the newer style is really cute but i also miss the old style when she looked more mature
she’s not special, i can take on the demon lord
in a fight right?
in a fight Right?
i have so much to say idk where to begin, i’m left speechless
btw if you want to read where the manhwa stops, it’s chapter 63 in the novel
careful now, you’re about to get another mop up your ass with the way you’re spending over the budget gdhnfjjf
why did he cheat again? i dont remember
Hes just a male
That is not an excuse
He basically was getting bored of the fl and didn’t want to divorce her but had a complex where he thought she was his
this is part 2 of the spoilers, first part is below.
while emily's staying home she locks herself in her room and does not go outside at all.
her parents sends a formal complain to the school and school officials and other people comes to the house for them to sign a lot of documents, her family will gets compensated for not revealing anything about the royal family and their relations to the necklace's jewel.
even when there are students from the school who comes to visit her she tells the maid to tell them that she doesnt feel well and therefore cant meet anyone, even when Ethan, sophia and Kira came, she didnt meet any of them. she would still get letters from them and read them from time to time but she never once opened Kira's letters would burn them. she really didnt want to get involved with her anymore.
Emily did feel a bit sorry for Sophia who was so worried for her but Emily had no motivation and was deeply exhausted(girl got depressed from the trauma).
even when her mother would come and comfort her and tell her that everything would be alright and she should just take the time to relax, she couldnt really hear the words that was being said to her.
Karloff came to visit Emily to check on her and also discuss about the future with her.
he told her he made a proposal to the school for her not to get expelled and continue as his teaching assistant. he told her he needed help with the magic stones and that the dean accepted under two conditions.
she tears up and thanks him for genuinely being concerned about her and he is relieved to see Emily finally cheering up a little.
Karloff wasnt sure if he shoud tell her in worry for her mental health but reveals he saw Ethan in the garden outside when he arrived here.
Emily wasnt sure what to do at first but decided to go to the garden but doesnt see him anywhere, she felt sad and disappointed when she suddenly hears Ethan talking to the butler, in panic she hides behind a statue. Ethan moves closer to the place shes hiding.
Emily is wondering if she should reveal herself and say hi but she doesnt have the courage to face him.
he sits down on a bench near her and she felt happy and sad at the same time to be in in the same place as him. after battling with the decision to say hi for a long time, she decided to leave.
Ethan actually knew she hid behind the statue, he could feel her presence and when he stood infront of the statue he blankly stared at her hair that was slightly peaking out from the statue.
he finally sat down on the bench and while his gaze was on the trees all his nerves were focused on Emily's movements.
after a while he gathered up his courage and slowly approached her but he still couldnt get anything out. there was a sudden gust of wind and Emily's hair flew and he reached out his and without realizing it, the tips of her hair lightly brushing against his fingertips but he couldnt get closer to her.
Ethan who opened his mouth several times to call for her, could not utter a word in the end and watched as she left.
that night Emily had a dream of her and Ethan happily dating in school. she wakes up from a chirping sound and felt a warm tickling touch near her eyes. her little chicken was trying to wipe her tears, covering her eyes with its tiny wings.
Emily called out to it and the chick flapped its wings in response and rubbed its cheek against her cheek before pulling away. it sits down and just looks at Emily in silence and she felt puzzled and sits up. it streches its wings but never gets up. Emily picks the chick up and places it on her palm.
she felt a tiny pounding of mana circles within her body and knew right away that her mana that made the chick was about to return to her.
"...Choux?"(the chicks name)
-Beep
She called the chick in a tiny voice that trembled and it started to flap its wings as if happy and the small body began to fade.
Emily startled tries to inject mana to the chick but it still continued to disappear.
her little friend who looked happily up to Emily scattered into a faint light.
she looks for her missing chick with an expression of disbelief for the warmth that just disappeared and starts crying.
timeskip 4 years
Emily deals with a lot of depression during that time but gradually gets back to herself and gets a diploma as a mage and opens up a shop thanks to the compensation money she got.
After Ethan graduates he joins the 5th order of the knights thats known for having ex criminals, his family is ofc shocked to see him choose an order with bad reputation but supports him by sending servants, better food etc.
at first they are suspicious of him but as the years went by and they got to know him better they started to respect him and they also got better treatment thanks to him.
Ethan often dreams of Emily and have regrets of how his first love ended before it could even start.
thanks to his brother who wanted Ethan to help him investigate for him, he have a reunion with Emily bc she'll be joining the mission.
at first Ethan refuses to have her involved but Karloff leaves anyway to go to her store and he decided to go there too bc, obv he wants to see her after a long time.
he hurries to the store and arrives before Karloff and when Emily recognizes him in front of the door she trips and Ethan helps her up. They are still very much in love with each others.
Ethan visit her store again and asks her out for dinner, it starts snowing and its cold so Emily brings him back to her store to dry off, Ethan kisses her hands bc they cold, she feels shy and is about to leave the room but before she can leave Ethan tells her, he really missed her.
he remembers that he often had dreams of her but at some point he started to forget her face and took it as a sign to move on but now standing here in front of her he just wished to be with her.
