perkystar

I guess everybody has their own interpretation of the story but she hasn’t forgetted or forgiven everything. She acknowledges the pain he caused her and some wounds may never fully heal but she DOES care about him. They were together for years after all, you can’t just forget everything.

Before the Manhwa started, they were in a loving relationship (3 years if I’m not mistaken), and these memories really hold her. Tbh thats what I like about this manhwa. It’s complex, like really complex. It’s like real people, with real feelings. We don’t just feel and think one feeling, like you can feel multiple emotions and that’s what the author does beautifully. You can feel the love and hate (not so much anymore) that Annet has for Heiner.

He's a black flag ML through and through, I hate him and his petty justifications. The author realized they wrote a POS and havr been doing everything to make him more sympathetic and likeable.

i don't think the author tried making him "likable" or anything, i think the author wrote him as a bad person who's trying to change. i also think FL shouldn't go back to ML, but i feel like the message of the story was more about how corruption and classism among the nobility and how that leads to cruelty and war. the author didn't romanticize anything and wrote the characters as they are. he was scarred and extremely traumatized, and he pushed his traumas onto FL. the author didn't try to make him sympathetic, the author only wrote about his selfish reasons. at the end of the day, i don't think the writer actually tried to write him off as a good person, but more so as someone who is trying to change and believe in love.

I would have agreed wholeheartedly with you, but the main reason I do not like the Author is what she did to Annette.

She made Annette feel guilty for what happened to Heiner, made her feel like she did not care about him at all or at least enough to ask about his past. Made everyone she met on her healing journey make feel guilty about not caring enough about her abuser to ask about his miserable life...

WHILE conveniently forgot that she wrote Annette in a jewelled prison in the capital. She was HIGHLY disrespected by EVERYONE. Her "husband" was her number 1 hater... I bet in the deleted scene, Heiner had orgasms just thinking about how miserable Annette was due to his machinations. This man was a menace to our girl, BUT OBVIOUSLY she is terrible for not asking about his past...

They should NEVER CROSS PATHS again.. Maybe after 20 years, when her wounds actually heal and she has her own family, they could see each other in a vacation spot and dramatically stare into each others eyes nod and go their separate ways