Bro I swear in all of my years of rofan reading I've only gotten 2nd ML syndrome twice, tell me why do I lowkey vibe with this one just from this one look at the end of the chapter??? Despite me knowing who is the true ML and filly supporting it??
Sigh me too…. I lowkey think its cause most of the manwha i read 1st ml mostly has black hair and red eyes
Yes same. I think in officially a flagpole since Im drawn to this 2nd ml who is clearly a redflag
We do get some hot smut scenes, but even after 20 chapters we don't get to see MC and priest fuck Σ( ￣□￣||) i'm patiently waiting...
I was bored, so I counted and including the guy at the beginning, its around 11 on screen LMAO the priest's blue balled so hard lololol
Drop the link bestie !!
Can you please drop the link
Send it to us Rachel plsss
Raws please!!
It's been 2 months and still no raws
Sorry y'all, I went there once and don't got 4ye link anymore. I don't remember which one it was, but when I look for raws, I tend to take the Korean title shown here and then copypaste it into the search bar of toonkor or newtoki ╮(￣∇￣")╭
I love the concept, I love how the characters are written, I love how naturally MC is as himself in this world despite realising he was reborn when he was a kid and has little relevance to this life so it doesn't add any unnecessary flashbacka to our world (at least so far), and I absolutely adore the art style. It's a bit eh how they look closer to their mid/late 20s to early 30s with the art style when they're a decade younger from that, but otherwise, I adore it.
also catering to us sapphics as well by giving us beautiful, smart, AND strong women??? ABSOLUTELY WONDERFUL!! I fell for the General lady (Kang Heeseo?) immediately please marry me
(Like ugh the Princess when she's an adult, le MC's mother the Empress... i love that she's allowed to look older but is still clearly a beauty.)
It's not just the sapphics who love smart, strong, pretty female characters in BL. ;)
Good to hear that it's a well-written story with well-written characters.
Be excited, we'll be seeing some familiar faces next chapter
(Hint: not from this series <3)
LETS GOOO BROK OGMGMGKGOGH
WHAT NO WAY
HEEEELLLLLLL YEEEAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHH
YESSSSSSS
I get people would be frustrated, especially those who have been reading this as the chapters get uploaded, but as someone who just binged 57 chapters - I think it was done well. Okay, I did grow a bit ???WHEN YOU GONNA TELL HER??? Ever since he said he would tell her after the whole thing with the siblings was sorted out, which I can understand may seem like it was dragged on, especially compared to the typical pacing of these stories and how quickly problems tend to get solved/arcs completed (and how this one had kind of a mix on bunch of them), especially at the beginning. In the end I don't mind it, I think it was done well considering how serious that merchant bastard's crimes were, as well as justifying our girl's revenge from her last life. It only makes me think that her second husband may be much worse to deal with, if this is how we dealth with the first of her two shitty husbands.
Honestly, this is one of those few series where I don't hate the ML hiding his identity from FL while he knows the truth and she doesn't. I think it's because of how the story/characters are written, it never felt like he was looking down on her and hiding his identity to use her, which is what a lot of stories who use this trope tend to do. It didn't feel patronizing, or making her look dumb for no reason but to make the ML somehow appear "cooler" - I also like how quickly his attitude started shifting, but it didn't feel unnatural, and again his suspicions in the beginning were definitely justified. It's like... despite deceiving her about his identity, otherwise he was quite sincere with her - most bastards with this trope aren't. Also I loved the element of angst with the idea of unattainable love, despite us readers knowing it'll be alright - now that was some good/fun drama I can get behind right there ╮(￣▽￣)╭
Ngl people who are calling FL dumb for not realising Hertz's true identity are wackk Σ( ￣□￣||) she was literally never given any reason to doubt his identity as something other than the Grand Duke's proxy/aide! You also can't assume hair colour and a similar sounding name to be giveaways (also we can't be sure if she remembered his hair colour just because we could see it in her memory), like sure yes they are to us because /we're reading a story/ and know the tropes, but if this was real life, there's no way y'all would be able to guess it correctly just from that, don't even try to kid yourself
All things considered, she is smart, and I believe it shows - it's not just the story saying she is. She has also been abused and used by others all her life, she will have lasting impacts from that, but that doesn't mean she's somehow an idiot for being anxious or focusing on things in front of her at the moment.
