youre actually my spirit animal, like, seriously. i cannot stand the duke and THE FL??? SHES AN ADULT IN A CHILDS BODY, AND SHE KNOWWSSSS FROM THE BOOK THAT HES BEING ABUSED AND SHE STILL HAS THE AUDACITY TO VIEW THE DAMN DUKE AND DUCHESS AS FATHERLY AND MOTHERLY, LIKE WHAT?? YOUR PARENTS ARE IN KOREA. THESE ARE CHILD ABUSERS AND NEGLECTERS, LIKE WHAT THE FUCK DO YOU MEAN YOURE TELLING THE ML TO BE KINDER/GET ALONG WITH THE DUKE????? IM ACTUALLY PISSED OFF JUST THINKING ABOUT IT, THE FIRST 60 CHAPTERS OF THIS DAMN MANHWA ARE RAGE-BAIT I SWEAR
Your reply literally made my day yoo=)))
Just wanna add: did she really know about the abuse? The book she read, from what I understand, only started when Luci met up with that blonde guy several years later and I remember there was a panel, a phrase which said that "she couldn't imagine what he had to endure/ what her attention directed toward him would end up doing"
I mean, after TWO years you'd think she'd catch up on the bruises and such, but she didn't from plot reasons I guess.
And about the parents from Korea honestly I have no memory of them. Wasn't she an orphan or abused there or smth? Some reason to make her want to act like a child and have her wounds licked by the person who probably imagines that she's his ex lover(not in a sexual way) or his daughter made between him and the dead guy
She, almost guaranteed, did know. Theres multiple scenes where we kind of see through her imagination of the og books description of the abuse, and basically she tells the audience "the duke put luci through a torrent of abuse because of the duke's father", like thats something she acknowledges a LOT, like, she knows and tells the audience an extensive amount of information about luci's past
im not totally sure about her parents in korea, but for me, either way, its not an excuse to willingly be a bystander, and even saddle up with the abuser
Oh ok, I understand.
Then ”lucky” Luci for geting her and not some other human who'd at least acknowledge the fact that he's hurting and who'd make a riot in the mansion, would scold his father and starve herself or smth to make a point, because he clearly cares at least a little about her opinions. (=・ω・=)(╯°Д °)╯╧╧
Kinda understand all of them, but their behavior remains unacceptable.
My guy was treated horribly all his life and the only time he was mostly happy was with her, those 2 years, so it's logic that he'd want to keep her as safe as possible or at least near him. His mother had her own thing, the servants were just for the money, from what I saw he rarely even got out of the house his first 17 years, that archmage said bullsh't to him all the time, it's a miracle he even retained that little sanity he had left, and the father is the single person I can't stand. Only because his son resembled his old man he had THE AUDACITY to beat him up almost every night for stupid reasons, work him like a slave, postpone for as long as he could the succession for absolutely no reason and then have the nerve and surprise to see the hatred his son bore for him later on, saying nonsensical stuff like "oh, he IS like my father". It made my blood boil.
BRO didn't YOU make him this way??????????? How STUPID can you be? I'd sucker punch that sorry excuse of a man like there'd be no tomorrow, make his head have a meeting with a wall and then send him to therapy.
So I only have pity and sadness for Luci. I get where he's coming from, even tho it's wrong.
I'm also a little annoyed at the fact that they sent letters for each other for SEVEN YEARS and his father's wrong doing was just brushed off like it was nothing. Barely 3 panels if even to express their shock and then they acted like they knew all there was to know.
7 years, especially in teenage years, is A LOT and after all that it's a high chance for the person to change, become a stranger. Plus, they DID send those letters, but they hadn't actually READ them, so it's like they ghosted each other and at the reunion they acted like they didn't see for a week or smth.