foreword || when heaven burns
Title: When Heaven Burns
Genre: Historical, Romance
Rating: PG
Characters: Boa, Yunho, Lina, Yuri, Jaejoong and various others.
Joseon Korea, 1706. The wise and benevolent reign of King Yunjong has ushered in a golden age of peace and prosperity, yet his sudden death from an unknown illness threatens to plunge the state into a new era of chaos, undoing decades of progress. With Crown Prince Yunho still a child, the former Empress Jyehyun, now Empress Dowager, is appointed crown regent, ruling over the Joseon Dynasty with the aid of the Chief State Councillor, Kwon Junghyun, until the young Crown Prince comes of age to assume his rightful birthright.
Kwon BoA, youngest child of the Kwon clan and the sole daughter, was brought into the palace at a young age to serve as a gongyeo. Audacious at heart and extremely intelligent, the young maiden’s fate unexpectedly becomes intertwined with the lives of the Royal Family as she grows up. Life in the imperial household also brings BoA to the realization of the need to plot and scheme against others in order to survive. BoA begins to realize that the seemingly perfect life in the Imperial Palace so many dream of is, in fact, not so perfect after all.
Genre: Historical, Romance
Rating: PG
Characters: Boa, Yunho, Lina, Yuri, Jaejoong and various others.
Joseon Korea, 1706. The wise and benevolent reign of King Yunjong has ushered in a golden age of peace and prosperity, yet his sudden death from an unknown illness threatens to plunge the state into a new era of chaos, undoing decades of progress. With Crown Prince Yunho still a child, the former Empress Jyehyun, now Empress Dowager, is appointed crown regent, ruling over the Joseon Dynasty with the aid of the Chief State Councillor, Kwon Junghyun, until the young Crown Prince comes of age to assume his rightful birthright.
Kwon BoA, youngest child of the Kwon clan and the sole daughter, was brought into the palace at a young age to serve as a gongyeo. Audacious at heart and extremely intelligent, the young maiden’s fate unexpectedly becomes intertwined with the lives of the Royal Family as she grows up. Life in the imperial household also brings BoA to the realization of the need to plot and scheme against others in order to survive. BoA begins to realize that the seemingly perfect life in the Imperial Palace so many dream of is, in fact, not so perfect after all.