She lives with her mother and younger brother when she's not working at the palace, and while she has become close with her little sibling over time, her relationship with her mother is strained due to her abandoning Hyeon one night when she was a young girl. She has studied and worked hard to become someone her higher born father, Lord Shin, will hopefully be proud of. Hyeon is a palace nurse, the highest station that she can achieve as a common born female in 1700's Korea. While there's nothing wrong with them, I'm just happy to branch out and explore HF that features ancient Eastern cultures, rather than solely Anglo-Saxon and American history that is relatively new compared to the rest of the world. After reading many similar WWII historical romances, it felt like that was all I was seeing promoted on my feeds. I've determined that I'm indeed not averse to historical fiction, I just wasn't finding the right books for me in this genre. Historical fiction is definitely not my go to genre, but something about the premise involving a murder mystery drew me in. I decided to quietly start The Red Palace on a whim after a friend told me how wonderful it was, and it's the best reading decision I've made in January. "To enter the palace means to walk a path stained in blood, our medical teachers had whispered.
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