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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

And at the Same Time it doesn‘t Seen rushed, the Author is Great at Story telling and pacing

I second this. I agree. Whenever I try to comment this novel readers will come at me saying his back story this, his backstory that. It's annoying because everything you said about heiner and Annette is completely true. She was not at fault.

idkkk i’m kind of conflicted, cuz to some degree I do think the EXTENT of her ignorance was lowkey harmful. Especially considering who her father was and where her wealth came from, and what measures her family was using to sustain their power (child soldiers, war crimes, etc.)

That’s not say that she wasn’t sheltered but to some degree her ignorance was harmful imo and I think it’s fair to judge it. Not excusing the BS the ML did tho. trifling.

The novel is nuanced, it's not as black and white as "ignorance isn't bad in itself", we're looking at a specific case where her ignorance was on display to the one who suffered the most for it, he himself being pretty much shattered through literal torture and mental anguish, and where the gravity of her ignorance is harmful in itself.

People have trouble wrapping their heads around that it's not just "her ignorance", it's towards the person who suffered. He's suffering and she's unaware, her father being the reason for it.

He fell in love with her, but then he went through what he did and her not knowing became an issue despite his feelings for her. He wanted her to understand how broken he is, but not to know what happened. She noticed something was wrong, but never asked because she was afraid of the answer. He took this as her never caring for him at all.

You’re judging her from your own POV… you as a reader have all the facts from every angle… Annette has her deliberately narrowed perspective in life… she knew nothing. .. she hardly left home. She was taught to be silent and be a “lady”.., so no, she knew nothing , might see something but had no basis for comparison hence he mind will shift away from there…

I hate to break it to you, and I wholeheartedly agree with you, but someone spoiled it, said the Heiner and Annette do get back together.

Yeah.. I guessed by the way the Author kept making EVERYONE make Annette feel guilty for not asking her tormentor/ abuser how his life is going ..

Honestly, at didn't like Heiner at the beginning. After what he did it was really hard to let it go, but stuff like that being held onto for so long doesn't do any good. Hurt people hurt people and so and so forth. It's an endless cycle. Him hurting Annette by association was wrong let's just get that out of the way. She was ignorant/oblivious to what was going on behind the scenes but I don't blame her for it. Her father was keeping her attention away from the darker parts of his life. Yes there's some guilt but she didn't actively hurt anyone. I don't like that they're getting back together, but it is what it is

YOU GET IT!!!!!!