a tyrannical reign from them, but 7th is tired & just wants peace & reconstruction. Princess goes to meet him, disregarding the fears of her servants as she believes in him, & insists that their engagement is still valid as she already sent her troops to him to support his coup, so she's involved either way. 7th finally cracks a genuine smile & relents.

The escaped beastmen who made it to MC's village relay the news of what happened to RK & K Kingdoms. The village is obviously torn over the enemy, 7th, being on their side. Gaius in particular, struggles with his feelings of hatred towards 7th & the rationality of beastmen joining 7th's coup. MC assures him that it's natural to feel that way. 7th's men escorted the ex-slaves to the village, but they are kept under close watch & aren't trusted by the villagers yet. The soldiers work hard to gain the villagers' trust.

The priest & Lan decide to make a children's storybook in order to properly relay MC's miko identity (as she now accepts its responsibilities & meaning) to the village since it's getting so big. MC agrees & they work over how to properly tell MC's life in storybook form. MC vetoes the priest's version as it villainizes Alice too much & she wants to keep Alice's portrayal brief but neutral in the book. The book starts with a very brief intro of MC's life in the village & mainly focuses on her & the griffons, as that was when MC truly began to live. Book 2 is focused on the wolves.

i dont give 2 flyings fucks bout your backstory

DO NOT READ WITHOUT READING THE RECENT CHAPTERS OF THE MANHWA (UNTIL CHAPTER 47)



People hate Lucio too much but he really isn't a bad person. Except for making Patrizia queen because she's infertile, everything else was Rosemond's doing. Petronilla was executed because of Rosemond and Lucio didn't even know she did it until evidence proved otherwise. He's a great emperor despite his emotional disposition. Unless you read the novel, you probably won't be able to realize that.

Also let me point out that Lucio in the previous timeline was an affection-craving fool but in this timeline, he is more self-aware and in denial because he knows Rosemond doesn't love him. Although he didn't show it at the beginning, he was actually having doubts about her. This is because Rosemond also has memories of the past and her self-awareness of her past mistakes altered her personality. I'm quite sure she truly loved Lucio despite manipulating him in the past timeline but in the present, she's so focused on becoming queen that it became her downfall in the end.

(LUCIO)
The previous emperor (Lucio's father) was married to Alisa, the daughter of the most powerful Duke in the kingdom. But Alisa was infertile and at the same time the emperor's concubine, Janet, gave birth to an heir. As a queen who could not give birth, Alisa was basically useless so she decides to take Janet's son as her own. But the truth was that she just wanted to fuse her jealousy and abuse the kid; physically, emotionally, and sometimes sexually as well. Lucio grew up believing Alisa was his mother and didn't understand why she treated him like that. Days before his birthday, Alisa called Lucio to the courtyard telling him she had a gift for him (Lucio never once celebrated his birthday so he was excited). When Lucio arrived, Alisa threatened him to kill a person hidden underneath a white veil. He refused but then she began to beat him up until he gave in. With a sword she gave him, he stabbed the person under the veil multiple times. Alisa, laughing crazily, then reveals that she wasn't his real mother and that the person Lucio killed was Janet, his biological mother. At that time the emperor was away from the palace so when he came back, Alisa was dethroned from her status as queen and Lucio was never the same again.

(ROSEMOND - warning mention of sexual assault)
Rosemond is the daughter of a prostitute and a Baron. When she was 10, her biological mother was killed by the Baroness then the Baron took her in. She was treated like a maid and abused in the estate. At one point, her half-brother began to see her as a woman and so he raped her. Rosemond wanted to become queen in order to not only destroy the Baron's household but to also eliminate anyone who judged her for her commoner background. That's when Rosemond decided to "coincidentally" meet the emperor and share her painful story with him. Because of that, Lucio sympathized with her, and her plot to becoming queen began.

(DUKE EPHRENY)
(by order of nobility: duke, marquis, count, viscount, baron)
Duchess Ephreny was the daughter of a Marquis and Duke Ephreny was the son of a Baron. When they were younger, he seduced her, spiked her drink, and raped her. When she became pregnant, she decided to marry him because she had no memories of the rape and was convinced she loved him. Keep in mind though, that Duchess Ephreny is a blood descendent of the Ephrenys so she has a general claim of all rights and wealth while her husband is only powerful because of his wife's last name. Soon after the Duchess bore a son and her husband went from Marquis to Duke. The reason he was able to gain such a high title was because he manipulated the previous empress Alisa. Because of him, Alisa began to hate Janet (Lucio's biological mother) which ultimately lead to her forcing Lucio to kill his own mother. Rosemond knows about this because of her past memories, so she uses it to blackmail Duke Ephreny.

