GlisteningRain's Favorite

So I just read the end of the novel (spanish translation) and came here to share with those who want to know what will happen. I'll write a summary of everything since the novel has 230+ chapters and I can't detail everything that happened. I'm not fluent in english so there will be a lot of mistakes, please bear with me.
THOSE WHO DON'T WANT TO GET SPOILED, STOP READING
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-Yvonne, the duke's lost daughter, actually died and her body is being used by the last survivor of a cult called "Leila" (that's the spanish name, idk if in english there will be another name for the cult). The cult members eat humans, specifically those who have mana, and they once wanted to exterminate all humans and govern the world;
-The cult was stopped by ancient mages who united and imprisoned/killed all the members of Leila, with the exception of one, who was hidden; after using all their forces the ancient mages disappeared;
-This last survivor wants revenge against humanity, and plans to dominate the world. It can use some kind of brainwash and makes people think that they are good. After a lot of years going around and eating some humans to gain strength, it found Yvonne, and possessed her body;
-Some things happen and Penelope finds out that Yvonne is the cult leader (this was b4 Yvonne comes back to the Duke's house), but she doesn't say anything 'cause no one would believe her;
-Iklies betrays Penelope and brings Yvonne back home (in the past Vinter was the one who did it). He did this so Penelope would want to get out of the duke's house and run away with him. His love is more like obsession, but I still pity him don't ask me why;
-Penelope is a descendant of the ancient mages, so she's the only one who can stop Yvonne;
-Yvonne actually won once, she brainwashed people around her, got Penelope killed, since everyone thought she was a villain, and dominated the world;
-Vinter, who was brainwashed and helped Yvonne, came back to his senses and understood that the only one who could stop Yvonne, Penelope, was killed by them. He then sacrifices himself and uses a forbidden magic: the magic to turn back time, just so Penelope could defeat Yvonne;
-Because he used forbidden magic, that version of Vinter became trapped in a magic circle;
- Yvonne was the only one who came to the past with her memories. And Penelope, who didn't remember anything of the past, kept making the same mistakes again and again. And Yvonne kept winning, and the time kept coming back to the past, due to Vinter's magic.
-After dying so many times, Penelope's soul broke into pieces;
-A small piece of her soul reincarnated as our MC, in korea. So in fact the MC is Penelope, that's why she was summoned to the "game". Her body in korea is in a coma, dying of cancer;
-A lot of things happen, Penelope and the crown prince fall in love with each other but they can't communicate and misunderstandings keep happening;
-Vinter from the present probably died in a confront with Yvonne. I say probably because it's not clear, but he exploded his office with him and Yvonne inside to try and kill her, but she survived. Penelope couldn't find his body;
-Instead Penelope finds the other version of Vinter, the one that reversed time and that is trapped. He tells her the truth abt everything. She tries but is unable to free him;
-Iklies helps Yvonne 'cause she promised him the crown, and Penelope. They invade the imperial castle and kill the emperor (the queen, the second prince and some nobles also help Yvonne because she promised they would become members of Leila and gain power);
-Yvonne gets an artefact that was in the castle and that she needed to become more powerful;
-There is a war in the castle. Yvonne's people and the duke's/the crown prince's people fight each other. At this point the duke already knows that that isn't his real daughter;
-Derrick gets badly wounded and almost died, we discover that he had romantic feelings for Penelope, that's why he treated her badly, to cover his improper feelings towards his sister;
-From what I got Reynold's feelings towards Penelope aren't romantic but as brother and sister. He is just an annoying asshole who hurts the people he likes;
-In the battle Iklies sacrifices himself to save Penelope, he said that he loved her. She gets really sad because it was kinda her fault that he became obsessed with her. If she didn't use him to get out of the game, he wouldn't become like that, is what she thinks;
-Penelope doesn't actually see him dying since other things happen in the battle and she goes off to fight Yvonne, but she believes he died because the wound was too serious;
-Penelope kills Yvonne;
-The game ends and she can choose to go back to korea, but the crown prince is heavily wounded and is dying;
-Penelope told him b4 that she wasn't from that world and that se would come back to her real life after killing Yvonne;
-Even though he's dying, the crown prince says to Penelope that she should go back to her home, that he will always love her and that he would go after her no matter where she was;
-Because she won the game, Penelope got a reward: dragon's fangs, wich she could use to cure her sick body back in korea;
-But she decided to use it on the crown prince and stay in that world with him;

The actual story ends here. Now there's an extra story, abt life after everything. It is still being translated. Until now Penelope couldn't find Iklies body, so I'm kinda hopeful that he survived. She's now trying to find a way to free Vinter from the magic circle, but she is not sure if he's even alive anymore.

