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But the more I think about it, The more I'm grossed out, the emperor has so many wives, Queen and mistresses and HE HAS A LOT OF DAUGHTER but only one daughter he's favoring and I hated how the other girls is treated so poorly, how MC brothers didn't care for their stepsister except for the mc, LIKE WHAT THE FUCK!?? and they made the stepsisters like a villian for being jealous for the mc.
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As much as I hate male mc fucking different woman at the same time, it's the same of a woman getting fucked by different guys at the same time. Can anyone recommend a historical romance plot, but MC isn't sleeping with different guys? Just two people being in love and smut, No cheating and shit? I don't like slut mc too. Manhwa like Lucia, or that manhwa where an emperor who can't get hard so the maid helps him (Which was an hilarious manhwa)
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I honestly still don't like how being tan is considered ugly by her. Pale white skin maybe the beauty standards and considered beautiful but considering Tan skin is ugly maybe taking it too far. Making herself tan to look ugly? Plus freckles? It would much more preferable if she uses too much make up instead like too much foundation, eyeshadow is all over, etc. Etc. I'm from Asia , Philippines, Our beauty standard here people wants to have more whiter skin, it considered more attractive but that doesn't mean being tan is ugly, there's a lot of beautiful people with any skin color
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It's a medieval class thing. Tan=poor laborer; Fair skin=wealthy noble.
A lot of Japanese, Chinese, and Korean media also perpetuate fair skin as a beauty standard. Might be from the same class divide bs but I'm positive the whole tan thing is more of an obvious bad make up job on FL's part.
FL is trying to distance herself from the ogFL's appearance and being tan, or even having her face one color while her body is obviously another, is seen as unladylike (nobility is judged on lineage, ability, and, in this Kingdom, beauty). Looking like a laborer with sunned skin makes her undesirable because, if a family's daughter is tan=the family is poor/on hard times (aka debt) and no one wants to marry into debt.
It would be cool to read a manwha with actual POCs, but what this isn't that story.
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Gotta agree with that. She is doing her best to appear ugly by that world's insanely stupid standards and if she simply slathered on makeup, it almost definitely would have occurred to that moron of a cousin of hers to get a maid to do her makeup to make her more marketable. If he thinks her looks are irredeemable, he simply wasn't willing to spend more money on her to improve a 'useless' girl. If the cousin had even the barest notion that she could look better with a bit of makeup and snag one of the 3 original ml, he'd have jumped at the chance.
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Technically, Cosette isn't the one who killed mc, but rather it's the Duke and the kingdom. The Duke didn't do shit when his own daughter was about to be executive , he didn't even felt bad how his ex-wife died,
So I understand Cosette's character, but many people hate her and it's natural since she's the villain but imagine, just imagine the story started it Cosette's perspective or even the Real Cosette perspective, looking for revenge for the one who killed her mother.
Basically, I hate the grandfather and the Duke, Fucking shithead dudes
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I think the author meant to write it as the duke had no choice. It was the kingdom or his family and that he chose the kingdom over his family in agreement to completely neutrality.
The author didn't really do a good job of showing that tbh and the author only ever really implied it. But I'm 90% sure that they were going for that.
By killing the MC, in a way, he's actually admitting that the MC is his daughter. Which means he does trust his wife, but he has to pick the choice that won't destroy the world. Honestly, by admitting she is his daughter, he's kind of foolishly admitting his um questionable love for her. I think that + Cosette's manipulation causes Keira's execution to show him in a really bad light, but I don't think that's entirely it.
I don't know, but there is a ongoing thing in this um manhwa about honour in death. Like, Erez and Joseph both stating they would do anything for her and so on. Death isn't seen as the worst result, death in humiliation is. If you die honourably then it isn't considered a 'bad' death. It's pretty weird now, but it is something fairly common in books in general. Especially medival-style-fantasy ones.
