The story so far is alright, there's a lot of cliches but it can be enjoyable. The pacing is alright and the art is fun. I'm a bit afraid the childhood friend is a 2nd ML (even if it's in vain I still hold hope they're only platonic), but we shall see ig.
I really hope that we get to explore deeper parts of characters we've been shown glimpses of. That's what I noticed this story does - it shows some nuance to characters, even if they might be considered "bad". Ie. Leah's half-sister forcibly married to the Emperor and being raped (I don't necessarily mean her with the deeper parts, I feel bad for her but doesn't look like she's going anywhere character-deveploment-wise), the Malau kingdom's princess not being able to inherit the throne because she's a woman, and sir Ralph (red-headed knight) knowingly trying to pursue Millie despite knowing he had no chance, probably just hoping for one. I love character complexities, and it honestly is a shame we only get them from side characters, none from the main. I still hope they will actually get utilised/explored more in the story.
While i know they can't see it, I'm proud of them for recognising their health and reducing the frequency of updates. I hope this will become the standard in webtoon spaces in the future, to become a preventative measure for artists' health, and not just as a final means when it's already getting bad. I feel bad that the author feels the need to grovel and apologise for this decision.
I agree with everything you said. I really wish I could pay for the chapters, but I promise that when I have some money, I'll try to buy at least one episode of all my fav authors. I appreciated their hard work.
omg! this is something i really wanna do in the future. i’d love to support all my favourite authors to show how much their stories mean to me (▰˘◡˘▰) one of them being pengki, the author of this manhwa!!
Yes I’d rather authors take breaks than have the art quality go downhill like many manhwas have already sadly
They keep dangling the true identity of Anna's bio father, argh!! Just say it, we all know it! (Maybe it was an uncle of the blondie as well... after all, he himself is a 3rd son).
Hahaha i also think that way.. or maybe siblings?
if thats the case, then the knight and mom might be happening. i just need the reveal
Ngl, the whole rebirth/possession/transimigration plot point feels redundant/pretty useless so far (as of ch 12). It doesn't feel necessary or useful to the story in any way so far
YES FINALLY. Gurl where have you been!? I feel you when you when you said "feels redundant, the importance of reincarnation, etc wasn't really needed in the story on its own" LIKE BRUH, SOME AUTHORS ARE JUST DOWNRIGHT SHAMELESS JUST TO JUMP ON THAT WAGON WHEN THEY COULD JUST BE ORIGINAL.
Yeah exactly! Or if they really wanted the whole thing about artworks be bc she knows the "future" so-to-say (even so, could've made her just an art nerd with an eye for these things), they could've just made it so that she had vague memories of her past life, where ahe recognised the paintings - memories that would've been there for a long time, so her identity would still stay as her current self, instead of thinking her new life as an other. (Which tbh is one of my least favourite thinfs with these tropes... like you supposedly still have your own memories, but you lose the identity connected to those memories simply because you remember a past life? It just doesn't make sense to me.) Even the sad memories about her past life would still make sense, if it's that, just memories.
Everything about the book just hasn't made any sense or felt needed. Even if they wanted to included the stuff about MC's views on ML or the Queen, it easily could've just been rumours she had hear of or ideas in her head. It's just pointless.
Its so tiring to see so many stories just add on the isekai element only to not use it or for it to even make sense at all
Another issue I've been so frustrated about is that these Isekai stories doesn't even include Stockholm syndrome, or missing your friends and family or if you're from a modern tech society or a modern person OFCOURSE YOU WON'T BE ABLE TO ADJUST TO THE WORLD IN A SNAP ESPECIALLY WHEN YOU STARTED AS AN ADULT IN A NOVEL OR A BOOK. Sometimes I'd rather write my own instead of reading but unfortunately that's not really my forte... It's frustrating
Or a game*
As of chapter 13 there seems to be an inconsistency between the novel and what’s happening at least, so maybe it becomes more of a plotpoint
Sooooo I'm not the only one getting massive lesbian/wlw/sapphic vibes from the personal maid with this chapter, right?
If I didn't know what I was reading and randomly opened this chapter I would have 100% thought this was a yuri
Huh??? Series finale??? Not a season finale, *series finale*????? IT FEELS LIKE WE JUST BARELY STARTED WHAT THE HELL THIS CAN'T BE IT, THE SLOW BURN JUST STARTED SLOW BURNING, it cannot end on this kind of note!!! Σ( ￣□￣||)
What the hell, I clearly remember reading spoilers that Decca(? Fabian's male friend) gets suspicious of Fabian and learns what he did to April, and that we'd get to see Fabian's downfall for sure.
