This is just my speculation but.. they say she killed another evil witch and completely overhalled and changed her own looks..
I get the feeling the "bad witch".. that got crushed was the original witch of the house/ town who summoned MC. So just my speculation but MC is not the bad witch from all the rumors, she herself belives she may be but is infact not.
Mc is mostlikely the result of the last experiment the bad witch made before it backfired and she got crushed. This could explain MC's apearnce as the witch was experimenting with Soul Binding, and MC gained the dead witches magic because the experiment backfired.
Everyone seems on edge because of the Bad Witch rumor, yet there was Zero evidence of anything bad ever having been done. This is also true about the "bad witch", all the duke's ppl could find were rumors of her turning ppl she disliked into frogs and a rumor that she turned the grape harvest into mice. Yet no evidence other than the rumor themselves.
I hope this dosn't end up going the "she bewitched everyone" route, just because shes a good and likeable person..
That king.. talking down to her like that.. Asshole.
Him being like "what does she know of politics, she should know her place"...
Meanwhile he murderd his wife, gave his now late wife's mad brother the chance for war or absorbing his kingdome.. yet is none the wiser and thinks a mistress and bastard child will fix all of that if they becomes his late brother whom he himself killed's late wife and child..
This man thinks he is imortal.. the literal son and now "wife" you placed on the throne both want you dead.. idiot.
Oh and also.. i have a prety good idear who the king will grant a nobel title to..
The way he was glancing at Fl's chest and ass.. he was practicaly licking his lips..
He wants FL as his new mistress but to do that she will need a title that lockes her in the palace.. so yep that would be his next plan.
Fl's dad seriously think the king will give FL's brother a title, dream on.
Wow... just Wow.. Mr I WANA Be KING... became just like his father whom he hated..
Like father like son i guess.
His father literaly had Fl's family / race hunted down and murderd for power.. and hes about to do the exact same.. He never loved her, he just loved the power she could provide him + if he had a child with her and it inherited both the Royal power and her familys.. god knows he would never alow her to have more than one child like that and would definetly kill her after.
Either that God is lazy or hes an incompitent piece of Shi...
To go... "Oh i didnt have time" is BS.. you are God, you have all the time in the world and you sent her back to that hellhole and have her forced to ingest poison forever because that how "the skill" gets better.. when she literaly never wanted to ever die or feel the pain of being poisoned..ever again.. Your solution was to have her be constantly poisones and still feel the pain but build up tolerance...WTF kind of "gift" is that.
From my understanding after chapter 12.. it seems Ml may not be his mothers child as she stated he needed to learn the sins of the blood he carries (aka the fathers side).
The father may have been unfaithfull and Ml the result of that, hench why the mother "destroys" any and everything he loves to teach him not to love.
It does not seem to me that the mother loves Ml or has any romantic feelings for him. It comes of more like she is punishing him as she enjoying watching him suffer, and the father... well he may be jelous of all the "atention" his wife is giving Ml and feel he is a rival for his wifes love (especialy if Ml isnt blood related to his "mother"), hench the father moving them away from Ml and getting Ml married.
The mother then comes to tjeck if Ml is starting to feel affection to torture him again, hench the interaction with FL.
Also Fl is way to trusting.. Girl the Ml fears his mother for a reason.. yet you have no sense of danger at all... even the servants shows dread at the mothers arival... like read the room.
I don’t think that’s the case, honestly. I really think it’s because the current duke and all the previous ones are insanely obsessive and possessive as the story dictates. Perhaps the duchess was taken by force very early on before marriage and conceived Albert through the r*pe, rather than any case of infidelity because their super rare silver hair is an exact match and Albert does take after his mother, according to the first chapter that Viola met the duchess, Helena. His mother, as cruel and mentally/emotionally twisted as she is, does not want her own son to be like his father.
There are a few cases where the genetics of serial r*pists/killers have been passed down to their children or grandchildren. Maybe that’s the take of this story, where the “sinful blood” is just a damning way of describing how the extreme greediness makes up the bloodline as a whole. Because if you think about it, being too greedy is considered a sinful thing. And some people in real life will get what they want, regardless of what method they have to use.
I hope what I said makes some sense.
But at the same time, all she is doing is making more victime.
She herself is obsessed in that case and even hurting / killing ppl, all to prevent him from doing the same...and at the same time cursing the blood in his vains.. when she is doing the same obsession but in reverse.. hurting ppl to keep him away from them.
That makes even less sense to me.
