Under Ground
Unresolved daddy issue that I don’t want to read Drop 8
I Became the Tyrant’s Servant
BRO ML IS A WHOLE VICTIM, GIVE THIS MAN A BREAK, IM NOT GONNA READ THIS NEXT!!! This is a waste of talent cause the art is so beautiful that I have to read this story. The pretty privileged is crazyyy. Grand Duchess Erina of Valois Emperor Cardan Zeon of Hythronian Empire Empress (Villain) There are many obstacles but the Empress is the 'final boss'. She sets up multiple scemes and attempts to harm the FL and other people, as well as ML to get into power. She also uses Jane as a tool. SIDE CHARACTER - There is a knight that likes MC, as well as dude that MC spared from prison in exchange for access to ships to escape from the father of the guy - Assassins hired by Empress, framing and this and that A former call center employee finds herself transported into a fantasy novel, where she becomes the “servant” of the male protagonist, a cruel tyrant who kills anyone he doesn’t like and lives in lust. She doesn’t want to die like the original character, so she plans to escape before the tyrant finds the female protagonist, who is the only one capable of changing his heart. To do this, she begins to do business, buy ships and train concubines for the tyrant. However, her plans are thwarted when the tyrant begins to take an interest in her and pursues her relentlessly. Will she be able to escape her fate or will she fall in love with the man she was supposed to hate? (OG storyline, a princess from a weak country was taken to the ML to be his concubine. ML fall in love and a rebellious break down. ML suicide infront of the princess and then princess go crazy.) ACTUAL PLOT OF THE STORY The story starts with prologue which is really interesting. MC is shown to be 'transmigrated' into a novel character and is as seen in the manhwa The MC throughout the story works hard to please the Emperor and keep her head. The 'story' as the MC remembers is actually not true and the plot never existed or pretty much has much to do with her current world, which is her reality. The OG FL that MC remembers as is Jane (I'm pretty sure her name was) who is a princess from a weak nation. The FL tries to bring her and the ML together but the feelings the OG FL has for the ML is simply admiration and she loves another that js being held captive by the Empress (dowager). Backstory on the MC> She is the illegitimate child of the Duke and through much schemes and this and that ends up becoming the duke. She runs the empire behind the scenes and the whole situation of the ML is what she ordered him to do. The reason why he follows it is because there is a candle in the story that represents a person-if the flame is weak the person is this and that and same goes for a strong flame or a candle that no longer burns. She holds Eleanor (I think that's the name of ML's mother) captive so ML follows to keep his mother safe. His mother ended up in this situation (someone correct me if I'm wrong) because she killed the Empress's child I think or something and ended up drinking poison herself so she fell into a coma. Back to the plot> Jane, OG FL, is set up by MC many times and encourages ML to get along with her. Meanwhile she has this event with a side character that ends up trying to 'save a damsel in distress ' by planning to have his dogs or something chase her and act as her saviour but MC ends up jumping into the river and Jane finds her. There is also a part where she takes all her valued possessions and plans to flee by boat but fails and the boat is burned. She is thrown into prison but it's not made public. Eventually after tricking the prison guard with a sob story they are caught but she ends up being allowed to leave She also originally planned to leave the country through marriage but failed after a series of events. Towards the end of the story there is a part where she is captured I think trying to save the person Jane loves by thia dude from someplace that appeared and she gives them this sort of food or anditode or something and they end up falling asleep and this and that and at some arena she is put up for some kind lf show Cardan (ML) saves her and they go back to the starting setting and basically there is a rebillion the Empress had planned want to get the nobles to sign a paper to acknowledgeor obey the dude that had captured MC a few sentences ago or the Empress (can't really remember) they declare ML is dead but MC decided to poison herself as she had gave the ML her candle (and his mothers at some point of the story) so he rushes back and basically reuinion and the resolution SPOILER “She is the real tyrant who also kidnapped ML’s mom. She is not a transmigrator or anything like that, idk where she got the Korean phone call girl thing. She lost her memories from guilt but she was pretty booty. I’m not sure why she decided to become a tyrant…something about the contracts the ML mentions. Uh, the face in the portrait is his mom and she actually doesn’t know what the OGFL looks like. The duchess/FL is super confusing. Duchess and ML were engaged when they were kids but it got broken off at some point. He was in love with her up until she became a tyrant and became hell bent on wanting to kill her. He’s a “womanizer” bc Duchess forced him to take on that image. Time skip or smth / duchess restored the treasury but her assets were all burned and then she married the ML.” - Anezhou The duke thinks she slept with the emperor because the emperor called for at night and made her drink many alcohol till the point where she ended up too drunk he did this so he could know the location of his mother yet he didn't succeed because the duke started taking of her clothes and ended up fainting . When she woke up she misunderstood the situation and the emperor did not correct her because he thought that this was fun , he did this another time and she ended up misundrstanding again as a result she started drinking herbs that control hormones and she also overworked her self because of that she collapsed and the emperor took care of her He kept wondering how could the duke who has no blood or tears change this much. FL is the illegtimate daughter of her abusive father with a maid but he wanted her to become crown princess and always brought her with him to the palace when she was a child where she met ML,got close to him,becoming friends,met his mother and the two treated FL very well but it all changed after ML had to go to war and FL i guess became Duke and kidnapped his mother and baited him with her for a contract,he has to become a tyrant and womanizer. the 'Peter' is the love interest of OGFL who was supposed to end up with ML.OGFL will become ML's concubine in the story,but she's sent by empress dowager who warned her to not bewitched by ML,ML will have to treat OGFL well as she's his concubine,he flirts with her and stuff as per FL's plan but he sometimes got tired of the acting and was indifferent to OGFL but she didn't seem