The only reason why it seems like an unfair death, is because we know Keira is the real one. That and her perspective skews things. She thinks she's the real one. She still thinks Cosette is the fake one. She doesn't consider the possibility that they are BOTH his daughters. Thereby, she never thought that she might be the cause of millions of deaths.
There is this idea, in literature, about um post-honourable death, where people reflect on the hypocrisy of an honourable death. Like, why do we have to die for others? Is there a crime just for existing if your existence causes suffering? Sort of thing.
In the culture portrayed by the manhwa, Erez literally says, death isn't viewed in the same way as humans because demons are a more power based structure. Power is connected to life and so on. Humans have a more thoughtful approach to life, which makes it so that they equally value their deaths and how they die. Like how some generations don't like be cremated and some don't like being buried.
Which is probably why, the duke would have preferred Keira to be executed knowing that she was his daughter and that he would always recognize her as his daughter. At the same time, be it at the cost of him losing a daughter. He's equally dumb as his daughter.
The duke of Edinburgh (?) is a piece of shit though.
It's honestly pretty common in reincarnation manhwa to overlook the ex-past... they do it because the audience doesn't have the brains to be interested in a side character facing a personal dilemma that doesn't involve hot guys.
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The point I was making if you bothered to read it was that her father isn't a ducking stay at home father whose only job is to take care of his kids. He functionally runs an entire kingdom with millions of people. He's told one of his children will bring about ruin possibly kill everyone. Use half of your limited brain cells and ask yourself if the average idiot would be able to be a normal father. Everytime he looks at his kids he'll only think of the dilemma he faces. That maybe one day he'll have to execute this cute girl who he wants to love. Remember religion is basically absolute in this world so no he can't just refute everything.
Honestly he's being highly irresponsible right now by being nice or mean to a specific daughter. He has to stay impartial or what he assumes is impartial for the sake of millions of people. That and Cosette been a eh-level manipulator of course he'd going to side with her. Not only that but Keira is really god forbid stupid in the first round. She's immature and lacks any level of wisdom as most kids are. So yeah her dad who is also a blockhead decidedly likes the 'mature'-playing-innocent Cosette. I don't know but these two are literally the same kind of stupid.
Anyway his stone-like personality,prophecy,and not to mention the societal pressure on him to be the model duke makes him the perfect haelstorm for how he treated Keira.
Do you really honestly think someone with that kind of pressure will be a good dad? Do you think they'll be able to be your ideal father without worrying and feeling guilty that they might be raising a catastrophe? Do you really honestly think someone who is a direct and straightforward as the idiot duke would be anything but cold and conflicted?
Be ducking for real.
He shouldn't have neglected his kid sure but at least we can agree that it's not without reason. Like I said,the author did a terrible job at expressing the political and social climate at the time. They made a good situation and I honestly don't think they even realized it which made it so that the dad's sudden change seemed odd.
And no that moronic he should still be nice to his daughter doesn't apply to 99% of realistic humans. Humans make dumb decisions in dilemmas that have pros and cons - it's their nature. To judge someone singularly on how they treated someone without talking about the circumstance is like assuming something is an apple because you can see a red dot from 1000 m away. It could be a red truck in the middle of a car accident and you just called it an apple.
He's a shitty dad for a real reasonable reason imo and it's not fair to even call him a shitty dad. Like the manhwa says he does regret it. IF YOU READ WHAT I WROTE then you'd know there are inconsistencies in his behaviour that suggest that he did want a good relationship with his daughter but he felt that his moral duty of protecting an entire kingdom overrode that - which as a leader is fair.
I don't know how else I could possibly be more clear on why it's unfair to blame her dad and call her dad a completely awful person.
And your pity of Cosette is ridiculous. So it's okay for her to drag someone completely innocent into her revenge plans, ruin their life and destroy the world for 'revenge' but it's not okay that the duke chooses to be impartial at the cost of his family's happiness if it means he might have a better chance of saving the entire kingdom? Alright.
