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Helena better keep that man He’s hot, accomplished, head over heels, and pulls his weight in the house

Godo literally declared his hatred for all serpents within 5 minutes, deliberately exacerbated racial tensions, then berated them for not working well as an integrated team. Then he had the audacity to gripe at Sawahyun for failing to properly teach them while he was away. Nobody expects everyone to magically be best buddies after such a long and bloody war, but everyone was reasonably respectful, cooperative, and friendly until he started shit for no reason.

HE LITERALLY HASNT TOLD HER THST HER KID IS ALIVE WTF!!!! She’s depressed and miserable to the point of attempting suicide, but he’s asking her about other men instead of letting her know that Damian is safe! I think he wants to keep her in a vulnerable/dependent state as long as he can to extend the amount of time he has to win her over. He is literally the fucking worst. It doesn’t matter how gentle or regretful he’s trying to be, even after everything he is still prioritizing his own desires over Rowena’s safety and free will, using Demian’s illness and his status to keep her trapped. He’s only apologetic on her terms, still forcing her into whatever he wants, just in a less aggressive way.

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This comic is a great example of why it’s so excruciatingly difficult to find a decent, compelling romance comic. The women aren’t written realistically and are fully driven by almost nothing other than their affections. Their behavior fluctuates with the situation in ways that don’t make sense. Sure, mc starts out trying to prevent her family’s destruction, but she puts figuring that issue on the back burner real quick.
Blue hair challenges all social conventions by openly pursuing swordsmanship as a woman despite taking shit from everyone around her for it….to impress her fiancée/crush. It’s not about her personal desires, goals, or satisfaction, just her desire to be with a guy. That’s her entire character despite her being depicted on the surface as a powerful, confident woman in control of her life. It’s a facade. Her character is basically a paper tiger, but in the end there’s really nothing of substance.
Even if she didn’t have memories of the future, mc knows that the prince and his friends mercilessly bullied her brother for shits and giggles, but that doesn’t stop her from starting to catch feelings and becoming “friends”. Even if she realized that there was manipulation behind the scenes later on, the prince executed her entire family in the future, but she just gets over it with no trauma reactions. She doesn’t even struggle with it a little bit mentally, just moves right on.
Silver hair blackmails her and gets really touchy, but she just blushes, makes an angry comment, and does nothing about it. She acts really “cute” and innocent with her interactions with the guys and their inappropriate behavior (especially silver hair since he knows her gender), but never rejects or confronts them as someone with that background/personality in that society would.
It just feels like a common trope to do a “have your cake and eat it too” take on the female lead who is extremely sheltered, innocent, and (romantically) conservative, but also somehow accepts or doesn’t rebuff obviously inappropriate or rude advances from attractive male characters despite the response not matching their background, the social norms of their society, or their personality .
Whatever the fl’s normal personality or background, they suddenly turn into a blushing doormat to the ml no matter how toxic or inappropriate his behavior is. But it’s fine because he’s so hot she just can’t stay mad at him. They aren’t likable or enjoyable to read because they’re not people. Mc is just a cluster of shallow responses and objective goals, but there is no consistency.

I think Dan was being true to character in choosing to have the baby and in trying to get rid of it when he believed it would be fatal. He is the absolute ruler of the demonic cult. Nobody questions him and he doesn’t ask for opinions or permission before making decisions. He is both possessive and insecure in his relationship with Hwan. He considered making a child the ultimate tie, ensuring that Hwan would never leave (which considering his character, would be an accurate assumption). It was less about the child than a mechanism to permanently connect them. That’s why when he realized that Hwan could/would die from it, that choosing to abort was so easy for him. He’s still not thinking like a partner, but acting out of his own fear of Hwan abandoning him either by choice or death. His fear clouds his judgement and prevents him from considering Hwan’s perspective or trying to find another way.

