Protecting her in his own way means intentionally cheating on her to push her away so she can stop loving him for her own sake right? Ignoring her health while pregnant, ignoring their child for years was all just to keep her safe right? Well that was their past life and he didn't know better, soon enough he'll find out the truth behind the death of the former empress blah blah what amazing things will he do?, maybe trap her in her own like she's a criminal, threaten to use her beloved child's life as a leash over her, disregard her at every other turn, I won't even count the way he treats her during their bed scenes or how that's the only thing he ever thinks of, and so casually crushing all the freedom she managed to gain for herself without again giving a damn about what it is that she wants. I know you want to take a balanced approach to viewing the characters but this dude isn't worth defending
Even if he was protecting gal, at the end of the day he made her suffer.
Gal wasn't even like insufferable in the past live. She loved him yeah, had a baby then the love went to the baby solely.
I wanna say dad aside she just wants her baby back sadly with this man.
I get where you’re coming from but she was already approaching adulthood when all of these were happening and even after getting her child did she not think to leave him even after all his mistreatment?
Like miss girl is also a princess, she can just go back home. Had she not done what she did with her husband in the current timeline —writing a contract or prepare for divorce in order to leave, she chose to stay with him. And mind you, she was old enough to make the decisions she currently made in her current timeline to get away from ml after having the baby . So you literally can’t say much about her actions in the previous timeline, cause she’s also an idiot for staying and thinking that ml would care an ounce even after knowing that he never once cared to look at her or the baby’s way.
The only reason she’s even acting different now, is because she got killed. Like if she never got killed, she’d continue to stay with that asshole all her life.
I don’t know what’s more pathetic, her love is blind and staying with the ML even after all that mistreatment, or the ML being retarded and not telling her about his curse in the first place so she wouldn’t get the wrong ideas.
Idk they’re both stupid for not communicating. You literally can’t blame one or the other.
Because a lot of these stories are built on misunderstandings and distrust. I can think of so many reasons why the ML is a POS but
You can’t dismiss why he’s being like that towards her and overshadow it with some cheating, mistreatment.
His momma boo bear died in a fire where mc was witness. On top of that a curse where he can’t even fall in love with someone without them dying. Of course she don’t remember due to trauma but she could at least read the room, been mindful or use that to her advantage.
She was just blindly in-love with this guy. give the ML a break, too. This dumbass didn’t even learn how to show his love properly because bro didn’t grow up with parents who’d show him how to do it in order not to hurt the other party. Bro grew up with the nonchalance “if I show her some disinterest, she’ll soon back off” but no, she was like “damn bro I like this guy a lot, even after experiencing his mistreatment.”
ML: Mother dead, curse, resorts to mistreatment; cheating, hostility, indifference. That’s it.
MC: Arson event, trauma, fall in love with said person who’s mother died from arson event, instead of reading the room, decides to stay with him and do nothing even after experiencing mistreatment, has HIS baby, decides to stay with him regardless even after knowing he don’t gaf bout the kid or her and resorts to cheating, still doesn’t do shit.
The ML pisses me off, to a point but miss princess over here also pisses me off for not doing anything sooner.
Love is not that deep unless you’re mental. People who can’t contain their love or don’t know how to proceed in showing it should get therapists.
Love in all forms is beautiful but not when they’re both retarded and don’t know how to communicate it with words or actions and instead choose indifference towards the wall they’re building higher and higher against each other.
What I’m tryna convey may come off as insensitive or shallow or like not even articulate enough to even get the message across, but she literally summed up what I said by putting it into action and communicated it in her CURRENT timeline.
So, she had the option to do it in her previous timeline, too. They both did, actually. But since she spoke up first, the ML slowly changed his indifference and hostility towards her.
Maybe I don’t have much to say about the ML because I don’t have his POV but we have hers, and her past life self was an idiot.
She suffered because she chose to stay and do nothing instead of being the first to communicate that she’s had enough of his foolish shenanigans.
A rabbit shouldn’t stay in a tigers den if she knows it’s going to be the reason she gets ripped apart.
Look at where that got her— Fucking killed in the end. And not even by that retards curse, but by murder.
And now that’s she’s died, she suddenly has a change of heart. And only now decides to do what it takes to make it up to him ; get a hypnotist. She even plans a fake affair to later divorce him and leave him after getting the baby.
She could’ve done allat in her previous life btw.
The Empress was not his mother, it was his aunt
Also she could've divorced dude and just took the baby if guy truly didnt love gal and also the child.
I doubt guy killed gal actually. Possibilities of could've killed gal im think king, mother or bloody white saint. If guy did kill gal ahh ok
Same shit brah. Bros only blood relative who actually cared for him or taught him how to love died. And bro did not grow up with nurturing familiars.
Nah it’s in the manhwa and spoilers that it wasn’t his doing. I’m pretty sure spoilers* reversing the clock was his doing too. Not sure tho. Forgot.
lol why are the comments so angry. It literally shows a glimpse of the past from where Blair died and from the dukes POV.
Yall hating but that was his way of protecting her in his own way. And also because from his pov in their past life, she was a witness of the death of his mother. And refused to speak up about it in court btw (not knowing whether she spoke truth or lie. )
So you can’t really blame them both, for their povs and experiences which vary from that time. And also not to mention, MLs curse which brought him to act that way towards our MC.
(Don’t mean to sound condescending by that title, but I meant that genuinely. ‘Cause some of yall just straight up hating without truly understanding context and just hating to hate when it’s literally in the manhwa to be read given context clues on how they were both brought up)
Bro grew up an orphan duke. and a princess grown on meek care, not by her parents, but through her caregivers and dukes mother. Though she forgot, due to trauma. She grew up surrounded by people. The ML didn’t after his mother died. Which caused him to not even know an ounce of how to treat others because bro is practically all alone. Bearing the burden of having a loved one killed and no one to teach him how to love without hiding it.