And that's it. I'm not fluent in spanish so some parts of the story got lost to me, but it was still an enjoyable read. The only thing I didn't like much is the lack of romance, it was more of an adventure, but maybe we will get more romance in this extra story, I'm hoping for it.

For people like me who want to know what happened (also thanks idk who for giving the raw):

Chapter 22
http://www.dm5.com/m135982/
http://tatsukida.blogspot.com/2013/07/kobayashi-ga-kawai-sugite-tsurai_22.html

Chapter 23
http://www.dm5.com/m137397/
http://tatsukida.blogspot.com/2013/08/kobayashi-ga-kawai-sugite-tsurai.html

Chapter 24
http://www.dm5.com/m138609/
http://tatsukida.blogspot.com/2013/08/kobayashi-ga-kawai-sugite-tsurai_21.html

Chapter 25
http://www.dm5.com/m140010/
http://tatsukida.blogspot.com/2013/09/kobayashi-ga-kawai-sugite-tsurai.html

I thought only looking at the raws would not let me understand the story and i found a blog with a good and precise translations. A good idea would be: read the blog in parts. As an example: You read until the narration goes to someone else (like a 'mark' for yourself), then take the raw and 'read' (aka watch) until you see that the narration changes. It helped me a lot to understand the story that happened in those 4 chapters. :)

Isaac’s got huge boobs. I mean some serious honkers. A real set of badonkers. Packin some dobonhonkeros. Massive dohoonkabhankoloos. Big old tonhongerekoogers.

This is the quite possibly the worst ML in history.

1. Neglects his 19yr old pregnant wife and leave her with his abusive family
2. Idgaf about him wanting to save his business. Clearly that was more important that the physical and mental well-being of his pregnant wife
3. He NEVER once believed her when she tried to tell him of the abuse she was suffering. Women are already at risk for depression and hormonal imbalance during pregnancy and her real life trauma could only serve to heighten those odds
4. She has a miscarriage and tells you that your cousin did it and you just decided automatically she was wrong and didn’t even want to investigate. If I were her, I would just probably just killed all those in his family involved but that’s just me
5. In all those 10 yrs, he didn’t seek her out and so he obviously didn’t really care about her. Then gets pissy that she might have moved on. Then decides to blackmail her into sex. POS
6. FUCK HIS BROTHER TOO. He didn’t tell the fucking truth about the situation until 10 yrs later
7. She gets pregnant again, to which he decides to doubt that it’s his like he didn’t force her into their relationship to begin with and like he is totally incapable of using contraceptives himself
8. I guess it took her deciding “fuck this, I’m taking my baby and won’t marry you because you didn’t protect me the first time and probably can’t this time” for him to think “oh wait. She won’t even marry the super rich me? Maybe she wasn’t lying and I should go finally try to see a decade later if wasn’t lying about how disgusting my family is”
9. It honestly confounds me how he didn’t know how shitty his family was because he is clearly cut from the same crappy cloth. Like he is equally as bad, if not WORSE than his abusive, baby murdering family because he was idle during all of it to a girl who relied on him because she had NO OTHER FAMILY besides him and never loved his wife more than his family (because he never once believed her)
10. I might have been able to redeem him from -47 points if he had realized how shit he was automatically and decided to break things off with her and let her keep the baby and live happily because he clearly doesn’t even deserve to breathe the same air as her but what does he do? He bangs her and then wants to discuss his absolve family in bed. Then when she tells him about the baby after he tells her he’s learned the truth, he questions it being his and wants a DNA test, and then treats the fact that his cousin basically attempted to murder her and her baby and his dad and brother covered it up like it is casual beside conversation.

I know no one probably read this far. But yes, this makes it official. He’s the worst ML in history.

From what I could tell there was alot of mental illness in this story. The taxidermy creatures could be mental and spiritual demons seeking to prey on people spiritually and physically.

And there was a group of hunters formed by religion to get rid of all spiritual beings and any non humans. Regardless of innocent or guilty.

The incubus was lonely and managed to raise a companion to accompany him. The incubus as has a strange desire to guide humans on the right path. And would be mocked by the spiritual beings/inner voices for it since it's against his nature. Incubus=preys on others.

