Empress of Another World

A freak accident rips Sabina, an ordinary Korean high school girl, from her modern life and hurls her into a realm of medieval splendor and brutal politics. Rescued and taken under the wing of a powerful duke in the kingdom of Crentia, she believes she has found a fragile sanctuary in this strange, unforgiving world. That illusion shatters when her benefactor coldly offers her up as a concubine to the aged and repulsive emperor—a pawn in a courtly game she never asked to join. Trapped in the opulent yet suffocating walls of the imperial palace, Sabina is thrust into a den of vipers where every smile conceals a knife. Her precarious existence spirals further into chaos when the emperor is struck down by a shadowy assassin, plunging the realm into a ferocious power vacuum. Suddenly, the competition for the vacant throne transforms the harem into a deadly battlefield, and Sabina finds herself entangled in a cutthroat struggle among the emperor’s other candidates—each vying for supremacy through seduction, treachery, and manipulation. With no allies and no power of her own, she must navigate this poisonous circle where one misstep means ruin. In a court that devours the weak, survival hinges on more than just wits. Sabina must learn to read the treacherous currents of loyalty and desire, earning the trust and devotion of influential figures on both sides of the palace walls. But in a world where every hand extended in friendship could just as easily push her toward the blade, can a foreign girl with nothing but her courage forge the bonds she needs to outlast the bloodshed and claim a future of her own?