I get why y'all are frustrated, but I don't disagree with how this discussion is drawn. The idiot eldest brother won't get it unless it's explained to him word by word - it would seem just as insane if he were to immediately believe her without her going all this way, with how we've seen him characterised.
Would it be nice if the chapters were longer? Hell yes! Do I want that? No, not with a weekly upload schedule. Artists in the webtoon industry get abused all the time, often risk job-threatening injuries due to deadlines and demands from editors and the like (ie. injuring their hands and/or wrists, making them unable to draw for months - and often they're still forced to, worsening their injuries), and hell, death is included. I'd rather have a well-paced story (which this is so far) with shorter chapters than make the artist suffer. (￣∇￣")
I have noticed over the years that often slowburns/not as fast-paced stories, especially at the beginning 20-40 chapters, their comment sections seem to be flooded by complaints, only for those to make a complete switch after particular amount of chapters. So, I'm just going to assume it's the usual and my fellow lovers/enjoyers/appreciators of slowburn/slower paced stories just aren't bothered to comment and fight with others about views on these things (which is fair) , rather focusing on the story itself╮(￣▽￣)╭
You're free to disagree, I'm simply stating my opinion on this!
True I think that this would have gone differently if there was a sat down discussion, but at the same time, I think FL kinda realizes that it would be a waste of time to try and persuade someone who’s never really tried to side with her. She must also be pissed about everything since antagonist lady is playing victim and confides in the older brother about FL only for him to, “deal with her”. So he’s now technically a perpetrator, to which she possibly feels like she is above having to go out of her way to explain to him, since if he had been knowledgeable enough to try to understand, he would have done so earlier. Not only that, but her older brother also seems to blindly believe the antagonist lady, so that also could be why it’s a bit hard to rationalize some things to him unless done differently. I think they did dramatize this a bit tho lol, but I love it
On the side note, I agree with ur statement about pacing! It’s quite sad to see that some people aren’t willing to wait for a good story sometimes, and as much as they are eager to see the next part, there are also those who don’t have the patience for it. Some artist draw their entire webtoon by themselves, while others, with studios. Either way, burnout as an artist can become very difficult and stressful, and on top of that they know fans are anticipating their works which, in itself, is a ton of pressure. A lot of times, the stories I’ve seen have a pretty consistent schedule around 30 chps, and then it slows down from there. I, personally, don’t mind. Since I always jump around and know that if I’m reading a story that has just released, I’m committed to waiting it out.
Same. I feel like a lot of people who don't draw and/or don't know a lot of artists somehow can't comprehend just how much time and effort everything takes, and take this now standardized weekly schedule for granted. And/or they somehow feel entitled for that upload schedule, and if it changes, they demand for more.
I've had this opinion for a while, but if people want longer chapters while keeping the quality AND work safety of the artist or artists in mind, they need to realise a weekly upload schedule won't work for that. We should normalise that it's okay to not post weekly, I wish more comics could consider a biweekly schedule instead - you have space for slightly longer chapters and hopefully be able to space out one's work schedule better.
Another idea I've heard is that one could upload chapters weekly for some weeks, then have one week of not uploading, which I think would also work. Previously I've thought one week of "break" with every 4-6 weeks of upload is decent, but now I think that it should be one week of break per month with then 3 weeks of weekly uploads. This is because I know those artists will work during that break period anyways, like prepping for the next chapters, so giving more chances for breaks/mandating it so that they do have days where they don't work would be great. This would also likely shorten the times of season breaks (unless the season break is related to the artist's health - and I do think those breaks should still exist and give the artists some time off, but I feel like it could take off some of the pressure of how quickly they need to get back on working on a series)
I am glad that I've seen some comics use the method of uploading roughly 3 times a month, with things like "a new chapter every 2nd, 12th, and 22nd of the month". But yeah, as a whole, I know the whole industry needs to change. People simply don't view being an artist as a real job and a lot of them don't respect where exactly their entertainment is coming from (just look at all the AI bros out there claiming to make original art using AI, completely dismissing the artists and whose works even made it possible for the AI to do anything.)
