i want to know the same. it was my biggest issue with death is the only ending for the villainess where she uses and the dumps the guy who was a slave rather than like idk being a decent person..
It’s so weird how common it is in these books, the way they reinforce and justify the class system
Hardly unreasonable a plot though. Villains usually aren't born, they are made. Mess with someone enough and you end up getting exactly what you feared.
my problem is that these stories always make the “undesirables” the villains as a “you see we were right to treat them that way” it’s always weird. The story would be a lot better if it followed like ash instead. A revolution that dismantles the church and class system would be so much better. Many manhwa authors do not have the range to discuss these topics that why there’s always the random racism to make the mc a white savior or the orientalism where the fair skinned white woman is saving a bunch of “barbaric and uncultured people” from themselves even tho the mls in these stories are barbaric and war criminals themselves
I can't recall too many stories where there ended up being a "you were right to treat them that way" situation but you're 100% right about the white saviorism. Which is funny because most of these authors are probably not white lol.
Tbh I get frustrated with the "lol church bad" plots but given east Asian history I get it. I don't think you'll ever see any kind of plot like what you said though. Class and religion will always be with us one way or another and the liberal / communist values you're talking about are deeply rooted in a western European context. I'm not sure you'll see a lot of east Asian authors resonate with what is ironically a kind of ideological imperialism.
Good point on the MLs too. Every gal wants a war criminal haha
are they about to make the Ash a villain? im on chapter 43. Someone please let me know so i can drop this, i refuse to read a book where a victim of imperialism is villainized