Ascendance of a Bookworm: Adopted Daughter of an Archduke

After a crisis exposes how dangerous noble politics can be, Myne leaves the lower city, takes the name Rozemyne, and enters the archduke’s household. Life turns into etiquette drills, mana training, and brief audiences, all while she remains High Bishop at the temple. Workshops keep making paper and inks as contracts with merchants expand into a real printing trade, but every new press attracts attention from rival factions. Harvest rites, winter blessings, and care for temple children stack on top of castle lessons; mistakes risk scandal, and even kindness can bind her to obligations she cannot easily refuse. Ferdinand pushes her to harden routines and measure mana use, while retainers learn to translate her ideas into plans that nobles will accept. Disputes over tariffs, town privileges, and workshop rights force negotiations that test whether a commoner’s vision can survive in courts that prize rank over reason. By season’s end, books are no longer a dream but an industry, and Rozemyne’s place in noble society is set—at a cost she only partly chose.