Ough do these chapters hit home for me, especially 22/23. The way Ines is experiencing her trauma and suffering from flashbacks from just the sight of the SA'er/abuser from her previous life, yet at the same time telling herself how logically she shouldn't be experiencing this but can't control it, and how it must seem unreasonable to others around her since she's the only one who knows whar happened.... it hits close.
[TW for mentions of C SA]
So, I was tricked and SA'd by a relative when I was very young. He was older, about double my age at the time, but still a minor. It took me a few years to slowly realise what had happened, and I wasn't even a preteen yet. I always doubted what had happened because it just seemed so... unimaginably horrible to be real, but due to a sequence of events, my parents found out I had remembered the incident when I was around 17, and confirmed to me that it had happened and what age I was when it did.
I'm now closer to mid 20s, and have never had any particularly reaction to this relative when meeting him a few times a year at family gatherings - except I did suddenly have one earlier this year. He hadn't shown up in a while so I guess I assumed he wasn't coming, so when he suddenly appeared, I had this rush of anxiety and dread and everything bad at once - a trauma response, essentially. Hell, I couldn't even look at him. I was constantly on the verge of tears, and everything got much worse when I could hear my young girl cousins hanging around him, who are roughly the age I was in when it all happened.
All of this explanation to say that while on one hand, it feels unfair for Ines to have to suffer but having no tangible proof to punish the asshole, I relate to it. My mother made me feel guilty about my uncontrollable trauma response by saying she couldn't invite half of my relatives to the next gathering in order not to exclude my,, SA'er and make it obvious to everyone.
Like I understand my trauma is mine to handle and I shouldn't bother others with it, but on the other hand, I've never been able to react to my trauma at all, literally jumping between tiny moments of anxiety and tears at nights when it came to mind, to feeling absolutely nothing at all about it. Nothing for the past 17 years. Then the one time I do, completely unexpectedly to me included, I'm considered to be irrational and selfish.
Idk, I guess I relate to the unfairness of Ines because in my case, he was also a minor at the time - can one really blame him? I'm also unable to feel anger, and it always felt like my mother has taken a "neutral" stance on the issue, not really on my side. I guess it feels a bit unfair, bevause it feels like it minimizes all the trauma I've experienced in the past two decades because of him, just because he was a kid. Hey, I was one too. (I will say, while he was a minor, he was 100% old enough to know better.)
Sorry for the long ramble and explanation, if anyone managed to read through this, thanks. I appreciate it. (￣∇￣")
Him been a minor doesn't forgive anything and your mother f*ck,i'm sorry but I really want to curse at her. She should be with you not help revive your trauma.
I hope you have people who truly listen to you and are willind to help and accompanying you. You're truly a fighter and deserve the better. (I'm not sure if I explain properly what I want convey as I not good at english)
THEY WERE SO CLOSE IN GETTING SOMEWHERE GODDAMMIT Σ( ￣□￣||) they are both so dense omg (Jun slightly less than Mayer but honestly not by a lot), I love them
I feel like FL will accept it, but since ML has been on denial for who knows why? its getting no where xD
To be fair, the man has a shitload of trauma lmao
FL should be the one with the trauma honestly, she also had it bad on the other round
It's not a competition, traumq is trauma and they both got some ╮(￣∇￣")╭
but FL is taking it with stride
I want them to bond and become friends, tired of women fighting each other in these stories over one man ┑(￣Д ￣)┍ I mean, especially here considering they're both creatives! Would love if the princess gave up and instead befriended the MC.