Ambiguous end about the two men closest to the lead character. Why?... Fear of the author for her manhwa being labeled as a "reverse harem"?... Emperors always had an empress, but also concubines and/or consorts; harems after all... Jeok-Yeon wants to be powerful while showing herself as the woman she is. Governors, kings or emperors are the ones who created harems in history, hundreds of years before manhwas or mangas were created. So, what's the problem?... That she is a woman?... What do you think?
I REALLY LOVE this manhwa. That's why I am spending this much time trying to figure out why such a "master piece manhwa" seems to lose coherence at the end. And it squanders such good art (drawing and over all I love the coloring!) and the coherence of some very good characters at the end, as if the author was in a hurry to finish the story. The main three characters seems to become chess pieces in a strange romantic game. I recommend to forget about "end games" here; the story ends up with both men by her side. Although Biseol was already chosen from the beginning to live eternally by her side if she managed to become emperor..
With such a quality work,... was it really necessary to divide readers into "Team Biseol" or "Team Doha", taking the spotlight away from her?... If the ending was going to be as ambiguous as author made it, maybe I would have preferred that either Biseol had died on Demon Beast Mountain or Doha had died in the final trial on the island. Or even both of them had died (poor Jeok-Yeon. I would have felt pity for her if that was the case).
I'm still trying to analyze this story in my wish to understand, from an amateur writer point of view, what the author's intentions were in writing the final evolution of the characters and the end this way.
"An Ongoing Story", "A Never-Ending Story", "An Everlasting Story" are called the three last chapters. Maybe author meant... "Imagine the continuation you like, 'cause I'm sick of it and I quit." I can't blame her. It seems to have been her first and (from what I've read) her last work. Maybe she couldn't stand the pressure of the expectations. I guess is not very good that your first work is as good as this is... But I hope she recovers and keeps creating in the future. It would be a GREAT LOST if she didn't...
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Feels to me like author rushes the end.
Ambiguous end about the two men closest to the lead character.
Why?... Fear of the author for her manhwa being labeled as a "reverse harem"?... Emperors always had an empress, but also concubines and/or consorts; harems after all... Jeok-Yeon wants to be powerful while showing herself as the woman she is. Governors, kings or emperors are the ones who created harems in history, hundreds of years before manhwas or mangas were created. So, what's the problem?... That she is a woman?... What do you think?
I REALLY LOVE this manhwa. That's why I am spending this much time trying to figure out why such a "master piece manhwa" seems to lose coherence at the end. And it squanders such good art (drawing and over all I love the coloring!) and the coherence of some very good characters at the end, as if the author was in a hurry to finish the story. The main three characters seems to become chess pieces in a strange romantic game. I recommend to forget about "end games" here; the story ends up with both men by her side. Although Biseol was already chosen from the beginning to live eternally by her side if she managed to become emperor..
With such a quality work,... was it really necessary to divide readers into "Team Biseol" or "Team Doha", taking the spotlight away from her?... If the ending was going to be as ambiguous as author made it, maybe I would have preferred that either Biseol had died on Demon Beast Mountain or Doha had died in the final trial on the island. Or even both of them had died (poor Jeok-Yeon. I would have felt pity for her if that was the case).
I'm still trying to analyze this story in my wish to understand, from an amateur writer point of view, what the author's intentions were in writing the final evolution of the characters and the end this way.
"An Ongoing Story", "A Never-Ending Story", "An Everlasting Story" are called the three last chapters. Maybe author meant... "Imagine the continuation you like, 'cause I'm sick of it and I quit." I can't blame her. It seems to have been her first and (from what I've read) her last work. Maybe she couldn't stand the pressure of the expectations. I guess is not very good that your first work is as good as this is... But I hope she recovers and keeps creating in the future. It would be a GREAT LOST if she didn't...