Girl................ what's this? Now they're gonna come fetch you right from your room, and keep moving you between one place and the other, back and forth, whenever smth happens?!? You might as well give up and go to that friggin imperial academy, already............. Could even make them sign a contract, that you'll guide only a selective certain few, only for a limited period of time, and that they'll all need to pay you an astronomical monthly salary, in the meantime...
https://www.mangago.zone/read-manga/acidity_of_regret/
Basically almost identical plot: blond haired green eyed woman discovers that it was her husband, a handsome black-haired blue eyed stoic looking duke, who secretly caused her family's ruin and her father's death behind her back, so she commits suicide and they both go back in time, where she reunites with the other man who tried to help her in the past life (there's even the coincidence this other FL was even also pregnant not long before the time-reversal...). Only difference is time-regression in this other story is delayed to take place in chapter 21, so that readers can witness the progression of events (which happen much faster in terms of years) with only a slight variation in the order of events: the husband woos her before their marriage, then secretly goes and falsely accuses her father of treason, causing his ruin and death, so that he can then play dumb and pretend to come to her and rescue her, after her father's execution, like a knight in shining armor, in order to induce her to marry him, as part of his own secret agenda... only for the love rival to come and help the FL find out the truth not long after the wedding... (thus, making her actual marriage to garbage husband last only a few months at best... instead of seven years), and then after the husband tries to confine her and kills some of the people who try to help her escape, and she has miscarriage (of the baby conceived BEFORE she found out the truth), the story moves right on to the part of the suicide, and on to the time-reversal... Thus, she doesn't spend seven years of "torture marriage" to him in this one (even though she did marry him not just for love and because she didn't yet know the truth, but also because she had no choice in order to escape the life of poverty and slavery as an executed traitor's daughter, but still...) Same, same, same
Chapter 32 is missing, isn't it? Well, not that much happened in it (just her bro getting their dad's permission to bully the silver hair prince to make him quit being the FL's escort
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Ok read up to chapter 35 in the novel, and the manipulation is big in this one, the sister is just the excuse to get her, he had it all planned out: offer of more money each time she wants to quit the new "task", using progressively worse "tools" so that when given the choice she'd end up chossing the "lesser pain" of getting spanked by his hand, harder lessons on the little sister so that the sister would inevitably end up making more mistakes, and making the FL keep count of the mistakes so that, when the FL predictably got scared at the constantly rising number of mistakes (knowing the punishment would be "1 hit per each 1 mistake") and started lying about number in order to receive fewer hits herself, he could then swoop in to take advantage, reveal that he'd discovered the maid FL's "deceits about the real number of mistakes," and hold it against her in order to force her to choose between two forms of "physical compensation" (under threat of having to return double the money she got in total, if she refused to choose either): first option was more corporal punishment (for her own lies this time, and with worse "tools") and second option was agreeing to a sexual relationship with pseudo BDSM (but not proper BDSM) "lighter" punishments. The Fl ends up agreeing to the "bdsm - ish" (but more forced than bdsm-like) pseudo relationship... and that's when he takes her to the "secret room" and does it to her for the first time, also making her agree to all the forms of spankings that he wants to do (with and without tools) in between...
((AKA "No, seriously, dude... where's my Lovecraftian horror??"))
Huh, he has all that power at his disposal, all that law-of-physics-warping potential, distorting time and space, and individuals' memories, however and whenever he wants... ...just to make her get chased by a...a *giant scorpion*.
And lol yeah... I get it. Yeah.. that's an "awful" thing for him to do. Yeah. And, yadayada.. *But*, *frankly*? ...From a horror fan's perspective? From that POV, that's (also) a bit... hilariously stupid, like the kind of childish "horror" that only some dorky kids would come up with. Or, like some of the stuff that the old Jumanji boardgame would pull. (But... tbh... I think my basis of comparison may be a bit off... after watching the drastic shit that the IT clown pulled in ep. 4 of "It: Welcome to Derry" **And NO: don't watch it, look up a summary if you want, but DO NOT WATCH**)
I know not everyone will understand the question, but "dude, you borrowed a Lovecraft character, and this is all you do with it, dude... is that it?? dude... where IS my Lovecraft horror???"
