it’s a good manga overall and it’s quick to know the hidden shadowing like for example Jinshu being the emperor’s biological little brother (or maybe not but why would he call her mother then in the later chapters?) and figuring out small things like the weak sickly courtesan to be maomao’s mother. what i dont like is the plot for the love life between maomao and jinshu. It’s depicted to be very one-sided and she’s always disgusted by him like yeah she respects him as a person but that doesnt mean that she’s into him and comfortable with what he’s doing. Yeah sure there were parts that were progressing their love life but i took it as 10% progress out of 100 bc most of it was jinshu being affectionate with her and maomao reacting to it negatively. thats not cute thats blatant harrassment since she doesnt like it not see him in that way. Like yeah its gonna slowly burn to her liking him later on but it’s just feels so icky. for example the scene where jinshu is on top of her when theyre in the cave?? Maomao literally was thinking of kicking him off bc how uncomfortable and disturbed she felt. Like yeah she acknowledged that provoking him too hard was a very bad idea but pinning her down??? And then there was an almost kiss scene???? And he even told her “you wanna find out if it’s a frog or not” (ik it wasnt said like this but thats how i summarized it) LIKE HELLO???? But anyways overall the manga’s great, i love the artstyle, and the storyline. i just feel like the love plot is moving too fast one-sidedly on jinshu’s side like there’s no intimate connection between him and maomao. Idrc if they get together or not it’s just rlly weird how the author’s progressing it
I personally like that dynamic. As it feels as though it highlights even further how different they are in their upbringing and how that changes the way they perceive things.
Maomao being indifferent and uncomfortable towards a man is indicative of years of seeing men be violent towards that she develop a disdain towards them, and her being of a low class made her even more alert due to her awareness that no one can actually help her in the case something do happen.
Jinshi on the other hand was raised with a golden spoon but deprived of certain privelages due to his mothers' way of upbringing. Which results on his current way of acting on his feelings. Bet he doesn't even see or recognize what he is feeling is "love" yet, and there's a chance he is still holding on to maomao because he thinks she's this enigma from the usual treatment that he gets which makes her a breath of fresh hair.
Overall I wasted a few minutes of my life to defend that their dynamic is just a highlight of them being a part of lower and upperclass. But also cannot deny it is the obvious couple dynamic of one being affectionate and one being cold
I agree ! In terms of entertainment as a reader i do really enjoy the story and their dynamic BUT like you mentioned the cave scene - bc of thier status' poor mao could even kick him off and thus had to endure his actions. We as the readers know of his pure love for her but shes really just a young girl who cant even pick up on his affection. She probs saw that whole cave incident as typical male behavior. Poor girl just wants to study poisons and do her thing. FYI I LIKE THIS STORY VERY MUCH BUT I CANT HELP BUT FEEL FOR MAO MAO ♡ •ε•٥
But Louis-, he might kill the baby that's inside you and you're not in a situation where someone will take it out professionally..
I mean he is insane enough to do so-, but in his case, bloody deer man (i forgot his name already and IDC to go look for it) might not do it because it's gonna hurt Louis but he might do it anyway because it seems that he will destroy what is blocking him from making Louis his.
It’s deer blood he says,..
That’s too much blood for it to be deer blood I say
spoiler
louis gonna get kidnapped by the duke
Well that’s not surprising
fr i already expected it when i saw him covered in blood lol
Lol I like how the dad is going to this man’s house to go and check if he is good enough to be with his daughter
Yeah I know it’s annoying, I can understand that but understand Shin okay? Shin been through a lot, and I feel like Shin should realize that Wolfgang love him truthfully but for that to happen, Shin must move on from what happened to him. That is hard, he was almost raped and was forced to go outside naked by the last king. He was just a toy to the last king. Right now Shin must realize that the person he wants isn’t like the last king. What’s worse is that Wolfgang looks similar to the last king so that’s hard for him too. Shin right now is just too stubborn to not change his mind that Wolfgang needs a wife and that he will be okay without Wolfgang by his side.
(Sorry for this, I just saw some ppl ranting about Shin so I wanted to write this.)
yeaaa i feel rly bad for shin like i pretty sure he still only thinks of himself as an object for the kings satisfaction when both wolfgang and shin love each other dearly and wolfgang would never think of him as an object, rather as a lover instead yk
ugh i just want them to be happy
Accidentally downvoted sorry!
Lucas looking different in here ...
(Became a Princess One Day reference)
HWHWGWGWGWGWG PLS I CANT UNSEEEE T~T
Ijekiel looking different in here too though
PLLLSS SHUT UP GSAGSGAGSGHASHGASGH MY EYES WILL ONLY SEE LUCAS AND IJEKIEL NOW IT'S UR FAULLLTTTTT（/TДT)/ HGAHGDGHAGHSGHGHD
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This story is cute I will not lie, but it’s so mid. I love how the sister’s are on two separate sides of one coin, but I wished the older sister’s pain wasn’t so overlooked. She lost her family, her friends, her life, and her kingdom, all because she rejected a marriage proposal. She wanted revenge and her life back, but it was cut for the mc love story. I found them both to be very annoying, the sister sounded privilege and ignorant to the mc’s pain from living alone in an abandoned tower. Like of course she’s not going to feel sentimental and emotionally connected to their defeated kingdom because she raised disconnected from everything, only person that was with her was her nanny. For the mc, she was very annoying for the fact that she couldn’t understand how her sister is acting like this. I understand her whole attitude is “live towards the future” but of course that attitude won’t work on the sister, she lost everything, there’s nothing going for her other than revenge. Like literally, the mc said she really liked the sister and was worried about the story not continuing to the of plot but didnt do anything to try to move it forward and instead, the story focused on her life with the duke and their feelings growing for each other. Everything just feels watered down, even the love story feels fast paced, like he literally was letting her live in the dungeon and the only thing that saved her, was her love for food and feeding people. I feel like this story just wanted to focus more on the food and how it can bring people closer and not the plot in whole which is probably why it’s short. Also the whole thing with the wizard felt forced and random, like he was just there as a plot point to hold the mc back from the ml. Though i do understand his character and his story, but the story never explored it and just showed glimpses of his trauma instead of explaining more in depth why he didn’t want the mc with the ml other than he’s a witch hater. Overall, the story was mid, 3.6/10, bc i do like food based stories if done correctly