Here what I think from her comment about not being able to bloom like the roses because of love, the mother had high expectations of herself in high society but her single life in high society was cut short by the duke since he fall in love with her and done everything he can to make her his own and locked her up from the high society life she dreamt of which made her resentful towards her husband entire bloodline including her son whom was within reach for her to vent her hatred on
From what i can understand of the Raw's.. The Duke forces Fl to learn the vital parts of the body everynight.. aka having her stab corpese..
He wants Fl in dispair and isolated from the world.. "teaching" her not to trust anyone..
This included by having one of the maids Fl gets close to chose between him killing her or FL.. and the maid beggs fl to die/ take the punishment for her.. destroying the peace and friendship that gave Fl a sense of stability... He then tells her to never trust anyone.
Fl continues her "training in killing" and her daily maid work, but is absent from breakfast because she is her washing her hands for the blood she still smells on them. She comments that no matter how much she washes them, the smell wont come off.
During normal work fl looks pale and coughs up blood, that night sick in bed she contemplates passing away.. The Duke apears in a bright light and says she cant die, he kisses / using mouth to mouth to get her to drink a light blue liquid that heals her and she falls a sleep.
The next day he acts like nothing happened..Later one night Fl sneaks into the Duke's chambers and tries to stab the Duke using the skills he had her learn. The Duke coments that he is proud of her for her skills yet unhappy that she went for him.
He prety much tells her she has no where to go, her life is in his hands and she has noone cause everyone can turne on her so she best be a good dog..
Fl inraged screams that he Ruined her life and that she is sick of playing to his whim.. and tries to stab him. He takes her dagger and says she should know how to use a real weapon, giving her his rapier and telling her to try again while smiling / laughting.
Fl says F this and tries to stab herself, the Duke grabs the rapier before Fl can stab herself (causing blood to flow from his hand) and looks at her paniced and flustered saying he wont let her kill herself.
This catches Fl off guard (the psyco wants her to live), she laughs at him and caughs up alot of blood and the Duke kisses her again forcing lightblue liquid down her throat.
As Fl heals she asks WHY!, the Duke says he will not let her die no matter what and he will never let her go either... Fl loses everything and starts to feel nothing for her coworkers and follows orders and dosnt bother to question anymore.
Im skipping some minor stuff here.
The Duke meets the Prophet who he seems close to.
The prophet is a young woman with blue eyes, dark blonde hair with set curls. The prophet takes a glimps at Fl and stops smiling.
The Prophet gets in her carriage with the Duke.
From what i could guess, she asks him how its going with his "Destined One" aka FL. The Duke becomes unhappy and says to mind her own buisness.
The prophet meets the prince and other oppl and later is almost assasinated in her chambers, but is saved by one of the Duke's ppl who tell her to Do her Job.
Later while laying in bed with a big book the Prophet thinks of Fl, while showing as sad face/ expression (feeling sorry for Fl). She seems to know Fl's future..
Just my speculation..
The Duke seems to be able to use magic.. and views "Other worlders" as a danger to his "Plans".
He has been using the Prophet to find and murder the "Other worlders" because their actions have affected events of his world... this includes him meeting Fl.. who seems to be either his "Soulmate... or Bound to him in som way"... He wants FL to trust noone, know how to kill and never think of leaving him.. yet he wont let her die and seems to want her to be as broken as he himself is.
The more pain and discorce Fl feels the "happier" the Duke seems to be.. Either he is training her to survive or he is just a psycho.
Sorry, meant to like Σ(っ°Д °;)っ
My first thought was he was training her to be an assassin or shadow guard yk with how extreme their doll like responses look it's similar to what is becoming of fl
The problem with that is that he dosn't alow her to be in actual danger or gain real experience. He has her acompany him, but has guards with her to step in. So he want's her safe and unharmed, yet wants her to belive in noone, trust noone yet is fine with her hating him yet wont let her go nor kill her either.
I also looked at the raws and I agree with everything you're saying except for the prophet part...? From my understanding, the FL dresses up as a prophet/fortune teller/foreigner under ML's orders and acts as his lover while attending a party. Even without translations, you can kinda guess it's her because she's just wearing a wig and makeup, and her eyelashes are still red.
But yeah, she gets attacked in the middle of the night and meets the prince. Afterwards, she does get "saved" by the red-haired knight. yada yada.
Can you tell me what is the duke's plan? What made him to be like that? If you can spare some of your time.
Sadly i have no clue, no info has yet been released about him or his household other than what Fl has told.
From what i understand he was a child when he took over his position, but no info as to why he is so.. peculiar.
Oh, it's alright,I understand. Thank you
So from the story..
Fresse has a fiance who hates Fl becauae he favores Fl..
The fiance's friends harm Fl's reputation and household from the shadow's to make her learn her "place"..
