I thought the nosebleed meant there would be an improvement... But NO.
Who would've known: blue hair's such a *huge* social inept that the extent he's been starving for human affection is so high, he'd cling to the first crumbs of emotional connection that anyone had thrown his way... no matter if they were faked with dark magic.
So, the red haired "doctor" is a villain sent in by Erusha's estranged maternal family... Either her maternal family are bad guys, or they're being manipulated too.
It's a bit scary how darn *accurately* this webtoon depicts teen/early adult girl's thoughts and behaviors... On another note: Loony girl focusing on Sera so intensely and from so early on makes me suspect she had made some kind of sketchy deal with that shady old man of the creepy eyes to do witchcraft on Sera and curse her.
Here we go again with this FL hurting herself... sigh.
Hoping she's planning sth else for it, this time, bc I'd thought we were at least past that.
So. let me get this straight.........
So far, what we know about the crown prince's "mysterious" motivations is:
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1) that the crown prince has a curse that can only be cured by "confining" the FL (.........yeah, they said so in chapter "zero", but don't ask me, I still don't get why, either...);
2) that this curse that the prince has is somehow related to the same red dragon that her ancestor defeated (key word, that her ancestor "purified" with "divine power"), and,
3) that the reason it has to be her (that he confines) is connected to how she can use the power of (probably all) constellation treasures....?
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And I think that's all. Did I miss anything?
I almost... ALMOST misunderstood the mc as a pushover Mary Sue who can't do anything other than acting pitiful to the emperor and receiving his protection... thank heavens I persevered because by chapter 9 I understood that's only a first impression, and she's actually a layered, realistically humanized vulnerable character prone to speaking with emotional frankness, and who that establishes humanized, emotionally frank interactions with other people (and more importantly, with the ML)
Edit:
Still, I think I will still drop this for now... since it seems the ML has a(n unwanted) royal harem and the first arc will focus on the mc's catfights with the members. I simply can't stand royal harem's petty squabble stories, normally... (the only exception "I will fall with the emperor", for obvious reasons...)
The fake "thread of fate" connecting mc and ml (as in, the thread made by the evil spirit) definitely seems like it needs to go: both the gangster's shaman and the ML's young uncle (a young shaman) agreed on it. That's two unrelated shamans agreeing with each other, despite the fact that they've never spoken to each other:
The gangster's shaman said in chapter 59 that cutting that fake thread off would help "save 2 people's lives", which would be enough to "heal the 2nd ML's thread", that had ended up weakened and snapped "due to bad karma". Ergo, that "saving 2 people's lives" was meant to be taken here as "making good karma" = doing a "good deed", and not just as saving their *love* lives, but their *literal* lives. And THAT coincides with what the OTHER shaman, the ml's uncle, said, about the fake thread attracting the evil spirit that made it, and that still wants to cash in on that debt that the ML unknowingly incurred (as a child) by asking that evil spirit to make that thread: the price to pay was to let the spirit take both his and the mc's lives, after the spirit's part of the deal (to let the ml have a relationship with the mc) was already considered "fulfilled" (which is why I also think the ml dumped the mcfor this reason: in order to save him and himself from being killed by the evil spirit, when it came to collect the debt).
Lol, lesson to men everywhere: THIS is how you express jealousy and *win* points rather than lose them
I still don't think he should trust the words of that mother f shaman so much, he was probably wrong or lying on many points.
Duke: "I'll pay for all the expenses, but you do the numbers... in 10 seconds, do ALL of the numbers..."
Marquis: "I'm not a catering express service!"
Girl, you say you got the ind of a 20 year old and you know he's just a tresspasser, so why are you so afraid and agreeing to go with him, so darn easily????? Why you acting like that scrawny butler of your previous in-laws was some undefeatable threat, like a secretly trained assassin (he certainly doesn't look like it????)
I see now, what happened to this family: the smartest bro became an antisocial recluse who didn't want to engage in business after he lost his child (and wife?), the 2nd smartest bro chose the woman he loved over a profitable career as a noble merchant, and all the family had left for heir was then the least bright, but most greedy of all, moron of a son: Harvenic
So it was the sister thing that made her give up on him. Imagine, even his grandpa sides completely with her on that... (and, wth made you commit that hell of a mistake, Mr Husband??)
Her ex husband is so dumb that it's not even interesting. Now thinking of getting her back? Lmao, how the eff do you fantasie about doing that?? You canno longer force her to come back to you, because now she's got a powerful high-rank noble family backing her, and you can't "win her heart back" (yeah right... never had it in the 1st place) now that she's got a hottie blond royal wooing her all over the place. This ex is so boooooring
Uncle: "What the.That now you're a sultan's beloved... WHAT?!?!"
It's gotta be the most hilariously awkward family reunion, ever. Haha XD XD
I bet the one who offed the ogFL's family was the black-haired prince, not this guy...
Ok, let's ship the 3rd wheels together: Hathor x Foreign god... Their kids would be fuuun
Everyone annoyed at the ML's latest assholery trying to choose her job for her, while here I am, a newcomer that's read the whole 61 chapters in one sitting, and happy we're at least past the whole "suicide" misunderstanding bullcrap... The job thing is irksome but I trust the FL will find a way around it, but her "attempting to meet the goddess" arc was seriously annoying
Hathor: "Admit it, you aren't a *true* cat, Bastet! ...Just now, you didn't land on your feet after falling down!!" (LOL)
And seems like Lions are both Sekhmet and Bastet's darling babies, hahaha.
Imagine changing your purpose in life from "contributting to society" to "licking a self-absorbed wench's feet"... That is Elliot Rude, for ya. His uncle would be so disappointed.