Eh... so that "sort of" big baddie's gone?? who the heck offed him? I have my suspicions on the crown prince (we know Crow teleporter esper dude could have easily done it, but crown prince is a much more interesting option).
But the same exact plot formula of people fighting each other over who gets to exploit her, getting repeated over and over, is starting to get boring... man, the same exact cycle is just not fun anymore, at least start adding some darn other variants to it, already! Like dunno, the emergence of another guide? Clues in the previous dimensional-jumper's diaries??... Anything????
If not, then just take all the espers to your own world, girl... just like some other commenter's said. Hamelin flautist-style: your world treats espers better, they have more guides, more teamwork to get rid of monsters without sacrificing anyone, and the medicine and tech of your world clearly have no worthy match there (haven't seen magical tech or anything, so).
If you like 'girl x supernatural entity' horror you guys should check out "Red Fox" by Hama, it's a historical setting with a similarly powerful, formless entity that is the only one of its kind, hiding among humans even though it doesn't really understand them (and who's not an actual fox, they just call it that, but it has no definite form). This one loves killing humans to eat their livers, and then it disguises as some of the humans it has killed, allowing for a lot more goriness and twistedness: it meets and kills several people before he bumps into the FL's mother and, through her, meets the FL... whom it falls for.
Eww... The 'normalized sibling marriage' nightmare... ew (I kinda get why she came to fear his "Aha") "The neighbor's kids are already married. When are you two gonna have your ceremony?" Ewwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww
Osiris: "Since I couldn't use Anubis to bind us together as our mutual kid, I'll make myself an 'Anubis suit' to get Seth to look at me fondly"
Seriously though... Anubis deserves all the credit for managing the impossible feat of making an undead green pickle FINALLY know seggziness
Haha the uncle: "This tiger is your husband...?! Erm, let's get another medical checkup.."
From the creators of "IT: Welcome to Derry," now comes...
"IT: the clown got massively bored and tried to date a human"
FL: "You don't know how I waited... for the one day a month that we could be together..."
Me: "yeah... the one day a month that you two could be together, WITHOUT him keeping *the friggin dog* ALSO nearby"
(like seriously, while I know she should've grown a pair and told him about her phobia, it's not like she knew he was interpreting her fear of the dog and her discomfort with the butler and her bitterness at their acquaintances as a dislike for *himself*... how could he miss the fearful looks she kept throwing the dog, and the butler, and the acquaintances?? Or did he know and is just taking it personally, playing victim that "she apparently didn't love him deep enough to be able to endure all that" crap, or sth??)
Hehe imagine being rescued 'princess carry' style at the last sec, and it's by your fav idol EVER, hahahah the mustache old man's gonna become a Johan stan, Let the fanclub commence
Not saying Nephthys is free of guilt in it, but... even though she could have easily backed her argument by bringing up Seth's role in causing kid Anubis' suicide, she spared Seth that one very sordid detail that she knows (because her "lobotimized" version had found it out) and which Seth is still pretty much unaware of: how his mistreatment of kid Anubis had caused kid Anubis to even commit suicide once, due to Seth's horrible mistreatment of him (it was revealed at the end of chapter 18, described in more detail in chapter 19, and shown in a flashback within flashback mid chapter 60).
Nephthys, you finally called Seth out on that awful shit he did in chapter 5, I'm so happy. I spent years calling you the worst mother in existence, and now both you and the author have finally put that topic to rest, giving it proper resolution and closure. I'm so happy I could cry... Motherhood is FINALLY vindicated. Kudos to all good mama bears in the world, who strive to look after their kids! Mamas are HOLY!
I don't care if they beat you, blondie, you're a hero no matter what anyone says! (Just, um... please tell me you ALERTED THE POLICE before this... ... please) ┗( T﹏T )┛
This has already been updated till chapter 30 in other english scan sites. But anyway, I guess I'll just put a spoiler warning all the same, just to be safe. According to what we learn up till chapter 30, it seems that...
