first off, let's get the child out of the way. (warning: abortion and miscommunication, lol...)
fl already has a weak/sick body and when she became pregnant, ml became afraid she would die bc his family is known to be a line of monsters(?), and her having a monster baby made him want her to get rid of the baby in case it grew up to be a monster just like him/his family. that obviously didn't happen when they reunited. (ml was heavily experimented on as a child and i believe that's why he thinks himself as a monster due to his trauma and incapabilities of having feelings)
why fl "left" and why ml wanted to marry the princess? ml engaged the princess for power to be able to defeat his half brother (who is the true antagonist) in order to protect fl. he doesn't tell fl because at this point in time she had nightmares, so his throught process was to quickly get over the marriage to the princess to achieve his power then go back to protecting fl. fl gets injured and ml breaks off the engagement to see to her, but half brother ends up killing the princess and faking fl's death to which ml is distraught over. he doesn't know what he's feeling because of his past experiments, but he knows fl's important to him. there's an 8 year time skip where ml finds fl and wants to raise the child together.
half brother is the emperor and the "better(?)" son even if he was illegitimate and grooms/conditions ml into believing he cares about him, but actually wants to use ml's power because he knows he's powerful (or something). when ml wanted to marry fl, half brother disagreed because he didn't want to "taint" their bloodline (even though it's already tainted by him but because he's the truly loved son, he gets a pass). he told ml if he can get another country as an ally, he'd accept fl as ml's wife and that's another reason why the engagement happened.
some guy named james which the novel depicts as a sml is actually a shitty character in the future even though he has his best interests for fl. there's a woman named natalie who is the ex-fiancee of ml's half brother, but she is a genuine character who actually cares for ml.
there's a lot of angst in this because they are both not emotionally there; fl from having her family be shitty toward her and ml from being experimented on. after they go through their struggles, their relationship is very peaceful.
this could have had soo much potential but ended as a disappointment with many unfinished plots and worldbuilding.
mc is actually a noble, but his family was killed by the empire (?) and he was the only survivor. thus he turned being a knight with only one goal in mind: to survive, and that's why he goes along with what ml does. he doesn't fall in love with ml as quickly as others, but rather sees it as a relationship of convenience (again, survival). yes, mc does have his kid and he looks like ml. they love (???) each other, ig.
worldbuilding? you'll get little to none in this as the world feels so dead (lol). they could have done so much with the zombies and ghouls and "dark evil energy" but they brush past it after the plotline ends, like every other future plotline. mc being a noble is brushed off as ml digging into his past instead of mc going back to his homeland like he wanted. (warning: incest) schuman is in love with his half brother, thinking if he's rich then his brother will love him back (or something? it's very vague), and that's why he likes money.
idk, the premise was interesting, but these characters were so washed out they didn't even feel like main characters. hell, even senna and belle had a better background lore than everyone else. (warning: SA/r) the novel goes into more detail about them (the time where mc goes into belle's memories, it was a lot more brutal than shown with many more instigators if that makes sense, thus senna asking "who's the father?") and why her revenge was so important. but alas that plotline died. (eta: i was wondering why senna looked so young and that's bc he was young. belle was around ~15 so he could be the same or even younger, and that makes their story all the more terrible.)
tl;dr this was a letdown.
bro.
oldest (?) brother ante let the guards abuse/hit ogfl as long as it wasn't her face and that's the most fucked up shit bc mc FORGIVES HIM. LIKE WHY. WHY. everyone (her father, her brothers, crown prince, ml) gets their happy ending except ogfl, i'm so tired of that shit (ml framed ogfl, btw). mc stays in that fantasy world even though she wanted to go home and ml isn't even originally (?) from that world either. a lot of novel readers dropped this bc of how unforgiving everything was to ogfl, how easily mc accepted the system, how forced the love triangle was (they rooted for the astras, lol). mc's "i'm used to this so i can go along with it" NO. you've been through two reincarnations bc some fucked up system and decided you're going to follow it when it LIED TO AND BACKFIRED ON YOU? YOU'RE STUPID, IDC. you're op to be a mary sue and have everyone fall for newfl but not op enough to break the system, OKAYYY. whatever, lol.
NOOO THEY BETTER CHANGE THAT. I hope they change it from novel cause this is my favorite read and this would make me totally drop it omg. If Ante does that here too then he better not get a happy ending and dad better get a bad one too WTF
idk if they'll change it, but mc focuses entirely on the father as the number one bad guy (which isn't untrue) but the way she puts the ogfl's abuse on the backburner is just mindboggling. not to mention ogfl actually THANKS mc for giving her family good endings (???) which is fucking stupid, idk what the author was on. the only saving grace in this novel is ml seeing his wrongdoings and becoming closer with mc, and the saintess not being a white lotus but an actual friend/helping guide to mc.
