I'm going to be completely honest, but that was pretty selfish of her. LIKE HEAR ME OUT? I have a similar situation, and do I disregard my mom for her efforts? No way. She suffered to have me, and you're telling me it's completely normal to just let her die because she didn't know how to take care of a child? Come on. She lost her life, her wealth, her FAMILY, her status, her sanity and literally almost everything to have her. I got the ick when she did that. I hope her mom gets a better chance at life next time.
Her mother was neglecting her. You know emotional abuse. Also kidnapped a kid and tormented her. Even till the end didn't feel guilty and was seeking to use her daughter. Her lack of apology and remorse made mc take that decision. It's completely understandable. I can't comprehend why you think that criminal deserved her regards. Giving birth to her and having tough time doesn't give her the right to act the way she did. Those were her choice.
Also having been in a similar situation, I can only imagine your still in said situation. you think like that to survive. your alowed to hate your parents for what they did, whatever that may be regardless of what they went through. Just because they suffered doesn't give them the right to wrong someone else whether they were ignorant to the fact or not. From what I read your either a child still in said situation or an adult still dealing either way I wish you the best.
I used to think like you... After all we are born with the instinct to love the person who gave birth to us... For 16 years of my life, i never thought my mom was wrong nor I am in a bad situation. Until I had that rare chance to see other families. I see how other mother love their child, I really thought such a thing is just fairytale just and happens in movies... A stranger wiped my sweat and gave me medicine in my sickbed while my mother party and drink alcohol... That person told me, "you are here suffering but your mother is having fun, your mom is a horrible person." I just cried, because I did not want to believe it, i pray to God everyday she will at least take care of us, her children... But nothing ever change, even when alcohol and drugs took over her body and even when she was dying, she stayed just as horrible evil person (side note, my mom caused the death of her brother, his wife and their eldest son, she also stole my grandparents inheritance for herself and stole a million to a poor soldier who juat wants to love her. After she took his money, she told my half siblings to report their dad for molestation so that they can put a case against him) I hope you get out of that situation and not be like me... get out while you still a filial daughter... If you become like me who did not shed a single tear when her mother died and actually feel refreshed and free knowing i will never see her again... You will have a different kind of emptiness in your whole being... I lost all my reasons to love people... I always wonder if i am just as evil coz I hate my mother... I know I will be seeing her in hell
A child is never at fault for being born. Full stop.
Plus she literally kidnapped and abused a second child? It's been a minute since I've read the beginning, but wasn't she a slave trader??? Like that's why she was kidnapped? Like this is even outside of abuse and neglect, which are already irredeemable?
Glad? That's not the point, I hope she doesn't have to be in the same situation to be forced to leave her family because of a man that abandons her and forces her to bear a child alone, without anybody helping her.
She had the chance to be GLAD but because of a mistake, she didn't. And she started making more, you're telling me that she doesn't deserve to be reborn?
The point is about the mom suffering to have her? You're ignoring the fact that she lost all the suffering she had to have the kid, who only used her sad history as a hint to find out what her birthday was - and to me that's insane.
You won't understand it until you've experienced it. She chose to have her and she raised the kid after all she's been through, she deserves another chance at life
After all everybody need to be forgiven but if she is reborn hope without her past memories ( but karma exist so peoples who do baf things in a life pay for them in the next contrary to all the isekaied we've read) so if she is reborn with her memories she'll probably redo the same error if she hasn't a soul change ( not sure if im clear)....
not trying to be mean, but i genuinely think you might've been brainwashed/raised w that kind of mindset, which is why you think like that as someone who has a dad who is emotionally unavailable/neglects me emotionally, i hate his guts :3 i've grown up w my own mindset, completely away from whatever both my parents like to think of the world n such
i kinda strayed away from the topic a bit but anyways, i hope you're out of that situation at least <3 i don't blame you for the way you think, but i do hope one day you'll come to understand and see more than just the mother
I appreciate that you took your time to understand this, and you are right. It didn't give her the right, and it was her choice. All from choosing to have her and how they were living (as a slave trader). But it doesn't change the fact that her child abandoned her - and even worse, used her sad history just to find her birthday. It's insane to me to think that even after all that suffering, the person you took care of abandons you.
