virtus et vanitas
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The year is 1864, when the young Yi Yung Jun becomes His Majesty, the King of Joseon with his mother behind him as regent in the wake of his father’s sudden death.
In the eight years before he is eligible to take the throne on his own, the brash boy king struggles under the strict tutelage of his personal bodyguard—his distant maternal uncle, Kim Byeong In.
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- Part 1 of virtus et vanitas
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The year is 1852, when Yi Won Beom once again becomes His Majesty, the King of Joseon in his own right.
In the first year of his direct rule, he finds that despite the happiness and excitement he should be feeling in anticipation of an heir—it is instead uncertainty and grief that seizes his heart.
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- Part 2 of virtus et vanitas
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The year is 1864, when Kim So Yong becomes Her Esteemed Highness, Queen Dowager in the wake of her husband’s death.
In the aftermath of His Late Majesty’s funeral, the queen regent reflects on all she has loved and lost through a series of letters to the future—to a man named Jang Bong Hwan.
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- Part 3 of virtus et vanitas