In family manhwa it’s not uncommon for abusive family to get a happy ending, especially child ones with abusive/neglectful fathers. It’s frustrating. Also, there was this one manhwa where there was an abusive father who also endangered FL and literally cause a war on purpose to make ML the crown prince and guess what? He got a happy ending too. It was in the novel, after reading that I couldn’t continue the manhwa (it was my fav too) but I doubt they changed it
she ends up with rowoon (eeron???) who ends up being the least liked amongst novel readers even though he was a rather decent person in the beginning (he becomes super obsessive and yandere even more than the blond guy). the novel readers' favorite ml was actually her fiance bc he was the first to know fl wasn't the og. blond guy ends up going to prison along with the crazy girl (?).
people really liked it, but they didn't like the final ml and it's NOT bc he's her "brother" (they're not even related, y'all are weird); it's bc he became a crazy psycho whose love for fl was too obsessive and forced.
Bro it's still weird being in a relationship with a step sibling... don't act like it's not
aren't their father's just business partners? so they're not actually blood related (just basing of what I understand in the series so far, not a novel reader) , sera's dad just felt obligated to take care of his late business partner's son cause he saw potential or smth
No im rooting for the fiance too
what the other commenter wrote.
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they didn't even grow up together. in the novel, fl's father took him in bc he was in love with rowoon's father. he took care of rowoon but didn't take care of fl bc she wasn't his true daughter.
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honestly, if anything the final ml will probably be blond guy. this artist loves him to bits and actually changed the story to fit with his character better. even fiance does not get much (his personality and looks seem to have changed from the novel). many things changed so anything can happen at this point, but if the artist decides not to change the ml from rowoon... i don't see the point of gassing up blond guy.
Hey can you tell me what the blond guy did to end up in prison ?
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okay, so there are a ton of names and things to remember but i won't get into that bc it's kind of complicated, but the overall reason is bc he was working AGAINST fl (and fl's twin). it's not explicitly stated he went to prison, but he confessed all his crimes to what he did to her/them. others say he's atoning for what he did and lives a rather normal life at the end
In what ways does Aaron act yonder and obsessive? Also does the FL like or know what he is doing?
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well, like said earlier they already changed quite a lot from the novel. in the novel, rowoon blackmails, stalks, and threatens fl, plans her death, is the type to be "if i can't have you then no one can", etc. yes, she knows (bc she obviously ends up with him, lol); the novel had multiple povs, so you get to see into their heads more (rowoon becomes frustrated (?) with himself bc he loves fl and his emotions go on the deep end so he doesn't know exactly what to do...). at first, she rejects him bc her father found out of their pining, but he doesn't know about that bit so he just continues to pursue her.
Ah good thing I like him anyway
Can u please spoil what happens after chap 46?hahahahaha
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iirc, fl and fiance had an agreement to break off their engagement already, then rowoon will use this time to get closer to fl. many things from the novel didn't happen in the previous chapters, so most likely things will change. we'll see.
Okieee. Thank youu!
Thank you (≧∀≦)
Oof I hate male yanderes like that. I prefer clingy green flag ish male yanderes who are willing to do anything for the fl, not try to trap and chain her. But rather are willing to devote their life for her
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well, it's weird bc he's kind of both at the same time? after all the things fl go through, it's almost always rowoon who takes care of her, but i think that's where he's manipulative. he uses good/open times to get close to fl whereas fiance and blond guy miss their chances.
bro they're not step siblings. he just lived with them. think of it as eren and mikasa.
Yeah, it's hilarious how they think these two are "siblings" when OgSera threatened to kill him, even *breaking a chair on his head* in a flashback, making him seriously bleed (chap. 12)... And when her mom came in and saw it, she basically told him "it's nothing to worry about" when he was practically bleeding all over the floor...). Moreover we see the attitude of Sera's mom when her dad first brought him into their home, in the flashback of chapter 12 (her dad talked about there being "plenty of rooms" in the house), and even when the dad spoke about letting him be a successor, it was always through Eeron's ties to his own bio dad, noever though Sera's dad ever giving him the "Shin" last name (which he never did). In chap. 38, ogSera and her middle school friend talk about Eeron as "the boy living with them" and someone who was "like a boarder or foster kid," so he clearly had a super distant relationship with anyone else except the dad.