to care,would just blush or tear up. OGFL doesn't love ML but she appreciates his beauty and charm during the time they spend as emperor and his concubine. Many times time she got close to being bewitched by him,for example once : after he told her something along the lines of 'If I could I would too want to become a man who supports you more than that chair' and 'even the wind is jealous of your beauty' as he pushed away her hair from her face and she blushed hard and her mouth opened before she started slapping her self till her cheek got swollen and ML was like wtf I knew she wasn't normal. she later on will say 'I have to hold on for the person i left in the kingdom' to remind herself to not fall for ML,whis is confirmed when FL asks her what she thinks of ML, OGFL gushes about him but FL notices that it's only admiration not love. OGFL notices ML prefers FL but doesn't get jealous or anything,she's just intrigued i guess. ML and FL know OGFL is suspicious,even ML said at one point to himself that she may be shy or act shy but she's not an easy opponent. For the womanzing part,what he used to do has been revealed one time when he had to visit OGFL at night in her room,but before he went inside FL gave him a bottle of sleeping pills and told him to slip one in OGFL's drink so he doesn't have to deal with her but he was like i already brought one(a bottle of pills),FL was surprised,saying something like 'oh so you know the trick' but ML told her that's what he used to do to the other women 'he spent nights with' to debauch the empress dowager who spied on him,aka he used to give them sleeping pills in their drink and they'll fall asleep while he's in the same room with them and he leaves after and he told FL that he knows this because she was the one who teached it to him/used to give him the pills when she forced the contract on him,but she doesn't remember of course She also realized that she doesn't hesitate to do any evil deeds to take over the empire, but when the empire collapses under her puppet's tyranny(ML),she immediately goes into exile(because she was about to run away but ML caught her).That's when FL realized that she's still the same from before,the 'forgot my memories' is just an excuse. Yes she woke up in chapter 143(after FL tried to end her life because of guilt but ML stopped her), FL talked to her in chapter 146 right before the end (chapter147), she asked Eleanor for forgiveness for threatening her and kidnapping her and locking her up and Eleanor told her it's okay, she forgot everything and that it's her fault that she made a bad choice that day,and that she forgives FL and used to hear what she used to tell her whenever she visited her. They just talked nonsense after that as if catching up. FL also went to visit the tombstone of an old dead friend from her childhood (i feel bad for characters like these..ruined for the plot of leads), Cecilia. Cecilia was FL's target when she was a child by orders of her father, Cecilia was an innocent sweet girl and the only one to want to be a friend of FL who was bullied because she was illegtimate. But FL was just spying for her father to ruin Cecilia's father, FL betrayed Cecilia and the latter's father went into sudden extreme bankruptcy and even taken in as a criminal. Cecilia who wanted to reach out to FL that day, crying, was treated coldly by FL as if she was nothing and FL even told the maids to throw away the big pile of expensive gifts Cecilia had given her as they're from a criminal's daughter. FL apologized to her too and placed a bouquet on top of her tombstone but she knew that she did Cecilia very wrong and no amount of sorry will be enough. WHAT THE DUCHESS WANT AND HER GOAL? She wanted Complete and Flawless absolute power. She wanted control over the empire but behind the scenes (just like when she was younger as she used to do all the evil deeds ordered by her father behind the scenes,even the good management she used to do,her brothers used to take credit.) so she wouldn't take the blame. She also understood that in all the tyranny was her doing and not ML's,he was a puppet,FL was holding Eleanor on the brink of death and threatening ML, urging him to live a life that was nothing more than a farce, and arbitrarily killing anyone who opposed him and do anything she wants like her servant. WHY MAKE HIM A TYRANT? She explained because if he was just a normal emperor you still get controlled by nobles and stuff,by being a harsh tyrant you have control over everything and make everyone obey,and you'll be able to play with the empire without lifting a finger. 1. So, cardan liked OG erina in the past. 2. MC is actually the OG Erina. 3. Those things that happened in the novel not really happened. 4. Eleanor is cardan's mother. 5. OG erina just lost her memories because she wanted to escape from her guilt by drinking poison?!?! 6. The romance is very slowburn, their interactions are mostly ML coming to save the her 7. They have this thing called a candle that is a sign of their life force? If it stops burning it means the owner of it is dead 8. The MC plans to escape but ends up having all her prized possessions burned or rid of?? 9. The said to be OG FL (Princess Janet) doesn't like the ML but admire his looks and already has someone she liked I think his name was Peter?? I can't really remember, she ends up with him after saving him from somewhere (if I didn't read it wrong) 10. The story doesn't really have much of a major point I can remember but they end up together in the end 11. There was also this other dude that had feelings for her I think?? He was a knight or someone that worked for FL? THE ENDING They were in the conference hall with people,the empire seemed to be saved...etc. FL said it's time to find a marriage candidate for ML and ML was like who?he added sarcastically if it's a fallen princess from a small kingdom or a noble daughter from an unknow place but FL instead said that she's talking about herself and pointed to herself. Basically FL proposed to ML. Everyone around them were like yes yes yes. ML kicks everyone out except for FL and he asks FL if she's serious and that she can retract her words. FL says she won't,she said the words in front of the whole meeting members anyways. ML happy,tells her he'll be good to her,thanks FL and the two say I love you to each other and kiss. END Chap 2: the emperor is a shitbag, no wonder the empire fall in 5 years. Bro spent all the money in the treasury and it go to the negative… atleast he an amazing sword master and contribute a lot in war. Not to much in paperwork though. It giving Ares god of war cause home boi be sleeping around and fight good. Chap 5: so they have a contract that she didn’t know bout he seem to be smart and not a slack for work?!?!! And that the Duchess is the mastermind and the tyrant??!??? Also the emperor say that FL disgusted him but he stil save her life and don’t want her to die
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