loyer trust the personal attorney is right up there with sara blizzard the weather forecast reporter, andrew drinkwater the water researcher, page turner the author, les mcburney the firefighter, joshua butt the gastroenterologist and usain bolt the sprinter.
the burn was slow but i think the lengthyness braised the story real tender and juicy. details like how her taste buds are incongruent to the people in this other world because she does not belong is so delicious to me like i can tell when an author puts their pussy (soul) into it. plus the conclusion and the added side stories tied it up pretty nicely for me. i like that after such a world shattering ordeal these people are united in way that does not have to be confined to strict labels like romantic or sexual ‘cause really they are tied in the mental way comrades be after everything theyve been through.
what ruined the reading experience was the few people saying odd unprovoked shit in the comments like “these evil gays made me homophobic”. was that supposed to be fucking funny? if youre joking then why is no one laughing? and that kind of talk in this political economy?? (╬￣皿￣)凸 miss me with that bullshit.
also the evil of yurigel and evans was the way entitlement via unchecked tyrannical power allowed them to manipulate entire systems of society to benefit themselves at the cost of the dignity and freedom of others. and their degradation of women specifically was rooted in them being rich and powerful men who would never be subjected to the dehumanising humiliation that renders an able individual into inaction through repeated learnt helplessness to exhaust them into suffering silently. because they were men.
they didnt do that shit because they were gay. they did that shit because they were rich. powerful. men. who saw the lives of other human beings to be that of ants.
yall have a fundamental misunderstanding of consent in the comments. do allow me to clarify. sexual consent is four pillared.
1) it must be Informed. he was not informed of her touching him (he thought what she did to him was a dream) and she was not informed of him touching her (she literally said she woke up feeling weird without reason ergo she didnt know it happened) (and no i dont think your personal assumption that just because you would know what happens to you when youre asleep somehow equates to her also knowing. are yall the same people? do yall think all people are the same? do yall think all sleep is equal? lets ponder with whimsy in our hearts. powered by all available brain cells in the room).
2) consent must be Explicitly Given. which is saying outloud i want this or writing it on a piece of paper. literally any mode of convey will ball. this happened only once at the very end (when she said i want this and grabbed his cock - correct). before that she was asleep when he jumped her and he was asleep when she jumped him. aurkay? you can say nada that you mean when youre asleep.
3) consent must be Enthusiastic. enthusiasm is most evident in the lack thereof. for example: girlfriends and wives often feel obligated to perform sexual activity because its “their (marital) duty”. so despite the propaganda of abundant pornography with an agenda, no you cannot show enthusiasm when youre asleep. your brain is not even on, there is no proper assessment of risk and reward. please be serious.
and most importantly, 4) consent must always, without fail, be Reversible. if you cannot say no then saying yes holds absolutely ZERO weight. for example: if you are ‘persuaded’ and ‘convinced’ into saying yes after saying no then thats coercion. he could not have even said no (half asleep) and neither could she (completely asleep). sure we know now that they would have said yes - ah but they didnt. how can you reverse a decision you have never made?
5) i do acknowledge that the waters muddy in kink. thats why safeguards must exist in order to temporarily bypass these pillars. for example: safewords, clear boundaries (in discussion of kinks before practice, parties outline plays that are most often categorised in the colour system: red for no go/yellow for only in certain ways or only for a set period of time/green for totally good) and practice. it takes trust to lay still like youre sleeping and allow another person to touch you as they please. and that type of trust takes time to solidify. without these safeguards, where power is properly redistributed to ensure autonomy, its just rape.
so in conclusion: yes they raped each other. it is possible for people to be both victims and perpetrators. and i dont think that saying that it is rape (because it violated all four tenets of consent they way they violated each other) is somehow unproductive. there is a 1:1 ratio between fiction and reality. if you cannot recognise rape in text, how will you recognise it in motion?
praising elon musk as a genius entrepreneur is actually pure fucking jokes the man is a stupid deranged white supremacist who inherited an emerald mine and has never worked a day in his life. bitches (author) love to googoogaga for the knife for fucking free
its the first time ive read a story where they dont try to salvage a selfish genocidal warmonger through the ritualistic sacrifice of literally just some poor girl. and for that i feel i must applaud! i think yall are mad because yall expected a more romance appropriate ending with some kind of relief or happy ever after but the story was filled with horror and blood and fear and its not incongruent then for it to end bloody and fearful. i wouldnt say it was satisfying but subverting the genre is rare and honestly i think the ending (even though absurdly abrupt) [is the cia chasing after the author with a knife?] is realistic as hell. its a fairytale when a woman who lives in fear of a man renown for his cruelty suddenly redeems him by repeatedly forcing herself into decisions that betray her comfort and character. so their story ending with him disappearing her from the world in order to cage her forever is consistent with his inhumanity and her willingness to delude herself into believing that imprisonment is peace if he just said this one right thing is too consistent with her character. truth is, almost everybody in her position would have suffered and failed. seraphina then angelica and if time was wound back a hundred more times, a hundred more girls would be dead.
