A Homeland Unworthy of Your Love

Synopsis 1

Five years after the Great Revolution of Rouen

Nineteen-year-old Elias Austin stood in a muddy, desolate slum.

He gasped for breath beneath a flickering gas lamp.

Just moments ago, he had been elected the new leader of the revolutionaries.

No one knew that "he" was actually a girl.

No one knew she was "Elizabeth Rochester," whose name appeared in black and white on the newspaper's list of the dead.

And no one knew

that a great cause officially began that day.

Synopsis 2

The old aristocratic Rochester family had two sons and two daughters.

The eldest, Hild, was handsome and clever, but always lazy and languid.

The second child, Scarlett, was a little ray of sunshine who loved to dance.

The third child, Cyril, was chronically ill.

The youngest, Elizabeth, looked most like their mother.

In the year 722 of the Luojin Dynasty, the Great Revolution of Rouen broke out.

The Rochester family fell overnight. The rebels stormed in, killing, looting, and burning.

All of them, except the eldest son Hild, who had gone with his father to Country A, died beneath the rebels' arrows.

Twelve months later, the great general who had put down the rebellion, Hild Rochester, led his troops back to the family estate.

All he saw were devastation and ruined walls.

The campaign to exterminate the revolutionaries began that day.

Hild's seven-year dictatorship began.

About the setting:

A completely fictional world resembling seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Western Europe, with no supernatural powers or other unscientific elements. A serious story.

In short, it's about how Elizabeth rises to the top.

No romance. The heroine marries her career. She's a strong woman, but I don't use the strong-female-lead tag, so please don't nitpick or take individual scenes out of context to argue that she's not strong.

An extremely slow-burn epic. The author is no historian, so please don't fact-check. Happy ending, many characters.

Message: This is the world we long for, yet feel helpless to change.