once again i'm not trying to be mean but sharing my opinion of what a good parent WOULD do
if her mom really cared, she would've let Melody go rather than risk neglecting her in every way possible. good parents are willing to let go of their children for them to have a chance at a better life, and in real life people like that do exist (tho majority were teen parents that put their kid up for adoption)
Melody's mom had many chances to realize her mistakes, but she didn't even try :( i sincerely think Melody's mom never should've been a parent, bc as what some ppl like to say, all kids deserve to have parents but not all parents deserve to have kids
I know what you're saying but isn't it understandable why she would give up on her mom?! Yes, she took care of her but how? Only giving birth and food? That's not a mother. Even abusers takes care of victims that doesn't mean they should be forgiven. If the victim actually took care of such a person and didn't abandon them, they need therapy because its clearly how they are trained to feel. She needed and deserved the treatment she got. A crime is crime and a criminal needs to be punished for thei crime. Otherwise where is the justice?
Where did my other comment go?!! I understand what you're saying. But is giving birth and feeding someone is enough to call them mother? She did bare minimum. So isn't it understandable for mc to turn out the way she did. If she was still caring about the mother i would think she needs therapy lol. Even abusers takes care of the victim but that doesn't make them redeemable. A crime is a crime and a criminal needs to be punished. Otherwise where is the justice for the victim? Talking to the mother was a way for mc to get closure only. Mom is entitled to forgiveness nor does she deserve it.
I think its ok to understand the reason someone acts a certain way. In this case, how some parents become neglectful when they have a child because they lost out on some part of life they wanted. However, explanation does not equal excusing their behavior. A child is never at fault for being born, and I hope you (and others in similar scenarios) realize that you deserve to be here just as much as anyone else. You deserve to be loved and to be treated with kindness. You, yourself, are allowed to forgive if that's what's best for you, but it's not something that's required or necessarily deserved especially if the parent has done nothing to make amends.
Just because something happens to someone doesn't give them the right to treat others poorly.
In the case of this story? She was literally a slave trader so she doesn't really deserve any sort of redemption.
I think you're forgetting the fact that she DIDN'T do her best to raise Melody. I forget which chapter but when Melody arrives at the Duke's place and is given a bath, it's shown that she's covered in bruises. It's implied that she @bused her child physically. In several of her flash backs, she's shown crying and covered in bruises. Yes, some of them are from the children being cruel but we are shown more than one scene and only one scene is given context. We don't know how regularly her mother @bused her. She's even shown throwing things in Melody's direction a couple of times, even if nothing hits her.
Her mother also drank, which likely impared her thinking. And you're completely disregarding that in the first couple of chapter, Melody TRIED to change her mother's mind. She actively told her several times to stop sl@ve trading and her mother would react negatively each time. She didn't just "abandon" her mother, she made an effort to save her. Her mother made her choices, again and again and again and again. Even until the end, not once did she show a shred of remorse. She didn't want Melody with her to be "forgiven". She wanted peace of mind because she was about die.
Melody was a child, a literal child. She went far beyond what many would put up with as adults, BECAUSE it was her mother, BECAUSE she wanted to save her. She had other options, she could have gone to live with the doctor mother of her knight friend. Her memories came back before Loretta ever showed up. Simply saying she abandoned her mother who "tried to raise her" is wrong. Her mother made the choices that led to conception and had to deal with the consequences. Not once did she show an interest in honest living. She ruined her own life.
Listen, I've been physically @bused by both my parents and a step parent. While I've forgiven them now, it wasn't easy and it took decades to get over that. I don't have really traumatic @buse stories but it was still bad enough. I don't have sympathy for a character in a story that @buses her child, especially if she shows no remorse. Honestly, no, she DOESN'T deserve a better future but I'll still hope she gets one because second chances aren't about who DESERVES them. She was cruel until the end and by glossing over that, you've completely missed the subtle story telling in between.








I feel like it's someone they know?? Idk if it's their father or maybe someone related to jigu (teacher, etc.)