Cosette is pitiful but to compare the duke against Cosette is a stupid comparison. They don't even face the same problems??
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No matter how many times you defended that shitbag dad and justify his actions, that doesn't change the fact that mc been through a lot. He regrets it? Sure but that doesn't mean all of what he did is written out. Be fucking for real, I pity the cossete who died at young baby and not the demon cossete, it's natural for demon to not care about innocent people, I didn't even compare them, I just hate the Duke like many of the people here who read the manhwa, it's funny how you're passionate about defending one's character who everyone hates on, Like it or not, accept it, Your justification is useless, i still hate him including that shitty grandfather, he's like the ML of abandoned empress and in the end the dumb mc chose to be with him cuz he has "reason" why he made the mc first life shittier.
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No, no… I meant once Cosette appeared and went to live in the ducal mansion! It is obvious in chapter 70 that she was attempting to use her powers on him, but Beatrix caused a rain storm and lightning to interfere with her plans. Otherwise, Cosette would have manipulated him at that time… the effects are unknown b/c she failed! (▰˘◡˘▰)
Also, the duke explained why he distanced himself from his children, which was basically b/c as the “shield of the empire”, the Parvis family felt they couldn’t afford to let their personal feelings affect them and their decisions regarding their duty to and safety of the empire. The duke purposely detached himself from his children so that him being a loving father wouldn’t cloud his judgment, even when making a hard decision like letting the child he raised die while protecting the one he didn’t raise! He thought restraining himself from showing love was essentially being a responsible Parvis duke! It’s no excuse for being a crappy father, but that’s what he said! ╮( ̄▽ ̄)╭
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I just think it's unfair for people to be that pissed at him. I didn't say what he did is written out, I said that what he's done is reasonably human under his circumstance.
I don't care if you hate him, and my justification isn't useless. It just means that I bothered to think about everything that was going on as a whole, and will continue to do so because I think it make more sense to hate characters knowing precisely what I hate about them. If you hate him, you hate him. If everyone hates him, everyone hates him. I defend him because I thought there'd be some merit in thinking about it elsewise rather than some people justifying their hate without regard towards the circumstance because that's... more logical... and more interesting-? I like him as a character because he's more interesting than Keira
And I never read the abandoned empress (or if I did it's been too long ago). So honestly not sure what you're referencing-
The average MC is faultless in these things or their faults are ridiculous, whenever there is someone who is even slightly more realistic and faces problems that makes them unlikeable people hate them for doing bad things. The only forgiveable mistake is one that is relinquishable in manhwa, but most mistakes aren't relinquishable and imo it's kind of stupid.
(it was also really early in the morning (like 3:30 am) when I wrote it, so if I sounded grouchy, sorry about that. And I misread the Cosette thing, so sorry about that. I'm also aware I genuinely sound annoyed in general regardless of the circumstance ╮( ̄▽ ̄)╭)
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You might love the mc, she's cool, but Cossete is a good villian. Mc didn't even stand a chance against her during her first life, but now in second life of course she has the upper hand. Cosette is just a demon so of course her main goal is revenge , and probably destroying the empire, I hate what the grandfather did, If he didn't do that, none of this would've happened, especially the empire. He didn't do shit.
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, this is good, I've re-read this many times but the more I think about it, the more Mielle could potentially be a good person and a good sister to Aria if it weren't only for her maids, she's a child like Aria, And Aria too got manipulated by the adults around her that she in the past life orders to cut off Jessie's tongue. Mielle is like how old? Sixteen? Seventeen? And Aria is living her second life as a twenty four years old while mielle is still thirteen, that age is so easy to be influence and manipulate I'm not saying What mielle did to Aria in her past life isn't wrong, Aria has the right to get revenge.
And of course the author made mielle looks so stupid probably because she's still young in the current timeline who's been raising by a maid who's bad influencing her to become a spoil brat.
