Why did the author have to include the part about MC feeling jealousy? It makes no sense for a reasonable level headed guy like him to feel this way. He should see it as a good sign that his abuser is getting closer to someone else and might stop tormenting him.
This type of shit makes some yaoi stories insufferable.
Don't overanalyze
Haha I wish I could turn my mind off but sometimes things piss me off despite my best effort to ignore them
I think it's not that stupid tho, a lot of people in abusive or toxic relationships feel love or longing for their abuser anyway, even after years of some kind of torment. And they also feel jealousy. And MC is in a situation where he was secretly in love from a few years with the crown prince of a country, his boss nonetheless so the abuse of power and also the difference in power in their relationship is on a whole different level. Some people like they are seen are just willing to go for it (and go to the king's bed) but MC just loves his crush and I think he knows in his head the CPrince is abusing him. Sometimes we do have a bad crush, that treats us like shit but we still crush on them, just until we hit the limit of abuse - or not (that usually ends in death or injury). With love even the most logical and rational peoples brains can go rotten sometimes, believe me....it's chemicals in your brain, you feel endorphins every time you see that person so it's like a narcotic ... But just as much toxic as fentanyl. It's kind of a sickness. Sometimes you need several years not seeing that person to finally move on. It's not so easy as just "he is rational so he shouldn't feel that way" - well love is everything but rational. It's kinda shitty sometimes. And abusive. And hurtful. I hope maybe You will try and understand that he probably would need the CP to start changing for the better or someone to help him get away from this all - or what he is trying to do, escape on his own and just try and heal. He is not so weak I think, for this decision.
In the novel Luce actually already attracted to Ail since they first met.
I didn't get that same vibe from the manhwa but maybe it was there and I missed it
Maybe it's hard to translate it to manhwa but Luce's aloof act actually him trying not to fall deeper.
-spoiler-
*He's actually leaving the castle because he can't bear to see Luce getting married to other people.
Thank you for the clarification and the spoiler :)
I thought this week's chapter wasn't going to come out because maybe the mangaka is on a break since I didn't even see the raws yesterday. I love this story from chapter 1 until now. Such a rare thing for a shonen to be enjoyable every single chapter
The annoying thing about this story isn't the premise necessarily. The starting point can be the same but with a better plot about a woman that comes from nothing and makes something out of herself would be interesting to me.
Maybe it's me getting older and more jaded with the world, but I loathe the "poor girl only escapes poverty because her beauty attracted a rich dickhead who toyed with her and traumatized her but look, he regrets it at the end (if even that) and they lived happily ever after" bullshit plot.
I'm not even asking for a fragile girl like her to become a kickers swordswoman or rise into power even though that could be a good plot in a different story. I just wish that her fate didn't rest upon the whims of an asshole.
Is it realistic for rich worthless guys to toy with poor beautiful women? Of course. You don't even need to look back hundreds of years ago. Just see how the rich in today's world are above the law and have escaped allegations left and right unless the planets align and they get the current "diddy" treatment.
Anyway, yes, it's realistic but that makes it utterly boring and frustrating. If I just wanted realistic boring stuff, I'd just watch paint dry. That's as realistic as it gets.
I enjoy being simultaneously curious and a little frustrated when I read this type of stories due to the "supernatural" element not being at the forefront of the plot. Sometimes I do read the tags but more often than not, I just go by the cover of the manga/manhwa/novel and hope for the best. This was one such time. I had to hold myself back from checking out the tags halfway through season 1 and it was worth it.
While this story doesn't have some grand groundbreaking premise, it is still a good read so far. But seeing as the mystery is starting to unravel, maybe the author will divert their effort into fleshing out the relationship between MC and ML...That is not an easy task seeing as ML has been forceful and worst of all, did in fact rape MC more than once
Worshipping a human being is so funny to me because I'm the sort of person who would see an actual miracle and think "that's a charlatan pretending to be a god/prophet/leader/etc" let alone looking at an actual person who just happens to be beautiful and rich and think "that's god". The fuck?!
I'm surprised he didn't just accept that weakass worthless fake "I love you" and actually stood his ground. Maybe just maybe not all is lost
The fact that Xinlu is crazier than Ilay is not something I had on my bingo card. I knew that he had a fire to him even when he was in his chibi form before he had a growth spurt halfway through his twenties (I assume) but I thought it was the "I'm obssessed with you so much that I would imprison you" and not the off the wall "I'm so obsessed with you that if you won't come with me willingly I might just kill you and keep your corpse in my room and not even allow you to leave me after death"....I might have morbid tendencies but I immediately thought about a decomposing corpse next to him and then I thought about him being mummified and having his organs removed for preservation....and I'm not sure which one is more disturbing: the decomposing corpse or the mummified remains.
My brrain is just doing too much...
What I really hate about his character being so twisted is that it only happened so for the mc to choose between them. He really don't have to choose but if it looked like he have a choice and xinlu is more crazy the ml will looked more innocent
Fuck! My heart started beating so fast when he realized it wad a human not a ghost. Nothing more terrifying than malicious humans
We all know that there must be more to his story with the teacher and it's not just a senseless betrayal....I just don't know which one is sadder: the teacher actually betraying his student after they grew to care for one another for so long or the teacher taking the blame and accepting the role of a villain to shield his student and for that student to carry the grudge for hundreds of years
the former is sad but the latter HURTS
Yeah, it seems obvious the guy cared for him, so what happened to make him curse him? Did he know that Jaegyum was meant to meet the ML so he needed to live longer? It’s very intriguing.
lol so her mother was a neglectful asshole to her own child but keeps saving random kids?