Emily recalls that time when she hid behind the statue and just left without saying anything, not wanting to make the same mistake she turns back and kisses him.
Ethan is out of it the next day but when he meets up with Emily again he asks if theyre dating now and she hesitates to answer cuz shes embarrassed she kissed him.
he says "you kissed me first so now, what are we?"
they start dating.
Emily's mother was worried for her daughter bc she stopped participating in society meaning she wouldnt get any marriage proposals but at the same time she didnt want to pressure Emily bc she wanted her to heal from her trauma and try trusting people again, Kira's betrayal really left a big wound.
so when she saw her daughter come home with a handsome man she immediately invited him for dinner and when Ethan tell them he is dating her with the plan to marry her later, he wins their hearts right away.
at one point Ethan gets a bit drunk and when asked what was the most difficult part of his years of hunting monsters, he blurts out about the dreams of Emily he had bc he missed her so much.
during the mission Karloff and Ethan meets up with the youngest wizard that works at the wizard association, Kira.
she asks them if they are in contact with Emily and if they could arrange a meeting but Karloff answers vaguely. he thinks of Emily's trauma and is bent on never letting Kira meet her.
Kira never realized what she really ended up doing until she got back to the academy after signing documents to hide the truth about the necklace and finding out Emily left the school.
she knew what the necklace was but she was too high on her horse gaining popularity and prestige from being a powerful wizard and getting support from a royal familymember.
she basically knew Emily would be the scapegoat but only after seeing her on the floor did she feel regret for being too greedy.
everyone at school knew Kira was involved with what happened to Emily and that resulted in her getting isolated and some even bullied her and stole her notes/research papers.
Kira realized that this never happened when Emily was there because she was always protecting Kira, which made her regret even more.
after the incident she lost the support she was getting and when she started working at the tower she was forced to do all the work no one wanted to do bc she was the youngest and a commoner.
at the end Emily goes to Kira to talk to her one last time for closure, she tells her right away that its impossible for her to accept an apology and have any sort of relationship bc her betrayal hurt too much but at the same time she wished Kira to live happily bc she still had some good memories from when they were friends, so now they should live their lifes separately. after Emily leaves Kira cries for as long time while thinking she will always be sorry for ruining such a precious friendship.
Astina got house confinement as a punishment and has bad reputation and even if shes from one of the riches families she probably wont be able to marry.
Lucas gets married to a princess from another country as a sign of alliance(political marriage) and he has to leave the country to live with the princess in her country
Ethan and Emily is getting married.
the second prince does not like kira and theyre just using each others.
Lucas(the prince) actually like Astina(red haired childhood friend) but ignores her bc the empress told him not to interact with her to try and protect both him and Astina from CP bc he'll see them as a threat to the throne and at first Lucas tried to argue against it saying he could just renounce the right to the throne but his mother told him that it wouldnt do anything as long as Lucas had royal blood in him and she also told him that by just having a connection with Astina would put her family, who was famous for being wealthy and politically neutral, in danger. Lucas cried and protested but then she gave him a choice, either he stop talking to Astina or she(the queen) would drink poison and die for him, hoping that would maybe lead to compassion from the emperor and the CP. Lucas, left with no choice(bc he didnt want his mother to die and didnt want to ruin Astina's family bc of him, chose to be cold to her)
the emperor was in love with the queen but his personality wasnt the best, he killed all his siblings just to get the throne and she kinda feared the CP because she could see the emperor in him and even when she told the emperor her worries he just smiled at her, meaning if both the brothers were to fight each others to death, he wouldnt stop them.
Lucas tried to tell her about what was going on but everytime he tried he couldnt get the words out of his mouth and didnt know how to respond to her letters or calls, resulting in him ignoring her. he was kind of ashamed to tell her that he was giving up on love because he was lacking in strength and was afraid of being killed by his brother. but at the same time he felt relieved when he saw Astina shocked by his acting bc he thought to himself that she still loved him.
hes helping Kira because he thinks if he creates a scandal with a commoner the CP will lose interest in him and by doing this he really think both him and Astina will be safe
what Kira gets out of this is exposure bc shes in a hurry to get popular and become a mage so no nobles can look down on her again.
Emily overhears Karloff(teacher)talking about being worried for Kira getting bullied in school bc shes a commoner whos recieved a scholarship bc usually the few commoners who went there would face intense bullying and discrimination.
after a few months they realized Kira was doing pretty well with the help of Emily, people didnt really want to face the consequences for messing with a noble and they also noticed that people felt guilty bc of Emily's puppy-like face.(and also bc the prince was subtly backing her up)
so Kira has been wearing a pink necklace and Sophia whos family owns a jewellery business got interested in what kind it was, asked her friend about it and he told her not to get close to that friend bc the necklace's jewel stole the next' persons luck and gave it to the wearer.(remember how Emily always got unlucky in the beginning with the harrassment that was actually meant for Kira). the jewel got criticized and the production for it stopped and the one who had the leftover jewels was the imperial family. Sophia worries about Emily and hurries to go warn her.
there is an opening ceremony happening and just before it starts Sophia rushes to Emily to try to have her wear a blue jeweled necklace instead and to not be near Kira at the banquet which Emily was reluctant to so Sophia told her about the necklace Kira is wearing.
