I can empathize with what he endured as a child, the abuse from his parents and the torture he later suffered under the emperors orders. His life was marked by pain and betrayal (clearly there was a conspiracy against his house). But his past doesn't erase his crimes. It can't justify the way he treats a woman who is faultless in his suffering, a woman who genuinely loved him and even helped him.
His behavior is not born of love but of selfishness and obsession. He channels his hatred of the emperor and her family into her, weaponizing her loyalty. He manipulates her guilt, sexually abuses her, and deliberately breaks her until she becmes a fragile, compliant shell of her former self, a fucking doll he can always access and control.
Major spoiler ahead:
In the manhwa this abuse is depicted, but in the novel it's even more explicit.
Her first experience with him is a brutal rape. He
"rescues" her from a forced marriage to a fifty yearold man, something arranged by her own brothers (that want the throne), but his salvation is nothing but a creepy ass opportunity for him, he literally tells her "Either live sucking my dick or kill yourself. Those are your only options". She of course chooses rape because it's the only way to survive.
At one point he even says, while raping her, "Maybe it shouldn't just be me enjoying this hole. Such a waste, maybe your subordinates should have a taste too", degrading her.
All of this cruelty stems from a misunderstanding because he believes she agreed to send him to the border, even though it was solely her brother's order. He forgets everything she has done for him, everything she sacrificed, and takes her loyalty for granted. The suffering she endures is the direct result of his filthy mistrust. Eventually she reaches a breaking point. She wants to die, to leave her place as empress. Only when he loses her does he realize too late that he truly loves her. Regretful he begs her to punish him, and she does until he is groveling on the floor, asking for forgiveness.
I won't spoil any further details. But the story is a devastating portrait of how trauma can twist someone into a monster and how, in the end, remorse is often not enough to undo what's been done.
She didn't cheat. She was drugged and raped. People really need to work on their reading comprehension so this can get through their thick head. This sounds like victim blaming to me. A person under the influence CANNOT consent and she screamed at him to stop.
Also spoilers from the book since i read it(whoever wants to also read it, go to eternaluna scans they have the best translation and if you don't want to buy earlier the chapters from 26 until 40 (it's less than 5 usd) they will get released for free pretty soon):
The boyfriend is a piece of shit who cheated on her countless times and saw her a piece of meat. Back then he made people isolate her and approached her when her mom died and she was vulnerable, because he wanted to sleep with her. He reveals who he is pretty soon by lusting for the 'governess' (blond bitch who abuses the maids) and having a mental breakdown, saying Anna will make him a 'cuck'. She even breaks up with him after seeing his true face and that's BEFORE she gets into the coercive relationship with the Marquis you'll see her getting into in the next chapters, with the hope that she can get back to her world.
Her relationship with the marquis is coercive and violent, she's not a willing participant. Saying an assault victim cheated in the first place, is absurd and callous.
Also, for people who wonder about it, Anna's current age is 24, the boyfriend's 25-26 and the Marquis (Rothbart) is 38. In the past, her version from the other dimension, married him when she was 21 and he was 24. But they met when she was 19 and he was 22. She gave birth at 24 and left him, so her current age is symbolic.
"He's nothing but a low life thug!"
Said the sociopath rapist who wants to get his victim pregnant, without any care if the father and baby die. If mc is a thug, the. he is lower than trash. Dropped. Aside from having a ridiculous plot (you'll see what i mean once you read it), ml is so fucking disgusting, i'd rather not waste my time more.
MC and her brother are surrounded by predators, and it's fucking sickening. The lawyer is despicable, the pedophile even worse, and the aunt's comment that the brother is "at fault" for his SA made my blood boil. He was, and still is, a child. The story captures very realistically how threats and psychological control work in an abusive household. The FL was conditioned to believe she's a burden, that everything is her fault. The brother, meanwhile, was groomed into thinking he was responsible for his own assault, silenced with threats, and forbidden to tell his sister.
