What a fascinating concept, it actually feels fresh and the love triangles are part of the game. It’s like the hunger games meets dating show(?) with actual politics at stake. Tbh I found Platinum uncomfortable from the start with how pushy he was (Alexandrite could step back and work with/get along with others). I felt bad for FL having to pretend being someone else to get out of that awful marriage. She’s become so much brighter being able to act like herself. I’m also so glad we finally found out Amethyst’s situation because we haven’t seen much from her at all. It seems she’s very much out of context here as a saint.
you can’t just “steal” someone’s else’s wife, especially if you’re a crown prince and the other person is the empress of another country, wtf is he thinking. “i don’t buy the love story” bro who are you to even say that?
For real, the dude is delusional
the translation is kind of…a mess at one point, but you can read the whole chapter at the og scans site (flixscans)
i was so hyped up reading the novel i decided to check where the raws for this were up to only to realize season one ends at chapter 30 (that was in December though so hopefully it’ll be back soon)
i’m sorry if my previous venting about recent developments made it sound like this isn’t worth reading, here’s why i do tho it’s worth checking out. as someone else said in another comment, i think the series is providing some valid commentary on irl societal issues in sk regarding women, like the low birth rate and traditional expectations. i also think the whole beastmen angle is really interesting and does a lot to emphasize the double standards between traditional gender roles where the pressure to reproduce is on women. both mothers probably felt the same pressures they’re forcing upon their children (and potential daughter-in-law). comparatively, none of the men seem to have the same high expectations or exert huge pressure on her because they didn’t experience it (in the same way) and had more freedom of choice. on top of this is the generational gap, where young people are marrying and having kids older, actually taking the time to date and go to school. ML wasn’t bowing to his family’s marriage expectations and is marrying FL because he wants to, oblivious to the extent of her struggles. FL’s freedom to choose was stolen—she was in the middle of dating ML to decide whether or not to take this further only for that to crash and burn. i think it’s a matter of FL getting the agency to freely choose what she wants to do, because marriage should be a choice and not an obligation, something that’s been a theme since the beginning. i’m interested in seeing how this all goes down, especially since ML isn’t a giant red flag and also a victim of this nonsense, i support the dismantling of the patriarchy, and i want her to be happy.
I also thought it was pretty evidently parallel to the current low birth rates that SK, Japan, and other nations face.
It's a hot topic of debate, given that a few decades from now, it'll have a disastrous ripple effect.
Society really pressures women into birthing children, without actually giving them much way in support or incentive; or it just ends up being a one-child household trend.
I heard Korea has great cheap daycare plans, but in Japan, although you get monetary credit for having children, childcare availability is a dumpster fire, and it's difficult for women to work or persue study and raise kids at the same time. Men don't have to stress about these things.
Idk if Governments realize many are more than happy to raise a family given adequate support.
I cannot believe this man, who holds the power to grant her wishes, is fulfilling her every rofan wish and she doesn’t even realize it. though tbh don’t think he realizes it either, but that’s all part of what makes this fun!
oh wow i really need to reread this with the better translation
As annoyed as I was by FL’s appalling lack of self-awareness, I wound up liking the fact that her inability to suspend disbelief that she was in anything other than a rofan novel was the reason she had that insane amount of plot armour all along. Tbh I kept reading partly because of the mystery but mostly because I wanted to see reality finally hit. Except it didn’t, which I suppose was the point—her belief it was a rofan altered events so significantly it essentially turned into one. I do think “The Rules of Rose Ivy Manor” is a better title though, because the original one gives away too much of the mystery and makes FL seem even more clueless (in a bad way). Also, I think the manor rules were written by the soulless body that was Rosé, the person who should never see them. There was an offhand comment by a maid about her hiring employees despite not being the mistress of the house, which confused her for a moment, and there were no new employees once she came.
THAT WAS CLEARED UP SO DAMN FAST I feel blessed we have a FL ready to throw hands and get to the bottom of things for the sake of her precious husband (I too would do the same)
“…I love even that aspect of you!” took me the fuck out, like he did not want to leave room for misunderstanding