People, Horus didn't kill mirror Nephthys, he saw she wasn't even there anymore back in chap 193, which means that what we'd seen before at the end of chap 186 was Nephthys becoming whole again, thanks to Sekhmet and Isis.
ML: "Your moans are better than (listening to) a flute"
FL: 'Why is he talking about flutes? ...So random"
Me: 'Girl... if he's Azathoth, that *flute* can make him go to sleep... so, *maybe* it's the key to your freedom!'
The story's GOOD!! The FL's smart and the ML's an off-the-charts genius bodyguard puppy. The FL is hilariously making her cheating emperor husband's life hell by turning each of his mistresses into *official* royal concubines one by one, forcing him to keep dealing with them on a daily basis and drowning in their eternal fights and drama... (which is more than an incompetent idiot like him can stand). Absolutely brilliant!!
Well, done, ML! She got you those secret letters, so now you get her abusive sister stuck in prison by making the corrupted grandfather unable to go and get her out with brives.
...Haha, I called it. I predicted that not telling their youngest daughter the real reasons for giving their oldest an apparent "preferential treatment" would come back to bite these "parents" in the ass, later on... and it did. Now Blondie totally think they're throwing her under the bus compared to her oldest sister.
Rivena, how about I whisper "turn into a cockroach and stay that way" in your ear every day. ...Wait, that's an insult to cockroaches, so let's go for, "turn into feces and stay that way."
Horus: "How DARE you make me your mistress, only to discard me in order to go back to your wife!" (Me: "Well, before being the 'evil mistress' you where an 'Anubis-wannabe', so I'd say it's still an 'improvement'... Now, stop acting like a rofan villainess, Horus. You said you'd support his freedom of choice, now it's time to walk the talk")
We have a saying, where I live: "If you want someone, let them free, if they come back, then they're yours. If not, they have never been, and never will be")
I think it's implied that the mother's just continuing the cycle of abuse (where she is to blame for not thinking of even trying any better, like the clown she is): her own father, the western duke, used to treat her like crap, which is why now she treats her own unwanted child like crap (and, lady, were you THAT impatient to prove your father right, that you indeed are a worthless vermin, without an ounce of self-pride, to the point that so far you have only dared to shift your grievances on those unprotected enough to be easily preyed on without them being able to strike you back, while you yourself keep cowardly hiding from your "real opressors", like -allegedly- with your ex husband... or, while you yourself even keep *vowing* to them, like with your hated father?). ...I hope at some point they strip the "mother" of her status and send her to pile up horse shit for a living. This woman's so vile, all three of her daughters have grown up with huge issues because of her (because she's a spineless b-- who only knows how to take her misery out on those who -allegedly- can't strike back). She's just an abusive b--- with no concept of what real dignity is, and she's lower than scum.
Sure, go ahead. Now "turning back time" becomes the standard solution to every stupid little problem.
(...she's such an arrogant bi-- . As if I didn't have enough reasons to hate this baby-kindapping, human-experimenting who**... ***she did horrible things to a 'baby; so sorry, not sorry. She deserves that w insult***)
I feel like the husband might have become puritanical out of a constant lack of self-awareness about his own sheer naivete and lack of relationship experience... like, even the inexperienced FL herself might have a broader understanding of these things, than him. Most likely scenario is, that female friend of his is also aware of this, and thus has never seen him even remotely as a love interest (but girl... help a fellow woman by giving this guy a hint, about how to make his wife happy, at least... for jeezaz sake!!)
While it's not as common in Korean webtoons, in Chinese webnovels this is a usual trope: "villains being petty mediocre people who scheme to frame and bring down a talented protagonist, out of sheer envy and their own inferiority complex." This is such a prevalent, used and abused theme, they even have the label of "cannon-fodder villain" exclusively for these types of "pathetically-motivated" villains. They're so recurring, that I wouldn't be surprised if it turns out they had started spreading to the fiction made in other countries.
"Congratulations, Your majesty the emperor! It's a GIRL!!" (Haha, dear ML, better be nice to the baby niece!) And YESSSS. Finally, we're back to the plot-driven scenes!!! (the purely "romantic" ones, so far, have only managed to strike me as kinda annoying...)
By the way: now that it's confirmed this story's monarchy has a harem system, we can speculate that is why it was said the previous emperor had five children but no heirs: if they were all born either "outside" the palace, or to mere concubines and not to "official wives" like the empress and the consorts (and yeah, I'm thinking of this in terms of the ancient Chinese imperial harem's hierarchy)
What the heck did he do before, whenever he said "Aha," for her to still react that way even with the amnesia... (I get the feeling maybe, when he knew she was lying, he used to "casually" trap her in the mirror, or whatever... just like he does now, with the "rude guys" inside "floor mats"?)
