
IF YOU REALLY LOVED HER YOU WOULD LET HER GO OR MAYBE SERVE UNDER HER IN HER EMPIRE LIKE BROOOOOO
I GENUINELY hope she manages to escape. I hate the fact that female leads get locked up just because the male lead can't make up his mind whether he really loves her or not. Stop trying to drag her down to your level just cuz your miserable. Like if you wanted to be with her you would help her escape. LIKE BFFR YOU DONT ACTUALLY CARE about the vanjela empire. Just go with her you stupid fuck
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Spoilers ahead, I'm analyzing the fuck outta this because I'm so freaking sad
CLOTHES SYMBOLISM
I feel for both of them. Tbh I feel like the clothes symbolize how restricting noble life is for both of them. Clauden feels restricted and sick at the very thought of being in that house with those clothes because they don't align with him as a person (also yeah he's hella traumatized after getting beat up, who wouldn't :( )
Luan despised the very thought of being a Count as well. He only pursued it because he was forced to. He doesn't actually have what it takes to be a noble.
Imo his new shoes feeling tight and uncomfortable can show how restricted he is with this lifestyle. But him taking them off and taking a break in nature with Clauden, shows how that's his true calling.
COMMUNICATION ISSUES
He's a lover boy, but he doesn't know how to communicate. I mean all his life his feelings have been disregarded and shunned. No adult in his life (beside his father's aide) took him seriously. They sent him away so he could prepare for a life he didn't want while also hoping he would just bury his feelings away. I swear, had Clauden been a girl, no adult would have had a problem with Luan's feelings for him. Homophobia is a sick thing.
RUNNING WAY ISSUES
And to those saying how Clauden is ready to move on, no he's not. He's ready to run away. He feels like he doesn't matter due to the class differences between Luan and him. He assumes things and gets hurt when he feels as though his assumptions have been confirmed by Luans behavior. (Like how he assumed Luan didnt care about the connection between them as kids because he has shitty memory. Shitty memory does not have equate to not caring. I mean did we forget that he literally had put his whole childhood aside for his studies!? Like HELLO!?? Luan would have been disowned, had he not done what his father asked of him)
ANYWAY, Clauden belittles himself because he doesn't want to be rejected by the one he loves. Also HES HELLA TRAUMATIZED FROM GETTING BEAT TF UPP (im not excusing Luan's shitty behavior, just explaining because there's actually something called NUANCE)
BOTH of them can't communicate for shit which makes this whole thing even sadder
#freemyshaylas
I live seeing peoples opinions and thoughts. This is partly because people's thoughts change as the story plays out.
With that being said. here's mine
Truthfully, I love the MCs (the blonde one) character. He's literally the product of his environment. His parents, the people he's supposed to rely on to live him unconditionally, abuse him. Every child deserves to be loved regardless of gender/sexual orientation. However, that's not the case for Mc. As a result, he has to rely other ways to escape said environment through age and other relatives. The reason why he has so many unfinished relationships is because of his environment.
His violent home life lead to him having a skewed sense of self worth. IF YOU COULDNT TELL THIS TRANSLATES INTO HIS RELATIONSHIPS. Imo I see it as him having casual relationships because he doesn't want to get too attached and then be told he's worthless just like his parents did to him as a child. He then has a child with a woman because he has this societal pressure to be a "normal" heterosexual man. But he obviously still holds attachment to ML because he names his kid after him. He really does love him, but his fear of societal pressures currently outweighs his love for ml.
I relate to this man for this very fact. I used to pray to God to make me "normal" because I just couldn't stand the fact that if my family ever found out about me, I would be discarded like I wasnt ever worth anything. So yeah, I love his character because he's real.
This doesn't mean he is exempt from critique tho. As a human being, you don't ask for trauma, it just happens. However, it is your responsibility to heal yourself, not to please everyone else, but because you yourself are worth living for. That being said, throwing a child into the mix complicates this a whole lot more. No parent is perfect but you're telling me that an infamous director can't afford a nanny? You really have to rely on some fuck ass dude, who clearly hates your child and wants to get in your pants, to successfully take care of said child? He's not a bad parent to his core, he clearly loves his kid, but that's a def a bad decision. Like this fuck ass man (not mc or ml) is already doing so much damage to the poor kid by making him feel worthless. The poor child feels as though he has to ask if the ML is even comfortable with his existence!!!!! Like excuse me baby, you don't have to make yourself small for the adults! The adults are supposed to adapt to you!! (However I'm not claiming that children should always get their way, I'm just saying that a child's existence and self worth should never be compromised) I will give credit where credit is due though, MC is raising a wonderful kid despite his trauma by teaching him that love transcends gender (I feel as though I have to make myself clear that it does not transcend age tho, there should always be appropriate age gaps meaning adults should be with adults idk why I have to clarify that in the big 2025 )
This is currently where I stand. I don't hate him for being flawed, I'm just frustrated that his healing era hasn't started despite having a child. Though I do recognize that the way he conceived his kid was through fear and trauma and not because of want and security if that makes sense. I can't expect much in the first place but I just want him to be happy because no persons existence deserves to be rejected in this way.
Much love to everyone going through a tough time, even if we are strangers you deserve to heal
Forgive me for any typos, I wrote this because a reply in a thread that I replied to made me think more. It's also night so I'm tired lol