Meanwhile among the hunters a novice hunter has been strictly raised and controlled by his father. While he has romantic or at least physical Bond with the "watchdog" placed by his side because of his father. He wants to control his own fate and not be told what to do, but cant do anything on his own either way.

Damn Zichen, my boy, that's not what I meant when I said "quickly, just fall for him".

[PLEASE READ TILL THE END TO HAVE A MEANINGFUL DISCUSSION]

This didn't portray BDSM correctly at all! BDSM is built on consent. Remember this acronym dear children: FRIES
Freely Given
Reversible
Informed
Enthusiastic
Specific

1. Freely Given
This means that there was no coercion involved. No substances were forced on the individual such as alcohol to get them to a state where they would say something that they don't actually mean. In the manga, Akihito is drunk when he says that he is willing to have Shizuru do anything to him. Meaning that he is unable to give consent as he is not in his right mind. Shizuru had nothing to do with Akihito's alcohol intake prior to their meeting, but he could certainly take advantage of the situation and use it to his advantage. The fact that Akihito woke up with no initial memory of what happen only further proves that the "decision" he made was not a legitimate one and was not to be taken as actual consent.

2. Reversible
Most yaoi fail miserably at this. The seme says, "Even if you say 'no' later on I won't stop," or some iteration of that. This is not consent. You have the right to revoke your consent at anytime and for any reason. If you don't want to do it five minutes later, that is your right. If you get hungry, sleepy, feel sick, or whatever--it's your body and your right to say when you want to stop. This is especially important in a scene (BDSM lingo). You need a safe word to signal to the other that you want to stop. All parties need one. This is not only for the sub, but also for the dom/me and any other participants as well.

3. Informed
This manga does this terribly. You need to know what you are consenting to. You can NOT spring shit up randomly. If you're doing a scene with your dom/me and they start paddling you when you two never agreed upon this, then that is a break of consent. Most people write up a contract and make sure that everything is confirmed before engaging in the scene. This very important. It is not up to one party to decide what happens. That is going against individual autonomy and highly unethical. Shizuru telling Akihito that he was just going to have to do whatever he says in the playroom is absolutely fucking ridiculous. Akihito has no fucking clue what Shizuru could do. He could fucking electrocute him or do blood play with him or put him in a body bag. BDSM gets very fucking dark and gets very dangerous if you don't know what you're doing. You have the right to know what is happening to your body. How the hell can you give consent when you don't know what it is that you're consenting to.
I know my shit when it comes to BDSM. Akihito did not. He needed to be taught way before even trying anything. He obviously never dabbled in the lifestyle before (for many people it is a 24/7 thing). So he needed to be educated and not just thrown in. Informed consent requires all parties to be informed. Why the hell do I need to say this?!

4. Enthusiastic
This is really obvious. You need to be very sure that you want to do something. If you are taking forever to respond, then you don't need to do it. If you are on the fence, then you don't need to do it. Stop try to please the other party. You need to be selfish and think about yourself. This is your body. So you have every right to say no.
Akihito was very unsure in many situations because he felt torn between his feelings for Shizuru and his unfamiliarity and discomfort with Shizuru's lifestyle. "I can only love you like this." That's some bullshit right there. Yes, there are people who center BDSM as a very important and almost integral part of their life, but it is not impossible to love someone outside of your lifestyle. Sure, for some people BDSM is more of a hobby or somewhere in between. However, Shizuru gives off the 25/8 dom/master who needs to feel in control. He totally took advantage of Akihito's feelings for him in order to get him to comply with his demands.

5. Specific
This goes hand-in-hand with "Informed"
This is what I am consenting to. You need to be specific about what is being discussed. If you agreed upon a scene where there is breath play but instead are suspended and subjected to sensory deprivation then that is a violation of consent. You consented to breath play NOT sensory deprivation and suspension. "That's not what I ordered!" This manga really didn't go into specifics with their scenes which they didn't even call "scenes" because the manga posited Shizuru as the sole person able to make decisions about their play, which is goes against everything that consent is about.

