
I’ve been here since the beginning, aka I read this in middle school now I’m in my second year of college, the vibes are not here. The over sexualization of the feminine body, rape, force pregnancy, kidnapping and abuse, I find it crazy that this comic use to be one of my go to for comfort. That within its self shows the mental state that I was in and how much I’ve grown since then. I don’t really like any of the couples. It all feels weird to me. That it’s forced upon the audience. Stories like this give BL such a bad reputation. BL needs to step away from abuse, rape and sexual assault/ harassment because it does affect some readers (many which are young women) perspectives on how they’re romantic and sexual relationships should be.

dark romance has existed since forever.
i think a bigger concern in bl specifically is how it portrays gay relationships.
with its "gender rolls" and how the bottom is basically supposed to represent a woman with being feminine and delicate and helpless.
any time i see a bl like that it gives me the ick.

Some of ya’ll need to chill the fuck out when it comes to the Penelope slander. Like the girl is only 18 and like just turned 18. How would you handle this situation at age 17? Not the mentioned just escaping one abusive household to exchange it for another one. She’s literally just trying to survive and gain her freedom. I just started reading the novel and it’s so fucking sad. No person should go through what she’s went/ is still enduring. Ya’ll are just haters and probably would never survive as long as Pen has.

The Duchess is a manipulative narcissistic bitch who not only abuses her staff but murders people too. She just added potential rape (but like others have said she tried to rape the Duke in the past to baby trap him) and you still support her. Where are your morals? Not all romance stories are gonna follow the same plot of the Duchess being the victim. So don’t bring that shit over here and use to degrade the actual victims: Sally & the Duke. People like you are the problem with our society saying we would feel differently if it was a man, but it’s not a man and woman do rape, abuse and murder. People keep forgetting women are not always the victims but very much abusers too.

Everybody agrees that a married man looking at someone else and not his wife no matter the reason is a bad man bc then you can say "just divorce her". But like didnt we read the same book. He tried to and couldnt. And its not like she loved her husband thats why she didnt want to divorce. If she was a normal woman and not an abusive psycho he would be very much a faithful loyal husband

Do they actually have holy power or they like spirt mages? Like when did animals become a part of this. I do remember Merlin briefly but he never appeared again.

Merlin is a holy beast, which is a common partner of the saintess in manhwas or a religious figure for the any holy figure with divine powers. Some manhwa would use spirits instead of holy beast.
In this manhwa Saintess aren’t the typical saintess we see in other manhwa’s where they have the ability to heal. They have the ability to open portals instead. I’m guessing they’re known as saints for opening portal cause of how much mana is need to do that, which they believe is a gift from God for having that ability. There isn’t any other ability like healing or the ability to conquer dark mana, but it might show later on since the FL didn’t have her powers until now, so she hasn’t unlocked her full potential.

I understand that. But it’s the way that the author set up the world building which makes no sense. I feel like the magic system should have been explained a long time ago. I’m okay with the divine animal because that’s seen throughout most religions. But if a saint is defined by opening a portal are they really a saint, or just a powerful mage? I wonder if mages are a thing in this world. Or why hasn’t the holy kingdom or the church reached out to her either. Like why even make her saint when her end goal is to open her own restaurant in this world. Everything just seems like a force and that’s my main problem.

Okay so I read some spoilers won’t mention here but I kinda understand where the other “Saintess” got her powers from. But the magic system still doesn’t make sense to me. Also now that I understand the story from the outside I feel like they didn’t need to make FMC a saint. There are other ways to go about it.
What is the issue? Like why lie about hooking up when you both clearly remember. Like is he trying to start a misunderstanding then come back around and say he wasn’t trying to hurt the ML or he did it to protect the ML? Someone please explain.
Okay y’all I just skimmed through the last 7-10 chapters. Apparently the MC lost his first love (like he died) not sure if it was suicide or not but nonetheless very traumatic for the MC. He feels like he can’t love again and blames himself for his late lovers death. Dude needs to get therapy. The MC & ML need to talk it out. Like why did the MC start something if he knew he could never finish it?