i resent the portrayal of aspd here. the way narrative alludes to aspd as something one is born with - instead of something one develops after repeated exposure to violence (both as victim and witness) - plays into the dehumanising condemnations of mentally ill people in general but those with personality disorders specifically. the mentality of it is intrinsic to who they are thus they are irredeemable therefore there is no helping them (by providing behavioural therapy/coping strategies) because they are monsters (not people) is a dangerous pipeline. a specific kind of dehumanisation i see alot is when people excuse/justify the harm created by mentally ill people. especially because we both know that wooyeon did not try his best nor desired to do his best for anyone, he toyed with people as if they were worth nothing and garnered animosity in return, for which inseob repeatedly paid the price and is continously assaulted and violated by wooyeon for it. wooyeon is not incapable of understanding like some kind of puppy and he does not deserve the leniency shown to children who are not yet able to understand when they do harmful/irresponsible things. he knows what he did because he knows what “no” and “stop” and “i dont want to” means in two seperate languages. and maybe he doesnt feel that it was wrong in his soul but we dont judge people by their souls we hold them accountable in accordance with social standards of ethics and morality. wooyeon like many bl leads are exempt in the big year of our lord 2026 and thats not sympathy for the mentally ill thats holding them to a lower standard because they are considered as lesser than.
inseob’s character is very typical. his most interesting aspect is his guilt. not because i think his feelings were really ‘betraying jennie’. i think its more of a disguise for his internalised homophobia. it better explains his crash out and subsequent guilt in the flashback because she said it first even if she said without intention. i also think that his guilt coloured his delusions, in the sense that he thinks himself a trouble and burden to everyone so being hurt and disrespected like this is the kind of treatment he deserves (that tweet thats like “i pity the fool so deprived of love he finds it in violence”). also in the sense that his guilt isolated him even further. his one friend is dead and his supportive family he refuse to turn to because of undeservingness so he is left lonely beyond recompense. if he had a single true friend to hear half the shit he was innermonologuing about to express genuine worry over his wellbeing and be like gworl what are you on right now i dont think he would have gritted his teeth through half the things he did.
ultimately i despised the sprinkle of sinophobia, the lack of depth in all supporting characters because they were all plot trigger or a resource, the author’s lack of real world understanding visible in the worldbuilding’s lack of dimensions, and most importantly, the fact that 90% of mature scences between them were coercive and frankly fucking disgustingヽ(`Д´)ﾉ !
slow burn? i guess. but more accurately, trash heap on fire presented gift wrapped with pretty bowtie
this story the very definition of “never worry about being an evil gay freak. there is always a gayer eviler freak behind you.”
The fact that rape and abuse apologist cinderella rip-off bullshit written by mentally deficient racist author who publicly wishes death upon people for reading, like low tide in twilight gets over a hundred episodes when something this good, this beautifully drawn and well developed, ends in five chapters is real devastating stuff
i read this on webtoon and around the 10s mark i saw a spoiler comment about the archmage and the dragon becoming romantically involved which i didn’t take seriously because a) miltein was just rejected and it was implied that it is because their age gap as well as past history made it impossible for the mercenary guy to see her in a romantic manner. which i thought was common sense. it also set the standard that the story had common sense logic regarding age/dynamic inappropriate attraction. and b) if they wanted me to take the ‘foreshadowing’ (i consider it more of a threat tbh) seriously then they should not have drawn the dragon fem lead’s human form to look like an actual child. because i dont know if yall remember being prepubescent teens but thats what prepubescent teens look like. not to mention that she also acted with little impulse control and impunity, as if a child. by the 20s the constant hinting made me very uncomfortable especially because by that point the math was clear. the great dragon who protected the dwarves set the baseline for old age at around 5000. the known age of dragon fem lead is 799. thus her human age: give or take 16. maybe by feudal standards he wasn’t a pedo but im not living in feudal times and neither was he raised in one so what the fuck is twisted and cursed about him (character explicit) (writer implied) i dont know. what i do know is i ran here to check for confirmation immediately. i was not about to push forward and spoil my own mood for yet another stereotypical power fantasy (〜￣△￣)〜
this story reminds me of that tweet thats like “sometimes people exist to do the most horrendous inexplicable shit to each other then die #wutheringheights”
i see this in media a lot and unfortunately i also see it in real life. the overgeneralisation people are prone to do when they’re brainwashed into their elders’ bigotry gets me so bad. i hate the whole my bastard uncle killed my legitimate parents so i will also treat you a bastard daughter like shit storyline. because its an artistically lazy at best and flagitiously ignorant at worst attempt at characterisation. (you see this a lot in fantasy. eg: my parents were killed by vampires ergo i will kill every vampire to ever exist like yea bro commit genocide and drive a species to extinction this will in no way perpetuate generations of looping cycles of violence producing countless assholes like you who think the indiscriminate killing of any people justifiable so long as they hurt you via the constant reproduction of victims like yourself. youre so right.) (and this is not an anti-revenge message, dont get me wrong, i think you should get to kill the asshole who killed the mother you love. but thats almost never the case. instead theyre killing a bunch of vampires who got nothing to do with them just because theyre vampires. like ok you sound like a cop. die.) how, in the most genuine fuck possible, does one piece of shit illegitimate child make every illegitimate child equally complicit in his crime? do you fucking hear yourself?? a fully grown man and he doesn’t even have the mental capacity to ponder? to question?? to hold space for fucking whimsy???
