D.Y.I's manga / #sorrow(2)

I am so deeply saddened by the sudden ending of season 1... I CAN'T SEEM TO FIND THE CONTINUATION GODDAMN IT, THERE IS NO CHAPTER 41 ANYWHERE, I HAD ALWAYS THOUGHT THAT THIS MANHWA WAS ALREADY FINISHED!!!!! Tbh, at first I was wondering if this is even alright to read, because it seemed taboo, cuz, you know, she was adopted into the family... But then I realised that today it wouldn't be okay by any means but I need to remember that in this fictional world, that works a bit like 18th century's society, men and women enter the adult world at the age of 19 and have balls from where on they go off into the marriage market. And it is just way different than a standard family nowadays. Plus, if we look at it story wise, it is fine. The father's first love, Liam, died and Rachel is his only child and daughter of the Emrald family. That's why duke De Leon takes her in at the age of 10. He begins treating her like a daughter and insists on her calling him "father" or "dad", but at some point the maids begin questioning whether she is in the mansion, because she will later on be married off to the duke's son - Lucian. And Ray is obviously petrified, because she never looked at him in that light (she thought he was gay and was bound to his love from the original story, Noah, but Rachel changed the plot, so...). Even the duke knows that Lucian loves her and is close to her - that's why he tries to separate them. But not because it's not okay (again, for them it's a normal procedure to adopt a bride before marrying her off to the son of the family), instead Lucian reminds the duke of his father, who was against the duke's first love and Rachel's late father, Liam. So he just felt very conflicted whenever he saw them together. I still feel a bit uneasy, because I can't imagine them together, because, well, I still view her as his sister. But I guess that we have to remember that it's normal for their relationship to go that way - she was the only person that ever accepted him and comforted him, she made everyone else acknowledge his presence and bare his existence. She has always been his only source of solace and comfort. They are not related and she was taken in, because her late father, Liam, was a close family friend of the Duke's. Had Rachel's parents not died, it would have been a completely usual marriage and love by adults from families that just like each other. So I don't view it as too weird, it was expected. But even so, I still can't get used to it. I mean, at the same time, they lived together for only 2 years and then she went to the South. They have never been true brother and sister, because Lucian was already 15 when she arrived and she was a child of a family friend.

I honestly didn't expect such a turn of events, everything ended up with a happily ever after, which was... The most unexpected thing ever... Idk, I thought it would be dark angst, because of the way it started and the first chapters which especially showed Will's devotion and obsession and whatnot but he actually seemed a tiny bit more normal towards the end. I guess Chat coming back to life was his savior. I loved the sidestories we got to see which were an explanation to why the characters act the way they do basically. Very cute, beautiful even, I loved them. They actually ketp me entertained which I also wasn't expecting, since usually such stories are not the most interesting. Yeah, pretty much a very nice, surprisingly light read despite of the heavy topics covered (primarily death) 8.5/10