This includes the Poisonous grass that killed Fl's housolds top breed horses... attacking / stealing / destroying Fl's family's trade business, slowly causing Fl's family to go broke. They even pay someone to tamper with Fl's family carriage...and destroy her reputaion with bad rumors.
Meanwhile Fresse just sits back and enjoys the show as all of this isolates Fl and her family... making Fl's dad practicaly work for Fresse's father and household for free in guise of "a favore"...
Fresse loves this as Fl is isolated, with a bad reputation, hench no man will want her and she will remail single for life...... SO he will be the only man in her life.. and he loves this because in his dilusions he belives "FL is His" all because he use to run away from home and tresspass into FL's garden as a child and found soilce in her being nice to him.
Its dosn't matter that he has a fiance, or that he gets married... because Fl will have noone to rely on other that him.. and he loves that thought.
He belives Fl' living in isolation with noone but him by her sides is a "Blessing" for Fl... because he is so dilutiononal he thinks Fl loves him..
She is is scaret treasure so pure and inocent it should be hidden away from the world and touched by noone...Freaking sad.
This freak needs to be sent to the Loony Bin, and be locked up for life.
So the Stepmother was never a Saintess, she just used her "power" to manipulate and brainwash ppl into thinking she was. When in reality she was a dark mage.
After the first wife died the Saintess brainwashed the father and everyone into thinking she was a Saintess and became the second wife. She used her power to make the father belive that a curse had been placed on their family aka Ophelias curse and had Ophelia sent away for "her own sake".
The father came acorss Bonny /Boni who was starving and was intrigues by the will to live in her eyes and took her in. The Stepmother used an exuse of Curse tracfer from Ophelia into Boni to save Ophelia, but in reality its a curse on Boni to make everyone hate her.
The stepmother had brainwashed everyone and wanted to hurt Boni, making her life tormented and have her die from mentaly breaking. Hench the "teacher" drugging her and manipulating her (later it is revealed that Boni may be the next saint, hench the stepmothers hatred for her)
If FL is the next saintess, the temple will have to get involvet which will reveal the stepmothers black magic. Hence the atempts to break FL.
The father knows something is off in the house as the mindcontrol on him is weaker because he was been away, but still lets things slide. The brothers warm up to Fl and start to care for her. But the stepmother increases her mindcontrole as it no longer works on FL.
The brother will try to hurt FL and try to slander her as they grow older, under the step mother mindcontrole.
Later the stepmothers dark/ black magic / mindcontrole magic gets reveal and she gets imprissoned and executed. The brothers ask FL for forgivness and she gives them that, but also states she never thought of them as her family / brothers.
Oh and when the stepmothers dark magic / brainwashing was revealed, the father confronted her. The stepmother threathended him with Ophelias life if he did not let her go. He did not, he had a feeling that Ophelia was already dead.
Aparently after stepmother sent Ophelia away.. Ophelia was killed by monsters in a dark forest.. So she was dead al along.
Fl belives she reincarnated / soul trancfered into Boni's body after a failed ritual, but the truth is she did not soul tranfer/ reincarnate. She is Boni with memories and knowlege tracferd into her through the ritual from a dead person from another world, so Fl was alway Boni.
Damian is a whole other story...
So the Emperor became obsessed with Damian's mother, going so far as to kidnap her and inprisson her in the palace under the guise of "protection". He R-s her and force her to become his comcubine, and the Empress feels sorry for her.
An Orical arives stating that Damian the comcubines son will be the Hero of the Empire, brining salvation. This Orical causes the Emperor who has an inferiority complex to spread word that Damian will bring war to the Empire instead, on the day Damian is born the Emperor starts the war and blames his son for it.
The Empress helps Damian's mother flee with her child and has ppl help hide them in the Trash Pile.
The Emperor spreads word that Damian's mother was a Seductive Black Mage who brought chaos and war to the Empire, all because he didnt want his son to be a hero when he himself was a failure.
Fl helps Damian become Empreror and he asks her to be his wife.
Thats all i could find.
Tho there are sidestories.
Thanks for the spoiler, not really surprised abt the stepmother being dark mage, brothers get brainwashed and the og ophelia dead blablabla
But wow an emperor with inferiority complex over his own child and a rapist?? That's not really fresh but wow
Omg thx for sharing!!
Oh wow, it was actually very similar to what I theorised! The story seems very interesting but also I think I will feel a lot of anger for those "brothers"... Also yeah, it made no sense that Ophelia would be alive, I'm actually happy she isn't, because if she was, it would just be another person that would treat Bunny badly...
Yeah, the story is really interesting, I'm happy the emperor is a piece of ****, not I won't feel bad if his son takes revenge on him!
the emperor inferiority complex is at the top level, like how could you do that to a mere baby????