And yet another irritating situation that would have been avoided if Hongyeon had let Taejon do his thing. He’s so jealous and controlling that he counseled Mun instead, but now there’s a moronic misunderstanding with Hayun. If he hadn’t stopped Taejon so many times, Mun and Hayun would probably have already been dating by this point

Every time Lakyus tastes Yuri’s cooking, a little piece of his soul dies

So the first introduction of what seems to be the main couple in the very first chapter is SA? No thanks, this is going to be an irredeemable dumpster fire no matter what the art looks like

Why can’t we have straight smut with attractive guys? I don’t understand why there are so many comics that have cardboard personality, marginal af, zero accomplishment, not even physically attractive dude(s) easily banging tons of skilled, successful, and supermodel level looking women who somehow can’t get enough. Even if they both look average, that would at least be reasonable. I have never encountered a comic where a hot accomplished guy sleeps with an unattractive woman with no positive qualities. Obviously this is written for similarly marginal/unattractive men, but it just sucks that I can never find any straight smut that has realistic character dynamics, and especially women who aren’t just mindlessly horny for the most mediocre man alive

Let them complete that goddamn counseling so that you can have lovely time with your man for gods sake?!

Wow the Duke is still such a pretentious prick even as he’s “accepting responsibility”. Their child was sick from birth because he was born in filthy and freezing conditions after he kicked her out and she had to hide from him and his enemies. He was so cruel and controlling that she has to take desperate and dangerous measures to escape him. Now her child is dead because he was hiding away to escape on a ship while Rowena distracted Killian long enough for them to escape before (or maybe never) escaping the Duke to join them. She’s sobbing at the loss of her only child and he’s “glad that she’s no longer blaming herself”. Yeah, everything that went wrong in her life, after that one scam, was all him, and the only reason she didn’t reach that conclusion years earlier is because she was young and naive, and he played her like a fiddle. Even now, that shift of blame is only benefitting him. She’s still in despair and agony, but he gets to feel just a little less guilty over that one issue. He is still only concerned with himself. If he hadn’t held her there and used access to medication as leverage, they would have been able to leave earlier, together

Ugh I don’t understand why authors seem to be incapable of creating modern straight romances where the woman doesn’t just randomly fall in love with any toxic/marginal guy after he shows her the barest of human decencies. I get that she’s grateful he’s helping pay off her debts because he felt sorry after sleeping with her without realizing she was purchased for him. From another perspective, whether he knew it or not, he slept with someone who had been trafficked and was under the impression that they needed to please him in order to be freed. That could definitely land him in hot water legally and socially. I get that he wanted to avoid a scandal, but the right thing to do would have been to turn in his friend who buys kidnapped women from the mafia for sex (instead of basically refunding him to “free” her) to protect other women and hopefully get the entire human trafficking ring shut down. He then uses her fear of the mafia as leverage to get her to agree to be his fuckable live-in baby incubator. Him paying for her aunt’s medical bills is practically unspoken hush money in the hopes that she will be so grateful that she won’t take her story to the cops or press.

So they’re just going to add some mummy wrapping and pretend that they just didn’t make a knockoff of Magneto?

Legis is honestly the hottest character I’ve encountered in any comic so far. I want 100 more episodes like this

Oh my god, Lina and Rashta (from Remarried Empress) are the only two characters that can make me want to tear my hair with every single thing they say or do! I kind of want to trap them in a room together and see which one survives. Does anyone know of any characters in a similar category?

You can tell this was not written by a woman because the ideas that mc A. Has D cup boobs that can be magically wrapped down to appear like a slender man’s chest, B. Doesn’t keep menstrual products on hand, and C. Doesn’t know what kind she uses (regardless of who usually buys them) are so ridiculous and unrealistic that only a man could think they’re plausible.

“I’m still unable to protect my child and the woman I love”, well yeah, because you’re the thing they want protection from. They weren’t on that ship for fun, they were running from him because he’s so uncompromising and unbearable. The only reason Rowena wasn’t on the boat too is so that she could stall him to give the others a head start.

Damn, Woradet really did put on dinner and a show . At this rate, Kosovo won’t have to lift a finger to take out Somdet, because his blood pressure will do it for him