My favorite part of this novel is how amazing the two leads are. One's a sociopath and the other's a yandere, and they both lie to each other CONSTANTLY.
Neither of them are good people, but they try their best to LOOK like they are, because they don't want to disillusion the other. It takes SO LONG for them to be honest with each other. (≧∀≦)
Ah yess the mind games
Where did you read the novel?
Thank you!!!!!
Are they both madly in love with each other?
EXTREMELY so. Even before they get together, they're very close. It's to the point where they basically never get jealous, because they both know that the most important person to them is each other.
Of course, they never put it clearly into words. ╮(￣▽￣)╭
I looked up the novel this manga's adapted from, and the villain is...absolutely the father. He's legitimately so terrible that little sister did the world a service by killing him in the previous timeline.
Little sister is prickly, but it's understandable, and she does mature a little...but the FL is away from home a lot, so little sister rarely appears. (〜￣△￣)〜
Which is a shame, because the last thing we hear about the little sister (in the next to last chapter of the novel), big brother is hiring a tutor to teach her arithmetic in their territory. Little sister's happy ending is, she wants to learn maths. ╮(￣▽￣)╭
I had to check the novel to see if it was any good, as per usual. The main story is only 12 chapters long, so there are no major plot twists.
Balto's identity isn't obvious, but it's also not surprising. The only shocking thing is that he's supposedly the hidden capture target in the otome game, with the highest level of difficulty, and he's the sexy yandere type. If the novel's rating was higher, it would be three times as long and chock full of bedroom scenes. ╥﹏╥
Poor Heroine-chan is pitiful. She does a lot of dumb things, but please forgive her, she's literally a child. She isekai'd into an R19 game when she was still in primary school, and she's still a child mentally. And her "father" just gave her a supply of aphrodisiacs and sent her to honeytrap the prince. #－.－)
Balto is a sexy yandere!? Will he be like that in the manga? ((Wishing)) but in regards to the Heroine, I'll give it a 50-50 depending on when she was transmigrated because if she transmigrated into the heroine's younger body before the storyline has started then her brain would've developed as well enough for her to actions to not be oversighted anymore compared to a grade-schooler transmigrated into a teen's / young adult's body then her actions be will be understandable.
Why would anyone want to … oh heroine is the game fl not our fl… yah I can see that. Still I’d say she had time to grow up, unless she popped in before the ‘game’ started, but if she didn’t her new dad probably didn’t even raise her.
And I’m hoping Balto is the emperors brother or oldest son or something and not the emperor, mostly because I like black hair, but he seems to be there for her
Her dad didn't raise her. She was living with her commoner mother who died of an illness, which was when her dad took her in...which was when she discovered that she was the game's Heroine.
We don't get a lot of details about Heroine-chan's past; we only get like 4-5 paragraphs of information, because the FL is too horrified listening to Heroine-chan talk about it. Because, again, Heroine-chan was a primary school student playing an R19 game (which her older sister bought HER as a gift, not little sister sneaking big sister's game, yowch), and all the parenting her father did was tell Heroine-chan to find a rich, powerful husband, and supply her with aphrodisiacs. No sex ed, just "give them this; it will make them happy." (⊙…⊙ )
Maybe the manga will give more details, but who knows. I doubt it. ╮(￣▽￣)╭
You will find out Balto's identity right after the condemnation scene. It's really not a surprise. But the Emperor only had the one brother (the crown prince's father), who's dead now, and he doesn't have a wife or kids, so the line of succession is very straightforward.
Yikes Σ(っ°Д °;)っ that’s horrible on so many levels, for both lives.
Thank you for the spoilers!
Do you know how old the Emperor ML is?
I think there is an age gap between him and the FL.
So the possessed OG Heroine is another White Lotus B who brainwashed the Capture Targets?
And what happens to her at the end?
The Emperor is ten years older than the FL.
Heroine-chan is not a White Lotus, she's not that deep. She did use charm magic and aphrodisiacs to brainwash all the capture targets, and a lot of other guys, though. But it wasn't malicious, she just REALLY did not know what she was doing. She just wanted people to like her, and they liked doing THAT with her. (⊙…⊙ )
In the end, Heroine-chan loses her noble status and is removed from her father's custody. The FL arranges for a commoner family to look after her, far away from the capitol. Heroine-chan is very happy there, helping her new family run their bakery. The FORMER crown prince sees her at a distance in the epilogue and barely recognizes her. He still remembers her fondly as his first love, and intends to work hard to establish himself in the border guard, which could take YEARS, and then come back to her. Which...at least he still cares, even knowing that it took him MONTHS to detox from the repeated aphrodisiac and charm magic use that she unwittingly put him through.
Yeah....it's kind of problematic. This entire novel is...yeah... (⊙…⊙ )
Damn.
The first words that come to my mind is:
Infantillized and Lolicon.
And thank you again for the reply.
Omg lol that's so true
I've been a little grumpy lately that so many webtoon adaptions of novels change things for no reason, but I'm okay with this one!
In the novel, Grandpa actually fell DOWN those stairs, with Tia holding onto him. He remained conscious through sheer willpower and made sure that he cushioned her fall, because he didn't want Tia to get hurt again because of him. ╥﹏╥
So just seeing him collapse at the top of the stairs, instead of falling down them, is a vast improvement. I don't like Grandpa Lombardi getting hurt. ╥﹏╥
I think you’re mixing it up on what happened in the earlier chapters. Yes the grandfather did fall down a flight of stairs and he fell on top of Tia, when Tia tried to stop him from falling. That had already happened because she did injure her shoulder, and the grandfather did feel awful about it. But that was actually from fatigue and overworking. But yes, it happened in earlier chapters when she was young like around 12 or something.
