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Red head kills the Duke for her after she tells him she’s being threatened and held hostage. Her original plan was to just kill the Duke and herself. Red head tells her to wait and turns out he has his own holy relic that allows him to travel great distances. The Duke tries to threaten red head in a prior event and brings up the same threat when they reunite during the killing scene. It becomes clear to the red head the Duke is a liar and would always try to manipulate the red head to his will. Red head is descended from a dragon btw and is able to detect lies. Anyways, Duke legit does not expect to be killed and dies pretty pathetically.
She does end up with major trust issues due to the Duke and attempts suicide in front of her family, using poison the red head gifted to her upon her request (originally intended to poison the original FL of the story). Red head visits FL daily during her recovering and helps bring her out of depression).
I go back and forward on liking the ending. Like- 100 chapters spent building up this love story with the duke. Then like 15 chapters of Duke being a POS. Then he just dies. But that’s what life is like- it’s snuffed out so easily. FL finds out she’s not a bastard and her father knows she’s his child. Her step mom? She was a prostitute the father bought a title for. Making her brother of true lowly origins. There’s a really sweet scene where she attends her brother’s b day in a black dress (major taboo) and red head shows up in all black too.
War is imminent in the kingdom. Red head and her fight the head of his family and the two of them flee to another country to escape being killed and exploited for the war. The kingdom is on a losing streak at the end. The FL’s brother and father die in war. Funny thing, if FL hadn’t run away and the brother didn’t have the father put in writing he was the official heir, they probably could’ve sent the FL to war instead of the brother. Anyways, on the run, FL cuts her hair and creates a wig for red head (Carl). They live a humble life with red head as the cook
As mentioned, red head is descended from a dragon and has a certain degree of blood lust. Without violence, he goes through withdrawals and becomes irritable. Uhh turns out red head didn’t know what sex was. At all. So him and FL read spicy novels together and do the deed. The discover sex gets rid of the blood lust. So FL suffers greatly with daily fun time. Always sore lol. It’s implied at the end she becomes pregnant and they dream of having 3 kids together.
Let’s goooooo,I love it (Mc and red head) I’m definitely going to read the novel now
Tysm this made my day! I love that the donor died and his line ended lmao! Not buying that he was clueless cus wdym ignoring even her greetings and never celebrating holidays or birthdays and he "didn't realize" her suffering. Miss me with that!
I will say, I think it's realistic that she fell for another toxic guy even tho she was being cautious since she has no idea what a healthy relationship should be or look like. A lot of FLs suddenly become perfect and has everything go their way with a second chance so this is refreshing. Also hilarious that she will forever have eye bags with her always needing snu snu ML hurhur
I def have mix feelings on the ending! In some ways, it felt rushed and left some plot holes or summarized some plot holes in a very quick way that was like, is that all? At the same time, realistically, that’s how life is. Shit happens and you don’t always get all the answers. And if you’re on the run, extra hard to get those answers.
FL and ML have this long fight because ML is destined to die in war. The price of overusing the relic is for his limbs to literally be torn apart at the joints. That’s how he dies in the original story. FL doesn’t want him to go to war. So he keeps asking her to choose between the kingdom and him and also keeps mentioning his duty as a member of his family of knights to protect the kingdom. Turns out, he just wanted to hear FL say “f*ck the kingdom. You’re more impt to me than these innocent civilians. How gives a sh-t about this lame -ss kingdom.” Paraphrasing. Def mixed signals lol.
Damn that's a big ask for someone who was never allowed to be "selfish" and lived catering to others ╥﹏╥
Who is the red head? The andras ?? So karl andras is the real ml ??
Yes. I figured people would recognize the hair better lol.
Wow the first one that has no love triangle lmaoo
Ehhh. You don’t mind if I spoil more right? So no love triangle perse. Like I said before, Duke is psycho and OG novel was NOT a romance. Turns out, he faked being in love with the OG FL to seize the throne and the OG novel ends with him killing the OG FL.
In the current timeline, he is engaged to FL. Yet, keeps meeting the OG FL “secretly.” He tells OG FL that FL is crazy and not a good partner and that he intends to break the engagement but is being emotionally abused and tied down by the FL. He confesses to the OG FL and claims to love her instead if I remember correctly. Or at least it is expressed his goal is to leave the FL and pursue the OG FL. So kind of a love triangle.
