THAT GAVE ME THE FEELS the character development of the duke was so good I'm starting to question why Penelope keeps pushing him away when he's the one already saying that she can stay and looks at her as if she's his own daughter.
If u ever played an otome game you know the plot changes whenever u pick a choice, it feels to me Penelope can't see the changes and still views the characters the same from the start of the game(cuz she's obsessed with ending it and going back ik but-). I know she has the same backstory as the Penelope in the game but why can't she see the difference and the efforts they're trying to make even after they met a key character which is ivonne. LIKE GIRL THEY WANT YOU AND THEY HAVE AFFECTION FOR U THEY'RE GIVING U LOVE DONT KEEP PUSHING IT AWAY STOP HURTING YOURSELF POOKIE AND BE HAPPY PLEASEEEE
This would all be solved if Rishar just simply became emperor!! If he ascended the throne and not ettiene then that bitch empress will never become powerful again. He literally will have power to overthrow anyone and he can use that power to protect ettiene too. If he really wanted to give him happiness then just become the emperor!!! It's not as free as running away together but it's the easiest way cuz the current emperor already wants Rishar to be emperor SO JUST TAKE IT AND KILL THAT BITCH OF AN EMPRESSSSS!!
Rishar did not do that because he knows that Etienne also wants to become an Emperor
You will know in the later chapter
And if Rishar become Emperor, there will be people who will try to take Etienne's life as his existence can become a thorn in the kingdom
And Rishar just want to be Etienne's knight, someone that can protect
Nah cuz Jinheon is everything that's bad and you can't blame the bottom for feeling that way, he literally lost his adoptive parents(probably got killed by the top or something) and now he probably just wants to have a significant person which he thinks of as a brother bc he wants that familial love.
LIKE GODDAMN JUST RUNAWAY OR GO TO THE OTHER DUDE SOWOON OR SOOWON OR SOME SHIT- he's probably a bad guy too tho... ATP JUST GO TO DOYEON THAT GUY'S GETTING A GAY AWAKENING MAN THIS POOR BABY
Does this have raws?? PLEASE IM HUNGRY