Oh yeah! hahahaha I've gone old with gramps too huh
Nono, he actually crashed again like back then, but this time he made sure not to fall on Tia.
Nope. In the novel, he fell TWICE. ╥﹏╥
The first time, he fell exactly like you said--Tia was much younger and hurt her shoulder. This latest chapter shows when he fell for the SECOND time, when Tia is an adult.
If you had paid attention to what I said, you might have noticed that by using the word AGAIN, I am referencing what happened the FIRST time he fell. Grandpa didn't want Tia getting hurt AGAIN like what happened the first time he collapsed on the stairs, and so the SECOND time, he made sure to cushion her fall and take the full impact himself. ╥﹏╥
It was a Major Plot Point in the novel, and sets up several important points for the novel's climax, so no, I'm not mistaken here. (●'◡'●)ﾉ
Out of context, but can you tell me which chapter Lulac fell in Tia?
You mean, the second time? Chapter 206 in the novel (thank goodness it happened EXACTLY where I remembered it did).
I don't feel like going looking for the first time. It's been literal ages since I last read the novel--I think it might have been two years ago. ╥﹏╥
The love interest is her fiancé. The younger sister lied about everything; he was never unfaithful. He also came back to the past with all his memories intact, so he's a full ally.
Also, the grandmother is also a good person--she distanced herself from Freesia to protect her. She's been making Freesia learn protection charms and stuff because Freesia's life is literally being threatened. (Little sister already tried to kill Freesia already, THE DAY THEY MET. She's legit psychotic.)
The Dad's irredeemable, though, and the stepmother is actually a sleeper agent who goes full lethal the second Freesia's identity becomes public. Man really knew how to pick 'em, I guess. ╮(￣▽￣)╭
Thank you
Too many creative liberties lately. Can barely read the latest chapters. The book did this so much better.
I just finished reading the novel, so I'm going to clarify some facts about the novel's background. I will not spoil what occurs during or after the story, and will only mention the background lore, since it's unlikely to come up in detail in the manga.
The two families are neighbors and their territories are right on the border of the kingdom. And a lot of the tension between the two families is because they're long-time business rivals--they're involved in the same types of business, and buy from the same merchants. The only real difference is that one family is a Duke and the other is an Earl.
However, the title of Duke is just a temporary reward for offering a daughter to marry the King, and it will stop being a duchy in three generations. (Unclear how far back this marriage was, but I think the husband is the last generation before the title downgrades.) The mother-in-law is determined to have her son marry royalty, so the monarch ordering him to marry an Earl's daughter is a huge insult to her.
The monarch orders the two rival families to marry for the sake of national security. Their kingdom has a tense relationship with one of their neighbors, so having two of their border territories constantly at odds led that neighboring country to scout their border. So the threat of war was imminent, and the neatest way to avoid war was by forcing the two rival families to join hands permanently. And it worked!
(You would think that last paragraph would be considered important to the plot, but it's not even mentioned as a PAST threat until three chapters before the novel ends. The FL fully thinks that the monarch just got tired of them constantly insulting each other and made them get married so that they'd learn to play nicely together. LOL)
where can i read the novel, i tried to find it but i couldn't
You can find the novel here: https://ncode.syosetu.com/n8698hw/
Syosetu is the Japanese site where the novel was originally posted by the author. SO MUCH manga is based off of novels posted on syosetu, so if you find a good manga and get curious about spoilers? Look for it on syosetu, it's there 80% of the time!
thank you :3
Because the manga cut out the entire end half of part one of the novel, and immediately started part two... we are introduced to the FL's classmates, who are collectively known as Team Hungry. I love them.
Part two is funny because the second prince's faction just keeps losing. ლ(´ڡ`ლ)
So the novel's finished with 583 chapters (including the epilogues and IF stories), and there author decided to end the novel without giving Lizzy a canonical love interest. The final chapter of the Extra stories have her rejecting the protagonist of the sequel due to her being in a relationship already, but the identity of her spouse isn't revealed. (〜￣△￣)〜
As I said, there are five IF stories where she ends up with Robert (second prince), Christopher (adopted brother), Lilia (female protagonist), Edward (first prince), or Isaac (best friend). So there's no way to tell who Lizzy may end up with in the manga, if anyone. The manga-ka will either pick their favorite, or end the manga without Liz ending up with anyone. ╮(￣▽￣)╭
For reference, I like Lizzy's fake fiancé, Richard (the foreign prince) and Martin (Edward's bodyguard). They're definitely not endgame, though. Martin's straight-up not interested in Lizzy, and Lizzy and Richard love their siblings too much for either of them to marry into a different country. (≧∀≦)
The novel itself is only 22 chapters, and we are currently halfway through chapter 3 of the novel. But if you were expecting a lighter redemption story, where Lila teaches Ril how to forgive humans...the lightness never comes. ╥﹏╥
I'm warning you now, we have maybe one more chapter left in the manga of "okay"-ness, before we see how alchemists are treated by normal people. There's a reason they're a protected species in their country. Lila gets attacked by humans, rescued by Ril, and then gives herself up as a human sacrifice in an attempt to appease the demons, and she almost dies.
Seriously, the novel gets so dark, I'm still crying. No one dies, but Lila comes VERY CLOSE; she's basically a walking skeleton by the end, except without the walking (Ril has to carry her everywhere). ╥﹏╥
But they're together in the end, so that's nice, right? Shame on me for expecting a sweet love story from a novel calling itself a LOVE SONG. （/TДT)/