Hmmmmmmm..... I dunno, this wasn't bad nor was it good. I enjoyed the art and the characters but the story was kind of predictable. Overall, in my opinion at least, this was not for me.
Like, I get that chrome has been in love with her for so long but although they made it so obvious, the ending for them just felt lacklustre. Out of all the endings that had an ending where the fml ends up with the ml, this had one of the most boring endings for me.
I'm not saying they had to get married or have kids, but I absolutely loathe endings where they confess and then that's the end. They built up all of those scenes that basically confirmed they were going to end up together at some point, but only confirming it at the end. Like what was the point??? I don't think romance was even needed. The romance plot was kind of just thrown in there to satisfy people who would want it or perhaps in the attempt to make the story more interesting.
Why does she keep denying that she could be the empress's child??? It doesn't make any sense and not only that the people around her also think it, like - its clearly obvious that her mum is the empress they look like exact same. Lilliana doesn't even share the same hair colour or eye colour. All three of them have the same power although at different levels is evidence enough that luana is the empress's child, like WTF IS THIS?????
Because the empress saw the baby luana and her brother at the concubine palace when they were both baby. The empress’ baby died a year prior. So it’s impossible for her to notice it. The Emperor is a distant relative of the royal family so it is possible for a baby to look like luana even if she didn’t get the traits from both parents. The concubine used a spell to slow down the growth of the child. That’s why it was still a baby after a year.










[Just a little rant]
I can't even say I binged this, in truth I skipped a LOT of chapters. Now, before I get berated and bombarded with questions of why I did what I did, there's a reason.
The story was so boring, the characters were also boring and the revenge plot too, was boring. Overall, the rating I would give it boring/10. This story could've have finished in probably half the chapters it's at now, at the time this comment was made. The story is also very predictable, there were moments where yiren was said to look like her mother (at the time where it wasn't confirmed that Rivera was her mother), but they don't tell her that. I never get why in stories where there is a clear resemblance to someone they've never seen before (for example, this story) and the characters around them or even themselves never think to address it out loud. Like come ON, look at the picture then look at yourself and tell me you're not related. Because even if at the end they weren't related, the shock of believing that they were would have been more believable to me than the shock of finding out they were related. Chapters and chapters ago, they kept dropping hints here and there and the moment they realise it, just didn't shock me.