Newest chapter has mc catching them in the act with the gangster dude on top of injured ML. MC tries to reason with gangster dude to stop. And gangster dude is thinking, “this is part of your plan all along! To make me do all this so mc could see!” (He still isn’t taking any accountability that he made his own choices to end up in this situation and keeps blaming it only on the ML tbh). ML is of course acting out the part like “run away MC!” While whispering to gangster dude something like, “you had to chance to just silently go.” And as mc is helping ml walk away, gangster dude gets up and once again tries to kill ML. It shows blood but doesn’t show who gangster dude stabbed.
Like I said before, both guys are red flags. One is aware of how bad they actually are (ML) and the other is the delusional type (gangster). Even when the gangster had several moments to be better and be more mature as the older party, he just kept going. Even when he was let go by ML, even when he was stopped from his first and second attempt at murdering the ML, he STILL kept choosing the wrong choice by going to kill the ML again.
So mc has the choice of going for a ML who he already knows is a bad person, or the gangster dude who won’t listen to anyone but his own wishes. (That includes mc,,he doesn’t give af that mc rejected him, he’s still delulu thinking they’ll end up together if ML is dead).
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The only reason I’m going this hard on the gangster guy is because there’s too many people who are naive here that think he’s an angel. While ML is already self-explanatory, and everyone knows about how he is. Although I still think the author could’ve written a better path by making the gangster dude couple up with the brother- they might have just made another toxic couple in that case if this is how gangster dude was gonna be anyways.
Ngl valid villain origin story. Of course mc doesn’t deserve to be the one he takes his revenge out on. But it makes sense why it’s mc, seeing as that’s how both the uncle and ML treat everyone else. The uncle and ML treated everyone as disposable, so why can’t mc be the same (is likely the doctor’s thought process).
Honestly would’ve been interesting had this been the doctors revenge story with him as the main character rather than some Stockholm syndrome romance between Mc and ml.
Ngl the dirty talk makes me cringe. I would get it if it was just a few single liners here and there, but the man is the type that talks way too much during sex LMAO. The dialogue is exactly how smut novels are written to describe every little thing to fill out the space
Okay so I found a tolerable site to read the novel. And jeez, the twin brothers are the worst characters in the story. It’s crazy how her own biological brothers are the ones that actually tormented her the most. First they made FL bow to Yuriana 100 times. You would think they only acted that way as kids, but since the time skip FL is 19, meaning the brothers are older and still acting so immature. They still don’t know her identity from the part in reading at, but even so, they’re just genuine horrible human beings. They’re rude af to ANYONE. When FL had to dress as a man, they were mad that FL embarrassed yuriana by not wanting her and literally set her up to get beat up. They made the new empress distract FL’s friends while calling FL out and telling her she had to duel one dude and them. They GANGED UP on her (both twins). One even punched her. Though she was in her man disguise, they still were just horrible in general all for yuriana. One of them was also mad that FL stole the attention of his fiancée.
The biological dad is not great either, since he had that time where he got angry at her for simply being in his dead wife’s space and the fact that she’s simply known as being the daughter of princess iris. But he’s only not as bad because he’s an adult and gave SOME leniency by giving her rations of food during her time in the tower. The most he did was negligence which isn’t as bad as the brothers. I really hope she doesn’t forgive the brothers at least.
Okay so ngl this story has me hooked. At first it started out like any other normal historical transmigration story. But then there’s so many interesting backstories to the side characters. Like Princess iris, Elizabeth, the grandpa, etc.
I will say the game addition to the story is my least favorite part (which everyone else also has said the same lol), but other than that this story made me read it in one go and immediately went in search for the novel. I looked on the usual site where most novels are and the links didn’t work- so I had to search for alternatives. Can anyone recommend a good site to find this novel on? I found nyx’s translations but those only go up to a certain point before a paywall. Novelbin has terrible grammar too and is confusing along with all the pop up ads.
I saw ppl gushing and wishing the blonde were the ML. I guess looks are everything for some ppl huh? Lmaoo.
