I can't disagree more with the people saying Ariadne is stupid and acting like so with how things are advancing right now. Ariadne is anything but stupid. She's single handedly played the politics game into her favor multiple times. She survived her step mother's abuse and worked around it, she isolated her step siblings and revealed their evils, she manipulated her father into giving her what she wants while making him think he's doing it for his own good. She gathered her aids, she prepared for the plague and made herself one of the richest in the kingdom through it, even had the king seeking her for her wits and money. She played the king, had Cesare on a leash, and managed to keep him and Aflonso alive with the king's rocky temperament.
At the end of the day, she's just a girl (meme aside). She was verbally, emotionally, and physically abused her whole previous life, she has a lot of trauma and trust issues, and most of her actions in this life aren't smartness because she's just smart and ambitious, it's all defense mechanism and survival instincts. Its purely fueled by the fear of ending up in the same place as her previous life. Alfonso was the only new lovely thing in this life for her, and the only weakness she now has. And it's fleeting. They didn't even spend so much time together for their love and trust to be solidified and steady to bear the loss of communication without anxiety and fear.
I think the problem here is the way this manhwa is written (idk if the style remains in the novel) and how the emotions and thoughts are presented. Chapter 173 has the potential to be THE chapter for me with Ariadne's mental breakdown, giving in to Cesare not because she likes him but more of losing hope in Alfonso, and not Alfonso as a person but more of what he represented in her life. Hope. Something new. A life without the haunting trauma. Innocence. Something she chose. Someone who loved her at her worst. She's giving in bodily, like she'll start being a puppet going with the flow, hoping maybe Cesare is sincere this time and she won't be dealt that much pain.
Of course i assume this is a temporary breakdown, but you can't fault her for having it when she has no clue why Alfonso isn't even responding to her, where he is, if he still loves her, and being pressured by everyone about Cesare and how she should live. She's confused and that's normal. Imagine being in her place...
I really wish the manhwa's story telling is more introspective and heavily themed aesthetic because that would've fitted the story more.
Also I am getting a bit frustrated at the lack of Alfonso being shown when he's supposed to be the main lead, but I suppose I understand the artistic sense behind it. It's meant to blind us to him and his whereabouts, cause us anxiety, and shackle us to Ari's pov. He's literally haunting the narrative this way.
Ah well, can't wait for him to be back because shit will start hitting the fan from that moment forward.
I can't disagree more with the people saying Ariadne is stupid and acting like so with how things are advancing right now. Ariadne is anything but stupid. She's single handedly played the politics game into her favor multiple times. She survived her step mother's abuse and worked around it, she isolated her step siblings and revealed their evils, she manipulated her father into giving her what she wants while making him think he's doing it for his own good. She gathered her aids, she prepared for the plague and made herself one of the richest in the kingdom through it, even had the king seeking her for her wits and money. She played the king, had Cesare on a leash, and managed to keep him and Aflonso alive with the king's rocky temperament.
At the end of the day, she's just a girl (meme aside). She was verbally, emotionally, and physically abused her whole previous life, she has a lot of trauma and trust issues, and most of her actions in this life aren't smartness because she's just smart and ambitious, it's all defense mechanism and survival instincts. Its purely fueled by the fear of ending up in the same place as her previous life. Alfonso was the only new lovely thing in this life for her, and the only weakness she now has. And it's fleeting. They didn't even spend so much time together for their love and trust to be solidified and steady to bear the loss of communication without anxiety and fear.
I think the problem here is the way this manhwa is written (idk if the style remains in the novel) and how the emotions and thoughts are presented. Chapter 173 has the potential to be THE chapter for me with Ariadne's mental breakdown, giving in to Cesare not because she likes him but more of losing hope in Alfonso, and not Alfonso as a person but more of what he represented in her life. Hope. Something new. A life without the haunting trauma. Innocence. Something she chose. Someone who loved her at her worst.
She's giving in bodily, like she'll start being a puppet going with the flow, hoping maybe Cesare is sincere this time and she won't be dealt that much pain.
Of course i assume this is a temporary breakdown, but you can't fault her for having it when she has no clue why Alfonso isn't even responding to her, where he is, if he still loves her, and being pressured by everyone about Cesare and how she should live. She's confused and that's normal. Imagine being in her place...
I really wish the manhwa's story telling is more introspective and heavily themed aesthetic because that would've fitted the story more.
Also I am getting a bit frustrated at the lack of Alfonso being shown when he's supposed to be the main lead, but I suppose I understand the artistic sense behind it. It's meant to blind us to him and his whereabouts, cause us anxiety, and shackle us to Ari's pov. He's literally haunting the narrative this way.
Ah well, can't wait for him to be back because shit will start hitting the fan from that moment forward.