The OG FL and FL become close friends because the FL’s original goal was to kill the OG FL as revenge. But she eventually gives up this revenge because she falls in love with the Duke and acknowledges that the OG FL made her decisions in the OG timeline based on manipulation and info she was fed. OG FL approaches FL and informs her of the things the Duke has been telling her. The lies. Deception. At first, FL doesn’t believe her but does confront the Duke.
Duke eventually breaks his character and fesses up to plotting and taking advantage of the FL. He was the one to send assassins to the FL. Not his brother. Anyways, he tells the FL to tell him where the holy artifact is at. He assumes it’s on her and it’s briefly mentioned that he strip searches her and humiliates her. There’s a lot of back and forward with mentally torturing her in his bedroom (her prison) and him getting pure glee out of her misery. He offers to marry her for real if she hands over the artifact blah blah blah. At one point, he thinks to himself, the artifact may be IN her body. They make a deal that if she doesn’t confess the artifacts location within 2 weeks, he will kill her. After killing her, he planned on dissecting her to find the artifact. Anyways, red head comes in and saves the day. It was a pretty brutal but quick demise. Got beat up by the red head and thrown off a cliff. I think I recall that beasts also got to the body? It was hard to recognize the body at the funeral but they were able to confirm it.
Holy shit. I like how the story goes HAHAHA, its really not the typical stories.
It’s really not! Up until the point of the OG FL telling the FL the truth about the Duke, the only indication that he was off was that he got weird and adversity when the FL initiated intimate contact with him- which was rare for her to do anyways. He was more proactive and smooth in initiating intimate contact. What’s really odd is that I think more than half of the novel was dedicated to her relationship with the Duke and seeking revenge, with Karl (red head) appearing randomly as her supportive little puppy/servant. So you would think the Duke was end game. His death was so quick that I was like ??? Is this all? Is it an imposter body? Is he going to be revealed later? Nope. Turned out, Duke was shitty to other people too. Lots of blackmail and illegal shit. So when he died, everyone went after his supporters/employees. So FL got away pretty easily. Looking back tho, there were always hints that the red head was the better choice. Like the fox pelt situation I mentioned before.
EXACTLY!!! I love how the manga/manhwa itself didint emphasize on the looks… like almost every single manhwa i read the mc must be a beauty out of this world. And most of em doesnt have like scars, or blind (maybe i never found one). Like most ml, most of them blind (will be cure late which i dont like), cripple, cant walk, (also will be cure later).
I also love how the ml wasnt there, like annoyingly showing there and there. I like how the fl is the one doing the payback and ml doesnt try or interfere or do it for her.
this one is legit 100% focus on revenge and realistically while doing the revenge you also can be trap by other bad character.
This is great, I wasn’t expecting this ending.
I need more titles like this. (๑•ㅂ•)و✧
Any recommendations?
Unfortunately I think this is a pretty unique story lol. I can’t really think of any quite like it.
Try “kill the villainess”
Read it like 5 times already ….its one of my TOP 10
I’m still reading the novel rn, but the duke is pretty shitty. The OG novel was not a romance… the Duke is quite literally a psychopath. No joke. Legit why his family doesn’t want him to be the successor. He fools everyone tho. Takes 2 yrs before the FL finally falls for him… all for it to go up in flames and he tortures her. Mentally and somewhat physically. Red head kills the Duke for her. Some major family drama occurs and turns out her dad was just 100% clueless on her treatment in the home. Which is quite shitty. Anyways- she ends up drinking poison in front of her family intentionally. After the duke is killed, she enters a major depression of self loathing for falling for someone’s lies again and falling in love. Red head visits her every day to help her find the joy in life and bring her out of her depression.
FYI on the novel- there’s quite a bit of animal cruelty. The dukes hobby is hunting. At one point, he kills a snow leopard and serves it to the FL in some grand display… there’s also a hunting competition where he goes out and kills a buuuunch of foxes for the FL (funny enough tho, he ends up stealing most of the prey from other people. FL is uninterested in the foxes tbh but she mentions constantly how much she loves the color black and hates how she can only wear it at funeral. Red head coincidently hunts and gifts her a beautiful black fox pelt, which is the only gift she truly expresses interest in on a personal level. The dukes back story also explains how he enjoyed killing small animals as a child and his greatest interest is watching people fall into misery).