Blood Coronation

About this drama

The source for this entry is a 322-character premise that ends with its own title. She was born to be queen; instead she watched her family die and took the blame. Five years later, the dead princess returns to the court as a phantom, poisoning the usurper's reign one traitor at a time. The engine is patient and named: not a battle but a poisoning, traitor by traitor, from inside the court she was exiled from. The source then states the price the title is built on: to claim the throne stained with her family's blood, she must pay the final price, her own. Whether the price is literally her life, her name, or something the series spends its last act on, the premise does not say, and the promise is stated rather than shown. No character is named. The numbers sit at the batch's floor: 360 views, the lowest count in this batch of twenty, with forty episodes, in the lower half. The title names the price. A coronation paid in blood is the promise, and the premise keeps its word as dark as its count is low. A revenge premise at the bottom of the counter is the quiet the format sometimes gives its darkest stories.

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