Eww

omg thanks for typing it all out. i swear this dana is freaking useless and despicable. i dont think she deserves anyone and especially not moon. so disappointed since i thought she was gonna be some strong female character. what the hell is her good points?? tell me. high key feel like dropping this right now cos of her. im also reading this just because i wanna know if the village chief dude is really gonna be stupid and used or is he gonna achieve his objectives after all his sacrifices.

She’s the freaking empress. Who’s to say none of them fought back her, anyway?

Dana was abused by her father. She would get beaten by him all the time. She feared him and did what he said. Abuse victims get controlled sometimes. That isn’t her fault.

preach. cold hearted bitch or what, she's a victim. you know not every victim is 'strong'. much more if you have been abused all your life. so as the cold hearted bitch mentioned by op, she can only get engaged after moon's death

Did you forget the time frame the story is portrayed in? Men did have all of the lime light and women were weak. Or more like if they did try to stand up against men they would be killed immediately. All of the women in this story have a strength in their own way ESPECIALLY Dana. She never forgot about Moon and always loved him but she thought that he was dead so she stopped fighting her father and got engaged because the reason she was fighting her father was no longer alive or well she thought that he wasn't anyway

If they try to stand up to men they would be killed immediately?

Ellin stood up to the King, she didn't get killed?

You're romanticising female denigration by branding 'weakness' as 'strength of their own'. Have you seen Dana the whole story? She never had any character development. At first it was okay to see her so weak and undecided, but to see her as the Empress and not maneuver that power into something useful for herself, her subjects, or even for a friend (Ellin), and instead cried herself to catatonia is really disappointing and normalizes women as weak beings who needed to be cared for.

There is no strength is silently loving a man but not showing it through actions. Ellin was able to break away from marrying someone she did not love, and faced a future of solitude because she believed in the man she loved. Dana on the other hand, does not believe Moon capable of things, that's why she keeps on dropping him when the situation becomes too much. Had she truly loved Moon, she would have asked him to bring her along to where he's migrating the night they had sex. Had she trusted Moon, she would have at least waited a few days to confirm if Moon was dead instead of getting engaged again. And no, if you truly loved someone you wouldn't even EASILY say yes to your father to marrying you off to someone because you are mourning the loss of a loved one, Dana could have pretended to be ill or ran away or even negotiated with her father before getting hitched again. Her actions even turned off Moon because Dana shows she is not a loyal partner.

You can romaticize Dana's wishy washy attitude all you want, but by doing so you are supporting a sexist view that women are weak, fickle, damsels in distress. And no, they do not get killed ASAP in the ancient times, you saw what happened to Ellin -she ain't dead.

Lmao no we are not supporting a sexist view that women are weak, fickle, damsels in distress. That is such bullshit.

All we’re doing is acknowledging that abuse victims can feel entrapped. My great-grandmother would get the shit beaten out of her by her husband. He once hit her so hard she went blind in one eye. She eventually got out, but I think she was damn brave for putting up with him as long as she did. Not everyone can get away, and that doesn’t mean they’re weak. You’re acting like it’s easy to get up and leave an abuser, and it’s not. It’s not sexist to acknowledge that victims can have trouble getting away. It’s so horrible to act like domestic abuse victims are weak for being unable to get away from their abusers. We’re not being sexist. I’d say the exact same thing of Dana was a man.

Did you read the webtoon properly? Dana was not abused ALL THE TIME, if she did, don't you think Moon would notice that while they were naked having sex seeing all her flesh?

If she was abused all the time, she wouldn't even have the freedom to sneak away and flirt with Moon at all.

The only time she was shown abused was the night of her wedding where her back was full of bruises. And whose to say it was not the empress dowager who did it instead of the father? And let's not forget, Dana herself admitted that she followed whatever her dad said because she was WEAK, not because she's abused or mentally scarred. She had the audacity to sneak away and get laid by his boyfriend in ancient times, and you call her an abuse victim who doesn't have any fault? Why do you think Moon said she's given up on Dana a long time ago then? Was it not because he knew Dana could have decided to do something else for love, but instead just went along with his Dad DESPITE Dana showing that she's capable of defying her father (sneaking out to flirt, midnight fuck, telling her Dad she's not marrying the first engagement guy?)

Make it make sense.

She doesn't even have any good points, aside from looking good. Moon is just a simp. That's the sad reality.

I also want to drop reading this trash novel (which had great potential initially), I wish someone would spoil me of the ending of who dies and whatnot so I could stop feeling agonizing sexism everytime I read an update from this webtoon.

People here in the comment section trying to justify Dana's weak, cheating ass of a woman. Calling Dana strong and shit, like it's strong to cry yourself from wedding night to present chapter... The bar is real low for that hoe.

It was her father. Her father did it to her. You are absolutely insane if you think her father didn’t do it to her, and who’s to say Moon didn’t see her scars?
Abuse victims sometimes blame themselves, but it’s not her fault. She stood up to her father sometimes, but that doesn’t mean she could stand up to literally every single thing. I’m not saying she’s perfect of hasn’t done a single thing wrong like you’re implying. She has. But you’re acting like she’s a weak or something and are slut shaming her.
Moon had every right to give up on Dana. She couldn’t fight for him in the end because her father controlled her entire life. He is by no means forced to put up with that shit. Just because she was abused doesn’t mean he has to put up with her giving up on him. He has every right to leave. In the end, he “died”, she realized it was her father’s intention. The man she loved died, and she basically gave up on life. To say this story is sexist is absolute bullshit.

Keep telling yourself that, hope it makes sense with your first comment.

You are low key sickening. There are no spoilers. The story is ongoing. Just drop it if you’re gonna act like this and think it’s trash.

Like seriously, you’re grossing me out with your misogynistic bullshit.

Dana doesn't live with her father when she became an empress candidate though? How can you NOT get away from the abuser, when you're literally AWAY from the abuser the entire 'empress selection' time?

Make it make sense.

Because if she leaves she still has to put up with him? She’s still under his grasp even when she’s away from him? Go complain to the author and tell her that her work is sexist if you really think so. Give feedback to her or stop reading the story.

@okarisu thanks for blocking me so I can't reply to your hate diarrhea.

You are low key a hoe apologist. So it's okay for Dana to have sex with Moon and get engaged the next day without telling him? It's okay for Dana to kiss a man who isn't his loyal husband?

That's a cheater and you're saying it's okay cause it's romantic? Eww, have some respect for proper women portrayal.

I fucking didn’t say it’s romantic you fucking misogynistic asshole.

You have fucking homophobic shit on your list and you have the nerve to talk about proper portrayal in the media.

Pffft.... Homophobic? Giiiirl, are you blind? I read homo mangas, hetero mangas, doujinshi and webtoons... Now that you can't properly defend Dana's character, you try to find dirt about me to discredit my honest opinion? You're pathetic.

Yeah, you read a genre that exists for women to fetishize men. That’s not homophobic at all.
I’m not even fucking trying to say Dana by did nothing wrong. I’m saying she’s an abuse victim and not every single one of her actions was wrong and that you’re dismissing all victims who stay and do what their abusers say by calling them weak.