
He was 18 and she was 11 when they met. This is super weird. This is some grooming nonsense. I'll overlook it because it's such a common trope in Korean media and I'd have nothing to read if I refuse... But I'm going to point it out.
However! However, if the author pulls the trope where the super intelligence, super high EQ, incredibly perceptive, and politically astute female lead doesn't notice that the male lead has incredibly obvious feelings for her I'm going to drop this. This woman is way too smart not to notice when a man has such obvious feelings for her.

questions on grooming and pedophilia are very complicated when it comes to these return/transmigration things and generally i am more critical of them however they did not interact romantically in any way until she was of age physically, she never displayed any childish/behaviour of her being a child since mentally she isnt one
also raised her???? are we reading the same thing? they interacted as colleagues in the same academy sometimes, thats literally all. he had more power than her not bc he was older but bc he was a duke and she was just the daughter of a knight

He was literally her guardian at the academy. He also constantly displayed that he was attracted to her when she was like 12 and he was 18. There are so many panels where he's obviously attracted to her. They do the little glow in the wide eyes and the like oh gasp she's so pretty faces that we all know. She was clearly groomed.

I wish at least one of the three main characters was a good person.

Stealing from your family makes you a bad person. There are a lot of ill people in the world, there are millions and millions and millions of ill people in the world, if those ill people steal from their family than they are bad people as well as ill people.
Having an illness does not make you incapable of being a bad person.

The only character who actually takes proper care of their sibling is Jingi. Myeongil steals, gambles, makes his family's life worse and doesn't stop even when they beg him to. He's been to jail multiple times and used his own kid brother to pass prison notes to dangerous people. Sure, he has basic human empathy, but nothing beyond that. The only reason he's actually thinking about being a good person and getting a job after prison is cause he got mega raped and then his rapists pitied his dumbass so much that they taught him how to read and write.

Youre putting words in my mouth, I havent said being ill makes you unable to be a bad person, I just pointed that it was an illness because you seem to talk very lightly about addiction, like he wants to ruin is family and all. He doesnt want to, he does it and its bad but its not out of malice. And we can just agree to disagree here because I wouldnt qualify him a bad person still
Someone can do bad things and not be a bad person while someone can do great things and not considered a good person thats all

I never spoke lightly about addiction and I never attributed malice to his actions.
You are what you do. The actions that you take make you who you are. If you do bad things then you are a bad person. Bad people can learn to be better, bad people can become good people. Redemption is a beautiful thing that happens every day.
But he's still very much a bad person at this point in the story. I fully believe he'll have a redemption arc, but at this point he's just considering changing and hasn't actually changed. He still gambling and stealing. He still abusing his siblings. He's still hurting his family.

He is a grown man with a job. Why is he not living in his own place? Why is his family threatening to throw him out of his place? Why is his family threatening to not let him live on his own? I know there's some cultural differences but he's still grown.
If he just went and got his own apartment they wouldn't be able to do that.
What an absolute bum. He wasn't dating material before this, but he is extra not dating material now.

I am endlessly frustrated by the Western setting of this manhwa. If you know anything about history Western kings were kept in check by their courts. There is no way that any Noble would support a king who constantly, maliciously, and irrationally attacked other noble families... Because the king who would do that to other nobles would do it to them.
There are real world examples of this. Look at Richard II and he didn't publicly humiliate his nobles, he just didn't pay enough attention to them.
I know it's fantasy, I know. I just hate that these authors always use Western historic settings and then don't understand how interesting and nuanced these settings were.
... I don't know why I'm complaining about this when I was reading another manhwa and the author had a police officer character say that they had Ohio surrounded. Ohio, a state that's about the same size as the entire country of South Korea, surrounded by the police with all the ways in and out covered by roadblocks lol.
I have to stop expecting any sort of understanding about the settings these stories are in.

Oh yeah, these historic Western fantasy manhwa always have servants that are just wilding out committing all sorts of abuse against the FL all while her family somehow doesn't care. In reality, any disrespect to your family member, especially from a servant, is an insult against your entire family.
Nobility are nothing without honor. In all nobility, Western and Eastern, even if you hate your family member you will still demand everyone treat them with honor because if they dishonor them they dishonor you. In this manhwa, both the king and the Grand Duke would be demanding all of these servants be put to death. It wouldn't even be a demand, they would just do it and everyone would agree they did the right thing.
I know the maid slapping trope is very unpopular but there wouldn't be any maid slapping. They would just be maid hangings.

