Hi guys, I’m not an English speaking person and I was just wondering what does “Bluebe...

From a quick google search I understand Bluebeard's Tale is a fairy tale about an odd man with a grim secret: he murders his wives and keeps their bodies in a locked room. His newest wife discovers his secret, but manages to escape the fate of the previous women with her brothers' help, who kill Bluebeard. It's a cautionary tale centered around the "curiosity killed the cat" saying. It has many retellings and variations, one of which replaces the wives with cats.

But in this manhwa idk what the translation really meant... Bluebeard's Tale is a grim story, regardless of which retelling or variation you're reading and it's also based on a real french criminal so it gets even worse. I see it's been analysed in different essays and in general, I'd say it's a story about secrets, abuse, curiosity and agency. So maybe we could compare Bluebeard to Jooyung (because he's abusive and controlling of his partner and hides his dark side from the world) and Yegyum to the wife/curious cat (Jooin already calls him "Mittens", has a toxic relationship with Jooyung and is curious to see what his life would be like with Jooin). But it could be a reach and Jooin didn't mean anything this deep :))))

Point it, he was saying that he didn't want to pressure Yegyum into talking about himself. And joked that he had secrets. Bluebeard is a man with secrets, Yegyum is generally presented as a pet and Jooin compares him to a cat, hence he's "Bluebeard's secretive cat", a pet reassembling it's owner.

I actually did found the same tale and read a small summary, but I was confused because no pets were mentioned

Thank you so much for actually feeding my curiosity and for taking the time to explain this to me, with this much context everything is way much clear.

You were so kind

Your comment got me down a rabbit hole at 3am, because when I read the manhwa I just brushed over Jooin's reply and going back to reread it got me wondering too :))) and it frustrated me that, as you said, there were no pets mentioned in the original so I skimmed through all the searches on the first pages of google and tried to make sense of it all, relating it to the manhwa :))) now I'll prolly do a bit more research on the topic, 'cause I really didn't expect to come across fairy tale retellings of true crime and it's interesting
So thank you too, because your comment prompted me to learn about somehting new xD

Just a correction. While it's true Bluebeard seems inspired by a real criminal (Gilles de Rais), the author's tale is Charles Perrault. The Grimm brothers weren't born until more than a hundred years later.

I just thought the same, I think I will try to learn more about this tale!
Heavens bless your curiosity, you gave me something to do for the next days lol