Like this is definitely one of my top 10 stories because everything is so good. The fact that both of them are so traumatized by their respective past that they couldn’t see that the other person was suffering is amazing.
I liked the story kind of split itself down the middle and had the first half focus on how the FL wasn’t happy in her marriage due to the fact that her husband just wasn’t attentive to her and didn’t seem to care about her and how she laughed, but eventually that got resolved, and it turned to how the husband was unhappy in the marriage, because he felt like he had to provide for her, and he felt like he wasn’t attracted enough for her (due to racism) like there wasn’t anything she could’ve told him at that point because he grew up with it instilled him.
I know people have a lot of complaints about the ML but people forget the toll racism has I’m the effects of those who are marginalized by it. Despite being conventionally, attractive and muscular, he still felt ugly and not attractive enough for her being fair. Pale princess is 100% realistic and understandable because he was told for all of his life that he just wasn’t good enough in anything. And so when the one person who he actually loved rejected him it makes 100% sense that his first jump would be to kill himself because his birth mom only uses him, his birth dad and stepmom actively hate him, his own work associates prefer his wife over him like without his life he truly has nothing to live for. The only thing that I didn’t like but I can’t complain about because it’s very realistic is no one took him seriously when he was like I’m going to kill myself.
I see a lot of people saying how this is a redemption story and this is how you do redemption right talking about the male lead and while I have agree, I also think that people neglect the redemption story of the female lead. She essentially went from hating her husband to seeing him as a person something she’s never done before. And you can feel the sorrow she feels for never doing this before. she was by his bed until he woke up, something you typically see with the male lead to the female lead but here it was reversed. Normally you only see how the male lead needs the female lead which is why everyone like “oh my gosh I can’t believe she went back to him.” But here it was shown that the female leads needs the male lead just as much and that is what makes them a great couple. They need each other and they love each other and for the first time they see each other.
i’m overall I really enjoyed the message of the story that you can heal from your traumas. It may seem like a sisyphean task but it can be done. And how trauma doesn’t mean you deserve to be completely written off. You still deserve love because everyone deserves love in some form or way. I hope everyone who is reading this has a great day because you deserve it
Like this is definitely one of my top 10 stories because everything is so good. The fact that both of them are so traumatized by their respective past that they couldn’t see that the other person was suffering is amazing.
I liked the story kind of split itself down the middle and had the first half focus on how the FL wasn’t happy in her marriage due to the fact that her husband just wasn’t attentive to her and didn’t seem to care about her and how she laughed, but eventually that got resolved, and it turned to how the husband was unhappy in the marriage, because he felt like he had to provide for her, and he felt like he wasn’t attracted enough for her (due to racism) like there wasn’t anything she could’ve told him at that point because he grew up with it instilled him.
I know people have a lot of complaints about the ML but people forget the toll racism has I’m the effects of those who are marginalized by it. Despite being conventionally, attractive and muscular, he still felt ugly and not attractive enough for her being fair. Pale princess is 100% realistic and understandable because he was told for all of his life that he just wasn’t good enough in anything. And so when the one person who he actually loved rejected him it makes 100% sense that his first jump would be to kill himself because his birth mom only uses him, his birth dad and stepmom actively hate him, his own work associates prefer his wife over him like without his life he truly has nothing to live for. The only thing that I didn’t like but I can’t complain about because it’s very realistic is no one took him seriously when he was like I’m going to kill myself.
I see a lot of people saying how this is a redemption story and this is how you do redemption right talking about the male lead and while I have agree, I also think that people neglect the redemption story of the female lead. She essentially went from hating her husband to seeing him as a person something she’s never done before. And you can feel the sorrow she feels for never doing this before. she was by his bed until he woke up, something you typically see with the male lead to the female lead but here it was reversed. Normally you only see how the male lead needs the female lead which is why everyone like “oh my gosh I can’t believe she went back to him.” But here it was shown that the female leads needs the male lead just as much and that is what makes them a great couple. They need each other and they love each other and for the first time they see each other.
i’m overall I really enjoyed the message of the story that you can heal from your traumas. It may seem like a sisyphean task but it can be done. And how trauma doesn’t mean you deserve to be completely written off. You still deserve love because everyone deserves love in some form or way. I hope everyone who is reading this has a great day because you deserve it