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A hidden continent that protects the gate between our world and the demon world risks discovery if the people living on it can't get along. One of its generals has died, and his widow must train his successor as her grief destabilizes her magic. 129k multi-POV #Q #questpit #A #F #R #BIPOC #neurodiv

a picture of a man kissing a woman on the cheek as she smiles
Childhood friends to lovers
Haunting the Narrative
He fell first and harder.
Deconstructing Racism
Chinese demonology
Choose between staying out of harm's way or standing up for what's right
For women going through loss, women who wonder if they're allowed to be happy and selfish at the same time
a woman transforming into a dragon fly. a man cast in a white light.

Anda, the Widow
She needed him. She needed him the way lovers needed secrets. The way moons needed night skies. The way leaves needed green, blood needed red, and disease needed children.

Longzi, the Traitor
Twenty-seven years. He’d lived twenty-seven years, and he’d been promised a thousand more. A millennium of Anda, and now, he’d never see her again. She might see him, yes. In his portraits, in her memories, in her dreams, but whatever awaited him after life, whether existence simply darkened or he turned his head skyward forevermore, he’d never see her again.a woman in red chases after her husband as he goes off to war, presumably to die.

General Anda Uunangon leads a divided continent with magical artifacts in one hand and her charismatic husband in the other. The day he died derailed her destiny. Still, Anda continues her duties of protecting their hidden continent from the rest of the known world while struggling to contain her grief-stricken magic, which provides the perfect opportunity for her enemies. As political powers move against her, Anda slowly transforms into a weeping Omen, a corporeal and vengeful memento of whom she lost. Her fellow generals step in. Against her wishes, they release her husband's artifact, that it may choose a new wielder and give Anda a fresh purpose. The new wielder is all enthusiasm and no discernment. Not only must she train him in magic, but she must also inspire him to join her people's fight for self-actualization. Unfortunately, his personal interests of bringing his family to their continent might lead him to align with her enemies and use her husband's artifact against her.vBookcovers for THIS IS HOW YOU LOSE THE TIME WAR, BLOOD OVER BRIGHT HAVEN, and THE GOD AND THE GUMIHO.

Comp reasons. Forbidden love, enemies but not really, anti-colonialism, magic system as a tool of oppression, historical C-drama instead of K-drama