Ok so I've been thinking about this from preeetty early on. What if Ella is related to the crown prince? Cousins at least, maybe siblings- twins, even? They both have blond hair, and sure that may not mean anything, but something in my veteran rofan reader senses are tingling lol
I mean, she is pretty mysterious for being stuck in the outskirts, having mysterious items around, as well as being incredibly strong. Ella herself wondered why her character was never mentioned in the story. I think it'd make sense if she was someone super important actually without knowing
And imo it would make the scenes where she's cussing out the crown prince even funnier :"D
Yeah probably, she does feel like banished princess or illegitimate princess
The blond hair makes us think she might be royalty
Mm yep, but something makes me think that at least the prince may not know of her existence? He feels like the type of person to eliminate anyone threatening his succession, so a cousin or an illegitimate child could make sense, as that would be easier to hide from him
Yep, Ella is that trash prince's twin
Reading about so many shitty MLs have put my standards on the lowest of lows, wdym I'm happy to see the emperor is being nice and looking out for her/caring for her BEFORE falling in love with her???
Too bad he has to be a tsundere about it and wants to pretend he doesn't care for her but her powers/help. Hoping he becomes more honest sooon (￣∇￣")
If only the spirit had realised to try to act otherwose and ask Leehan casually to put out the flame, I'm sure out boy would've been able to do it ╮(￣▽￣)╭ though I get his panic since he knows nothing of Leehan, I can imagine him getting upset if he finds out he was worried for nothing and made the contract
That's why he got scammed so easily by the headmaster
Okay, first of all, just beware that going through the novelupdates forum for this series was kind of a chore, as there is a lot of discussion and deep explanations of some of the early chapters of the novel, and there wasn't really any organised spoilers I tend to see a lot of the time. If you want to go read them yourself, go ahead.
Sidenote: I'm using Yehwa's title of Emperor here, don't be confused, I'm still talking about her.
I found two comments mentioning this, so I'd assume this spoiler is true, but take it with a huge grain of salt, as both commentors mention MTL and reading it from a comment elsewhere. According to the spoiler, this story is using the 3rd life trope.
The "og novel" was their first life. The Emperor felt guilty about Sanya's death, thus we get the whole reincarnation thing.
Second life was in modern Korea. Both the Emperor and Sanya were reborn as a single mother and daughter, but the mother ended up dying first.
We finally get to their third life, which is what we've been following so far. I don't know if the Emperor knows this truth or not. The forum seemed to say that no, the two aren't biologically related in this life.
being biologically related would really be questioned because of their similar looks, esp. Sanya looks so different from his father.
Were there also some mentions of the child of the empress that was mentioned in the manhwa?
Not that I could see, if I remember right. Typically the spoiler discussion forums tend to be fairly organised and people will use spoiler covers, but like I mentioned, going through it for this series felt somewhat of a chore considering I needed to read everything/most things to find the spoilers I was looking for. I'm pretty sure I would've mentioned it or remembered if I had seen anything about it, but I can only assume it wasn't considered as important to be mentioned? Ofc, feel free to go check out the forum discussions yourself if you want to make sure.
Thanks for the info. Will also check the site for some spoilers too.
Honestly him still calling Seyeong noona threw me off so much like please why can't you change it to hyung idc what you do in-game, sure that makes sense bc of his avatar, but why do you have to keep doing it irl
I do love that the author keeps actively showing us that Mi-Rye really is into Kyungbin, as some may feel that the way they got together was sort of forced (even if Mi-Rye told Kyungbin that wasn't the case). It's also nice to see that for Mi-Rye his actions tend to show how much he cares for others rather than just words/expressions - because he also typically has just a few expressions, I love it when Kyungbin gets him yo make any others lol.
