where did you read that? cuz if it doesn't show in the upcoming chapters, I'll really would wanna read it. Cuz im noticing that a few ppl are mentioning how they understand him after hearing his story
Wow, the downvotes. Do you hate Ruve that much? Sorry, but his story does exist whether you like it or not and it does paint a different picture so... I think maybe the manga will focus on it in the future.
Read The Fall of the Sun
https://www.wattpad.com/871808349-the-abandoned-empress-book-6-side-story-4-1-the
thank you! I just finished reading it. I feel zero remorse for him. He's story only pissed me off. It's so hard because clearly he is a better person in the second timeline, but it's only because he got interested in her because she showed fear and anger after what he did to her. So like yes I think we should forgive him( after all it isn't something he did in his second lifetime) but no way does he deserve her. Because forgiving is one thing and having a romantic relationship is another. I still vote carrot
I guess it’s probably because I heard there’s conflicting prologues that I went into this more or less not taking sides that it eased me into reading his POV and seeing how things are. Not to say you’re wrong at all, but I think the tragedy is because things were so irredeemable in the first timeline that you know things couldN’t have ended any other way for him. The second timeline is ‘what happens when things are right’ and I appreciated that. It also helps that I don’t ship anyone and I’m not really as fond of Tia as everyone else.
This will be stepping on many toes, but I just want to share... Am I the only one whose heart hurt when I read Ruve’s ending? He was an utter destructive bastard in Tia’s prologue, but in Ruve’s prologue and epilogue, it was just so different, so many things that Tia truly missed or saw wrong. The rape, the child, how he actually wanted to crown Tia’s child as crown prince, how he thought Tia was glad to get rid of her child...
When he died, I felt it was a form of redemption for him, because he never asked for forgiveness nor wanted to re-do things, all he thought of was Tia, until he died. I felt he really gave up and accepted his end with peace, even though his kingship crumbled and he was chased like a criminal.
It doesn’t excuse him whatsoever for the thing she did, but at the end, all I felt was pity for him, for the paranoia and turmoil that plagued him from beginning to the end, and how everything never allowed his sprout of feelings for Tia to truly blossom, until he saw it for himself in his final hours. I never felt he was ‘in love’ with Jieun, more like he accepted her because that’s how things should be.
The prince in second timeline is completely different, but I still somewhat feel for the prince of first timeline, that everything truly ended as a tragedy and the miscommunications and confusion never cleared up. Ahhhhh. :(