I love this manhwa, I love the art, I love the premise, I love all of it. I think this author is incredibly talented.
I feel like they are working so hard to manufacture drama when the solution, the end game, the incredibly obvious solution that solves every single problem is for them to get married. If omegas can't be emperors it's not a big deal, he can just be the empress. And he should just marry the Grand Duke who supposed to be the emperor's chosen heir anyways. Our beautiful Omega Prince still gets to rule the country, he gets his man, the Royal blood stays pure, and he can use the power of his man and his father to easily get rid of his maternal family because they won't have any dirt on it anymore.
We know that's what's going to happen at the end so it just feels so weird that they haven't thought of it yet.

Maybe, but he knows all this dirt about her. He's been in the room while she's been plotting all of these illegal plots. She's abused him, and I'm assuming abusing royals is illegal. He just needs to come out as an Omega and then have her executed on his testimony.
That's just not a very good story. It's not very dramatic. It's easy and ties up all the loose ends nicely. This is why I'm not a writer, lol.
I do like all the suspense and drama that's being created by this author. They're doing a great job.

I don’t think you understand what the stakes are in this story.
The central conflict is the House of Herace and their power.
Rishar and Etienne CAN’T marry due to them. The marriage has to be acknowledged by the Emperor and nobility to avoid any insurrections.
Rishar doesn’t want to become Emperor and had planned his life to be the Sword of the Empire to Etienne.
Etienne doesn’t really care for the throne but he has to aspire to it because of his mother Leona and her family, the House of Herace. They will not be satisfied with Etienne becoming Empress because the Empress doesn’t have absolute power. Leona is the current Empress, remember. The only way is to get that power is to have Etienne as Emperor and they have to hide Etienne’s subgender to get there.
And say if they did get married, Leona and the House of Herace would not hesitate to kill Rishar as soon as they find out. You are forgetting that the House of Herace has been slowly killing off the Emperor’s relatives to make sure Etienne inherits the throne. The only reason Rishar is alive because he is under the direct protection of the Emperor and his loyalists, the Imperalists. And from the story is telling you, most of the nobility are loyal to Leona. And I don’t doubt that they would kill Etienne as well if his subgender is revealed and just take the Throne outright.

You undid everything you just said when you pointed out "The only reason Rishar is alive because he is under the direct protection of the Emperor and his loyalists, the Imperalists."
Yup... And if you add in him being married to the actual Prince, who they could get pregnant almost immediately, a lot more people are going to support him.
I didn't say this in my first comment, but it seems like it would be really easy for our Prince to just kill his mother. The only reason he's not killing her is because this is a Korean story and Confucianism would be so wildly against killing your mother that it would make him an irredeemable character and the eyes of the Korean audience. In an actual Western setting, which this is supposed to be, he would have just poisoned her already lol.
He would have gotten away with it too because no one would deeply investigate a known poisoner being poisoned, plus the emperor would not have investigated it very deeply. It's already been shown that her family doesn't like her so would be very easy for the prince to negotiate with her family after she was dead.
But as I said in my other comments, this is why I'm not a writer. This whole story could be wrapped up neatly in a bow but it would be very boring lol. I'm not actually criticizing the writer, I just wanted to yell at a cloud about how unrealistic this is because the solution is so easy if you remove all the self-imposed restraints the author has put on themselves.

So, the plan was to tell everyone that The outsiders aren't human. Somehow, I don't understand how, but somehow The outsiders not being human and just being animals would guarantee their safety?
I feel like the author doesn't understand human nature because most humans are more likely to hurt animals than humans. Animals are food to most humans. The outsiders being animals seals their fate.

I think it has something to do with the humans in the ark having ‘perfect genes’ and them seeing themselves as ‘chosen’ and ‘superior’ to the outsiders (humans that merged with animals) but it turns out that the outsiders weren’t human in the first place but are actually evolved animals.
From that point on my brain cells aren’t connecting enough to make a conclusion

I really love how the author has made it so everyone surrounding the MC seems manipulative and untrustworthy. The ML is obviously a bad guy, his dudes go around murdering people in Cold blood. But at the same time the organization that the MC joined are also deeply manipulative and very clearly mistreat people, they also really do not care about him at all and only want to use him.
I think the shows some talent from the author and I really like that. I'm intrigued and I can't wait to find out why everyone is so shady and potentially understand their motives so they become a little bit more likeable.

It is physically impossible for men to squirt. I'm not just saying this because I'm old-fashioned, scientifically men are not capable of squirting. They do not have any organs that would cause them to squirt.
Men can cum until it's quite watery, but it's not anything like peeing yourself. It's still cum. Men can also lose control of their bladders when having anal sex because of the pressure on the bladder.
I'm so tired of these authors constantly making their bottoms like women! They even give them the characteristics of a female body, one of the most obvious ways is by making them squirt but it happens in other ways as well. This is a story about romance and love between men and I want to read about men.

