Thank you.
you’re welcome (๑•ㅂ•)و✧
I think there’s something wrong with her—either she’s a sadist, or she’s experienced some kind of trauma herself. I don’t understand the desire to write stories like this, where everyone is constantly suffering ┗( T﹏T )┛
I kinda get her tbh. There's so many stories with FLs that take charge of their own destiny that it's kinda refreshing to see neverending angst about a FL that behaves and reacts accordingly to her age and the trauma. Same with the ML. The way we see him is twisted since it's from the FL's POV. He's not a lovesick puppy (yet) that wants to free her from all the evil cause he's just another person under the twins. It's a long journey that awaits them but I'm kinda excited to experience it in the manhwa and wonder if everything will be the same as in the novel.
Not everything can be happy, many dark stories are written to explore emotions and issues faced in reality, it depends how its conveyed which makes it “tasteful” or not. This is a manhwa, so Im not going to expect literary genius but as a growing genre people will delve into more subject themes; but its made for consumption. If its not to your taste, theres something else for you. Im liking this, its a bit painful but successes aren’t satisfying without the struggle to get there. Hope this makes sense
Of course, not every story should be purely happy—that would be boring—but I feel the author swings too far in the opposite direction; an excess of constant suffering also makes a story tedious to read.
Here’s info for anyone wondering about the author’s intentions/POV.
Author Kim Suji (also famous for Under the Oak Tree) has explicitly stated in interviews that she prefers writing "dark and distinctive stories" that go against mainstream happy-ending expectations. Rather than altering the tragic timeline in the main comic, she has noted that she plans to write a large volume of "side stories" to give readers closure after putting them through so much angst.