In BDSM, I'm sure you've all heave of Safe Sane and Consensual (SSC). Now there has been a lot of talk over the years about how problematic this is and how it could be improved upon. The acronym RACK was created to mean "Risk Aware Consensual Kink". This essentially means that you are aware of the all of the potential risks involved in whatever type of play you are going to be engaging in and are giving your full consent (refer to FRIES). Need I remind you that another pillar of BDSM is after play. This can take numerous forms and means something different to each person who is in the BDSM community. The are general things that people can do but there are also very specific "rituals" that people will follow after they play and these can be very specific to the parties involved and their individual needs. Communication is key in this because needs can and will change so after care will look differently as a result.

This was not to bash this manga, but I cannot stand when harmful messages about BDSM are pushed in any media and more often than not the representation in the media is very misinformed which is why there are so many people praising this manga. They have absolutely no idea how inaccurate the manga was.
"But it would be boring if it was." No it wouldn't. Why do you think there are real people in BDSM?? The creator can create an interesting and accurate portrayal of BDSM. Plus you all could learn something. It's the creator who can make or break something. I've read stories about things I had no prior interest in and was sucked into it because the author wrote about it in such a way, while still being accurate to the real thing, that I was hooked and wanted to just keep learning more. Mangaka are fully capable of researching BDSM and making a well-researched and well-written story where the characters all have full agency and are enjoying themselves as a result. Akihito never got to voice what he wanted. He even had a little side thought at one point. "This seems unfair." I believe that was the approximate phrasing. Yes! It was unfair. What about his pleasure? What if Akihito wanted to try something? What if he wanted to discontinue something? Shizuru made it seem like it was his way or the highway. That is how he came across. He made it seem like a "no" to what he wanted was a "no" to their entire relationship. That was not right.
It was still entertaining and I did like it, but I don't feel right now bringing up all of those issues that were so pervasive. This manga was not long t all. If it was at least a few volumes long if not longer and was well fleshed out. Shit! I would be praising it on all of my platforms. They said five years passed. Shit, show us those five years please. Those years were material for more story goddamn it! More volumes = more money. Whatever. That's all I wanted to say.

assholes everywhere, assholes are raining, surrounded by assholes, and cornered by asshole... it seems they all have their heads up their ass! No wonder their mouths can only spew bullshit!!

I actually think the head maid is with the other maids on this one. This chapter actually presents her as less intimidating than all the previous ones in my opinion. Her vibe is different. I think she truly disapproves of what Carter is doing, maybe not because of the fact he's having an affair, but definitely because kf how open and known it is, plus the person that it's with.

The whole reason why Carter and Giselle haven't had any kids is because of Carter sleeping around, at least that's how I interpreted the early chapters (like he got a disease or something from visiting the brothel).

(I can read korean :-))
So we are reaching a big dramatic part! Haejun confronts haejin why she was avoiding him and she apologizes but wont tell him why. Haejun then confesses to her and asks if they can try dating again but haejin is still scared of dating so she says “im sorry”. Haejun then says a line i get so sad about “when you were avoiding me were you happy?” And he says that he waited for her bc he still likes her but now its kinda the last straw so he leavesTT
So now haejun and haejin are avoiding each other (they still like each other) and the evil sunbae takes advantage of the situation and says that haejin was playing around and that haejun fell into her trap blahblahblah to basically elevate his status and make haejin look bad. During the school festival haejin plans something with yumi and hansol and makes the sunbae mad(violent) to ruin his image like a harasser. After, haejin finally solves all her problems she confesses to haejun and they reconcile!! (▰˘◡˘▰)

Hyejin really should end up alone and miserable. Haejun is such a nice, sweet guy that he definitely doesn't deserve to be treated like shit and he certainly deserves to end up with someone other than this stuck-in-the-past, still acting like a 15-year old foolish schoolgirl woman who can't see how lucky she is to have such a nice guy so in love with her.

I've posted before about this without spoiling, and it physically HURTs me that people are giving out wrong spoilers based off some google translate thing they didn't even bother to cross reference. A lot of spoilers are out of context of the whole story and omits SO MUCH so i'm going to explain it as best as I can, referring to my previous post. These spoilers are coming from the novel version btw, and whether or not JAXX choses to adapt them will be another issue altogether. But anyway, here goes.

There are several major factors and characters I shall address.

1. Ryan (Blonde dude from earlier in the series)
He has a much bigger role in the books than in the webtoon thus far, but idk how big his role might be ahead because he has a major role to play in the latter half of the series. As far as I know, he is NOT a love rival or anything of that sort. There has never been and isn't going to be anything romantic between him and McQueen at all. He harbours certain hatred McQueen for reasons, blames him for a lot of his ongoing issues and he has a lot . He has a son, with a prostitute and he also seems to have drug issues and is generally pretty messed up. In the novels, he and Ed live together, and McQueen and Ed have meals with Ryan and his son Cecil, even helping to take care of his son because Ryan isn't really the best parent.

