
So Helena tells Alicia to leave just before the wedding, which she does. While sneaking out, she runs into Chase, and he decides to follow her (even tho she previously rejected his confession - he’s totally devoted, second male lead-coded!) and helps her escape. On the day of the wedding there’s an explosion at the temple, with Helena apparently dead. Her icky father had planned to frame Karl (dumb fucking ML) for the murder, but he (fortunately??) survives. Karl lies and says that Alicia died, and Helena is alive. The crown prince vows to find out who actually set off the bomb. Meanwhile, Alicia and Chase have cute incognito moments while traveling, but they are eventually caught. Karl goes to see Alicia and being an absolutely awful motherfucker, he doesn’t tell her the truth about their past or his feelings. Nothing. Instead, he says that in order to take down house Vikros, she has to continue to pretend to be Helena, even tho he knows it will hurt her. Poor Alicia is distraught, but he just fucking leaves her there. He slumps down on the other side of the door, and says to himself, “This is the only way I can help you. I will protect you at all costs. Don’t leave me.”
(╬ ̄皿 ̄)凸 (╯°Д °)╯╧╧
I fucking hate him.

This dumbass duke finally learned the truth in ch. 29. But not because he figured it out. That would make him redeemable in some way. No. He follows Helena and hides for no reason at all and happens to overhear Alicia and Helena argue and scream everything out loud: Alicia is an illegitimate daughter (meaning Helena isn’t the only daughter of Vikros), Alicia was the one locked in the dungeon years ago, and Alicia has holy powers. So everything he thought or was told was wrong and he’s sooooo happy to finally find his savior. You don’t get to be all blushy and relieved! You believed Helena was your savior for ten years! You should be miserable because you were treating your *actual* savior like shit the entire time! (╬ ̄皿 ̄)凸 Author-san is gonna have to work real hard to make me like this ML by the end.

…who kinda gets the ick from the sister? It would be one thing if there was a legit romantic triangle, but this isn’t that interesting. Matchy-matchy outfits, disrupting the FL’s work, inviting people over without asking first, deciding to just follow her home and staying the night….It’s written as if they’re friends, but it kinda feels unhealthy. Maybe I’m thinking too hard about it.

Nah. She IS irritating. Hates her brother with a passion for leaving the fam and shackling her as heir to the name not even questioning why AT 10 YO(from what I remember)he left the family and parents allowed it to happen.
FUCKED UP. She's spoiled and it shows which fits the plot. How someone with influence, money, and power gets away with shit. We see her push push push and she gets away with everything it's annoying. She's not even a child but acts like it at times. Admittedly, she's not an adult either so there's that.

it's like spell from book. if u are villain everyone will believe u are. and forget the reason. dont u remember MC father acted when og ml asking him he wanna take the gold mine from mc? before he was like "ok, I'll talk to her," then he remembered why he gonna help og ml take the gold mine from his daughter?
the second was ml parents, they was believe ml was bad person without asking the reason. then bcs they talking with mc they suddenly gain concluiness.
i think this one will like the 'beware the villainess'. which mean some author have control to everyone ecxept mc an ppl who interaction with her.

I don’t think Taiga should’ve blamed his dad, I don’t think his grandma should’ve blamed Makihara, and I don’t think Makihara should’ve essentially blamed Taiga.
First and foremost, Makihara should’ve at least let Taiga know he was leaving. Taiga was freaked out (as one would expect) bc his boyfriend suddenly left without any explanation, and then Maki slaps him for voicing that stress (even if it was something extreme like leaving his family). That’s not right. You shoulda spoken to him first and given him time to process it.
Then Taiga turned that stress on his father (again, to be expected that he’s lashing out bc he wasn’t given a chance to talk about it and regulate his feelings), and he shouldn’t have. It’s not your dad’s fault that you feel powerless. Talk about those feelings with people who support you.
And finally, no matter her reasons, the grandma sucks and shouldn’t have secretly imposed her selfish, one-sided opinions on Maki. Maki isn’t the reason your family isn’t perfect or might face struggles in the future; you’re just taking out your own fears and feelings of inadequacy about your relationship with your family on a complete stranger, lady. Get over yourself, and openly talk about your concerns - don’t do shady shit behind everyone’s back.

I can’t handle it when one of the lead characters acts in a way that can be misunderstood (i.e., the FL assumed to be flirting with some other guy and the ML gets all depressed). Stop going around with Manuel everywhere all the time! Why are you tenderly caressing his face right after he confessed if you don’t have feelings for him? And then Jenesia and Kallian don’t even work out their misunderstanding and somehow they end up with being “finally friends”??!?! And I 100% think author-nim is trolling us and they didn’t actually kiss. Because why would they realize their feelings after taking the time to talk to each other? That would be reasonable, and we can’t have that! (╯°Д °)╯╧╧

…and I have a few take aways:
1. I’m tired of this lovesick little twink thinking he’s the center of Tsubaki’s universe. (╬ ̄皿 ̄)凸 I get that Nana’s receiving mixed signals because he can’t see Kabuto, but Tsubaki isn’t smiling at you, stupid, so stop drooling all over him! I’m worried that the author is going to drag this misunderstanding out for an excruciatingly long time. His sad eyes whenever he looks at Tsubaki makes me die of third-hand embarrassment every time he shows up. Ugh.
2. Tsubaki trying to figure out how he can touch Kabuto without breaking him is just sooooo cute…in a kind of terrifying way. ( ̄∇ ̄") And it’s heartbreaking that he realizes he feels this way and yet Kabuto doesn’t have a body…ack! My heart!
3. I really like Ibitsu. In a bizarre way, I think he’s the most normal of them all. His knowing smiles just send me.
4. That sensei is sus. Not just that he’s gonna try to hurt our precious Tsubaki, but my conspiracy theory is that he’s somehow involved in Kabuto’s accident…!

It’s one thing for a story to drag a little, but to drag out shitty manipulation from the evil wizard and the duke being SA’d over and over and Narcis just lying on the floor bleeding…I keep holding on, hoping the author will just resolve this and we can get to happy sexy times, but at this point, it’s not worth my mental health anymore.

I just started reading this, and I’m pausing at the beginning of ch. 100, because I can’t believe the king was just leaning casually against the door frame? It’s like they wanted his reaction to be intense, but when someone tries to strangle your wife, maybe *don't* stand there and, I dunno…physically intervene??? And why did her brother get to go home without being punished for attacking the queen of a neighboring country??? I don’t know if other people have already had this discussion but I’m fuuuuurious right now. (╯°Д °)╯╧╧
I also read the raws and there is so much rape, so much horrible sexual violence, and the ending does NOT make up for any of it. Do they end up together? Yes. But not only does the top rape his “love” repeatedly, but the bottom is raped over and over and over by fucking disgusting old men, the top is forced to participate, their “friend” betrays them because he’s a homophobic piece of shit, and there isn’t any healing, reconciling of the trauma, just a sudden end. And the main bad guy doesn’t even die, and the enabler gets paid. I hate this. I hate the author. Sick, twisted bastard. I hate myself for reading it. I literally feel sick. I really recommend you don’t read this if you are in any way upset by SA.
What the actual fuck omg
wtf omg to think these actually happened in rl too ;;-;;
Wtf thank you I will drop this
Thank you for the warning kind soul
DELETE THIS GARBAGE OFF THE WEBSITEEE
Oh you save me the trouble of continuing after chapter 1
WTF!! Some ppl really NEED to B medicated and put in a hole to create this ISH and have ppl read it!! THANK U kind one for the warning!!