I know he seems cold, but they told us how he was brutally trained and conditioned from a young age to be an emotionless tool. Thalia on the other hand was never taught how to handle herself, neither of them learned self preservation or normalcy.
They had eachother for a while as kids, and that kindling is the only reason Varkas has any humanity left, and although Thalia’s obsession was unhealthy for herself, she was clinging onto the one figure she actually ever trusted. So its pitiful and sad, as much as she is a villainess Varkas is a baddie.
At least we understand the rest of them are just as bad if not worse… except for the knight who is just a sweetie pie.
The amount of SA in this is kind of horrifying but inevitable with the setting. Its so stressful but well written for the most part.
They keep track of a characters emotions quite well, and it doesn’t have any nonsensical twists, though I must say the second hand embarrassment in the early chapters was pretty strong. Once MC turned cold the story was much better.
Also glad we settled for the best ML and no weird hidden route situations.
Now I only see an ending where MC gets a hold of the ring, makes the prince’s world crumble and takes revenge, then Duke can succeed the throne bcus he’s aight in my book (like he didn’t really mean to do bad stuff, and hes trying to correct his mistakes)
And our happy couple can finally live out in peace in a country cottage happily ever after.
Also, hell no redemption for prince. Even without the charm he was a cunning, conniving, mean, promiscuous turd-face. The paralytic stuff is enough for me to kill him
I really hope he gets his memories back because right now he just seems like a child, you can’t romance that no matter how old he actually if hes mentally just a baby.
I don't think he's like a child, its like he has adult thoughts and processing but he can't articulate anything bc he doesnt know how so when it comes out, everything sounds childish but big agree, I hope Diarin doesnt accept him until hes got his memories back. I think she is level headed enough to know it'd be like taking advantage of him to be with him as he is now (even tho he clearly wont change his mind ab her even with memories)










Except super rushed and on easy mode.
Like having the speech restriction but then immediately having coins to buy skills to fix it, OP buffs like pass any exam or walking encyclopaedia, without any real effort or struggle. The pink hair, brothers, ML selection and whatnot, info guild… its a knock off with all of the tropes crammed in, smooth sailing every episode, but somehow shes still the trash of the family? Wth? Idk for me the pacing, story, developments are just sub par. The only redeeming quality is the art, the predictability at least lets you switch off your brain and doom scroll through. But seriously its just that.
Fr turned me into a comment section hater wth