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I'm having this problem with Your Ryan. The free chapters of the novel were far enough ahead that when the manwha was catching up, it started changing more and more of the plot for seemingly no reason. So I can't read the latter until I finish the former.
Normally, I find the novel has only had a couple chapters translated so the manwha is further along. So I sympathize how these last fifty or so chapters must have felt like.
Im not sure if this can be considered as spoilers since the comic is going into the side stories now but something’s were different in the novel.
For starters the witch actually wasn’t this involved, she didn’t know about Selena being a woman until after Ignis finds out. She also changes her mind about helping the empress, when the emperor dies she remembers that she left an item that summons monsters with the empress (this was when she decided not to help her anymore) and goes to Selena in the middle of the night to warn her about the empress summoning a monster invasion.
Another change was when Selena leaves after the battle, this does happen but she has a reason. Selena decides to go to the church the witch mentioned to see what god had to say, unfortunately they don’t reveal what Selena heard at the church but her soul is now normal after this.
Another change was the empress, she didn’t turn into this red monster she did close the gates when Ignis went to deal with the monster invasion but at the end she doesn’t die she is sent away (unlike the comic which looks like she most likely died).
There are more changes too like Celestine being captured, in the novel he doesn’t get captured, during the battle with the empress when the palace gates are opened he goes to look for Letio and confronts him.
The way Ignis proposes is different too along with the discovery of her pregnancy.
I wonder why they decided to change things from the novel in a way it seems like they rushed the ending a bit.