Rating
The Dowager’s Radiant Rise Average 3.9 / 5 out of 7
Rank
N/A, it has 11.9K monthly views
Alternative
未亡人皇太后の華麗なる逆転
Type
manga
Summary
Read manga The Dowager’s Radiant Rise / A Brilliant Reversal of the Widowed Empress Dowager / The Widow Queen Wants to Turn Over / 寡妇王后要翻身 / 未亡人皇太后の華麗なる逆転
Office worker Su Lili suddenly finds herself transported into a world of swords and magic—only to discover she’s now the widowed Queen of Lorenzo! With the late king gone, the kingdom is torn between warring factions, and all that remains is a crumbling throne… and an adorable 10-year-old crown prince. She planned to flee as far as possible from this political mess, but one look at her sweet (and helpless) stepson melted her resolve. Now, trapped by her own soft heart, she must navigate treacherous court intrigue, outwit power-hungry nobles, and somehow raise a future king—all while hiding the fact that she’s just an ordinary woman from another world! Will she survive long enough to stabilize the kingdom… or will the schemers tear her and the prince apart first?
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Eveaustria
This could be a good story, but it is told and illustrated in such a “bah, I don’t care”-way that it basically strangles its own potential. *sigh*
I haven’t read any isekai-stories before that would feature a dead male lead who appears as a ghost only to the isekai’d female lead and demands of her to resurrect him. And as a parallel story the male lead now becomes the ruler of a so-called “realm of souls”.
And here’s the first problem: the male lead (who was the emperor murdered by the original villainess) is now in the “realm of souls”, but still cannot recognize that the soul in the body of his wife/murderer has changed?
His small and way too trustful son becomes the emperor in name, our current female lead becomes the regent – so she has to deal with the court, her scheming family, assassination plots and the currently unhappy poplulation. She also needs to prevent the uncovering of the homicide the former owner of her body has committed – and to take care of the boy.
This could be the foundation of interesting developments…
However … the dialogues are sadly stupid, the female lead stumbles around quite helplessly and spouts easy-to-see-through lies instead of getting a grip and planning her survival properly. We also learn nearly nothing about her former life – initially we are told she was an office worker, but later on she says that her “field” was “science”? Plus: she wears the same dress for days even though she’s an empress now.
MexicanMary
Doesn’t seem interesting. The idea and plot have potential, BUT it is missing a couple of things at the beginning. A dead king that wants to be the king of the living and the dead. A transmigrated person who can’t do anything and is basically as limited as the character she moved into….
a child that is all love. cliche, yes, but it could work. However, something’s a miss. Like a tasty dish without salt.