Emily tried to argue with her self, maybe Kira didnt know, maybe she was used by the prince, maybe it wasnt that jewel but a lookalike.
Sophia also told her that Astina's friend(white haired) might have brought a cursed jewel to give to Kira. Emily was still worried about her bc she was the only one who helped Kira so she decided to pass a bracelet with blessings(given to her by Sophia)to Kira via an employee cuz she still felt conflicted about being near her.
Astina approached Lucas and Kira who came as partners and he thought for himself, i treated her coldly on purpose so she could get rid of regrets(for them not being able to date i guess) but does she still like me? and even felt like giving up on everything just to be with his love. obv he didnt do shit.
she said she wanted to give them a gift but the moment she opened the box, something flew out towards kira but slammed into an invisible shield(i think) and bounced on the floor and rushed for Emily who was on the other side of the banquet hall.
Emily's necklace broke and the thing hit her forehead but if it wasnt for the necklace the curse would have completely taken over her so she was still conscious of what was happening, which made it feel worse for her.
it made her act crazy and Ethan(thats his name, not Eden)tried to stop her by holding her tightly even though she tried to twist herself away from him.
Ethan carries Emily out of the banquet and mids the chaos while being in his arms she locks eyes with Kira and thought
"ah, you knew".
theyre at the infirmary and shes like really cursed and struggles to get out of Ethans arms and bc she was in extreme pain she starts rubbing her face against his clothes and he was afraid she would get hurt by the accessories on his clothing he tore it off with one hand.
Emily felt hot and cold and also resented the one holding her down and when she made contact with his skin, she clung to his bodyheat and bit so hard on his neck he started bleeding a bit. Ethan is trying to keep calm but without realizing hes staring at "the small gaping lips that was dripping with blood and glistening".
suddenly her lips comes up to him and startled he tries to turn his head the other side but shes faster and their lips touches. he cant resist and starts kissing her frantically.
"the kiss was soft and warm, and it smelled of fishy blood. Ethan felt a sense of ecstasy at the same time as his heart swelled with guilt."
when Emily wakes up after a while she have a lot of thoughts of how Lucas was def using her as a shield for Kira, but how could Kira not have know? did she not have any doubts? was all the kindness and friendliness from her just a facade to use Emily as a shield from the bullying?
Emily clearly remembered that while she was under the influence of the curse that the students watched her with excited eyes and countless faces was curved with laugther.
she also remembered what she did to Ethan. she started crying and ran to her room with messy hair and dress and quickly packed her belongings and tried to hide from the students who was coming back from the banquet hall. she was in such hurry and stumbled a few times but her desire to get out of there was strong she didnt feel any pain.
everyone was shocked to see her home and she told her parents that she was sorry that she left the academy. at first her father raised his voice and asked why she suddenly just left and if she knew how much the tution fees was.
Emily fell down to the floor and burst into tears and cried out loud and it was the first time the two of them had seen her crying since she was a child. they sat down and desperately tried to comfort their crying daugther.
William(the third friend with Ethan and Lucas) confronted the prince and asked him if he really thought he wouldnt know what necklace Kira was wearing.
Lucas tells him cuz he cant realistically be by Kira's side 24/7, he cant save her from being bullied so he needed a way to protect her. his answer was that necklace.
William angry, raises his voice and asks him if he really used it to stop the bullying or if he just wanted to make the situation easier by making a low ranked noble the escape goat. Lucas answered yeah, he knew Emily would be the victim but he didnt expect something like that would happen at the opening ceremony.
the door suddenly opens and both of the guys are startled to see Ethan looking at them with an expressionless face. Ethan walked right to the prince.
`A cold rage that seemed to freeze the bones stood in Ethan's eyes.´
he asks if what he just heard was true. he had always thought of the prince as stubborn but fundamentally weak with talent for reading the situation and understanding people and no intention for power. never had he thought that the weakness of Lucas would lead him to sacrificing a weak woman with no hesition just to protect his own life.
Ethan spoke after a heavy silence that after the graduation he would withdraw his promise to join the 2nd knights. Lucas was bewildered bc the 2nd knights were knights that would protect the prince, meaning Ethan would not serve Lucas in the future.
Ethan not joining would mean a lot for the public and Lucas himself bc Ethan's family was known for producing military leaders every generation.
part 2 will be in a comment above, its getting too long.
y’all don’t drop it just yet!
spoiler warning
if i got it right, the OG ayla and mc talk it out and decided for OG ayla to stay in mc’ world/body and mc would be in OG ayla’s body/world
apparently ayla got revenge in mc’ body and loves living there cuz there’s so many handsome men lol
also, this is kind of a flashback(for some reason) cuz it happened before they had kids- meaning, in ch 101 we can obv see that our mc is ayla