He is actually the main reason why Ed and McQueen break up. But more on that in a bit.

2. Ed and McQueen
In the books McQueen is seen doing a lot more porn that in the webtoon to begin with; here he seems like he does more of the background work like directing etc. But in any case, novel McQueen and Ed BOTH continue to film porn with other partners, although Ed only ever bottoms for McQueen after. In the novels, there's no confession at the train station. They get together, but there's no actual verbalisation of the "I love you"s till much later. So although they're making porn with other people, they're also not exclusively together in the books at this point. I believe McQueen initially hoped to kind of do couples porn with Ed, but at some point after they do both stop doing porn anyway. But in any case, obviously the webtoon should differ from that.

Third parties are never a major major issue in the books for our main pair. They do love each other, although it takes a much longer time for McQueen to verbalise it there. Yes there is a 'love triangle' of sorts with Chang, but the feelings of the main pair never wavers for each other, although circumstances in the later parts do drive a wedge between them. The McEd pairing is actually quite fluffy in the books as well.

A major plot point in the novels. revolves around McQueen's writing of the movie's script. A journalist basically finds out that McQueen is the director of that movie, and it makes the news. Its huge news, and it goes on broadcast that a pornstar directed a religious movie. The website is being overloaded by views – and the site Ed's audition film with McQueen (for a DVD) is on there. The next day he goes to work, its obvious that all his coworkers know about his doing porn. Ed is asked to resign from his job as a security officer due to security reasons.

Upset, Ed then tries to contact McQueen, but he is unable to call through to him. This is because McQueen was being hounded by journalists at the time and he explains it to Ed. They then talk about plans for the future, like going on a cruise and stuff. Ed gets a little drunk, and confesses he watched a porno with McQueen and Ryan. More context on this is that Ryan and McQueen did something like a 'non-consensual' kink play? It's not actually non-consensual and its not rape for sure, but Ryan apparently has a history of sexual assault prior and told Ed before that McQueen exploits vulnerable men for money i.e. something like he basically did the shoot because he was in a vulnerable position (drug issues money issues etc.). Ed watched the porno, and then tell McQueen he agrees with Ryan that what happened was rape. McQueen is livid to think that Ed could think something like that of him, and says something along the lines of "I can't believe I was falling in love with you". They break up and don't contact each other for weeks after that.

Ed gets a job at the airport, but its not very stable. Prior to this, Ed had already stopped doing porn was also working for Chang doing some security, but he stopped that too after the porn reveal and hasn't contacted Chang since.

Lancer contacts Ed who is now in high demand because of the porn reveal, and asks him to do escort/prostitution work with him (He gave him an Escort card way earlier in the novels I think as an invitation already). Ed wonders if McQueen will find out, and then decides that he "doesn't care" and so on New Years Day, Lancer tells him that he's got this client and that Lancer raised the price on him (because of his high demand); Ed doesn't know who he is, but he turns up anyway. The client is Chang.


3. Chang
Chang hasn't met Ed since the porn reveal, New Years Day is the first time they're meeting after the reveal. Chang doesn't believe at first that Ed actually came, and Ed tries to walk away after realising its Chang. But Chang physically grabs him and tells him he paid for him, showing him the escort card he took from Ed's apartment (given by Lancer earlier). Chang offers to make Ed's debt disappear – if he stays beside him for a year. Ed considers and then refuses thinking this guy is the one who even ruined his life by saddling him with this debt in the first place. They argue, Chang makes jibes about Ed doing sex work and Ed, fed up, asks him if he wants to be fucked. Ed pulls down Chang's zipper to prove a point.

Then Chang pushes Ed onto the bed and starts getting physical with him. At several points, Ed says it hurts, and that he wants it to stop. Chang mocks him, bites him, and continues anyway. Ed tries to punch him to get away from him, saying he's changed his mind and telling him to stop. He grabs his clothes and tries to escape several times but fails. Chang r*pes Ed. In this interim, Ed realises that Chang has had feelings for him all along, and that he's just been trying to ignore it the whole time; after the deed is done, he asks Chang if he likes him – and Chang doesn't confirm or deny it. Ed tells him it doesn't matter because Chang is dead to him anyway, and tells Chang he wants to ruin him, like Chang ruined Ed.