There are 3 pillars in the kingdom. The chancellor of the three was the Dukedom of Oswins (empress Alisa's house). But because Ephreny manipulated the previous empress Alisa into committing treason, Duke Oswins secluded himself. This gave way for the Dukedom of Ephreny to climb to the top. Thus, Rose being adopted makes her a high-status woman of the empire, second only to Patrizia. Rosemond's plan is to become Princess of Ephreny, announce that Patrizia is infertile, and work to becoming queen dowager. She basically plans to become a widowed queen where she gets rid of Lucio after bearing his child in order to gain an immediate legal claim of the throne, through giving birth to the heir.

Patrizia and Lucio grow increasingly close especially when she sees Lucio hurting himself due to a psychological attack in the next chapter of the manhwa (chapter 48). They also keep coincidentally seeing each other in the garden at night, which is also where Lucio tells Patrizia about his past. This all happens while Rosemond went away to her parent's house so when she came back Lucio began to reject her because he started to side with Patrizia. Everyone who knew about his past would avoid or judge him, but Patrizia pitied him and didn't understand why he was so used to pain. He then falls for her kind and genuine personality as well as her capabilities as queen.

On the evening of the Nation's Founding, Rosemond is officially adopted as Duke Ephreny's daughter. Lucio and Patrizia are both close but awkward with each other, mainly because Lucio is starting to subtly act on his feelings by always being around Patrizia and constantly asking if she's tired or not (yes he's really falling in love with her and infinitely dumping that bimbo) but Patrizia doesn't know how to react to him. But while she's alone, Rosemond appears and suddenly talks about rumors of how Patrizia hadn't slept with Lucio yet. She then asks why Patrizia isn't pregnant yet and claims Patrizia could be infertile which makes Patrizia incredibly furious because infertility is a great taboo (see what happened to late empress Alisa) among the public. And with their culture (especially considering she's the queen) it defines her dignity as a woman as well. Patrizia slaps Rosemond a couple of times out of anger after she proposes they both have a fertility test to find out the truth. After the fight, Lucio pulls Rosemond away to talk. They argue and break up after Rose admits she was only making use of his trauma and that Patrizia would never love a man who killed his own mother.

Because of Rosemond's scandalous actions, the Council decides to have the fertility test but Patrizia refuses to take it. Lucio keeps desperately urging her to, but Patrizia doesn't listen because she was positive she isn't sterile. That's when she realizes why Lucio was acting strangely desperate. She connects the dots and finds out about Lucio's plan with Rosemond of getting a queen who couldn't give birth. Patrizia feels devastated and betrayed while asking him "How are you any different from empress Alisa?!" then leaves him alone. After returning to her palace, she orders her maids to find a perfume called stereen (?) and gift it to Rosemond. When Rosemond received it, she started using it a lot, thinking it was Patrizia's way of licking her shoes for mercy.

One evening, Rosemond enters Lucio's bedroom and makes Lucio drink an aphrodisiac in order to force him to sleep with her. At this point, Lucio is completely in love with Patrizia even though she absolutely hates him. So he leaves the room to restrain himself because Rosemond wasn't going to leave. By coincidence, he meets Patrizia outside. Seeing his state, Patrizia suggested he slept with Rosemond/maid/any woman in the palace but he didn't want to. So Patrizia decides to help him and they have their first night together.

Petronilla actually has memories of the previous timeline. Patrizia finds this out during Lucio's birthday banquet. Rosemond had changed the traditional birthday flowers to sage - empress Alisa's favorite flowers that by the scent and appearance, could give Lucio severe psychological attacks because of his PTSD. But Petronilla was able to change the flowers to amaryllis and exposes her past memories to Patrizia. Because of that, Patrizia finds confidence in finding a way to kill Rosemond. She was depressed knowing her efforts were wasted because she's infertile, but it became her strength because she realized that she finally had nothing else to lose.

Petronilla has an important role in helping Patrizia expose Rosemond. Because of her, the truth about January (Duke Ephreny's mistress) conspiring with Rosemond will be revealed. In the end, she manages to steal the letters Rosemond sent to January in order to provide them as evidence in court.

Patrizia is confused with her feelings after sleeping with Lucio, so she goes to her parent's home for a visit. On her way back to the palace, she's ambushed by assassins. Patrizia had purposely exposed the fact that she was leaving for her parents' home so she already expected the assassination to happen. And according to the plan, Patrizia has the royal guards save her while she purposely slices her arms and legs with a knife for better effect and to cause an uproar among the people about someone trying to harm the queen. When she returns to the palace, Lucio says it was Rosemond's plan because he heard her talking about the assassination with her maid. Rosemond is again sentenced to execution and Lucio whole-heartedly agrees with it. She tries to get Duke Ephreny to save her but Patrizia and Petronilla had compiled Rosemond's letters to January and sent them to Duchess Ephreny.

