HE WAS ROOFIED. HE WAS RAPED. IT WAS NOT HIS FAULT. SEEING HIM WRACKED WITH GUILT AND SHAME MAKES ME SO ANGRY ON HIS BEHALF AND I AM BITING AT THE NAIL TO SEE IF HE GETS HIS JUSTICE OR NOT. HE DESERVES BETTER.
yea i feel bad for him as well
There are often transmitigation stories of the OG!character’s shitty parents and how they try to make them sympathetic out of trauma and they are just misunderstood. But not here. This dad has remained an asshole for over 100 chapters. And MAYBE he cares, just a smidge. Through whatever wiggle room he has on his supposedly limited life and the trauma of failing to protect his wife. But there’s no fixing relationships. No misunderstandings. Both the dad and Nox accept this is how it is and always will be.
Of course, there’s the fact that OUR Nox cannot remember the feelings that fractured the OG’s relationship, which is somewhat unsatisfying. But it’s okay but you can tell it wouldn’t have mattered much in the end.
I am FASCINATED by the fact that he sent an assassin to a maid that he poached from his ego-bruising puppy crush to work at his bakery for betrayal. A bakery that he only establishes to show off his privileged power-wealth dick to said crush, where he acknowledges it would’ve failed anyway without the maid’s sabotage because he’s a shit business owner and didn’t accomodate his menu for the community he was selling to.
His ego is THAT fragile that he was gonna bonk off a maid over what was essentially a pass time for him. He’s truly a piece of shit.
The format makes me think of the villainess anthology so I’m wondering if it’s from the same publishing group. Somehow, the Saintess version is less satisfying that the villainess anthology since the Saintess side requires alot more political world building and therefore the karma that comes afterwards feels too short. It’s still a fun enough time though seeing all these stupid kingdoms fall apart without their saintess. The one where the protective barrier broke once the Saintess stopped caring for the kingdom and the other with the Saintess who “devours” evil are pretty satisfying.
All that build up, all the abuse flashbacks we had to sit through, how much it made my blood seethe and THAT’s the karma we get? Her stepsister is awful and her ex-fiance literally had a saviour complex and then ditched her to die after he fucked up. But we get their punishment as a time skip.
The more I read about this world, the more I can’t help but think that while the ML is pulling me around to thinking he’s actually a good man (all the things he did at the start aside), he’s… kinda starting to feel like a shit ruler. Is that just me?
The ML is obviously gonna be the silver-haired bread-obsessed Duke but man, WHAT ABOUT HER BUSINESS PARTNER WHO IS WITH HER MORE?
The sml syndrome is hitting me hard but like I can't choose either, I hate when a story do this
The isekai aspect is barely dived into. We cleared the FL’s fake reputation but don’t see the fall out on the impressions from her family nor after it was publicized and what she thinks of it. We haven’t seen her little sister since. The actual ML is just there and now suddenly there are these two new dudes working at her store? I know they were her guards briefly shown protecting her place when she had to close that one time but there was no build up to them being even main side stays. I feel like I’m hopping around this story with barely any connecting
Maria giving that nerdy obsessive dude a make-shift festival activity is actually a little cute. Even if her vibe is very much off XD
Shows she still has her maternal instincts buried SOMEWHERE in her poor shattered heart.
The second half of chapter 7, all the pages are scrambled up :( I hope someone can fix it