Oh my gosh, thank you for the spoilers. So many plot twists fr (°Д °)
I was thinking of stopping reading this story, because I felt bored but luckily I read the spoiler from you and it seems not wrong to continue this story
Okay but wait…the part where the father had a feeling his daughter was dead. Yikes like did he never went to go see her and confirm if she was alive? Like I get you rather pretend she is alive and well far away but still…
lol, the first comment completely negated your use of the spoiler warning
You talkin bout me? If so I'm sorry
Dang. what a sad end for Ophelia :/
Wtf... So the mc just forgives them and that's it?? I'm dropping this why can't the mc just be ruthless for ones.
The only reason she forgives them is because she knows now that they were not doing it of their own free will, but she does not give them what they want (aka being family).
At least it was satisfying, rather than after apologizing then being a happy family (after all she went through with that family)
But wasn't one of them not rlly brainwashed? Idk who, but I read the spoilers and the mc said "Your not brainwashed, so you have no excuses."
Imo, that's not rlly satisfying. Don't attack me for this, but that's the same lvl with what you compared with. They r literally still there, she still talks to them, goes to them, and from the spoilers I've read the family(idk who exactly) will like help the mc resolve this misunderstanding with the ml(I think something to do with her identity?? Idk, I have a fish memory )
Hahaha I'm not a narrow minded person in an open conversation like this, I can take your opinion well, and in fact I haven't found out if the pace of this story will exactly match the storyline in the novel... Because most novel stories adapted into mahwa/manhua are sometimes not exactly the same as those in the novels(￣∇￣")
True, but sometimes the differences aren't that bad. It's like a hit or miss, I just hope the mc will just treat them as if they don't exist. Jk jk ik it's harsh but low-key they deserve. Maybe I'm just so fed up with author's abusing the "brainwash" plot, especially if the mc died in the original. It's like a forced plot, the author just wants an excuse so the characters will be forgiven.
I'm totally agree with you, at least they need to suffer too... Instead of living quietly after apologizing as if what they did with the MC was something that could be solved by apologizing
Yeah and then later on the story the author suddenly surprise attacks you with "AHA! They r actually brainwashed!" Like all the anger and energy is just wasted... I can't rlly explain this feeling. And then obv the mc will forgive them cuz they were not in control but still!!! All the anger build up within me is still there.. But you also have this fine line of them being brainwashed so is it rlly right to still be mad at them??
All in all, I just hate hate HATE the brainwash plot!! It's so overdone, and it creates complicated feelings.
Of course, that's not a problem, because as readers we have different views on each story, I understand that feeling... After reading the spoilers about this story I even thought about whether I still want to continue this story or not, because it seems that this will only end as you said, no justice for MC just a word of apology... And of course that doesn't make me satisfied either...
Just my thoughts.
How in the world other than by looks was that "wife" a Saintess.. she literaly uses black magic yet worked for the church?
And noone ever questioned how everything she is in chage off has proven to be corrupt or evil/ criminal..
The father seems to know something, almost like he is trying to convince himself that they arnt bad ppl even if they bring in an orphan and have his "saint wife" put a curse "trancer" on said child... how is that even Saint like.
I get the feeling that Ophelia is dead, thats why he isn't calling her back and that the "curse trancfer" was a soul trancfer. And that the wife is doing everything in her power to break / corrupt Ophelias vessel so prevent her from awakening and ruining her Dark controle.
The empress may be in on this.. From the look of it the Emperor imprissoned Damion's mother, got her pregnant and the Empress had her escape to put all blame of evil on her and the child. Most likely Damian is the savor of the Empire and the Empress and "mother" are trying to steal the futures of the Prophesis Ophelia being one and the Prince being another aka Bonney and Damian.
Wow his mom is a real piece of work..
She wanted a child so bad that her powers gave her one, yet in fear of her younger sister who was on the throne she hid the child away.
Later she gives up the child and even helps in disabeling him..
Yet she feels no guilt nor remorse because she did it for the ppl she loves... her younger sister and husband.
Lady if you used your power to have the child, it aint your husbands kid so why would he be indebet to your husband who you claim is his dad.
She didnt even consider that he would want revenge and was shocked at his old plan of dethroning her sister, but the sister had to go and die.
If his plan to defthrone your sister didn't lose him his power, what makes you think he would lose them for not saving your husband whom he has literaly no conection to would?.
His mom had god given power but was to much of a wimp and follower to use it, yet wants her son to follow her wishes no questions saked just like how she followed her sisters. Her real fear is that if her husband dies, she will have noone to tell her what to do nor how to live her life. The lady literaly can't think for her self... What a letdown of a mother.