Mc was forced to grow up too quickly, carrying the responsibilities of the adults who failed her, all while being resented for things she had no power over. Her baby brother, drowning in fear and trauma, turned his anger on her, the closest figure he expected to protect him. I don't blame him for that. But I also don't blame her. Being "the adult" was never meant to be her role: she was a child too, suffering through her own abuse.
And no, her pain wasn't limited to "just a slap" as some claim. The slap was only one glimpse of a much bigger pattern. Abuse doesn't have to be tallied like points in a competition, both siblings endured it, both are victims, and both deserve freedom from it.
Cool manhwa but it's NOT josei. I want to be able to use the tag Josei and actually find Josei manhwa, not seinen. The motherfucker who misplaces the tags, may you step on fucking LEGO
Nope. I don't think so. The story reads as seinen, not josei. It's not about the art style, I've read plenty of josei with similar artwork. The key difference lies in how the characters are written and portrayed. Just because the protagonist is a woman doesn't automatically make it josei. Look at the mannerisms and personalities: the heavy sexualization of the girl who loves drinking, the thought process of the girl who runs the university club, these are very much written through a male gaze. If you've read enough josei and seinen, you can recognize the distinction instantly. And again, I'm not talking about the art, but about the tone, characterization, and perspective of the writing itself.
Why are you guys surprised Yul doesn't change in the end? He showed who he is, which is a manipulative, obsessive, selfish sociopath. It would be weirder if he magically became a self sacrificing (by letting Howoo go), selfless and truly caring individual after what we witnessed about him. Some of the worst sociopaths aren't born this way, not everything needs to be about a hurt ml with a plot that takes advantage of his abuse to justify and magically change him into a kind person despite committing some horrifying shit. People can have a hurt childhood and still be a non justifiable piece of trash. Yul always cared more about how HE feels not how Howoon does. Howoon's feelings come second. If Yul wants to own Howoon, he will regardless of how Howoon feels. If he wants to take he will. Be it through emotional manipulation or straight up threats.If he wants to destroy he will. What matters in the end, is what HE wants. I think a lot of us get lost in the clichè fairytale of a violent, dangerous and straight up horrible individual, turning into a misunderstood (who still committed the crimes he is accused of, but STILL misunderstood), deep down kind and caring prince who is only rough around the edges (i mean he still kills and rapes but UwU).










So, since ml is 100% the demonic Soultan Azathoth, basically the creator of the universe, the flute part (in which he said her voice is better than a flute) was a reference to the fact that Azathoth is asleep and is kept in that state by other amorphous entities which play the flutes. If the flutes stop, he will wake up and if he wakes up, the whole world will end.
This will happen because he "generates" worlds through his dreams and he does so randomly, that's why he is called "the idiot blind God", because he represents chaos and randomness. The universe after all IS believed to be random and chaotic.
SPOILERS TOO
Oh absolutely. Could be a subtle way of saying that she's the reason he stays asleep, so they can live out a life together in this world he created. It seems like he generated a world before and met her first then, and has now generated this world to live out a life together.
Also, Nia is definitely Nyarlathotep (Nia = Nya), a spawn of Azathoth. He walks the earth in the guise of a tall, slim man who uses deception and manipulation to reach his goals.
"He is also the servant of Azathoth, whose fitful, spastic wishes he immediately fulfills. Conversely, he seems to have a low opinion of Azathoth"
All of that lines up with Nia's character, who is the only one who passes as human to the FL and is in a servant position to ML who he seemingly has a bad/reluctant relationship with.
The Dagon (monster turned into the doormat) is from The Shadow over Innsmouth
And the colours in her dream in ch. 2 is from The Color Out of Space
Y’all are hella cultured
Yup, exactly.
I love how well read the author of this webtoon is, never expected to actually read Azathoth romance. Not even in my wildest dreams. What's next, Cthulhu? (i wouldn't say no to this)
Have you ever played Sucker for Love? It's not one to one, but it's very much a cosmic horror dating sim LMAO
Just checked it on steam, it's pretty cheap so i may consider checking it out lmao
my thoughts exactlyreading these comments make me feel like i’m in a mythology class or smth and i love it
Meh, we're just Lovecraft geeks, nothing that fancy.