Nah I have a serious problem with all these historical manhwa authors and their canonic desire to force a perfectly fine historical man to rid of his beautifully lucious locks. Like...why? I will never understand bc long haired manhwa men>>>>>>>>
what is with this obsessive desire to make them cut their hair
Please sign my petition to stop this injustice, I beg everyone as fellow long haired historical men enjoyers
Erm...is it just me or is she suddenly getting all blushy and bashful for no reason??? Like I swear, before she was cold and calculative and if she DID blush, it was a part of her scheme or it was very slight and unnoticeable but now she's acting very obviously like a tsundere? Not inlove with this type of development
Tbh, I was low key kinda feeling a bit of empathy towards the emperor and how he was trying to get mc's forgiveness and all
...and then I decided to reread from the start. AND LET ME TELL YOU! THE WAY ANY AND ALL SYMPATHETIC EMOTIONS I WAS FEELING TOWARDS THAT PIECE OF SHIT COULD CHALLANGE USAN BOLT IN TERMS OF SPEED CAUSE HOW TF DO YOU EXPECT FORGIVENESS FOR COMPLETELY NEGLECTING YOUR CHILD UP UNTIL SHE WAS 9 YEARS OLD, IGNORING HER SUFFERING, REFERING TO HER AS "that thing", SAYING THE COLDEST THINGS TO HER, REFUSING TO GIVE HER THE TIME OF DAY, AND IGNORING OBVIOUS SIGNS THAT SHE WAS SUFFERING!??? LIKE SHE WAS LITERALLY BEING PHYSICALLY AND VERBALLY ABUSED BY THAT SHITTY NANNY THAT YOU HIRED??? GO FUCK YOURSELF DICKHEAD. I HOPE SHE LEAVES YOUR ASS AND THAT SHIT HURTS CAUSE YOU DESERVE A FUCKING SHANK AND A TWIST.
sure he's an asshole, but aside from apologizing, what else could he do now? the abuse already happened and it's not like he could turn back time. i'm not defending his actions, but even now, he isn't even asking for much. he just wants philomel to at least stay in the palace and forgive him, and he's doing a good job in asking for her forgiveness. i like how he isn't forcing her to do anything. and it's pretty realistic that he's at lost of what to do (read: a little dumb) because no one's there to tell him what's right and wrong.
they should definitely sit down and have a deep conversation, and it seems that it'll happen later in the future. i think it's a little unfair to condemn him when he's going through his character development.
i rather wish for the emperor and her real dad to share custody together
I agree with what you said, and what he's doing right now is good, yet I don't think he should get custody of her. It's like saying "Yeah my husband abused me for 9 years but now suddenly he wants me to forgive him". Hence, he's not forcing is a good thing and yeah he deserves all the hate cause he has done some shitty things that's why he has no way of defending himself right now. As a result of this, a shitty character gets all the hate for being shitty and will also get compliments for good character development. Still he does not deserve her custody.
I love how their relationship is handled, she doesn't suddenly decide to forgive him for everything and move on like nothing happened.
(no spoilers) I'm somewhere in the 130's of the novel chapters and she still hasn't completely forgiven him.
I was kinda coming around to liking him but something was revealed and now I'm just sitting here going-
That's right. BEG you cretin (╯°Д °)╯╧╧
Their relationship is not unsalvageable, Philomel just needs some time, and I'd love to see how they build trust and develop a real relationship this time.
Yup. Neglect is also a form of abuse and Phil basically didn't have anyone on her side until she herself started working for her survival, it was heartbreaking to see her cry as a child when she realised nobody wants her. The King was dealing with his own issues (he lost the love of his life) but he is the adult in this relationship and he should have been the one took care of the child and not the other way around. Also another thing to notice is the fact that the King never apologised to Phil once before she confessed her feeling of feeling suffocated in the palace, like the dude surely knew he wasn't exactly treating her right for at least 9 years and never said sorry for that until he was confronted ? The character development has to be a long one lol. I know that he isn't completely unredeemable or anything like that, he just has his mistakes and flaws he has to work on. I am sure Phil will make the right judgement, she is mature enough for both of them lol.
Omg I'm so sad that that's it anyways, beautiful story, 10/10 FL & ML and I loved their relationship, how it progressed and the fact that there were NO DUMB MISSUNDERSTANDINGS. Like there were so many opportunities where the author could've put in the typical bs misunderstandings for drama but they didn't so I'm truly grateful.
But I also feel like the ending was a bit rushed and I have a few unanswered questions like, what happened to the red king and duke rimon? What abt that double agent knight that fl had? Did he continue serving her or..? What happened with the Iron king and his wife? All good things, I'm assuming, and then also does the Iron kings uncle end up plotting schemes and things and if not, why? Like his burning desire for revenge was crazy so I find it kinda strange how he just seems to have given up.
ALSO, HOT TAKE BUT...I honestly don't hate the Red King. Like I get that she is the villain in this whole narrative and is depicted as some super evil, heartless schemer, but I kind of sympathise with her. I just feel like yeah, she was manipulative and a bit mentally unwell but she did truly love her daughter and most (??) of the actions she did were probably out of some twisted sense of love that she had. And I feel like that's not completely her fault especially since that's the kind of environment where she was raised and (especially in this story that so heavily highlights the impact of one's surroundings, growing up, on who you become) she was put into a situation where she had to be perfect, stop her position from being taken away, being used by everyone including her own family, and only having her daughter as someone who would genuinely appreciate her. And I feel like she did all of what she did because she probably wanted to be needed and loved by her daughter which she would have seen as her only genuine "belonging" and in order to express her love, she was obsessive over giving Sienna the throne which she believed would be the most perfect position. But I also acknowledged that another factor for her obsession with the throne could be her own greed and the actions that she took and the mind games she played with fl were fucked up which is why I think the way in which fl cut her off was good and I also wished that somewhere in the conclusion they might have been able to reconcile but I just can't seem to hate the Red King of.
I'm actually so close to dropping this cause wtf. Like ik for a fact that she could've come up with something but noooo she's at the mercy of the empress over bullshit rumours like bsffr
All this weakness and lack of political knowledge is pissing me off. Like she was litterally empress, how does she not know the ways of high society??? She was litterally at the peak of it??? make it make sense!!!
You know what so true. I'm also almost dropping this because of how disappointing this turns to. Like, it has so much potential but almost turning for the worst. Just like the picture you know that's on the internet about a horse drawing so nice at the start but as time goes by turning into a childs d
Istg my heart can take this
can't*