A woman from the Eastern Da Sheng dynasty is pulled into an alternate Victorian world, the lone survivor of a shipwrecked diplomatic mission to England. Stranded in a foreign empire, she must navigate court politics and cultural clashes while searching for a way to survive and find her place.
You do not speak. Is it because you cannot? or because you do not understand English. Place her in a cabin for now.
Leave men outside the door. Is the commander afraid she might escape? No. I simply do not wish her to die aboard this ship.
Do not be afraid. When you come to understand who is capable of protecting you, you will come to me of your own accord.