He walks out (Chang is still there), to run into McQueen – Ed wondered previously if McQueen was going to find out about him doing escort/prostitution work so he clearly did – McQueen tells Ed he didn't want to break up with Ed in the first place, tells him that he loves him, and that he wants to get back together. Ed wants to say yes, but he just had sex with (was raped by) Chang, so he doesn't respond, just leaves both men without saying anything. McQueen and Chang fight, and Ed sees McQueen again the next day; McQueen tells him he doesn't care about the whole Chang thing, and they get back together.

McQueen tells him he's quitting porn for him and selling the company, and tells Ed to check his bank account – $500,000, which is the amount he owes Chang. Chang actually confesses his feelings to Ed after this, and Ed tells him he doesn't care and to check his bank account, that's his answer. Essentially he pays off his debt, and from there he's saying that they no longer will have any ties to each other.

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So essentially I wanted to clarify a few things.

Ed didn't lose his bodyguard job because of McQueen but the journalist actually, and McQueen didn't abandon him because of the reveal at all. He had a huge debt to Chang – but McQueen didn't pay it off probably because $500,000 is kind of not pocket change?? He sold his company and paid off Ed's debts. McQueen is not the cause of Ed doing escorting; that's Ed's choice. Their break up was NOT caused by Ed not wanting to do an adult movie with McQueen.

McQueen and Ed's relationship is complex, and ultimately human. They make mistakes and there's miscommunication and there's arguments of course, but there's also reasons why certain things unfold the way they do. The novels are way longer than the webtoons, and lots of things have been and will be taken out. So bear in mind that too.

I hope this helped in some way and if anyone else is going to bullshit about the 'spoiler' without knowing what they're talking about again i'm going to hit the roof.

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LADY RACHEL
Marie assists Lady Rachel several times. First with the dress. Then with baking snacks for the prince. Then later on with resolving a conflict with foreign dignitaries. Each time it happens, the Prince asks Rachel how she came up with the idea or who helped her and Rachel says she did it on her own, but the Prince already knows it was Marie. After the final time, the Prince tells Rachel that he knows Marie is the one behind her and that the thing he hates most is being lied to.

After that, Rachel develops a vendetta against Marie. First, she tries to frame Marie for stealing a holy artifact. Eventually Marie is able to clear her name and although the Prince knows that Rachel is behind it there's no proof so he has to let it go. Later on, Rachel bribes someone to lure Marie deep into the forest during a hunt where Marie gets attacked by a wolf and almost dies but is saved just in the knick of time by the Prince.

The Prince manages to find the guy who lured her and he confesses that it was all planned by Rachel. Rachel gets disowned by her familiar and imprisoned for life. The Prince really wants to kill her because she almost murdered Marie but he spares her life in the hopes that God would bless him for it by allowing him to be with Marie.

LADY ARIEL
Looks down on Marie from the very beginning, as we've seen. After Rachel starts to hate Marie, she incites Ariel by mocking her about how embarrassing it would be if the prince chose a maid over Ariel. Ariel tried to accuse Marie of disrespecting royalty when she catches Marie playing with Prince Oscar (the ignored child prince), but Prince Oscar refutes all his arguments and forces Ariel to apologize.

A few days later. Ariel and Marie cross paths in a hall. Marie tries to avoid Ariel because she's on an errand for the Prince and doesn't have time to bicker with Ariel, but Ariel sees this as a rude slight and goes to slap her. Her hand is caught by the Kielhan (the Marquise/Imperial Guard) and he warns Ariel not to touch even a hair on Marie's head. Later on that evening, the Prince also visits Ariel and gives her a warning as well. Ariel is absolutely terrified by both men and doesn't cause any more trouble.

Later on Ariel sincerely apologizes to Marie of her own volition. She's at the hunt when the Prince gets injured saving Marie from the wolf. After seeing that, Ariel withdraws her candidacy for crown princess saying that she wants to marry a man who loves her more than anything. Marie tries to persuade her to stay by insisting there's nothing going on between her in the Prince. Ariel stays resolute however and obviously knows that whether or nor Marie is in love with the Prince, the Prince is clearly in love with her. She asks Marie what she's going to do about both the Prince's and the Marquis' feelings for her.

