White Rice

Introduction to the Work: Two brothers enter the imperial palace of an Emperor who loves men! “I thought your face was flushed red, but it is truly white. So white that it is almost pale.” Born with a fiery energy capable of burning down the entire nation—too volatile to be a proper Emperor—Yehwan begins to act like an unbridled horse once the previous Emperor passes away. Having been suppressed for so long, he is a man of great lust; he is a practitioner of nam-saek (male-male love). An Emperor whose preference for men is a secret, Yehwan selects men who fit his tastes from among the newly entering eunuchs to create his own private circle of attendants. Among them—the only eunuchs in th...