I hate how stories with holier-than-thou MCs teach people to turn the other cheek even for those who clearly won't appreciate the gesture. That's like reinforcing the message that it's alright to become a doormat and take others' abusive behavior because that's just what "good people" do. In the real world, kindness alone won't get through to them and make them change. You're just opening yourself to exploitation.
I mean, we're all here hate-reading this, so clearly there's a demand. I'm going to be honest and say the spoilers only made me more curious as to how this story is really gonna go. It's fun in its own way to watch a shitshow unfold, especially when you kinda already know what's coming
This really is Pride & Prejudice 2005 movie coded, down to the hand flex and how Laura's hair looked braided to one side after receiving Mr. Darcy's—I mean Mr. Dalton's letter. Needless to say, I love it. (And from the looks of things, we might get some Persuasion elements thrown in when Laura's first lover makes a reappearance. Can't wait!)
I guess my biggest question is why the Medean duchess switched the real princess for a fake one in the first place. Did the queen order her to? Because seriously, why take her when she didn't even plan to raise her herself. Why give her to that POS "father" who only wanted her dead?
My second biggest question is what the hell happened to the whole "this is a novel" plot lmao
"Why are all your comments so long?" Because no
one I know irl is publicly perverse enough, for me to be able to discuss the inner themes of personhood and codependence in "Omegaverse Bakery 2!: You want to lick my donut?!"
Every time this updates now, I keep asking myself why the story isn't over yet. A climax is called a climax for a reason, and we already had that, so the ending should have come next.
This has been such a frustrating read. The mysteries only kept piling on while the ones before were not resolved yet. It's basically edging you with the way the answers are teased only to dump more questions on you that you'll also want answers for. Now at around the 80s chapters, they're info dumping like hell and goes deep deep deep into some lore, some details of which were barely even teased before so they more or less came out of nowhere. Just unnecessary "complexities" to the plot that I couldn't care less about by that point, because the story failed to make me care by being too "mysterious" and teasing with the details in the beginning. I only read until the available chapters because I thought this was already finished so might as well. Apparently not. Not bothering to wait for the continuation.
Girl, you guys are literally identical, so maybe don't?
I love the art, it's so delicious. But while the plot is interesting, the pacing is just all over the place at times. Still really like it though.
I liked that the story actually lived up to the title, because even though it's ultimately for the greater good, Sasha and her companions *did* act like the antagonists by setting up the crown prince and ultimately killing him. The crown prince was only guilty of being an incompetent and stupid cheater. Since he was meant to be the ML in the "original story," he was presumably redeemable under the right circumstances. Arth and Rebecca just straight up said "to hell with redemption" and offed him to avoid future trouble. I have mixed feelings about that, but like I said, it at least lives up to the title.
I don't care if it's evil or whatever, don't let that scumbag instigator in. Just leave him and the rest of the shitty ones out to die.
Everything before this latest timeskip would have been fine if the ML hadn't been so blushy all the time
Yikes, please say that apple also fell far from the tree
Lots of great and enjoyable elements. Far from your typical rofan story, and I actually love how ambiguous FL's relationship is with the empress. I'm choosing to look at it as a bisexual love triangle with the ML, though it sucks the empess is married, and the other yuri coded relationship involves the real villainess. Speaking of the villainess, she actually deserves the title here. She's what every other caricature of a villainess wishes they could be. I just wish the story ended after her defeat like it was supposed to, but I guess this last arc is intended to show the empress's character growth so FL could be "free" to live her own life? ╮(￣▽￣)╭
I love this two-faced father and daughter so much I just hope it'll be explained later why they weren't in the "novel"
Lol is she really saying his full name the whole time?
He's *never* beating those allegations (and tbf, I think the story is not only aware but also playing into that, as in his creepy weirdness is gonna bite him somewhere down the line)
From the comments, I thought the ML was a playboy who slept around despite having someone he loved, but it turned out he just went on dates for political reasons, and it's never really stated he was in love with the girl he met years ago. He just thought of her as his savior. He wanted to see her again, but if it was love, he'd have sought for her himself. It seemed he just didn't think it was possible for them to meet again, so "betraying his feelings" wasn't even a consideration.
