Based on the translation, Heidi could be a cross-dressing man, or a closeted trans woman.
Over on dynasty-scans, I don't think this has ever had the 'yuri' tag. Ironic that it's removed here, just as the series gets as yuribaity as it's ever been.
Soo-won clearly killed Il at the end of Chapter 1. https://mangadex.org/chapter/11788/54
And he says so outright next chapter: https://mangadex.org/chapter/36554/9
The whole post-Xing arc has ruined the happy division of roles they were developing: Soo-won does the capital kingship stuff, Yona runs around as "princess at large" solving problems. I miss an alternate universe where Soo sends her food and travel money.
"where they met Jae-ha. Yona's courage test to prove herself useful to Ki-gan was to pick some of it on a perilous cliff;"
Ah, that herb! Didn't recall the name for it. Arigatou!
"Heidi was revealed to be a crossdresser already at their first meeting"
Heidi is *something*. I don't think it's clear what, yet. Cross-dresser, trans woman?
Heidi says "it makes me want to apologize for being such a useless son" on page 9. Though I guess Heidi's brother was there listening, so if Heidi is in the closet as a transwoman she would have used that word.
OTOH maybe Heidi is a gay male crossdresser! Shino would be relieved. (Why gay...
"You imagine favourable outcomes and noble intents in Soo-won's usurpation, betrayals and militaristic calculations. I point out how lucky he was that Yona was there and imagine the counterfactuals in case she weren't."
How is having a witness to your murder lucky? Especially a witness you...
""Soo-won said he will not put Yona's box up" what does that mean?"
It's from the previous chapter. He values Yona, but not above saving the kingdom/avenging his father.
"I think he did have feeling for Yona"
That should be pretty obvious from his behavior when he ran into her in Awa, and...
"Hearing all this backstory makes it hard to hate any of the characters. I still dont like Soo-won, I still don't understand his decision to cast Yona aside. "
What's not to get? She was tangential to his main goal. If she hadn't seen him kill Il, probably he would have made himself king...
That was different!
Not an exciting story, but an interesting autobiographical look at a way of life.
(Autobio for the original author, not the mangaka.)
So there's a Spanish translation on lectortmo.
English: "The only thing I know about this Mai girl is what she looks like... I barely remember her"
Spanish, my crude translation: "I don't know how is the physical appearance of this Mai chick, your memory is so vague"
I don't recall chapter 1...
'Yona' sounds to me like it could be a straight-up Japanese or Korean name. OTOH I'm not seeing obvious hits, if you search for 'Yona' the anime dominates results. Also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yona -- Asian term for Greeks!
Kanna was pretty flirty on their crepe-date, spoon-feeding and all, and the artist chose to draw her in jealous yandere mode after she got suspicious, hidden eyes and all. So text and meta both suggest gay feelings for the MC.
Ah, I thought you meant Soo-won had to kill Yona no matter what. No, I agree that given she saw him, killing her seemed the thing to do. But if she hadn't seen it, he could have married her after some suitable mourning of the king's assassination by mysterious 'bandits'.
Kouka is very...