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TIL after feeling dissapointed by how DARLING in the FRANXX ended and wanting to explore some of the concepts, canadian writer Xiran Jay Zhao wrote Iron Widow, a reimagining of the story of Wu Zetian in a futuristic medieval China. The book won multiple awards and became a NY Times best seller.

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