Not with Kasumi and Yoshiki, I'm glad they ran away together (OMG, did I just support incest?). No, what pissed me off is that Andou got away scot free. At least the other antagonists got some comeuppance. Kyoko has to live with a broken heart thinking Yoshiki is dead, with a big scar on her stomach that she stupidly wanted to keep, and her family's reputation in shreds. The mother has to live believing her son is dead, with the public knowing that her children committed incest, and with losing her daughter due to all the horrible things she did to her (seriously, what kind of sh*tty excuse for a mother supports the rape and attempted forced pregnancy of her daughter for any reason).

But Andou, who repeatedly raped Kasumi, mentally and emotionally tormented her, and manipulated pretty much everyone, all with a smile on his face, doesn't face any justice. What happens to him in the end? He goes to New York with the woman he loves. WTF, he was the sickest b*stard in the whole story, and one of the most despicable characters I've ever seen. That sick f*ck should have met with a horrible fate. Hopefully he'll face internal torture everyday of his life of never getting to truly be with the mother despite loving her. At the very least the mother should have had him arrested for what he did to Kasumi after she thought Yoshiki died.

I saw on a spoiler thread that someone had MTL'd some chapters near the end.
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Ernon will end up with Casilla and they'll have an adopted son named Michael.

Tassel will end up with Alicia, however it was written in the spoiler thread that Tassel got rejected and had a hard time moving on from Casilla, but they developed in the long run as husband and wife.

I see that there are some people who are still confused about Taram's family history, so here I am trying to straight things up. Half of this post has been explained in the manhwa, but there might be some spoiler. So please read with caution.

Let me get this straight first. Our ML's real name is Hue/Hiu. Our ML's brother's name is Hugo/Hugh. In the past, the duke wanted Hugo (ML's bro) to be the next head of Taram fam, but unfortunately Hugo (ML's bro) was seen to be too soft and not fit the position. Therefore, the duke changed his mind and made Hue (ML) to be the head of Taram. Knowing how it feels to be trapped under the duke's cruel hand, Hugo (ML's bro) killed the duke to set Hue (ML) free and then killed himself so that Hue (ML) would be the only person who can fit the position. However, before Hugo (ML's bro) did all this, he sincerely fell in love with a woman and had a kid wih her. He didn't knew that the woman was his half sister and yes, the child is our Damian. After all that killing happened, Hue (ML) took the position as the head of Taram's fam under the name of "Hugo" because he still thinks his bro didn't deserve what happened to him and because he hates himself for not being able to save his bro. Plus, "Hugo" (our ML's current name) also took Damian in as his son cuz he couldn't abandon the child of his beloved bro. From here on out, our ML has been living his life as "Hugo". No one else knows about his true self and the history about what happened except himself and that old man. Eventually "Hugo" will tell Lucia about what happend and they both decided not to tell Damian about his real father until he's grown up.

I hope this long rant clear things up for those who's still confused about the Taram's family history and Damian's background. If there's still something you're confused about, feel free to ask.

If you go back a ways in the comments to page 97 or so there is a doujin link to the artists pixiv account, the doujin is told in the perspective of Ginga, the user Kimuchi explains it


Spoiler if you want to know (Kimuchi explained it)
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"it's a doujinshi of this manga by the same author lol. i just read it & it seems that both kouetsu & ginga have been in love with yuuzen since childhood (but the story is told through ginga's perspective). they both felt heartbroken that yuuzen slept with a woman, so they had sex at the exact same hotel room that yuuzen did, & there started kouetsu & ginga's sexual relationship. it first started as a fling to blow off some steam as well as "forget" about ginga's love for yuuzen, but it escalated to the point where he somehow needs to have sex with kouetsu to suppress his urges for yuuzen. on the last page, ginga is aching for yuuzen's love (even though yuuzen only sees him as a friend) & says that he's about to break, but kouetsu says it's better if he did bc that makes him even more alluring. so you can imagine how ecstatic both of them were when they found out that yuuzen is actually an omega lol. sorry about that (▰˘◡˘▰)"

(I've reposted this countless times now but I'm going to keep doing it since it seems to be helping some people who forgot the plot or is confused by it.)

To anyone who has forgotten the plot or is confused by it, the texts below maybe can help you.

(Disclaimer: Everything written here may not be 100% accurate but I'm pretty sure it's at least has an accuracy of over 90%)
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This is basically the gist and what has happened so far:

- Demons can only enter our world through Doors which are humans.

- Joon becomes Cain's Door.

