Y’all I was seriously expecting this to be the usual “stupid violent ML that doesn’t understand the basics of a relationship” and a manipulated MC who is desperately trying to get away but also can’t help but fall back into the trap—
That isn’t what I’m being fed rn and goddang it’s such a weird, unusual taste! It’s a violent guy but with a heart and conscious who is actually visibly smartly doing his best and it’s between hilarious, scary, and cute when they’re having a moment between the two. Heck, I found myself more upset with the MC than the ML sometimes coz ML gives such misunderstood aggressive doggo vibes and that it’s obvious he just needs a little social training (and that he is even open to being put in his place) and like if only MC could see his efforts or anyone else and praise him lie agh just in a couple chapter he tried and change so much （/TДT)/
He’s an aggressive misunderstood doggo who isn’t fully blind of how bad he could be and trying to be a good other half—
I need to point it out but
That meme at the is so fckin cute
i know right
I just need someone to tell me that this will have a Happy Ending please ╥﹏╥
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So i read in the previous comment that her brother dies i guess cuz she will become the next successor of her family so she will divorce the duke and the duke will be framed as a traitor i guess but at the end they'll all live together happily
Regarding the spoiler
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The duke is not "framed," he actually was fully involved as a traitor...the only difference is that halfway through, the motivation for his betrayal disappeared so that he would no longer benefit. However, he was already in too deep, so he disowned his son to keep him from being involved in the rebellion.
It's still a Happy Ending, though, because the Duke is allowed to live after the rebellion (in a different country) under a false identity.
That’s such a sad ending
It's a sad story in general, though the ending sounds even worse when taken out of context (ie, me only talking about the Duke's ultimate fate).
If you look at the rest of his family, the ending's a bit happier (though still bittersweet).
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The FL and her son prevent the coup from happening. The son turns down a title as a reward, and went with his mom to her mother's (?) country, where they find out that the Duke wasn't executed as they were told, but banished...to the same country. So the entire family lives Happily Ever After together.
What’s gonna happen to the duke’s title
Just as you'd expect in that situation, I assume. (I haven't read any spoilers that specifically answer this question, so below is purely supposition based on stories with similar situations.)
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The Duke got neck deep in a rebellion against the royal family; only chance out of it was succeeding, which it didn't. Anyone who fails a rebellion against the king has their entire family executed (except for their very small children, since infants and toddlers are presumably not involved), and their lands and titles taken by the royal family, who usually give them out as rewards to their loyal followers.
The son probably would NOT have been given his dad's lands and titles, despite being raised to succeed them. He contributed to the royal family, but not QUITE that level. He probably only would have made Count...which doesn't really matter, since after being disowned by his father, he's now legally considered a foreign noble through his mother's family. (This has nothing to do with his dead uncle's land and titles, which I hope were handed back to his cousins post-attempted coup...I haven't heard anything about that, though.)
Oh that’s really a bittersweet story
Can you please tell me where did you read the novel?(how do you know this?)
Can you please tell me where did you read the novel?(how do you know this?) (￣ε(#￣)Σ
I haven't read the novel, but there is literally a spoiler thread on NovelUpdates.
https://forum.novelupdates.com/threads/the-flower-dance-and-the-wild-song-%EA%BD%83%EC%9D%80-%EC%B6%A4%EC%B6%94%EA%B3%A0-%EB%B0%94%EB%9E%8C%EC%9D%80-%EB%85%B8%EB%9E%98%ED%95%9C%EB%8B%A4.117872/
Me: *applies acne treatment on my face after a nice hydration and then getting ready for my beauty sleep*
*the update*
Me: *cried everything off*
“I should change my phone again” after looking up what “safe word” is is even more alarming then not knowing what it means—
That Master is an abusive salt bastart
My brain did actually play the song the entire time and it carried the chapter hahahaha
I guessed from the summary and first chapter, but this is basically the story of a mother who gets a second chance at battling post partum depression. It’s amazing how well written this story is to be honest and it so realistic from all the characters’ sides! Like the toxic masculinity is so smooth too that even we just consider it the guys being heartless dicks but it’s obvious that they are just putting up fronts that they believe is right.
