Chinese GL

Opening line I toyed with for this review #1: My teenage edgelord self would have liked this a lot.

Opening line I toyed with for this review #2: This is a story about an entire imperial clan of motherfuckers, and I mean that quite literally.

Dynasty of Beasts (禽兽王朝, pinyin: qinshou wangchao) is the story of Gao Che, sixth prince of the Qi empire, who was raised as a boy for Reasons. Gao Che has two ambitions in life: to become emperor, and to win the heart of her father's empress, the saintly Dugu Yuanzhen, who raised her in her own birth mother's absence.

( major spoilers; discussion of rape, sexual assault, violence, incest, suicide )

I read the Chinese original of the novel on Changpei. The uncensored versions of the sex scenes can be found on the author's Weibo here.