There's no way they're throwing in the towel before the story is completed, right? Say sike rn （/TДT)/ just glancing at the 1st page of the novel updates forum lets me know there is still more story left in the og novel!! Agh!!
I get that a lot of ppl have always complained about this series and it's pacing but it's legit been one of my favourites ever since it started is it a masterpiece? No, but it's always been enjoyable for me to read. It's been fun. I really really hope this seriously isn't the series end.
I'm so happy this is finally back, but gods, I can't help but sigh/cringe a little when I see the officials translating specific terms literalöy in English again like despite murim/martial arts/historical settings not being new to me, and I know the terms they use doesn't just refer to family, it still feels wrong to see the characters calling each other big/little brother.
Skill issue.
i'm personally fine with it but it's so annoying when readers unfamiliar with these terms misunderstand
Them calling yakgwa a donut is funny
same vibes as the jelly-filled donuts from pokemon
Yeahh, that's the worst part about this. Idk why translators are afraid of sharing cultural awareness sometimes - like just have an explanation of the terms when they first come up, or like an end note for explanations.
Honestly imo one of the annoying ones is when the translators are american and decide to change the metric system used in the original comic to the freedom units, instead of just doing a footnote where the conversions are (like it's usually done when other way around) Σ( ￣□￣||) it's s big pet peeve of mine when reading officials and seeing it. It's assuming all English readers are from the US, when I'd argue a lot of us are non-native speakers from non-English speaking countries, at least on these sites. (I'm aware places like the UK/Canada have a bit funky use of the systems but I mention america bc one example that comes to my mind was when the officials erased the og Celsius used and just wrote the Fahrenheit - and I know only a handful of places in the world use the latter.)
Sorry for the rant lol (￣∇￣")
Atleast they stopped changing the names i was reading lookism in English on webtoon and then found out the Indonesian one was so far ahead and i switched and got so confused on who’s who
"big brother, i want to #%@#!! you in the $#%!! and make you cu#$%"
"little brother, don't too rough on me....pls?"
(≧∀≦) sorry
Tbh often times one of my least favourite parts about the possession trope is when the possessor doesn't have any memories from the OG/knows little, and I have to watch them fumble and sometimes make really embarrassing moves (I have a way too strong tendency for feeling secondhand embarrassment with the media I consume). Many times the MC may not have any viable excuses, and it is what it is, but way too many times I see them having one and not use it. Σ( ￣□￣||)
This applies here too. I feel like our current MC/Yana could easily act that her memory was affected due to the poison she consumed - considering how threatening the situation seemed, it doesn't seem impossible to me that some brain damage would've happened ╮(￣▽￣)╭ i understand some may potentially see this as an easy way out, but I personally just see it as the most logical thing to do in the situation. You don't have to pretend you know things you don't, or people don't necessarily look at you weird when you say something odd. Like she can easily ask about Yana's older brother without being suspicious. Ofc she can still use that excuse, but we'll see where things go.
Then again, I'm someone with alright social snills for an AuDH person, but I suck at reading specific cues in people and can't really fake things. I couldn't do what these kinds of MCs do. I'd be as honest as I can with the excuse of memory loss, so then, even if my personality is different, it'd be more understandable.
This is just my opinion though and there's no reason to take it seriously. This series isn't being annoying/that bad about this trope, it just came to my mind so I wished to talk aboyt it. (￣∇￣")
MC's so far super reliable poker face don't fail us now!!
Tbh I don't think it will, with her ability she likely already knew the princess knew (or maybe the information overload was too much, who knows), I think the last pic is there to be a cliffhanger for us readers. At least I fail to see how her so far almosy perfect poker face would lose here now.
Ik there hasn't been any concrete foreshadowing for this, but it do be kind of suspicious that Laslo shares his eye and hair colour with the Emperor (black hair and golden eyes). Sure, they might be slightly different shades, but only in a way that more detail-oriented people would care for - Emperor's hair is a slightly cooler tone whereas Laslo's warmer, and Laslo's eyes are a bit darker than the Emperor's (comparing the chibi heads at the end of ch26). I'm actually surprised there hasn't been more implied, as in my experience these kinds of details tend to have signifigance.
Like who knows, Laslo could potentially be an illegitimate child of the royal family. That could also help explain some of the Emperor's favour towards him. (As for Lynnia, I suspect she and Laslo are either half-siblings, or siblings not related by blood.)
u kinda have a point, i decided to follow ur theory