The last name thing is important because while Eeron doesn't have the Shin last name, he doesn't even go by his dead bio dad's last name either: to challenge Sera for the succession he would have it much easier if he had the last name of either of the company's two founding partners: his bio dad or Sera's dad. But even though he has yet to claim his bio dad's last name, Sera's dad hasn't given him an easier takeover by legally giving him his last name either, despite wanting him as the successor. That can only mean, Sera's dad never adopted him fully as a Shin, because he wants him to remain his dead best friend's successor, not become his own.
i need people to realize and understand shouma and yoshino do not even like each other romantically. in fact, they will never like each other romantically. shouma has literally explained he views her as his younger sibling/childhood friend who he will protect in the most platonic sense ever, vice versa.
"oh but he's so protective and gets angy at kirishima!" and older brother figures aren't supposed to be protective??? they're just supposed to pine and be in love with the mc forever, right? please be for real. men and women can be friends. literally. but they're not just that, they are family. they share a deep bond WITHOUT romantic feelings, AND THAT IS OKAY. stop tainting it with fake love.
with the misinformation lmaooo.
ain't no way y'all are fully blaming skylar when cirrus was the first one to mockingly state skylar still liked chanil and that he should go out with him instead of being with cirrus.
skylar gets angry to think cirrus would even think that of him, so he pettily agrees with it and says that yeah, he likes chanil. cirrus says chanil only does things and became friends with him bc he's nice but that's why skylar likes him, then he walks away. cirrus gets desperate and tells skylar to say he loves him back and only him, and skylar says to stop doing this bc he's tired of it; tired of him being like this, tired of him making skylar uncomfortable and pushing his boundaries.
and then what? cirrus brings up minwoo, skylar's one true fucking trauma. he didn't even get the chance to tell that part about himself to cirrus and suddenly cirrus gets a pass to blast that all onto skylar? fuck out of here lmao.
they're growing together, stop picking sides.
Agreeeeeeee!!
EXACTLY BOTH OF THEIR POVS ARE UNDERSTANDABLE CONSIDERING THEIR PERSONALITIES LIKE THIS ISN'T A BLACK AND WHITE FIGHT. BOTH OF THEM ARE WRONG AND RIGHT THATS THE POINT.
the amount of people wanting to bash Skylar is insane because I didn't even know the full context, but I knew Skylar wouldn't just blatantly tell Cirrus that.
guarantee they saw the misleading tt video where they cut out skylar's confrontation of cirrus blocking chanil on skylar's phone which was the start of their convo, leading straight into "i'd rather date chanil" and skipping cirrus being a jackass. either that or they read the raw and came to the conclusion of "nooo he's hitting my uwu cirrus, skylar bad".
like i'm sorry but if you don't understand korean or are getting your shit from tt vids, please stfu lmao. even korean readers were saying cirrus was being too instigative (and dare i say, psycho) about this.
i wish people would just not come to bad conclusions all the time and blame only one individual when really, they are both being toxic. but that's okay bc that's literally the point of their relationship; to god damn heal each other whilst going through shit.
like please, real relationships aren't fluffy rainbows (': and considering what they both went through, they're obviously going to be toxic and obsessive with and to each other. let them heal together!
I agree 100% I saw the tt vid and I saw all the comments being like "Skylar hater, Cirrus forever" and I was like bro no way cause Skylar is also down bad he js doesn't show it. He cares abt Cirrus so wtf happened. I read the actual chapters like damn Cirrus honestly had it coming with what he did. He just immediately accused Skylar hell if my significant other said that to me you bet imma be like "yeah youre right fuck you" out of anger and pettiness. And the part where he beat Cirrus like that wasn't bc Cirrus said Skylar would rather date Chan li, it was bc bro started screaming out Skylars truama like an asshole. Don't get me wrong Skylar isn't a green flag either and also did his fair part of shit but his reaction to what Cirrus said is justified like he's still a teenager, he's immature, and he has his issues just like Cirrus. Like lets not put Cirrus on a pedestal bc Skylar "crossed the line" as if Cirrus hadn't also crossed it just as much.
like i'm so confused why y'all are dogging on ml's looks??? y'all are so used to hdn black haired emo tops that y'all have never known what an actual older and mature man looks like. like? really confused. don't even get me on the sneakers, y'all make it sound like it's some bright ass neon green sneakers when they are army green? be so fucking for real, y'all are doing the most for the simplest things.
frrr. i actually love how our ML looks. he’s so fresh and fine
looking at the comments and everyone was talking about HIS SHOES. HIS FUCKING SHOES, like they cannot be that serious.
they think a top has to wear nice suits with shiny dress shoes everywhere they go just so they can look "refined" when they can't even express their feelings bc they're supposed to be a dom daddy??? be for real, that shit pisses me off
LMFAOOOO. you’re so real for this omggg people can say what they want but i love the ML so far. he’s fine afff. and the way he’s so clear and direct about what he wants. his communication skills >>> HES A GREEN FLAGGG