Sure he’s cute, but his character set up with being a playboy + loving someone else and thinking of that person while crying about them, isn’t what stands out to me as a ML. True, FL is doing something similar but she likely won’t be the one to chase after the blonde. So there wouldn’t be any regretting on her part
Alright usually I don’t really care for comments who hate on the FL, as I don’t make any comments about that or press the like button/reply to them. But it’s getting real now. Fr got the ick this chapter. Like wtf is the FL doing?? I get she’s anxious but that’s still no excuse. She initiated that shit more than once. Even if Alphonso got the letters and got the full picture of why she’s being forced to marry Cesare, her initiating kisses and all that crap crosses the line. Alphonso literally is right to be anxious as FL is proving her unfaithfulness. Even when Alphonso was going through that arranged engagement with that other chick, he never fell for such advances from her.
I just know if the roles were reversed and FL witnessed Alphonso do the exact same actions she did, she would feel betrayed and the readers would flip out even if they knew there was no feelings involved.
When Alphonso gets back, I hope he would express how awful he felt about what FL did.
I was gonna comment the exact same thing.
And as a reader of the novel, I was honestly very disappointed by her future actions.
Definitely Alfonso would be hated if he actually crossed the line and kissed that other woman. We all know it.
As much as I agree that she's in the wrong by initing this, we can't forget why she's doing it. She had history with Caesar. Despite his betrayal in her past life, she did love him for YEARS during that past life. Her new feelings for Alfonso were rather short lived in comparison.
I also think it's good that she mentioned that she's "afraid of forgetting" cuz that's exactly what happens after a long time passes; you forget your anger and resentment. And it's not helping that Caesar is buttering her up
Normally I would get her reasons and decisions were cause of her past life. However it doesn’t make much sense here. If you look at the thoughts in the chapter, she hardly really thought of Caesar and didn’t think romantically about him. She was using him cause she was lonely and wanted to first spite her sister. It was her pride speaking and not any sort of sweet memories. It was pure selfishness in this case.
I would have understood had this happened earlier when she first awoke in her second life, because the feelings are still fresh. I would have also understood if she talked about this sort of complex emotions of still loving him. However she never showed that. She only ever showed hatred at first and then some leniency thinking of him as changed and potentially an ally in this life. Nothing was romantic. The first kiss was this sort of revenge against Isabella and the second was her loneliness thinking of the letters with Alphonso, then came the guilt of betraying Alphonso. To say her decisions were from her years of love, in this chapter, I don’t think would be accurate.
But after awakening to her second life her primary feeling for Caesar aren't love since she found out before her death that she was betrayed. She felt resentment in that moment. After some time this had faded so that using him didn't feel as terrible as it should.
I agree that she didn't feel love in any of these kisses and did it to spite Isabella but even if she's not thinking or displaying it, the memories of the time where she had loved him are buried inside her. She can't un-love a person, just add other feelings to the complicated bunch she's already feeling.
You’re absolutely correct. I don’t read the novel as a whole but I have read the novel chapters in this arc on Naver. I think by the time this arc ends, which is soon, we will know Ari’s overall thoughts about this engagement arc. My guess is it will be over by ch182 or somewhere thereabouts.
I canttt, their backstory is so sad. It’s so disgusting what those guys did to them. First the abusive father. Then dealing with the pedophile uncle.
I saw ppl already mentioned the uncle also being abusive but I don’t think most shared the details of the fact that it’s implied the uncle raped jingi. Before the flashbacks, I think the it showed that mc found some video(s) of child pornography in jingi’s possesion. He immediately was disgusted and angry, thinking that was jingi who did that to a kid. But jingi revealed that the kid in the video is him. Mc asked why he’s keeping that, and jingi is like “for revenge.” And then the flashback sequence starts and the recent chapter with the uncle separating the brothers by putting heonjae in another house and taking in jingi. Then he takes the two boys (someone shared the other boy was a delinquent child), into a room shutting it.