Hoge, Sleuth of Gaycuddlience's manga / #NO-GO-ZONE(84)

Again, It's cute... but maybe this one ain't for me. The only good thing in this is "the seme patience" 2/10

️ I'm dropping this manhwa since it's quite heavy and I can't cope with this. sure, at first I love this especially Paulina but things have changed. 4/10 SPOILER Yo, I am here as a reader of the novel because I've seen many people throwing spoilers (and not seen scenes of the novel) and dirt to Lucius but not really contextualize them; that's what happens when you just ONLY read the spoilers. And If you mess with the husbando of my waifu, you are messing with her happiness and, therefore, with me. Also, It's an important part of the message of the novel to understand this development xd First, 3 wives because it's the easiest, some comprehend some not. Yeah, he married them and I have seen a lot of people hating this. Understandable, have a nice day. No married person shouldn't be with another, that's cheating and Paulina does not deserve that. But, we need to look at the reasons 'Why Lucius marry them? And what did Lucius after marry them?' Lucius marries them for political reasons; If you do not see it, let me explain. Lucius is the man who has shown that he is not conquering the continent because he wants power, but because he thinks it is the right thing for stopping the wars. At the same time, he knows this dream will cost a lot, many lives and time of his soldiers (Manwha: ch. 34). Marriage is a contract to secure territories because they easily can do a revolution even though Lucius treats them fairly. It's a way to protect and not let all the sacrifices being in vain. He also needs to marry to establish his position, he knows his position is weak even in Acrea (Manwha: ch. 54) so he needs to do what it needs to do. That's a ruling, sometimes you can't be a moralist. Does he act on Paulina while married? He does not because he respects his wives and loves Paulina, he bites his tongue and tries to forget her (Manwha: ch. 101). In the novel, he explores that If women in his time can only gain power out of marriage, he will be a good husband and give them everything he can as the emperor. He treats them fairly even though he does not love them and neither them. It's not the ideal situation to his feeling to Paulina, but it's his obligations as who went for the war of 10 years. "Then why he does not maker his concubine?" Out of respect, my kind stranger. He loves her (oh, how much he simps) and he can't control that and is one of the things he wants to do (ch. 45), but also he's aware that Paulina just doesn't look at him in that way at this moment. He knows that If he makes her his concubine; Paulina will say yes out of duty, not for love in this very moment in the manwha. Even more, he will strip her of something he knows she values a lot; Her title as Marquess and power, something for she fought a lot. Concubine is not the same as Queen, there's a difference in power. Not only If he makes her his concubine she will not love him, but she could also easily hate him out of spite for taking away something he knows is precious to her. Isn't love about desire the happiness of the other more than your own? Sometimes he acts out of jealousy I will admit (Manwha: ch. 107, great example), but he never tells Paulina 'you can't do that, he just does dumb things like any person who is in love. Jealousy is irrational (and it was for the sake of comedy, lol) but Lucius will accept Paulina marrying another guy because he saw her happy, he does it with Doctor in the novel. What more can he do? He will of course investigate to be sure Paulina will be happy and discover that he is a snake and tell Paulina to let her take her OWN decisions about the situation. "Why doesn't he just change the law?" He does it but in the final, because at the moment we are in the novel, he can't due to his weak position and political problems which wants to dethrone him at this moment of the novel. He is not a dictator, he has to respond and negotiate; there's been too much war. The heavy part; tell his soldiers to rape Paulina and tell her "rather fuck whores than sleep with an ugly girl like her". Yeah, he did it, but he will regret it all his life (Fuck, it will be one of the things why Paulina does not believe him he loves her because she remembers it, he wants to fucking beat his younger self at that point) and he makes things better for women because he will learn to respect them as equals thanks to Paulina. Lucius does not do an 'Arc of redemption' but he works thought the novel; he respects his wives, he will start changing the law to let women be equal to men at first with inheritance but then changing all the legal system (and If you think of the period; He is really putting on risk he is position and changing all the legal system is very much a hard duty; He even warns his court to leave him If they don't feel they can't copy it!) and he decides that his first daughter (From Rebecca, not his first with Paulina which was a male and 'rightfully' the heir) will be the queen as her right for being the firstborn. I quote «I would like to finish this change in the legal system. I have worked as hard as I could for these dreams, and I will continue working for them. To be honest, I know that it will not be an easy road for us. Perhaps it will be even more difficult than conquering the entire continent. Perhaps this will be the end of this kingdom, but Paulina, I cannot control my greed for you. I hope you will become my wife. » This last can be very subjective and If some can't forgive him, it's understandable. He did a very bad thing in the war and rape is still rape. But people make and believe wrong things and learn to regret them, Lucius will dedicate his life to change a system where women were less than a man thanks to the influence of Paulina, not just only for Paulina which is the main reason but because he saw it was unfair. For example, the mother of Rebecca apologizes to his dead daughter for giving birth to a girl to HIM (He was mad as fuck) and his other wive Tory (Acrea Lady; blond one) who help him to discover a plan to dethrone him and still she is such in a weak position for the laws due to being a woman that she has to divorce him and go to receive punishment (no worries, he gave her a title for saving him and trust him over his family, let her work in the castle for logistics). BTW, when he is trying (finally) to woo Paulina one of his wive is dead [In the novel is shown more about the friendship between her and Paulina, and Paulina feels bad when she starts feeling for Lucius due to this :( ] and the other two CHOOSE to divorce him; Tory because of the incident of betraying her own family to help Lucius and the other because say 'Nah, this too much, hope you confess to Paulina Lucius' (The man is an open book about his crush on Paulina for her xd). About the manwhore accusations, yeah, he was in the war but, hey, never force anyone and anyone should be shaming you for your sex life because it's active. Moreover, he wasn't in love with Paulina at that moment and record them in case someone became pregnant and take responsibility. There's a LOT I didn't mention but because this SLOW BURN AS FUCK but the necessary (?. We are nearly in the middle of the novel folks and Paulina isn't feeling until the two

️ Definitely, it's my cup of tea storyline but the darkness is wayyyyyyyyyyyy too much. 9/10 (for the plot)

️ ITS FOCKINH INCEST DEARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR

️ it's weird and I don't like it 0/10

️ not my cup of tea

️ How do I explain this... it's quite bland and toxic beginning?

️ not my cup of tea