
lmao imagine being a medieval peasant in that kingdom with limited options for entertainment and then THIS happens
you were there for the whole navier-rashta / sovieshu-heinrey fiasco and you think after a while, 'damn, these royals be crazy. oh well, back to my job it can't possibly get any more messed up than this.'
and THEN you hear the cheating emperor's murderous mistress/empress was deposed, revealed to be a slave, and executed- BUT not before she screamed to the entire noble court that the emperor was firing blanks- the very accusation he used to depose the first empress, gasp the irony- AND he wasn't the babydaddy of the current crown princess.
the drama of it all. i'd be hanging out at the market all afternoon like, "he revealed what omg" and "she said the emperor was WHAT"

i also like these ones that doesn't take itself seriously. there's a basic fantasy regression plot, you got your groveling and obsessed ML and your baddie marysue FL. you got your Big Angsty Circumstance That He Wishes To Change. it has a nice, well-proportioned art that captures expressions well. perfect, consistent formula.
what i WOULD like to see less of is ML acting cocky & forgetting he still oughta be on his knees apologizing and FL slipping into old habits of babying the ML in social and diplomatic situations. there's some pushback from FL so hopefully we get more of that.

-Ranks #1 without any tutoring or any other special connections, just hard work
-Is bullied for an ENTIRE YEAR and even gets his finger broken, but kept thinking about his parents sacrifices instead of his own welfare
-Likely has been neglected/ostracized by the teachers the entire time he was being bullied but does the right thing anyway and reports the incident to the teachers AND had the presence of mind to also report to the police when that didn't work
-& when THAT didn't work, homie literally went ride or die and broke off a fucking makeshift weapon and was ready to shank someone to help. never mind how he was also shaking in his boots after the trauma of being bullied for so long and also knowing they would be vastly outnumbered if he went in to help hyunsung.

not my suspension of disbelief breaking when they mentioned she's 18 lmao. 30+ y/o dude hangin out with a recently 18y/o government issued, drag-racing, medical-practicioning, miracle-cure making, whitehat tech hacking, college entrance exams topping, martial arts expert chess grandmaster business mogul. why tf you gotta say it author

hair pull was satisfying but not enough. wish she dragged her by the scalp up to the front door and kicked her out in the rain or something. so i'm just gonna imagine how the dad will tear that nanny apart once he hears how she used the dead duchess' name that he's so sensitive about to manipulate one of his kids
i thought there was a new chapter
Isn't chapter 14 new!?