- Cain is a powerful demon who is at war with another powerful demon(?) named Satan.

- Cain can't defeat Satan because of the bullet in his heart which was shot either by Satan or Satan's subordinate. The bullet was from the fusion of weapons from heaven and hell.

- The bullet has significantly reduced Cain's power which is why he instructed his subordinate, the albino bitch Sid, to find the demon doctor that can fix this bullet injury.

- Cain gave Sid a special compass to help him find the demon doctor.

- Turns out that Sid is a traitorous bitch so now there are other demons messing and is after with the couple i.e. Cain and Joon.

- Sid became a traitorous bitch because he believes that Cain is not fit to be the lord of hell because he's too "soft". That and it's also possibly because of that weird demon parasite(?) or his multiple personality entity inside Sid that's is quite possibly influencing him too.

- JinYeong is Joon's bestie, who is secretly in love with him.

- Sid for some reason becomes infatuated with Jin Yeong so he tricks him into having sex with him, then he eventually kidnaps him and keeps forcing him to have sex with him.

- The Demon Doctor, named Aaron, has a clone that was killed by a demon (it's the demon that uses those bondage/rope thingies. Let's call him Bondage Demon.). The Bondage Demon was Sid's subordinate who Sid gave the compass to and instructed to find and kill the doctor.

- The Bondage Demon succeeded at locating and killing the doctor but he did not know that it was only a clone. The real Aaron thought that the attack was probably caused by Satan so he went to his friend/ally, the Pink-haired demon named Gael to find Cain to seek allegiance and protection from Satan.

- Aaron and Gael arrive at Joon's house to apparently help Cain and in doing so gain his alliance and protection.

- Both Aaron and Gael are afraid of Satan and they are hiding from him in our world, well Gael is, Aaron probably have other reasons.

- Aaron is actually the demon doctor that Cain has been looking for but Cain doesn't know that.

- Both Gael and Aaron used to be on Satan's side. The reason for their current state is still unknown.

- Sid suddenly arrives unexpectedly at Cain and Joon's home and Aaron recognizes him as the employer of the killer of his clone.

- Aaron is thinking of a way to prove to Cain that he is the doctor that he's been looking for since Cain is skeptical due to him meeting many fake doctors in the past and his trusted subordinate, Sid, reported to him that the real doctor was killed (it was only his clone that was killed.)

New/Recent stuff:

- Aaron concluded that if he proves that the compass is not with Sid, then Cain will know that Sid actually did betray him, that's why Aaron basically said to Sid "Where's the valuable compass that Cain specifically gave to you bitch?".

- Sid got caught now.


That's basically it.




BONUS SPOILER





Jinyeong, MC'S best friend, highly resembles the dead previous lover of Aaron the Demon Doctor. Jinyeong is highly likely the reincarnation of Aaron's former lover. Aaron's previous lover was also his door and maybe that's also the reason why he is stuck in our world. So Jinyeong x Aaron is endgame, they were always meant to be since 500 years ago.

Lmaoo am I the only one who doesn’t hate Chinese Manhua? I see the overall general opinion of what people think:
Korean manhwa = amazing
Japanese manga = could be great or terrible
Chinese Manhua = horrible
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I can say that I’ve seen some pretty bad Manhuas and the art would be lacking but I’ve mainly noticed that this occurs frequently in modern time stories (especially including the rich cold president stories). But most of the historical time or stories set in a world that contains magic are really good. Maybe some people just haven’t looked hard enough to find the best Manhua, cause I know I’ve seen many and am perfectly happy :p
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the art style in the cover is obviously better than the actual art style in the chapters, but this doesn’t just go for manhuas only. I’ve seen this happen many times, it may be to attract readers, or maybe it was a requested cover by the author to a really good artist, or it’s because high quality art style is hard to maintain perfectly after a while. There have been stories that are able to keep the same high quality art, but I’d just say that they’re really talented or have a lot of time and patience to keep their art consistent.
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As a person who’s done art myself, I draw a really nice character and then as I try to make some sort of comic I get tired of having to redraw with the exact same quality, it’s also hard to keep your style consistent.
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Anyways I don’t care at all if the art is different in the cover than the actual story, it’s still good art regardless. Please give love to all asian comics and try to be more open minded to Chinese manhuas, cause I dunno some people be like “no offense but...” or “not trying to be racist but...” even though you kinda did say something a bit insulting lmfao