pluckaduck's manga / #Royalty(57)

wow she really was psychotic pre-regression. im interested to see how her mindset change before she died, bc she is pretty different now.

I've seen lots of bl fanart of this webnovel....but it's not bl, unfortunately.

queen cecia is strong cool and capable personified. yuri is capable bubbly smart personified. arsinoe is gentle pure humble personified, strong nevertheless. unfortunately, i want lester to be ml (honestly bc I feel bad for him. 2nd lead syndrome) but the age difference is offputting. but then again, the same could be said about yuri's crush on the duke. sighhh, we wouldn't have this controversy if the author just have lester stay as a father figure. this is one of the stories where it's better to have just one love interest.

ch42. the novel is beautifully written. the manhwa, while it's still good, doesn't do it justice. anyway, it's really a tragedy where every chara (except for fenton) is a victim to some extent. even tho the king is def the root cause of this tragedy i do feel bad for him. also, can this even be considered a true 'romance'? cuz it seem like verona see him more like a pet rather than love interest

wholesome and funny subversion of the cliche cute-girl-steals-the heart-of-the-prince trope. the prince was annoying as hell, the his aide is just as annoying and frustrating, with the way he keeps accusing the mc of being deliberately seducing the prince and enabling the prince's behavior by refusing to listen to mc at all. the prince was just an cocky pretentious egomaniac, and that was just his role so whatever, but the aide could've been a chara that realizes how much of an idiot the prince is and deflected to the mc's side. and the duke's daughter, she was annoying as well, but all she did was lecture mc without listening to her, and at least in the end he realized how obstinate she was. while the aide just keeps yapping away.

above average OI. people who are disappointed bc mc isn't whom they want to project themselves to be... recalibrate your expectations. i like how ash felt so alienated and distrustful. she acknowledges something all OI authors subconsciously wanted but never admitted in their characters: the desire to experience a perfect love to the extent they can forget their homesickness. her relationships with each ml isn't ideal, most of them being deeply in love with another person before mc, but it's realistic in that sense, and a reasonable explanation why she doesnt bring herself to fall in love until she gets her epiphany.