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I figured it out. Accepting to run away with him would be the "good ending" but because she declined, she got the bad ending. He's trying to kick her out of her house so they can run away together. Currently with her status as a noble and his as a slave, they can never be together. If she falls, then they can be together. Or if she abandons her position and elopes, which is what he asked earlier
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I love how everyone in these comments knows that jaekyung is going to ruthlessly throw away Dan's hard earned gift, except Dan. Like we all see it from a mile away but our poor MC is still being delulu. Love or hate the twink, hopefully he helps lower Dan's expectations before jaekyung inevitably destroys his hopes and dreams :/
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Okay for the peeps confused. There are TWO TIMELINES!!! ML went back in time, probably using her regret pill. So he has memories of MC that she does not have of him. He did it to make sure they never meet, because all he did in the last life was cause her pain. That's how he knows she's a mermaid, and why there's so many weird scenes about her being really mean when it seems like they've never met before, it's because she doesn't remember it, it was in a different timeline!
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It's fun reading the comments. Like, guys, what did you expect? This series never came across as a cute, sweet, wholesome series. We all came in expecting toxicity, and my goodness were my expectations exceeded. You can't get butthurt because the toxic series you were reading ended up being... toxic XD
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Maybe, but even BJ was toxic. Also this series started out with a way stronger power imbalance dynamic than BJ. It's gunna get way worse before it gets better, and you'd think by this point of the story, people would know what to expect. This shit is painter of the night level. The chocolate chip sliver of niceness before the whip. You ain't getting a whole cookie, you just getting a single chocolate chip every once and a while.
To the people who complain about the rape... We're you honestly not expecting this? Did you read to chapter 40 and seriously think this was going to be consensual? I'm honestly curious.
I'm not spoiler tagging this because honestly it should be obvious and if its not, than for readers reading the comments. It's got rape.
why would people not complain about weird ass flaws a plot has? this author has a rape kink
true, it's honestly obvious that it would be rape.
EXACTLY.
i don't think the author needs to have a rape kink to include a rape scene in their series it was very foreseeable, zhenya raping taekjo is describing zhenya's character as someone sadistic and controlling