It’s so frustrating to read this though in a setting where mental health isn’t considered a real thing. Like SO many times I wanted to grab them by the shoulders, FL included, and shake them screaming “SHE IS SICK. SHE IS S I C K. IT’S NOT HER FAULT GET HER PROPER HELP SHE IS SICK IT’S JUST GONNA GET WORSE!”
Not recognizing her child as her own, getting frustrated while taking care of him, feeling randomly anxious and stressed, lonely, no feeling of love to her child, a dependency on her partner, it’s so so so striking but only to people who actually know what post partum depression is and how super severe it can get. And considering she 1) is limited in her freedom 2) has undergone a lot of stressful events 3) has communication/understanding issues with her husband 4) her husband often leaves for long period, leaving her feeling “abandoned” and 5) she cannot find even proper security in her marriage, the only thing she can lean on, because of the misunderstanding
The saddest saddest thing is how absolutely destroyed both her and ML are because of their confusion on her state. Like he is so confused and trying to help and appease somehow (without admitting his own feelings and battling his own expectation and reality distortion issues) and is hurt by misunderstanding her condition while she repeats so many times that she “doesn’t know” why she’s like this and that “it’s strange”.
It can’t get any clearer bro.
Anyways, all this to say that I really love how absolutely realistic this story is while still have some hella lovable characters
My only fear is that we’ll never have the satisfaction of everyone understanding that she is not at fault and that the guilt is just worsening her depression and emotional detachment from her child—
Like dang... imagine getting severe post partum depression as a teenager... man
Also about the ML’s situation, he obviously likes the FL and has been interested in her since probably their first meeting. For him, this was a romance based marriage.
Now listen listen
He was supposed to marry the princess. If we look at how he has educated his son, we can be pretty sure that that’s how he was educated himself. In other words, the motto is “do what you have to do for the family”. Though, he still from some unknown reasons that the FL has misunderstood chosen to refuse the princess and instead marry FL.
If he chose to do that because of love, then this is really tragic. Because 1) it’s not in his teachings to make decision that are not the most optimal for his family and it’s not something he can be proud of at all (like the convo he had with his dad where he went “it’s just a girl” shows that he still has to show enough emotional detachment to have control over his environment as a man and the heir) and 2) because he is constantly being rejected by FL in the most horrible way and has no means of correcting her without going through some really big psychological obstacles that he has yet to properly notice and overcome such as that love isn’t a weakness, meeting expectations and how perfect you are don’t make your worth, communicating is important contrary to what his conditions growing up could have made him think.
Tbh I do really feel bad for him because he himself, just like the FL, has no one to reassure him and to seek refuge to because he believe she doesn’t love him and is only using him for family means. However, he has work and responsibilities to mask his emotions and divert his attention.
Btw, that is a big part of toxic masculinity and high suicidal rates in men; because of the social expectations that they have to provide and always fulfill their responsibilities and because they don’t have as much introspection as women, they often misunderstand their own pain and self medicate by taking substances for example or becoming workaholics (since accomplishing what society wants at least gives them a little gratification and keeps their minds away from core issues)
Her depression may also spring from the fact that she experienced sooo much trauma when pregnant, that she subconsciously associates the child with the trauma, in the beginning of her pregnancy she is happy and her father in law is happy her husband is happy, but then the husband leaves, the father in law dies and then her own father dies and soon after the child is born, her sister experiences a miscarriage, like man that must have felt heavy and all the while she herself is a child. Harsen obviously loves her and loves her deeply too, but he has this ingrained image of how a head of the family should be, if even once he told her he loves her, that it will be okay that he's there for her, she maybe would'nt be as bad off, but then again he feels as if this marriage was a burden for ercella, that he was a mere choice, and he doesn't want to force her to say "i love you" because she will say it out of obligation, but dude you are already her husband ffs, giving her emotional support is not too much, and obviously the child doesn't deserve any of this and ughhh, im in pain
I hope that he really ran away and not anything else—
Coz I do be on the verge of tears oof