Nowadays, I'm remembering when Ra said she regretted inventing MARRIAGE, of all things... when (as we've found out) there are PLENTY of her other 'inventions,' that she should be regretting, a lot MORE:
Ra: (back in chap. 70) "Gods should've never gone for human marriage. I now even regret having invented that marriage thing, in the first place. Marriage is useless!!"
Me: (now, after the raws) "Then... what about making those two friggin cursed mirrors? You should DEFINITELY regret having made *THOSE*!"
That two-faced "bodyguard" is so lame... Dude, is stalking some (allegedly) "clueless little girl" (and grovelling to her jealous mediocre loser, ugly hag of a stepmom) the most you could do with your life? ...Bc really, at this point, you'd even make a cockroach feel the 2nd hand embarrassement (might as well try to get some zeggs from the ugly stepmom out of it, at least... you absolute loser nobody)
Guys, is the ML unlikeable? I read up to chap. 4 and amazed myself at my instant unbearable disdain for the ML (which is something that shocked me because it's not something I usually feel, let alone so early on, so quickly, and even to this extent...) and after reading people's comments I gained the courage to ask you guys if I'm overreacting or someone else also felt that way, and, to those who've read up to the latest chapters: is this is worth reading, despite this guy, or ...does he even get any better?
I'm sorry, but there's just something SO unpalatable about him, and I already can't stand him.... Is it just me? Or... doesn't he act like he thinks he's so much better than her?? Just because he, unlike her, is ALLEGEDLY so chivalrous and "charitable to the poor" (when in fact "you too are just like her, over privileged, you hypocrite"). And I say "allegedly" because, to me, it just looked like he was even "gate-keeping" the orphanage and the charitable activism, like no one else is allowed to be also a donor and give to the poor in that oprhanage, or even visit them, without *his* approval? I REALLY wasn't impressed by his indifferent holier-than-thou attitude, and it only got worse after crap that he said to her "You don't belong here" when they bumped into each other by coincidence in the orphanage (like he was the "owner" of those orphans and they were his exclusive territory to gather a reputation for "social activism" from, or sth???), it really disgusted me ("dude, who THE EFF do you think you are, acting like you OWN those poor people, like you have the say of who belongs or doesn't belong visiting them and helping them, and kicking out another potential charitable donor for NO reason, like you're gate-keeping the charity and the poor in that place?? Doesn't that just make you look like you don't want 'competition,' no 'rivals' coming to take from you the 'social prestige' of being thought to be 'so socially aware and compassionate'... and that you only do charity and social work there for the feeling of self-pride, superiority, and self-importance that it all gives you, rather than out of a sincere, authentic wish for those poor people's wellbeing? Otherwise, WHY ELSE would you try to keep away other potential donors / sponsors / helpers, for NO GOOD REASON??"). And his inane apologize later: "Oh, sorry that I acted nasty **cough*** and gate-keeping the orphanage **cough***... I just thought you had followed me here," (????). Dude, I haven't seen ONE hint of the mc stalking you, for you to so quickly assume that something like that was the reason why she was even there?? Did the author/artist miss how this would make the ML look?? The self-possessed conceit in that comment made me go from not standing him to downright hate him! He acts to her like he thinks he's practically "like god's gift to mankind" or something like that, and she's unworthy of him. Or, like he's one of god's chosen, blah blah blah, who's so unfortunately "wasting himself on an obviously lowly inferior, petty shallow creature" like our mc?? Am I crazy if I say THAT is the atmosphere he gives off to me?? ...Guys, does this guy get any better? ...
I simply can't stand assholes gate-keeping charitable activism and the poor, while clearly using them only as fuel for their own EGO. That's why I can't even remember when was the last time I got so unbelievably fed up with an alleged ML character, let alone this early on, that it made me seriously want to drop the entire story, after only a couple of chapters... (I don't have the habit of doing that) but... DOES THIS GUY GET A REALITY CHECK LATER, BECAUSE I'M AT THE POINT OF DROPPING IT
Anyway, sorry for the long rant
So the mc's finally started "remembering" some stuff. And Liena... seems to have ALWAYS had a preference for awful hair styles.
Girl, what happened to "I'm gonna go hunting every day"? While I don't mind the romance, I DO mind being deprived of satisfying self-empowering scenes just to get the lamest kind of "romance" ever ("woo is me, his rejection's making me look bad in front of the *servants*!!"). Like PLEASE...there has to be better romance development than THIS.