
Look, I like psycho characters as much as the next emotionally-unavailable gal, but HOW can any of y'all sincerely be shipping Castor with Ashley....That's too much even for my twisted mind :') mans needs to die a slow and painful death. Amor must be protected at all costs. Can't wait to delve deeper into the tragedy unfolding before us

actually fucking repulsive. Still saw people defending this monster recently so if anyone needed any more evidence to hate Hwan, here you go. This man laughs in the face of consent, and sadly rape (once again, as he has done it multiple times) is like the LEAST shitty thing he has done which is saying a lot.
Jin supremacy, and all my homies despise Hwan.

I literally commented earlier today as I just started this series for the first time and I'm already up to date because I could do nothing but read all day. The most refreshing take on a royal isekai manhwa I've seen so far, and not to mention it has the most STUNNING art I've ever see. I took so many damn screenshots of certain scenes, let me tell you I just-ヾ(❀╹◡╹)ノ~
Also, I'm not sure where everyone's allegiances lie or which love interest is the most popular in the community, but DAMN do I have a soft spot for Reynold. He's definitely my pick at the moment. I'm a sucker for enemies to lovers when it's done right, and I also think they have had the best scenes together so far. Keeping an open mind going forward (and obviously all our boys are *chefs kiss*), but Reynold is my mans for sure right now!
What about you guys? :D I know more tsundere-type characters like him aren't always popular (and they're usually not my type either), but so far despite the initial misunderstandings (which are essentially a given in this genre) their interactions always make my heart clench and his facial expressions are so emotive. Also, although some may consider the way he treated the old Penelope to be toxic, I actually think the justification was well done in this case with what he overheard her say about his recently disappeared sister. But maybe I'm just a sucker for his beautiful artstyle, so I'm interested to hear what y'all think!

lmao I saw your comment 4 hrs ago saying you were on chapter 4 XD I love that you've already read through everything lololol
and I honestly have to say I'm a prince-leaning gal. I love an "I'm a scary asshole to everyone but you" type of ml (he's like that later on). I gotta say, Reynold is growing on me, but I'm still upset at him for the attic event D: I'm kinda mad at the whole family, tho, cuz they used to neglect and hate her but now they're being all nice?? gahhh idek anymoreeee

It was worth it 100% :') Honestly want to start reading the original webnovel ASAP because I can't get enough of the story!
I can get behind that! Honestly I usually lean more towards the "I'm an asshole to everyone but you" characters (and I mean I would never go for someone like that irl so I'm fine with crushing on psychotic fictional characters being my toxic trait AHAH~). He's probably my second choice tbh! I've heard some stuff about Eclise so I'm eh about him, Derrick is kind of bland at this stage, and Vinter is interesting but they haven't interacted enough so I'm honestly for Reynold or Prince at this stage. At least our prince keeps things interesting and is a hottie to boot :P
I do 100% agree about the attic scene, my heart BURNED when she said that line about only being a 12 year old girl who didn't even know the value of a necklace and he absolutely deserved that, but the look on his face and how he was feeling about that makes me believe he genuinely knows he is the one in the wrong and I hoep we see more redemption from him. I think part of it is that he started with the lowest % of favorability so I'm like YESSS get higher bby~~ :')
I'm honestly more mad at the older brother Derrick than Reynold because at least I do feel some arguably more reasonable justification with him walking in on Penny essentially saying she hopes their real sister never comes back (I honestly might have reacted like Reynold if I heard that about my missing sibling as a kid myself, who knows tbh), but Derrick probably was just crushing on her and being rude in classic tsundere fashion without good reason based on previous hints, so this turn around from him is just UGH.

GIRL YES don't even get me started on the *eyes widen* trope, I absolutely love it when a character will do/say something and another character will widen their eyes in shock or surprise or emote really expressively (and luckily a lot of manhwa art styles are often perfect for expressiveness especially in the eyes) and it just makes me feel all fuzzy inside~~

Okay, this might be a bit of a random comment but I'm only 4 chapters in after FINALLY starting this one and I am SO refreshed by this unique take on the genre. I'm someone who reads a LOT of manhwa/webtoons (particularly the isekai into royalty kind) but I've never seen one quite like this where not only is the lead in an otome game instead of a novel, but the speech options are all pre-set choices (for now at least, I'm guessing) like in the game itself. Super interesting so far (not to mention the stunning art) and I already know I'm gonna love it.