I mean squirting is just pee so *shrug* and when googling for an answer the results mention prostatic fluids, which we both know are a male thing, so both men and women can potentially squirt which makes sense to me as we all develop genitalia in a similar way before gonads and scrotum forms in male fetuses. They do tend to like this kink a lot in manhwa of late, I think it's like to show how much of a pounding someone's prostate has gotten, but it's been in almost every manhwa I've read lately and I agree that sometimes it's just overused as a trope, but that's porn for ya.

Prosthetic fluid is just a part of ejaculate. When men ejaculate it is a combination of semen, prosthetic fluid, seminal fluid, and secretions from the... What's the name? Cowpie?? Gland. I'm not a doctor and I'm not an expert on glands.
But all ejaculate is made up of those four things so when you read online that "men squirt prosthetic fluid" that's actually not accurate and you should look into it more.
Men already ejaculate prosthetic fluid every time they ejaculate. Through prosthetic stimulation their ejaculate and pre-ejaculate can become more prosthetic fluid than normal but that's still ejaculate. If men ejaculate a lot then their ejaculate can become more seminal fluid than anything else (that's when it becomes watery) but it doesn't change the fact that it's just ejaculate.
My point is, you can't just rename ejaculate squirting because it's trendy right now lol.
When women squirt it's always urine, but it's urine mixed with fluid from the skenes?? Gland. So even though there is always urine in it it is also different from any other fluid that women produce, that's why you can't say that women don't squirt. We actually do have a different fluid that our body can produce, it's just that releasing it also causes it to get mixed with urine because it exits through your urethra. Men don't have that. The skenes? Gland is like the prostate but for women and men always have prosthetic fluid in their ejaculate so there's just not anything similar to it that men are physically capable of producing.
I'm so sorry. I am so sorry lol. I don't know why this bothers me so much but you can tell that it does lol.

Nothing to be sorry about, it's a healthy discussion! There's been some research on this, there's a study by the NIH that contradicts your stance a little bit. I think the disconnect here is that you're wanting to exclusively use the word 'squirt' with the phenomenon usually associated with women or cishet female genitalia ejecting watery fluid, I disagree that it should be limited to that and think it's appropriate to refer to men who 'squirt' as squirting also. It's not one-for-one the same bodily function, but the research I reference indicates that male squirting also potentially contains urinary fluids as well as prostate and seminal fluids so take that how you will. Aside from this I'm not sure how common either one of these things is, as I think most people probably don't/can't squirt, but I don't have any statistics to back that up. I do think manhwa are overdoing it with this kink of late giving the impression that this just happens all the time, which I am pretty sure isn't the case, but that's porn for ya.

Male squirting is real. Not going to explain bc it took me 0.5 seconds on google.
Here:
https://metro.co.uk/2024/09/20/turns-men-can-squirt-not-think-21635300/amp/

You are linking some terrible article that says that prosthetic fluid is male squirting. I get it, people want to think that's a thing. It's not. Prosthetic fluid is a part of ejaculate. Every single time man ejaculate there is prosthetic fluid in it, if they have a prostate of course. This means when they ejaculate prosthetic fluid it's still just ejaculate. Even when men ejaculate mostly prosthetic fluid from prostate stimulation there is still semen, seminal fluid, and liquid from whatever gland in the prosthetic fluid because it's just ejaculate.
That's like saying if men ejaculate so much that their ejaculate becomes mostly seminal fluid we don't call the ejaculate something else. It's still just ejaculate.
It's just ejaculate.
You can call it other names because it's trendy but that doesn't change what it is.
Unless you're talking about piss, cuz men can absolutely piss themselves. Anyone can piss themselves. Pissing yourself is not squirting.

You’re right, that article was terrible - never good to include a non-scientific journal.
Here: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC7292083/
Some key notes to save you time:
“There is no scientific evidence for the mechanism of male squirting, although the term is common in mass media. Here, we describe the first recording of male squirting using color Doppler ultrasonography.”
“With penis stimulation for a further 20 s after ejaculation, translucent misty fluids with a creatine level similar to that of urine came from the extraurethral orifice for about 60 s. Color Doppler ultrasonography recorded strong contraction of the prostate and pelvic striated muscles just before male squirting, and then the stream went from the urinary bladder through the prostatic urethra.”
“In conclusion, mSQ is a phenomenon in which urine in the bladder gushes out from the external urethral orifice due to strong contraction of prostate and pelvic strained muscles, if penile stimulation is continued after ejaculation, and orgasm appears at this time. In this case, we were able to observe this phenomenon using color Doppler ultrasonography. However, not every male may be able to experience mSQ. mSQ would need special technique or physical constitution, and further evaluation of the mechanism is required.”
I’m not calling it squirting bc it’s trendy, and I don’t care what the mixture is even if it’s the exact same as ejaculate. It’s a different phenomenon than regular orgasm/cumming. That’s all :)