I would honestly like to read in another universes where Aria and Mielle can be a good sisters
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The art is good, But tbh, I'm really tired of manha porn like this with the man fucking all of the woman here, Never once I encounter a fluffy straight smut manhwa with only one couple, no cheating no other side bitches and bastard, just a normal couple smut who loves each other so much, but all I see is men fucking all the bitches and those woman has no self respect and only think about sex.
Overall, the art is good.oh yeah, I'm not a fujoshi, Rather I prefer BL shounen ai but I sure read smut BL and GL. The reason why probably fujoshi prefers yaoi is because the smut only mainly focused on the main couple, there isn't that cheating, or having sex with multiple people, unless they read something like that just a normal couple, and of course there's a lot of red flag dude but at least they're possessive and don't cheat and yaoi is made for women that made by majority of women authors
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The only straigth smut manhwa I remember because I didn't drop for ntr reasons was Zombie Girlfriend it's just porn it has a slightly supernatural macabre take because monsters just exist in the world and are integrated in society the anatomy is wonky but overall they're cute theres some side couples but no nrt as far as I remember there's some censored gore and comedy aspects to it
Read a couple of chapters feel if you like it
I love naveir tho, like she tried to teach rashta what not to do but rashta isn't smart enough to follow her. People say in the comments having, childhood trauma doesn't justify her action but don't you
Think it's too much? At first she's naive and a bit of annoying, can't read the room, but that's makes her easier to manipulate. Men around her is full of fucking bullshit, that shitty emperor who didn't teach Rashta, just let her do whatever she wanted, That duke who manipulate her to what she is now, especially the grandfather who always as Rashta for money and using the baby to threatened her (The baby she thought that died) and his shitty son who can't grow a bone who promised rashta he'll get her out of prison but abandoned her. You hate rashta so much but you don't even considered people that made her like that, Yes, she's annoying, yes the emperor cheated with her on navier, But they weren't really lovers to begin with, They did love each other but that shitty emperor was the fault for bringing mistress in, and rashta was just trying to get out of the prison.
But if only rashta is smart enough but noooo, she's easily manipulated.
*Slavery btw not prison
Here all I will say. In the court of law you are still guilty if you unknowingly were an accomplice to murder..........Another idea: should we not press charges on someone who shot up a school in account that they were bullied?......... Her situation has similarities to both ideas I just mentioned. We shouldn't sweep crimes under rugs cause just cause of traumas since other were still hurt as a result of there actions. While her past is something that would generally make me feel like defending her. ( Heck I have put multiple comments throughout mangas defending characters that get bashed on this website cause of there past) But there is just sooo much her past can guard her for. She is annoyingly obnoxious, she pushed her baby and instead of apologizing she rather blame others, she enjoyed getting the way of others marriage, has shown multiple times that she wouldn't mind cheating. Also while she doesn't understand that fraud is bad, and that the people around her are using her to do bad things these are all STILL CRIMES and SHE SHOULD BE PUNISHED FOR HER ACTIONS
She really is undefendable. HER ACTIONS ARE HERS and we should look past her past and see that she is sick and twisted too.
Yes she is "naive", yes she was traumatized, yes she is with people who don't help her prosper. But cutting off someone's tongue, killing those in her way, sending assassin's, kidnapping people for her own interest, abandoning her kids cause once again her own "happiness",going against people's advice cause she has to "shine" more than navier no that was all her. Don't forget that people have been trying to help her: the former empress, the maids ,and even the emperor tried. Like her whole wedding dress and wedding were people tried to guide her on what was best based on the people and her own image. But she always throws a fit cause she deserves the best and knows best. I can't defend someone who doesn't want help. She had her chances and she was to selfish and arrogant to take them. Then she just becomes a monster.
Heck since the very beginning she made it obvious that cause of her trauma she deserved to be empress no matter who she had to stand on to get there. She didn't want to help anyone but her self and I just can't stand her. There is just so much we can and should condone as a count of what she has been through. After that it's her own accountability.