Thanks so much for translating! Just in terms of the 500 million soldiers part, I'm fairly sure it is supposed to just be the 500 soldiers. I'm not sure how it's worded is in the language you guys are translating from, but in the Korean raws although it's written as 오백만 which can be 500 million, i think it's the alternative use of 만 here (given that they didn't write the counter 명 following it) it seems to be more worded as 오백'만' as in "if you could 'just' send 500 soldiers/'only' 500 soldiers (then that's sufficient)", especially since a few speech bubbles earlier they discuss 500 soldiers (오백) :)
I understand that we need to suspend our disbelief somewhat as not only is it fiction but it's also royal/medieval fiction and different roles are indeed at play. But still it's completely understandable (and actually normal) to not feel entirely comfortable with what just happened. It could be a lot worse and he is a pretty good guy for an emotionally-unavailable murderer (still cute tho, oop-), but it's still okay to acknowledge that what he did wasn't okay. Even amongst married couples sexual assault can still happen (even if the end result is pleasurable) and just remember that consent is important y'all <3
EDIT: I'm reading through the comments and it's the most reasonable and wholesome comments section I've seen under a manhwa recently, so many people saying consent is sexy and we love to see it <3
I just want to add we don’t know the boundaries of their relationship so we also can’t call anything sexual assault or lacking consent. There is a kink like this as well as something some couples are just okay with their significant other waking them up this way. If she didn’t like it I’m sure she would have told him and he’d never do it again misunderstandings and such this happen in relationships simplifying everything down to sexual assault or lack of consent doesn’t work in every situation and can also show people in a completely bad light he didn’t have bad intentions nor was there malice or the want to make her uncomfortable and the same would be said for her if she woke him up this way I’m pretty sure waking up your partner with a bj is so commonly known but no one views that as sexual assault because we don’t know other peoples relationship I have friends that enjoy it and friends that don’t and simply tell their partners that
Look, I've seen you comment on pretty much every comment I've seen with a similar stance to me with almost exactly the same thing.
First of all, consent is first and foremost. Of course there are people who like this or have this as their kink and there is absolutely NOTHING wrong with that, but something like this should never happen without being discussed first or setting that precedent that you're okay with more spontaneous acts, etc. It is NOT something that should be tried, wait for your partner to tell you they don't like it, and then never do it to them again as it is in fact a non-consensual act when someone is asleep or incapacitated at the time. Ask first and then go for your life, it costs nothing to get consent BEFORE making someone uncomfortable or potentially traumatizing them.
Yes this is a fictional story but there are real life implications and I, and others like me, were just raising concerns about it because many women and girls (who may even be reading this) have experienced SA and don't even realise they have gone through it until later because of the lack of autonomy for the female body in the world, so emphasising one's own right to consent is important.
As someone who has also experienced sexual assault I’m not downplaying anything I said consent was the most important thing and rape and sexual assault can’t be taken lightly but they aren’t words that should just be used in every given situation just as you said it’s important for girls to know what they are it’s also important for people to know what it isn’t I learned that after being in a better relationship and even more after simply being by myself should he have asked YES did he no but that doesn’t automatically make something sexual assault things in life are more complicated than that and saying somethings assaults while it’s not in real like is just as important. And if a girl later on decides she was uncomfortable or that it was then it’s sexual assault my whole point was that we can’t call this sexual assault because the person receiving doesn’t think or see it as sexual assault. Sexual assault isn’t a joke and shouldn’t be taken lightly and just as we should always believe people we also need to understand other sides to things and know when to believe someone when they say they weren’t assaulted. For me this didn’t happen when I was assaulted it was something else and I’d rather not say but I did like this when it happened to me and we completely talked about it after as it was also mentioned in passing before hand. My friend had this happened and liked it in the moment but then decided she didn’t and she told her partner who was a girl and they never did it again and she doesn’t have any trauma from it. Not everyone gets trauma or pain for things but if someone said they were sexually assaulted then they were and if they don’t see what happened as sexual assault then end of discussion trauma isn’t simple
I’m sorry if you see what I’m saying as wrong and I hope I didn’t downplay your trauma I have my own and that’s not pleasant I replied on so many posts stating it’s sexual assault or rape because of how so many people can easily misuse those terms I’ve had a friend who’s mom tried so hard to tell her she was assaulted when she was so sure she wasn’t and she wasn’t as it was her choice but I just wanted to talk about the other side of this and the character doesn’t think she was assaulted and that is also a possibility in cases like this I was a little upset because someone tried to downplay my own assault when I made a previous comment and said I must have not actually been traumatized by it but I hope I didn’t sound angry in my comment here or on any thread