Damn it all to hell and back. If I REALLY believed something like "hey, this is a novel and I know EXACTLY what's going to happen, there's a tight deadline" I would feel so utterly betrayed and loose all sense of self-efficacy cause... 10 days earlier.
Struggling and struggling to finish it all and having it WITHIN REACH; can you grab one more worker when it's finally happening? Maybe! Just one more mouth to feed? She already stacked for surplus.
But like, having your deadline overturned the moment you think "hey, it's getting tighter, need to get my shit straight" and boom.
I am aware that the deeper the ML digs his own grave, the higher he has to climb - that's a nice trope and all.
But to begin with, if we start in the devils basement and the ascent takes like, half a chapter, it reveals itself as a shallow trope, yes?
Right out of the gate he admits:
- you covered me from grievous harm (which I am rather immune to, but thanks for trying)
- wow, your ability is so useful, I should just start breeding you ASAP to harvest benefits
- you're plain and maybe I am stressing you out every minute of the day, but at least I am nice to look at, that should suffice for your troubles
- if all else fails, I could always just force you to be my wife / mistress / breeding mare
My man is standing in a trench already and shows indications of wanting to dig some more.
Our FL plotting to keep the king away from more bad karma (hunting competition) NO MATTER WHAT, what's a few broken bones?
Also, my condolences to her contingency plan (Jade, the poor bastard)
Maybe it's just me and my delusions, but it feels as if the author is baiting me with glimpses of her being the one to introduce predators to prey fear... but then not delivering.
And I WANT SO SEE IT
...so I keep on reading
Barely reaches my knee! Could be a tiny assassin!
Maybe he needs some valerian drops. The ladies for sure can procure some.
Love how he goes through with the Captain Commander.
Also love how thugs have entirely reasonable outburst about it.
Okay so she can reattach her head no problem, healing powers yay, but sore feet in the wrong shoes is like, the limit?
I mean, I am open to reasoning as to why, but just putting this setting out there, hoping it does its thing...uhm (like, come on, just say the healing power only activates for grievous injury and a blister doesn't cut it or something but don't just forget about it ^^)
It's weird. When she healed her decapitated head, the bruises on her wrists stayed and she had bandages on them for a bit. ┐(￣ヘ￣)┌
Oh no please do NOT kill her, we have no idea yet what might happen, so far she acted as if everyone who got "cursed" on the day she returned was a "side-effect"
Can't we just ... put her somewhere and throw away the key...?
At this point, if Hyo-un gets issues to never ever get seperated for even a minute: bro has got a damn LIST of things that went wrong as soon as Taehyuk so much as left his sight.
Dear Taehyuk: make the guy your bodyguard or assistant or royal carrier of the phone, I don't care, managers grow in colleges, dragon mates are a little harder to procure ACT like it
I just love tropes that entail aides going
"you know WHAT?!"
[tosses almighty royalty like a sack of potatoes in the general vicinity of "better equipped to deal with this"]