This author/artist is REALLY good at making chasing arcs. This one and the Third Ending may not be top notch in plot lines but character development and the way the characters interact with each other are perfection. Honestly, this and the Third Ending has MLs who beg for love and forgiveness much better than a lot honestly! Third Ending though was a bit too short for my liking but I did enjoy how pitiful the ML was there! Some chasing arcs are too lackluster, or too short. This one is just right!
There are stories that are outright cruel, gruesome, Gorey, and violent. So tragic and horrendous it makes a reader frustrated and angry. Then there are these types of stories, so mellow and normal and yet so raw and defining.
It doesn't take a complicated storyline, or an 80+ chapter hit, or shoujo manga level of rendering and beautiful art style, to make a story so, so moving and emotional. Not a single character felt like a filler. Every character here did it's part to add the emotional weight of each event.
I think the author has a knack for heartbreak, and I hope they can make more! I love how this twists my heart so much. They really know how to make a killer heartbreak story.
This is what I really love, like no words can express how much I love these types of stories of grief and hopelessness. Something where the characters feel like they've sunk rock bottom and helplessly try to mend the breakage they've done. The slow and painful realization that all he does is to make things worse. It's so so good, right up my alley!
Now to just talk about the general story. I love how important the family's roles are and hate how it impacted Luan so much. You can tell Luan has always been pure in heart, but the pressure has completely warped his mind. Mind you, he is someone who studies both politics, law, economics, religion, and all fields of study at an advanced level because he was pushed into that position despite knowingly there is someone else who should've been the successor. Shane's blatant negligence, laziness, audacity, and apathy is infuriating.
The fact that you know someone else should be in the suffocating position you're in makes you feel like you're being punished as a scapegoat. Shane willingly pushed his little brother into that position for his self interest. Is that something you call filial love? No. Shane has no care for his brother. Shane saw how it deteriorated his little brother, even though the comedic Chibis, he would have known a little boy like Luan who is so pure in heart would never have persevered so long. Especially not when Luan finally found a reason to live. Honestly, as much as I hate Shane, we do know there is the bigger villain.
The father. Like, that is absolute gaslight, manipulate king right there. I've always read about controlling fathers and all that crap, but the blatant facade of kindness that he shows is so infuriating it makes my blood boil. He narrates it as if he's always doted and was lenient on Luan, as if he doesn't know that he was the one who slowly ruined Luan. He was the one who allowed Luan to develop that strong emotions to take root in his heart, he knew what kind of effect it wouldve placed on Luan. But perhaps around the latter portion, he never expected the extent of Luan's breaking point. That man miscalculated on turning his son into a cold-hearted calculating Count. Of course Luan was never going to become one, he was pure in heart and full of love. And this kind and loving heart grew so well because of Clauden who became his childhood salvation and friend.
Even the mother players a critical role. Her absence is loud. She doesn't love her son, she just sees him as another noble. Luan has already expressed his hate to his family, but no one cares. No one bats an eye to it because they don't treat him as another human being necessary to be comforted. They just see him as an able-bodied person who needs to continuously repaired to fulfill his role as the successor.
His entire family plays the most significant role in shaping Luan's behavior. How controlling he is, is exactly because of how his family treated him. Luan only knows how to take advantage of his status because that's what his parents have always done to him. When Luan tries all his best to be sincere, it falls apart, it grows too obsessive and overbearing, Luan has never had a healthy outlet to express his feelings other than to Clauden.
I really love how this played out! I can't wait for more chapters and see how it ends. I wouldn't even mind if it was a bad ending because the writing and pacing was pretty good I'd even be happy enough if it was a bad ending all throughout. Honestly, realistically speaking, that kind of damage is really impossibly to recover.
The humiliation and shame, the disgust Clauden feels about himself, if I was dirt poor and a commoner to a boot like him, I wouldn't recover. Living each day knowing how different your life is with a noble who claims to love you, I would just sink further in despair. Like not everyone is such a. Hero to just accept love after getting targeted and treated like a money hungry liar. Love cannot feed you, love cannot give you a roof over your head. Luan's love could never be that much it would magically solve all of Clauden's problems in life.
If Clauden was just chased out quietly, maybe there could've been hope for them but being beaten up and showed to the plaza as an example? My entire pride and existence, my soul, my heart and my mind would be shattered. I'd feel so much hate for myself for being weak, naive, and hopeful. Honestly! And it's the medieval times too.
Agh, this is so good. I'm gonna keep rereading this when I need a good whump. I wish the author can make more of these .
