Both the parents dont take care of any of their childern.
They are royals, they are being taken care of by knight servants and nannies
Okay yeah, but that is true for literally every other fantasy manwha. They go months with out seeing her and who knows when they saw their sons. The main character has not seen her brothers since she was a baby. Even stories where the parents hate the child they see them more often.
Most royalty (especially emperors/empresses) have many things to do to yk manage a continent spanning nation. They cannot realistically spend their time raising their children themselves so they hire other to do so for them. Throughout history, that is the case. The idea of raising children yourself is a uniquely middle and lower class experience in the middle ages. Upper class only started to do that long, long after. Nuclear family dynamics like we have nowadays are unheard of for the wealthy I'm this time period.
The fantasy stories that do not follow this idea and instead make it to where the rulers can spend every waking moment around their children are incredibly inaccurate and should not be praised for their in accuracies.
Royal families that follow this idea are not inherently dysfunctional, especially for this time period. It's not abandonment, it's just realistic. The children are properly cared for by their attendants who give them they care and attention they need.
And as for the sons, I'm sure they are learning how to rule/inherit a kingdom so they are busy themselves. I'm sure we'll learn more about them late :)
Sorry for the essay, the feudal era was my special interest for a while so it's hard not to info dump lmao
This is a fantasy manwha set on family vaules and her wanting a family. I know how actual historical rulers work but this is a fanasty setting and a family focused manwha. I am not comparing the actions of the parents to the real world I am comparing it to other fantasy manwhas with family focused plots.
Abandonment is not really an accurate word for this, family dynamic. A lot of family focused manwhas are not really in royalty setting since most of it has a "born in a strong noble household that can rival the royalty".
Calling this abandonment is exaggerating, when u compare this story's family dynamic to angst plots where the mc is actually abandoned.
While neglect might be the closest word, it's still inaccurate. Cuz u can see from previous chapters, the parents still cares for her and doesn't give her a cold shoulder.
I think they're just physically unavailable due to royalty duties hindering them to emotionally connect with their child.
100% agree!
I am obsessed with Morgan. He is so cute.
I cant believe the ML asked if she still drinks cold water what kind of question about someone is that? It is like asking do you still eat hot food?
I cant wait to see him in a jealous spiral. I hope we get to see their life from before in his perspective not just him talking about it.
He is so adorable. I am always thinking for once I want the male lead of a romance to be the main perspective. Glad to find one.
Random but for some reason to me the brother and the father look like they were drawn in Victorian Gothic font. I just wanted to share that observation.
I feel like the FL and ML have such different perspectives of what their marriage was like. She shows it as being her having a one-sided love for him and him treating her cold and harsh. It seems she feels like to him she was something that he used to deal with his pain never showing her love. Didn't he ignore her and make her stay in their house all the time? The ML on the other hand talks about loving her and wanting her. He shows jealousy but he never talks about how their actual relationship was. I want to see a scene of his perspective of their prior life. I hope we get a scene where she calls him out for his past behavior I want this man to grovel.
THIS! He's so fucking delusional, I can understand that in their past life he was deceived by the "saintess" and teleported to a world with no one on his side, so when he began to love "Irene" he wanted her presence to reassure him (and probably did that because he knew the "saintess" bullying) BUT TO IGNORE ALL HER SUFFERING LIKE THAT AND INSIST??? Nah, fuck this guy
I am enjoying the story but every time he is like "My wife" I'm like sir what relationship do you think you had? In ch. 21 where he imagines them hugging, I was like when. I feel like his perception of their relationship is clouded by his guiding lust. It seems heavily implied that he was very forceful in their intimacy and she did not get enjoyment from it. He seems to only take and not give. I don't think he knows his wife that much. It is like he made up a lovely relationship because he got so much out of it while she got nothing.
I hope we get a good second lead that makes him see the difference in how he treated his wife or her at least yelling at him about her true feelings. I also want her to further reflect on their relationship.
The worst part is, she already expressed her dislike and he ignored it. He will only understand if someone ELSE tells him, and that's maddening
I wonder what will happen when she interacts with the crown prince. I find it interesting that she seems to be able to guide other espers since she affects the ML's brother. I wonder if the bond is only responsive on his part and not hers.
Ohhh you are right!! Perhaps because it's not her body? The ML is still the same person, but she entered Irene's body
OH that makes sense but idk I feel these things have to do with souls usually. I wonder if she is going to have to choose to choose him or something dramatic like that. I wonder if there are any other espers besides the ML, his brother, and the crown prince since there are other guides. I wonder if a guide is born for each esper.
From what I understood, in this guideverse, the bond only restric the esper, something like in the relationship the esper is the one that ends up with the exclusive guide but the guide isn't exclusive to the esper
Damn, how one-sided
so what your saying is my toxic ass is going to get to see the ML a groveling jealous mess.(▰˘◡˘▰)
man really said I'm about to play psycho killer. he went from being all cute about to propose to a full possessive obsession keeper in 2seconds.
Is the dad confusing neglect for his straight up hatred for his daughter. He acts like he just ignored her and abandoned her. He has said and done things that show he hates her.