Summary
Read mangaa The Princess of Aisha / アイシャの皇女
Betrayed by her own uncle and caught in a cruel scheme, Eijin Turandeus goes from the rightful heir of Aisha to a prisoner sold at a secret auction. Her life seems over, until Kaiden von Bilteraus, the Crown Prince of Decan, steps in to buy her freedom.
But Kaiden isn’t acting out of mercy. He has learned of a prophecy from the Grand Temple foretelling a divine Saintess, a girl who happens to look exactly like Eijin.
To uncover the truth, the two form a strategic alliance. Kaiden takes her under his protection, and they are bound together by necessity. Yet, as the prince and the fallen princess work side by side to reclaim what was lost, their strict, calculated partnership begins to shift into a spark neither of them can ignore.
Eveaustria
Looks a bit like a Chinese manhua and the story also certainly resembles one with all the overexaggeration of cruelty and unjust treatment of the female lead, but it’s actually a comic based on a Korean webnovel.
I would not recommend reading it; even though the art is very nice to look at – and it seems the story at least tries to be a bit different. However it’s not enough by far and all the unfair suffering of the female lead is just disgusting to look at.
The story does not includes any transmigration/isekai nor regression in time (at least not during the first 9 chapters), but the Victorian fantasy world still is exactly the same as in these genres with nothing unique or interesting to it so far.
We also have a lot of typical but very illogical ingredients, like a super beautiful but extremely pitiful and also wrongfully vilified princess for a female lead. In this case it’s one whose father – the emperor – was murdered by his brother (the evil uncle) who then abuses, oppresses and blackmails the female lead, cruelly wounds her loyal servants (at least does not murder them) and sells the female lead off into a marriage.
The only small difference to all the common clichés is that the female lead is not simply forced into a political marriage, instead she is auctioned off – in an auction where she is called cursed and slandered with false rumors (boo-hoo).
However of course in the end she still is bought by a crown prince, not anyone of a little bit lower status or wealth, and of course it’s someone who is called “mad dog of the battlefield” while still being attractive… who had come riding all alone into this country in order to buy the princess and actually saves her from the clutches of much more villainous would-be-buyers…
Of course on the way back (just the two royals by themselves) this guy grabs the female lead violently, insults her and spouts horribly rude words towards the innocent princess at first for absolutely no reason at all, like 80% or so of all Asian despicable male leads act like.
Well, luckily he doesn’t force her to “serve” him in bed (there have been stories like that before with absolute scum male leads who tell female leads that were forced into marriage to do this, like in the “The Pearl of Albrecht” for example, which would be the absolute worst)!
Instead the male lead of course wants to marry her, and even offers the female lead to help with her revenge if she in return helps him win his own throne in his country… But since such plots have been part of so many Asian comics already, there’s no originality to this anymore at this point.
After their arrival in the male lead’s country it’s just the usual story of intrigues within the royal palace, slander and bullying of course that the female lead has to stand up against like by using very manhua-like tricks, abused maids, evil rivals and even some kind of curse with seizures for the male lead * sigh *
All of this crap, no matter how beautiful to look at, is not worth my time, sorry.