First of all, they literally say that's not squirting. Also it's urine, I've already said that men can piss themselves. Everyone can piss themselves. If you get over stimulated and piss yourself, that's pissing yourself. You can call it squirting, but it's still pissing yourself. It is still piss.
Losing control of your bladder is not something new or unique. It doesn't need a new name to make it trendy and sexy. It's just pissing yourself. If you're into "men squirting" then you're into piss play. There's nothing wrong with piss play, who am I to shame someone's kink?
Don't call your piss play cake something else just because you're ashamed of it.

It's the same for women so why you make the distinction just for female squirting? It's baffling really. Also it's not a relaxation of the muscles as with urination, but rather the convulsions of the prostatic muscles that contribute to the gushing of fluid during mSQ as is written in the report. If it was regular urination then it would have been termed as such by the authors of the report. No one's ashamed of piss play, but you're being willfully ignorant at this point that there is a distinction between both those things.

I don't think you understand how scientific studies work. If these scientists did the study and were like "oh no it's just pee" and don't come up with some stupid new name for something that's just pee then they will lose funding. The whole reason they did that study was to make up a new name for what they knew was just pee.
There are a lot of ways to lose control of your bladder. A lot of the ways that you lose control of your bladder don't involve relaxation. it's still just pissing yourself.
I actually stated in another comment that there has never been a case of female squirting that doesn't involve urine. At least there wasn't the last time I researched it. I'm not doing it again. The difference between male and female squirting is that when females squirt their actually is glandular fluid from the skenes gland in the liquid that is not normally found in female urine or female lubricant.
What you call male squirting is just pee. There's also some people who say that prosthetic fluid is male squirting, but that's just ejaculate. There is no special or unique fluid that men produce that does not come out of their penis in normal circumstances.
Men are not physically capable of producing a unique fluid that only comes out of their penis when they're overstimulated. It's not physically possible. They can be overstimulated and pissed themselves. Their prostate can be overstimulated and produce more prosthetic fluid than normal. They can be over stimulated and they're ejaculate can have more force and distance than normal. None of this is different or unique so it does not need a new name.
All of these pornos that represents male squirting as not being just pee are trying to disguise a pee fetish. I don't appreciate it because I don't have a pee fetish. I don't read porn with golden showers, I look at the tags and the comments and I avoid that porn because it doesn't interest me. However, because so many ignorant people, like you, think that male squirting is a thing it's now in every single porno.

Willful ignorance - for real! The poster literally responded lecturing about funding for studies rather than concede any part of their stance or agree to disagree. Btw I was a premed biology research student in my college days, so I know a bit about how scientific studies work lol (yeah I’m probably older than a lot of you, shhhhh!).
Also - og poster or whatever it’s called - if you’re reading this, none of us CARE that it’s not a unique liquid produced. The point is the mechanism itself is unique. The means, rather than the end, is the contributing factor that deems a difference in phenomena.
While seemingly not a subjective topic, it does seem we have a difference in definition. Not much to be done from there! Bye ya’ll :)

No matter how much you try to justify it it's just piss. It is a piss fetish that is being passed off as something else. It needs to be called what it is and it needs to be labeled what it is, this is men pissing themselves.
The quote phenomenon quote that happens in this specific, and all other, manhwa that the authors call squirting is just pissing. It is not a light misting of urine, it is a soaking of piss. A full bladder emptying. It is not squirting by any definition, it is someone pissing themselves.
It is piss play and it needs to be labeled as piss play.
Males also cannot squirt. One poorly done study showing that a light misting of urine can occur when men are over stimulated does not prove otherwise, it just proves that men can piss themselves when they're overstimulated. We've always known that men can piss themselves.

There's a lot they ignored in the study and while I concede the fact that not enough studies have been done on either male or female squirting, the results found in the linked study show that there's a difference between urinating and squirting in at least one subject, which is enough for me to believe several anecdotal accounts of men squirting in forums and such of real life accounts. But I am assuming this person is young and hasn't experienced enough in life yet to understand that biological anomalies exist beyond their own narrow scope of understanding.
Like everyone else, I'm sad that this is so short. The art is beautiful. I'm so glad that it finally got a translation worthy of the characters.