I love our main boys, but I sort of prefer these two, haha. They have such fun interactions. I hope we get to see more of the "oh fuck he's hot" from Mi-Rye when Kyungbin is more serious/sporty/shows off his strenght (think back to where Kyungbin was about to hit Mi-Rye), because hell yeah, I love it when otherwise confident-seeming characters lose some of that composure. (￣▽￣)
I'm so done with the "extremely overprotective dad/grandpa/brothers(/any male relative/caretaker)" trope where they get upset that kids are being kids. Like oh my fucking gods, get over yourself, they're five!! Holding hands means nothing!! Let them be kids!! ヽ(`Д´)ﾉ
Since I was young, I never understood my male relatives joking about buying a new gun when their daughters were born, like what, you're going to shoot any man who tries to approach her?? And that's supposed to be funny?? (Ironically, both of my cousins turned out to be gay)
People really be stuck in the heteronormative culture that they think this is funny I just get the urge to slap the duke for thinking it's somehow inappropriate
Y'know, before this anthology, I didn't realise exactly JUST how much of a sucker I am for gap moe and uh yeah the fact that I love every single story we've had so far (and I want more) probably speaks for itself (￣∇￣")
Despite me reading ahead in the raws, I always get so giddy and excited reading the English TL simply because so much of this story has to do with the context of text and dialogue, the characters' inner thoughts and perspectives... I absolutely love it!! It makes me wonder what is going on in certain parts and I can make my assumptions, and now get to see them being much more gay than I thought before haha (▰˘◡˘▰) I'm actually trashing in my bed and kicking my legs inside the blanket anytime there is an update. This is why I love slow burns!!
There's no way Hangyul would be so dense to miss this change in our lovely Mr. Oblivious, he's always been looking at Robin, there's no way he wouldn't notice!! I'm desperate to see his side of things too, Hangyul my boy your love is no longer unrequited ╥﹏╥
Tell me Hangyul tops
No clue! The raws aren't that far ahead and I fear we still have a while to go until more than handholding happens (this is what slowburns do to me, I know I'm going to be so damn excited for after the date ends and they go home in a taxi and robin takes the chance to hold hangyul's hand (and they're interlocking fingers!!!) Despite knowing we're likely eventually going to see them bang :"D)
Omgggg aahhhhh. I haven’t tried slow burn and wasn’t ever interested in it. But damn after the ending of season 1 and seeing robin being aware! got me feeling all tingly. I look forward to this every week way tooo much
Spoilers below!!
Alrighty. As of chapter 20, we've met two out of the three - Crown Prince and the merchant/Count. From the beginning, these two were higher on my list as being the true ML, simply for the most common rofan trope - the romantic pairings rarely share similar enough hair colours, never mind the same hair colour. So while I'm still waiting to see how the Tower Master and MC interact, my bets on him are low, as unfortunately both him and current Erne are blonde.
The merchant/Count drew me in initially for being interesting, seemingly dressing up completely different to the rest of the characters/world. I had doubts about him though, as according to the description, he treats Erne (blonde) like a child, and that would be difficult to break. When I read that he knows/is friends with Erne's father, that's when I said nope to him being the true ML. This was only strenghtened when we saw a memory of Erne (redhead) where she met him for the first time when she was a child and he an adult. It DID raise the curiousity in me on how old this man is, is it the art style or could he be some sort of immortal? (Lol) or doe something about being a high-ranker make one age slower? Either way, I reject him as a true ML.
Now, as for the Crown Prince... he definitely seems like the best option so far. He keeps missing - longing for, even - Erne (redhead) after months of her death, to the point of being unable to sleep properly ever since. We've seen him having a really interesting relationship/dynamic with her in the past, and not only that, he was very quick to recognise Erne in her new body when they met. Sure, he hasn't made the complete connection, but I can see him being able to realise it/actually believe the truth of what happened and accept it. Even if he doesn't realise it, it's clear he felt some sort of attraction towards Erne (redhead), possibly as far as loving her to a degree. At the very least, it's something more than "I want this talented individual on my side". Plus I'm a sucker for the trope where everyone is scared of character 1 (for good reasons) yet character 2 keeps messing with/annoying/teasing them (even if they're scared as well). ╮(￣▽￣)╭
Either way, these are just my thoughts and feelings so far on the matter. Really interested to see where this goes though! I am still wondering about how the title is related to the story, the 24h bit feels somewhat unrelated.