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In the past, after Zachary (Bella's only conractor) betrayed and killed Bella, he then killed himself some time afterwards, a while after becoming the first emperor. But that is a secret only the royal family knows. There's a possibility that the silver-haired holy knight that now escorts Bella as the "saint's" guardian (the younger brother of current black haired crown prince) is Zachary's reincarnation (they've said in the story that Zachary has been reincarnated).
Also, in the past, when Zachary killed Bella, the long black haired dude, Ethan, also died, trying to save her, because the original saint blondie girl had sent him to try to help and save Bella from Zachary. But Zachary killed him. His death left the original saint blondie alone and pregnant with his kid, so the original saint lived the rest of her life hating Zachary until his death, and her child was the human Isabela's ancestor.
The original saint had also left behind a diary, that nobody has been able to read until now, because it's written in old divine language, but our current Bella finds it and it turns out she can read it. This diary has entries describing how in the past Zachary had been acting weird prior to killing Bella, and how he'd been talking to thin air and mentioning something about some "plan". The last entry in this diary that had belonged to the original saint was a message to Bella herself, as if she had known the future Bella would find it, where she told future Bella that none of what had happened in the past had been Bella's fault (in chap 31 we'll see if there was any more, along with that, in that one message).
So.... based an all this, anyone else getting the feeling that reborn Zachary's gonna be the ML?
Lol just peeked at this again, just the latest chapter, chapter 66 (after dropping it bc of all the dark spoiler warnings about the novel version), but this was honestly really cute. It's like he's not just in it for the sexual aspect, he's kinda inlove, and it shows (kudos to the artist of this) so maybe he won't be as bad as in the novel? Hopefully?
My original post before I read chapter 30 + Post chapter 30's updated edit
BEGIN OF ORIGINAL POST (before chap. 30)
I don't even need to look for any spoilers to know what we will see on the next chapter (which will be chapter 30) based on the glimpses to their past that we've had so far: I can bet right here and now that what we'll get in the next chapter is the truth behind that glimpse of a flashback, the full scenario of that glimpse we've already seen, of an unspecified incident in their past, when there were servants seen going out of the house, in order to go look for her, while she was seen out in the rain, and then his dog had come at her, making her panic (reviving the trauma of her mother's death) and all her husband had said was, "well done," to the DOG... (not even noticing how she was absolutely terrified... did he ever even bother to find out the reason for her fear of animals coming at her? How it had to do with the trauma from when one of such animals had come at her and her mother, and accidentally *killed* her mother, right in front of her, back in her childhood?? Moreover: did he ever have any clue she had a deep-rooted fearful trauma about being approached by animals, if they did it all of a sudden?)
So yep, I can already predict it... I can bet that's what we'll see in the next chapter, with the rest of this flashback: how she ended up getting lost while on her way back to the house (after that walk along the path at the back of their estate) that day, and how the servants and he himself had ended up going out after her, too, later on, in order to go in search for her, and how this dude finally sent his dog after her trail, in order to find her, how it started to rain, and how when they followed the dog and finally found her, the dog came right at her, causing her to go into panic mode, but this azzwipe only thought she was overreacting, and he congratulated the dog for "doing a good job" in finding her... never realizing that the darn animal he kept beside him at all friggin times was the VERY reason she couldn't stop trembling whenever she saw him (since he was never separate from the darn creature, as if he couldn't take a single step WITHOUT taking the darn pet along, with him... How come you never noticed, azzwipe, how it was obviously the dog that she feared and disliked so much, and not necesarily YOU, you azz hole... how come in seven friggin years you never noticed that?? Or never realized the reason for your wife's trauma, or even a single darn thing about any of that?? Are you really THAT stupid???)
END OF ORIGINAL POST (before chap. 30)
EDIT: Now that chapter 30 is out, even if I was kinda right in my prediction, I can say I am a wee bit less mad now that I know he had a good excuse to send the dog after her (there were hunters in the area, so yeah "woman lost in the woods + hunters = an accident waiting to happen"), but still, that doesn't excuse killing her father, bro... even if they always ended up misunderstanding each other because neither of the two ever explained crap properly to each other... that only makes it WORSE how, instead of trying to talk any of it out with her properly, he went and got "revenge" at her by killing her father like he did... so no, this still doesn't excuse a darn thing...