But why was it so short??!! (╯°Д °)╯╧╧
Things were finally happening ╥﹏╥
it was supposed to be part of last month's chapter but she wasn't able to finish all of the pages in time because she caught a cold.
Will there be an epilogue chapter for this volume? Or is that it for the volume?
There's another chapter coming out next month. I don't know if that's the last one or not but I'm assuming it is.
What do you mean "The End"??? This is like the middle of the story?
I just want to point out, since everyone including the author has forgotten, that slavery is still 100% legal and we've just never brought it up again. Lebetti's family kept slaves in horrific conditions, which is how this whole story began, and she's just hanging out with Navier and everyone else like it's no big deal. That's an insane thing to include in your story if not a single character is ever going to acknowledge slavery as a bad thing.
There's a very navier centred morality operating here. Anything she and cronies do is considered okay. I like the story but honestly there's an underlying eliticism about the story as well. I just don't think too deeply about it. I'm thinking of not engaging with the updates anymore because it's all gotten so boring since rashta died
Literally I remember hating rashta when I first read this in like middle school. Now looking back while she still isn’t a good person Navier is lowk trash too wdym you’re supposed to be the good guy with the moral high ground but you are chill with slavery and buddy buddy with literal abusers. It would be fine if this was written as Navier having character depth but it’s clearly not meant to be that way.
She really has no self awareness of her situation. The new countess could have her thrown out or killed and no one would do anything about it.
Ellen really can't catch a break. Her dad emotionally neglected her and Izek when they were younger. She didn't get to see Izek often because he was getting heir training. Her mother abused her and then killed herself because she was super mentally ill. She nearly got married off to one of Ruby's shitty brothers and shipped away from her home. Her nanny got kicked out of the mansion for being shitty to Ruby. And now she has to find out that her oldest and dearest friend is a snake and has been plotting on her and Izek for years so she can use their family to start a coup and become queen.
It's amazing that she hasn't snapped yet. If this were a different webcomic, she would be the protagonist that dies tragically and then goes back in time to get a second chance at a happy life.
Tbf, the "shitty" brother that Ellen was supposed to marry, actually was the only one who really cared for Ruby and the only one who was kind to her.
But yeah, Ellen would have still married someone she personally didn't know instead of someone she loved, so that alone is already a shitty situation.
Tbf, she can escape the marrige that she doesnt want to because her brother sacrified himself by marry Ruby instead so she doesn't have to go anywhere.
And if she's welcome Ruby with open mind and no bias in the first place (or just slowly open up to her), she would have notice how her nanny and her derest friend treating her in-law like shit and once she know the truth she should have act like the noble lady and punish her own maid by herself, not act like some weak girl who needs her brother to handle things for her.
i can feel sorry for her just because of her mother's condition and only the way her dearest friend is using her all thie time but other than that, Ruby is more pitiful than her in many ways and deserves some good in-law who will not spills her mentally ill condition to anyone.
I love how he immediately doesn't do what she asked and just hangs out with the kids for hours. Has he ever honored any of her wishes? Why would he start now? Also looks like Pamela needs blood too
A lot of the problems in this story seem to happen because the characters look at "Person Obviously Up to No Good" and then just literally don't do anything about it until literally the last possible moment, if at all. Like Duke Ergi, this man no one can account for and who no one seems to know anything about, has been given free rein to roam around the castle completely unsupervised and has been whispering stuff in Rashta's ear for months and just nobody says or does anything about it? Rashta starts slowly losing her mind and Sovieshu just kinda sits back and lets her run amok around the castle despite being aware of most of the stuff she's doing? Viscount Lotteshu keeps showing up to the castle for undisclosed reasons and speaking to Rashta for other undisclosed reasons and has a baby that looks just like her living in his house and no one looks into it? Krista's family clearly wants revenge for Heinrey driving her to her death and they just kinda ignore it until they straight up try to kill Navier? Why are none of the characters in this story proactive? All of their actions are reactive and they only react when things get so unbelievably bad that they can't possibly ignore them anymore instead of nipping things in the bud before they become problems.
This plot, if you can call it that, is all over the place
Right!! I was hoping the story would start making sense but
How is only one twin a monster and the other one isn't?
genetics, twins may have similar genetic makeup but never a clone copy of each other
This is how you raise a kid to resent or even outright hate a sick sibling. If everything in my life revolves around them and no one has any time for me because of them, I'm going to start hoping they just go away. This is also how you raise the sick sibling to be a monster. Jiseong thinks the world owes him because he was ill and that he should be able to have whatever he wants, especially if it belongs to his brother.
I agree with this, and I don't like how he interacts and thinks about ideum it makes me uncomfortable, I really hope ideum doesn't fall for it
There’s actually a whole term around it, “glass children” are kids who get informed and neglected due to a high needs sibling
Ngl Jiseong makes me so uncomfortable, but now I kinda want the author to give him his own love interest just so we can watch someone humble this man! Imagine a whole second couple where Jiseong falls hard for someone who refuses to put up with his spoiled behavior. I'd be SAT for that storyline.
Yessss like I don't even want him to have to chase someone running away, I want that someone to keep him in check