![]() ![]() Lan'xiu and Hüi Wei were too intimate with each other too quickly. It is especially important when their loved ones are rulers and royals. People of lower position have to genuflect at every occasion, even when it is private and to their loved ones. The book did get the courtly etiquette correctly, but there seemed to be a belief that genuflecting is for public display. ![]() To explain it another way, the characters acted more like American-born Chinese than ancient Chinese people. The characters didn't seriously consider the potential consequences of their action about how it might affect friends, family, and the kingdom at large. The book was written in an apparent Western PoV because of the egocentric way the character acted and thought. I managed to overlook all of them but one. The story has a couple of flaws, and depending on readers' pet peeves the flaws can be overlooked or maddening. ![]()
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