Childish comments towards this great story.

So... You see nothing wrong at the fact that the heroine was given debilitating PTSD and endure such brutal abuse only to have her magically overcome it enough to start pinning for her past abuser AND make her have the more character developpement and take the more actions of the two to suit better the taste of said past abuser? It's not the end game that is problematic. It's the victim blaming and atrocious treatment of abuse and trauma. It has nothing to do with readers favorite's pairing not being end game.

You make it seem like we don't see her healing from her past. She hasn't had an attack and she's learning to have more confident in herself and standing up for what she believes in. We see her changing as a character and the prince both gaining development.

We've seen her talking to her past self and accepting the fact she's no longer the same women she once was. It did just happen that quickly we saw it took a while for her to accept her change.

*It didn't just happen that quickly it took time for her to overcome herstruggles with her past self.

- No, we do not see her healing from her trauma. She was sent into a comatose state because he lashed out at her. Then she see her older self scolding her for being afraid. And suddenly everything is fine and she can act perfectly normal at their very next meeting and even talk about flowers with him. In case you forgot, by that point he only showed hatred toward her and was going to take the same path than the first timeline. Not only she had no actual reasonable healing in between, but she should be more cautious of him than ever. The last time they saw each he basically accused her of playing with him and was acting like an antagonist!

- He only changed because she changed. He was going the same path and would have neglected/humiliated her if she did not make him curious and then suited his taste. It was made very clear, and even more so in the novel, that he only like her emotinal side. If she had stayed the gracefull, intelligent, strong and level-headed woman of the first timeline he would have destroyed her because of jaleousy and prejudice. How is he that different from First Ruve then? His treatment of her before she suited his state, of the Princesses (and that would be a spoiler but of someone else in the future) show his true colors. He has no problem crushing others and is far from being a "misunderstood shy boy". In all aspect, he is an antagonist, not a love interest. And the cherry on top of the cake: Tia is the one who have to prove time and time again that she is suited for him and for the Empress's position both. He however? He get the hard work of others, play the victim card when he don't get his way (while being aware of why she is acting that way mind you) and do nothing but act mostly decent from time to time...

And forgot to say, but the author did not even bother to have the hatred and the trauma toned down a little before she pulled the "blush when near him" "are we not fated after all?" "does he care about me?" card on the readers. You can enjoy it all you want, but admit there are a lot of reasons why readers might hate it and find it disturbing. Because at his core, this story is about an abused woman who is victim blamed and have her personality changed to suit his past abuser better before getting back with him when he did nothing to even diserve her trust.

I agree. Non-novel readers really be trippin ╮(￣▽￣)╭

But I saw her healing when she confronted her past and was crying in her room to herself from the past, which looked like a ghost. I felt like she was accepting that she changed, and she could change her fate. And she most certainly was healing. She didn't have panic attacks anymore, she wasn't terrified of him as much was and that's healing. It wasn't brushed over to me because we literally see her fighting herself about not wanting to love again because of what happened in her past.

But hey, if you don't like it. You don't like it. She feared the prince but the Prince in her next life wasn't the same one from her past, so she started to see that he changed. (￣∇￣")

I disagree on three key points:

- Yes, in canon there is supposed to be healing. But it is a very unreastic one, since the author did not do the actual work of showing the small steps. All in all, abuse was treated as way to make readers invested in the story but making them pitty Tia and then trauma was used as a convenient tool switching on and off when the plot needed it. You did not debunk my statement by the way, wich is that one dream completely washed away everything and that she immediatly started talking about flowers with him like they were old friend when at their last meeting he lashed out at her... Here is a link, if you are interested, to a post showing just how much little sense this whole process makes. It's the post at the very bottom of the page (the 5th one)

https://forum.novelupdates.com/search/66241337/

- The whole story is about her still being in love with first Ruve, not about her falling in love with new Ruve. It's why she blush, ask herself if they are not fated after all and wonder if he care about her even a little. That was before the comatose state when he showed her only hatred and she had no reason at all to believe that he was not going to change by the way. We are not saying that it is a "abuse victim comes back to her past abuser story" because Ruve is the end game but because Tia is the only one to actually make the most efforts and action of the two, that she has no reason to love him at all before starting to pin for him, and we are getting no reason to believe that he would not have neglected her all over again if she has stayed the same. If Tia did not have her entire personalitty changed and there relationship was actually given new grounds, this story would have been a lot less distrubing. However, he is not the one who helped her overcome her trauma (Allen and Carsein did), he only caused troubles for her and they did not even start by being friends since he switched to "I hate her" to "neglect" and then immedialy to "I want her after all".

- And thus, she is not fighting to not love again, she is actually fighitng to not gave him a second chance. There is at that point only three possible explanations to her fellings when she should not have them in the first place: they are fated by God, so her being a pionner is a lie and she was indeed a puppet of Vita, Tia was brainwashed by the Empress's education or they is absolutly no reason for her to love him beyond physical attraction and it's very disturbing when one side was an abuse victim and the other his past abuser. Choose your poison...

I respect your opinion, if you don't like you don't like it. This just shows that the story didn't meet your standards and that's fine. That's understandable. I wasn't trying to debunk what you said previously at all. I was just sitting in opinion, just like yours able to state yours as while

True this.

Their dynamic left me feeling bitter at the toxic portrayal of a "true love" while superficially "happy".

I was simply responding to your comment saying that readers are hating on this story purely because of their favorite ship when it's not the case. We are simply analyzing the storyline with a ctitical mind and found very questionable things. Maybe it was not the intention of the author to shift the blame on Tia, to belittle PTSD and trauma or to show second Ruve in such a toxic way . By at the end it's what we got.

Dude this is everything that I wanted to say and more. To piggyback on the last part, there was really no backstory on how and why she fell in love with him. the prince straight up hated her and really did not give her a reason for her to love him at all in the last life, which is why it is disturbing to me when she’s falling for him so easily again in this life, ppl can argue that because he’s not the same person from the past, but it’s also the lingering feelings she has for in the last life that could possibly stem from the empress training/brainwashing...