- #1
The stories' setup is that of an ancient China novel with Japanese names, the MC and several other girls live in a court to study to become the crown prince's wives. Reirin is the most popular girl and becomes the victim of a body-swap with the "sewer rat" of the court, the most hated girl. Instead of lamenting her situation she suddenly finds herself in a very healthy body and with the freedom to do whatever she likes. So she takes full advantage of that and just enjoys her life. The girl she switched her body with however is not so lucky, since Reirin's body is weak und sickly, riddled with fevers and illness.As it turns out, the jealous girl who made the body switch was lured to do so because there is a whole bigger plot going on in the background. After that issue is solved and the two become sort of friends at the end of vol.2 the story starts to go a bit downhill.The two male leads are solala, they compete about Reirin but what for? If the crown prince chooses her he will get her anyway, what his half brother does is totally meaningless unless he wants to be executed.The author also goes too easy on most villains. In a pure lighthearted fairy tale setting that might be okay but the story is quite serious and dark at times. The story is contradictory, in the beginning it is stated that people get executed just for slandering and other verbal offenses and later people get away almost scot-free with attempted mu*der and r*pe? That's nonsense.