The Duchess's son with the Duke had died because of the illness so the Duchess was mentally unstable. And after returning to the empire and reading through the letters about her husband raping her, she kicks January and the Duke out of the mansion. So Rosemond then has no one to save her from execution. Days before her death, Patrizia confronts Rosemond about what she did to Duke Ephreny, January, and basically all her crimes. Rosemond claims she would survive because apparently, she was pregnant with Lucio's child. Patrizia then exposes that the perfume she gave Rosemond as a "gift" before had contained chemicals that could make her infertile. So Rosemond ultimately became infertile as well. After that, Rosemond is killed without delay.

Patrizia tells Lucio that she wants to step down from being queen. Lucio panics and begs her to stay. He always felt like he was alone in the palace but having Patrizia there made him feel like he wasn't (it was a very dramatic and emotional scene ngl. you could practically smell his mental state crumbling) In the end, Patrizia stays in the palace because (1) Lucio, as emperor, wouldn't let her, and (2) it wasn't that simple to just stop being queen.

In an effort to appease her, Lucio asks Petronilla about things Patrizia liked. Because Patrizia liked sweets/chocolate, Lucio asks the chef to teach him how to bake. He then keeps sending sweets to Patrizia that he baked on his own.

Petronilla tells Patrizia to stop staying in the past because her mission to save her family is complete. Petronilla admits that she did love Lucio (in the previous timeline) but it shouldn't stop Patrizia from loving him in the present because Lucio loved Patrizia and she wanted Patrizia to finally live happily. This is when Patrizia decides to accept her feelings for Lucio. Coincidentally that night, Lucio had another psychological attack. Patrizia goes into his room to comfort him and tell him she accepted his feelings. They slept together for the second time, but as lovers.

Anything after that is very fluffy husband-wife moments with Lucio still baking sweets for Patrizia from time to time. There's a scene during Patrizia's birthday banquet where she sees Lucio being seduced by a woman who wanted to be queen but he harshly rejects her. When he realized Patrizia saw him with the woman, he adorably tries to explain the situation frantically. They end up dancing on the balcony, having a steamy kiss, and also watching the fireworks together. Patrizia then, for the first time, tells Lucio that she loved him.

The last chapter of the original story is about Petronilla and Rothesay's wedding. Lucio and Patrizia are attending but in disguise. Other side stories after the main story are about (1) a coup de tat in the previous timeline after Petronilla died, (2) Rothesay's POV when he met Petronilla, and (3) Lucio and Patrizia's family life.

Patrizia and Lucio's family life is about Lucio being forced to choose a concubine in order to produce an heir because Patrizia was "infertile". Patrizia agreed to it but Lucio knew she was hurt and always cried a lot because the one thing she wanted was to have a child with the man she loved. Lucio promised she would be his one and only queen. When Patricia went to do charity, she met this old guy claiming he knew her and asked to see her later. During the concubine selection, Patrizia chose Lady Petunia among the candidates but she turns out to be another bitch that belongs to the street who openly insults Patrizia in front of everyone. Lucio then defends his wife and puts the bitch right where she belongs. Before Patrizia reselects another candidate, the old man from before arrived and exposed himself as the physician who conducted her health documents during the queen selection. Apparently, he heard Rosemond's plan in choosing the queen, so to save his daughter who was one of the candidates, he messed up Patrizia's fertility results.

Patrizia and Lucio then do the deed a lot of times (づ￣ ³￣)づ in order to make babies. Lucio joked about having 10 kids but Patrizia laughed saying it was impossible for her to give birth for 10 straight years. Lucio suggests they keep having twins to limit it to 5 years lol. One month later Patrizia is confirmed to be pregnant. Lucio kept feeding her berries and they kept being lovey-dovey.

Time skip 7 years later their first son Dylan wants to sleep with his mom. Lucio says you only sleep with someone you marry so Dylan says he wants to marry Patrizia. Lucio gets annoyed (cute) so Patrizia tells Dylan to sleep early and get tall because she likes tall people. Lucio has the AUDACITY to feel proud because he thinks he's pretty tall lmao. The three of them end up sleeping beside each other. Dylan then asks how babies were made and Lucio tells him if he wants a brother he should let him and Patrizia "hold hands alone". After that night Dylan keeps giving them time alone (⌒▽⌒)

Another time skip, Dylan has triplets as younger sisters; Regina, Ressie, and Raine. Lucio by this time is already in his 40s but Patrizia still describes her heart beating fast when she's with him despite them being together for 20 years already. Patrizia says none of the emperors throughout history have been as good to their queens as Lucio was to her. But maybe Dylan would break the record and Patrizia was really proud to have him as her son. Lucio also gets jealous since none of their children wanted to marry him, including his triplet daughters. All of them wanted to marry their mom.

The next night it's Patrizia's birthday and she's surprised with gifts. After opening them, the children tell Lucio and Patrizia to kiss. They kissed and lived happily ever after. The END


If you have any questions, feel free to ask. The spoilers here are only the main events in the novel so I skipped out on the minor details that didn't affect the plot drastically.

can anyone tell me where to start on the novel? like which chapter does this lead onto?

(heres a link!)
https://www.novelupdates.com/series/lucia/