So. let me get this straight.........
So far, what we know about the crown prince's "mysterious" motivations is:
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1) that the crown prince has a curse that can only be cured by "confining" the FL (.........yeah, they said so in chapter "zero", but don't ask me, I still don't get why, either...);
2) that this curse that the prince has is somehow related to the same red dragon that her ancestor defeated (key word, that her ancestor "purified" with "divine power"), and,
3) that the reason it has to be her (that he confines) is connected to how she can use the power of (probably all) constellation treasures....?
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And I think that's all. Did I miss anything?
I almost... ALMOST misunderstood the mc as a pushover Mary Sue who can't do anything other than acting pitiful to the emperor and receiving his protection... thank heavens I persevered because by chapter 9 I understood that's only a first impression, and she's actually a layered, realistically humanized vulnerable character prone to speaking with emotional frankness, and who that establishes humanized, emotionally frank interactions with other people (and more importantly, with the ML)
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Still, I think I will still drop this for now... since it seems the ML has a(n unwanted) royal harem and the first arc will focus on the mc's catfights with the members. I simply can't stand royal harem's petty squabble stories, normally... (the only exception "I will fall with the emperor", for obvious reasons...)
The fake "thread of fate" connecting mc and ml (as in, the thread made by the evil spirit) definitely seems like it needs to go: both the gangster's shaman and the ML's young uncle (a young shaman) agreed on it. That's two unrelated shamans agreeing with each other, despite the fact that they've never spoken to each other:
The gangster's shaman said in chapter 59 that cutting that fake thread off would help "save 2 people's lives", which would be enough to "heal the 2nd ML's thread", that had ended up weakened and snapped "due to bad karma". Ergo, that "saving 2 people's lives" was meant to be taken here as "making good karma" = doing a "good deed", and not just as saving their *love* lives, but their *literal* lives. And THAT coincides with what the OTHER shaman, the ml's uncle, said, about the fake thread attracting the evil spirit that made it, and that still wants to cash in on that debt that the ML unknowingly incurred (as a child) by asking that evil spirit to make that thread: the price to pay was to let the spirit take both his and the mc's lives, after the spirit's part of the deal (to let the ml have a relationship with the mc) was already considered "fulfilled" (which is why I also think the ml dumped the mcfor this reason: in order to save him and himself from being killed by the evil spirit, when it came to collect the debt).
Lol, lesson to men everywhere: THIS is how you express jealousy and *win* points rather than lose them
I still don't think he should trust the words of that mother f shaman so much, he was probably wrong or lying on many points.
Duke: "I'll pay for all the expenses, but you do the numbers... in 10 seconds, do ALL of the numbers..."
Marquis: "I'm not a catering express service!"
Girl, you say you got the ind of a 20 year old and you know he's just a tresspasser, so why are you so afraid and agreeing to go with him, so darn easily????? Why you acting like that scrawny butler of your previous in-laws was some undefeatable threat, like a secretly trained assassin (he certainly doesn't look like it????)
I see now, what happened to this family: the smartest bro became an antisocial recluse who didn't want to engage in business after he lost his child (and wife?), the 2nd smartest bro chose the woman he loved over a profitable career as a noble merchant, and all the family had left for heir was then the least bright, but most greedy of all, moron of a son: Harvenic
So it was the sister thing that made her give up on him. Imagine, even his grandpa sides completely with her on that... (and, wth made you commit that hell of a mistake, Mr Husband??)
Her ex husband is so dumb that it's not even interesting. Now thinking of getting her back? Lmao, how the eff do you fantasie about doing that?? You canno longer force her to come back to you, because now she's got a powerful high-rank noble family backing her, and you can't "win her heart back" (yeah right... never had it in the 1st place) now that she's got a hottie blond royal wooing her all over the place. This ex is so boooooring
Uncle: "What the.That now you're a sultan's beloved... WHAT?!?!"
It's gotta be the most hilariously awkward family reunion, ever. Haha XD XD
I bet the one who offed the ogFL's family was the black-haired prince, not this guy...
Ok, let's ship the 3rd wheels together: Hathor x Foreign god... Their kids would be fuuun
Everyone annoyed at the ML's latest assholery trying to choose her job for her, while here I am, a newcomer that's read the whole 61 chapters in one sitting, and happy we're at least past the whole "suicide" misunderstanding bullcrap... The job thing is irksome but I trust the FL will find a way around it, but her "attempting to meet the goddess" arc was seriously annoying
Hathor: "Admit it, you aren't a *true* cat, Bastet! ...Just now, you didn't land on your feet after falling down!!" (LOL)
And seems like Lions are both Sekhmet and Bastet's darling babies, hahaha.
Imagine changing your purpose in life from "contributting to society" to "licking a self-absorbed wench's feet"... That is Elliot Rude, for ya. His uncle would be so disappointed.
Kilian is so on his own category that I can't even mind that they were raised together...
(And really, they were raised so differently, at such opposite extremes, that it's even hard to say they were even raised "together")
I like the blond-haired papa count quite a lot. Now that's how you (literally) smack some sense into someone! Keep hitting that idiot Elliot till he finally sees the light!
A time skip, she's 5 years old now, thank heavens...
(While I don't dislike baby stories, I'm not a fan of reading too many of them)
That aerial shot of the palace left me dumbstruck at how do the poor gardeners even manage to water and trim those round shrubs on top... lmao.
So the brown haired og heroine (forgot her name) came crying to Agnes? Why the heck for? I hope it's not to manipulate our mc into some scheme now that Raymond's most probably turned either nasty or indifferet on her and the saint after "realizing" (a.k.a. brainwashing himself about) his alleged "real feelings" for the princess (man... took me a huge effort not to write each single word in that sentence, with inverted commas...).
Anyways, I know this "deal" the mc proposed is just a trick to get Kylo to spend more quality time with her, even better cause they'll need to be pretending to be all "lovey dovey" to make the blond irked... but... here's hoping our mc doesn't let our sensitive ML start believing some depressing stuff like, that she's unwittingly using him to make Raymond jealous (in order to get his attention) due to some unconscious remnants of feelings for the blond... (though, if ML to let go of all brooding overthinking in order to focus on trying to seduce her, and "stealing her from Raymond," for real... I will be one happy reader!)