This author/artist is REALLY good at making chasing arcs. This one and the Third Ending may not be top notch in plot lines but character development and the way the characters interact with each other are perfection. Honestly, this and the Third Ending has MLs who beg for love and forgiveness much better than a lot honestly! Third Ending though was a bit too short for my liking but I did enjoy how pitiful the ML was there! Some chasing arcs are too lackluster, or too short. This one is just right!
There are stories that are outright cruel, gruesome, Gorey, and violent. So tragic and horrendous it makes a reader frustrated and angry. Then there are these types of stories, so mellow and normal and yet so raw and defining.
It doesn't take a complicated storyline, or an 80+ chapter hit, or shoujo manga level of rendering and beautiful art style, to make a story so, so moving and emotional. Not a single character felt like a filler. Every character here did it's part to add the emotional weight of each event.
I think the author has a knack for heartbreak, and I hope they can make more! I love how this twists my heart so much. They really know how to make a killer heartbreak story.
This is what I really love, like no words can express how much I love these types of stories of grief and hopelessness. Something where the characters feel like they've sunk rock bottom and helplessly try to mend the breakage they've done. The slow and painful realization that all he does is to make things worse. It's so so good, right up my alley!
Now to just talk about the general story. I love how important the family's roles are and hate how it impacted Luan so much. You can tell Luan has always been pure in heart, but the pressure has completely warped his mind. Mind you, he is someone who studies both politics, law, economics, religion, and all fields of study at an advanced level because he was pushed into that position despite knowingly there is someone else who should've been the successor. Shane's blatant negligence, laziness, audacity, and apathy is infuriating.
The fact that you know someone else should be in the suffocating position you're in makes you feel like you're being punished as a scapegoat. Shane willingly pushed his little brother into that position for his self interest. Is that something you call filial love? No. Shane has no care for his brother. Shane saw how it deteriorated his little brother, even though the comedic Chibis, he would have known a little boy like Luan who is so pure in heart would never have persevered so long. Especially not when Luan finally found a reason to live. Honestly, as much as I hate Shane, we do know there is the bigger villain.
The father. Like, that is absolute gaslight, manipulate king right there. I've always read about controlling fathers and all that crap, but the blatant facade of kindness that he shows is so infuriating it makes my blood boil. He narrates it as if he's always doted and was lenient on Luan, as if he doesn't know that he was the one who slowly ruined Luan. He was the one who allowed Luan to develop that strong emotions to take root in his heart, he knew what kind of effect it wouldve placed on Luan. But perhaps around the latter portion, he never expected the extent of Luan's breaking point. That man miscalculated on turning his son into a cold-hearted calculating Count. Of course Luan was never going to become one, he was pure in heart and full of love. And this kind and loving heart grew so well because of Clauden who became his childhood salvation and friend.
Even the mother players a critical role. Her absence is loud. She doesn't love her son, she just sees him as another noble. Luan has already expressed his hate to his family, but no one cares. No one bats an eye to it because they don't treat him as another human being necessary to be comforted. They just see him as an able-bodied person who needs to continuously repaired to fulfill his role as the successor.
His entire family plays the most significant role in shaping Luan's behavior. How controlling he is, is exactly because of how his family treated him. Luan only knows how to take advantage of his status because that's what his parents have always done to him. When Luan tries all his best to be sincere, it falls apart, it grows too obsessive and overbearing, Luan has never had a healthy outlet to express his feelings other than to Clauden.
I really love how this played out! I can't wait for more chapters and see how it ends. I wouldn't even mind if it was a bad ending because the writing and pacing was pretty good I'd even be happy enough if it was a bad ending all throughout. Honestly, realistically speaking, that kind of damage is really impossibly to recover.
The humiliation and shame, the disgust Clauden feels about himself, if I was dirt poor and a commoner to a boot like him, I wouldn't recover. Living each day knowing how different your life is with a noble who claims to love you, I would just sink further in despair. Like not everyone is such a. Hero to just accept love after getting targeted and treated like a money hungry liar. Love cannot feed you, love cannot give you a roof over your head. Luan's love could never be that much it would magically solve all of Clauden's problems in life.
If Clauden was just chased out quietly, maybe there could've been hope for them but being beaten up and showed to the plaza as an example? My entire pride and existence, my soul, my heart and my mind would be shattered. I'd feel so much hate for myself for being weak, naive, and hopeful. Honestly! And it's the medieval times too.
Agh, this is so good. I'm gonna keep rereading this when I need a good whump. I wish the author can make more of these .