whats more important to note about this is not the way in which this flimsy hot bag of air storyline attempts to excuse his feudalist prejudice via trauma, but the way it ultimately didnt even matter. because sure it might have excused, if youre dumb as a rock or naive as a doe i suppose, the beginning of their relationship, the schemes he orchestrated, but he married her bro. he lived in the same house as her bro. do you know how hard it is to actively ignore the existence of someone you are married to, share a house with, and fuck often? really. super. fucking difficult. it requires an extreme level misogynistic inhumanity through which he viewed his own wife for him to be able to continue living that way for several years. literally drawing the curtains close at the sight of her. the comments make it clear that we all hate this man and for that i am glad but i think its important still to label the ways in which he used like her like a sex object then exclusive womb, literally reducing a woman down her functions like an animal (vitriolic misogyny). and the way the story excuses him in order to, i assume, assure some semblance of a future romance in some capacity (also vitriolic misogyny).
its not just the character but also the people who created that character, who give that character the leeway to be excused of all his crimes. because the cleaning house and actually looking his son in the fucking eye is that. excusing his crime (because accountability is to be held responsible, to bear blame in essence, and he didn’t do that did he? no he just killed everybody else. how predictable). he neglected her, dismissed her, lied to her, forced her, abused her and held her captive. but its fine now because he killed the people who did exactly as their master had done and treated her like shit. what did he think was going to happen? the body moves with the head. you should not be allowed access to such power and be characterised as a brilliant schemer if you are so dead behind the eyes and rotten in the brain and low of intellect that you could not see the ways in which a head of house’s mistreatment of one person enabled their mistreatment by the hands of everybody else. none of it even means anything because shes dead now. but the story, i believe will attempt to make it matter by bringing her back into the hellhole she despised so greatly that she drank poison to escape from like fuck! god gives my girl nothing!!! and sure hes grieving but thats hardly suffering in my opinion, youre supposed to fucking do that anyway. if shes just going to come back and hes just going to get everything he wants in the end and the story is just going to make it out to be that shes happy and that’s all that matters then its just another cishetero patriarchy propaganda piece trying to normalise the women end up with their children’s father fantasy. and most of us here i believe have seen in our lives the numerous ways in which that is just pure fiction.
the main reason that i wanted to leave this comment was to say that us here raging in the comments, wishing this man pain and everyone wondering how the story is even going to progress, is ragebaiting in its purest form. this is how the author manipulates you into consuming a story that has no fucking weight or worth in any way. i know because ive seen the people’s reactions on webtoon and several other manga forums where this story is being updated. this is not to attempt to police what anyone is consuming, i cant stop you nor do i want to. this is just to say that the reason youre reading it and the reason i read it, is because we’re being actively manipulated into engaging and i think thats worth saying.
the official translation is literally so trash. i am always grateful to jujucat for feeding the class but why is bestie juju having to pay for genuinely one of the worst official translation i done ever seen? like sorry are we seriously sticking with boy when they are having raw sex in a few chapters?? knotting and everything??? (╯°Д°) ╯
moonflowergem would have never done this to us
everything by garamdal is so boring. the premise always promise so much and the actual story is always a let down
we need to all grab a garden shovel or a fucking gun and free my girl
the premise is complete crack on fire but there is actually a lot of potential for the story to explore the genuine power of friendship in the way that we all know a good friend can better save you from seemingly the worst despairs when we are much more likely to search for that saviour in lust and romance and disappoint ourselves even further iykyk. my point is the insane level of depression and suicidality sion expressed by killing the hildegards every single time has made the whole story so far about fear (his pain battling the evil identity / her murder) and grief (her future potential [dreaming of reaching 90] / his familys future potential [dubbing the hero cassion after his brother]) thus his growing obsession with her (because she performs emotional labour wow how revolutionary) as well as the introduction of black haired red eyed boy will crush all of that potential underfoot to pursue some half baked bitchass romance (im not going to explain to you that no one should fall in love or pursue a relationship with someone that has killed them seven times / someone they have killed seven times. you should know that from like common sense) so whilst i can only see this story as one with genuine depth if the main characters do not fall in love, its clear where the story is going…(￣ε(#￣)Σ
i finished this story because i bulk bought it on tapas for the main story and honestly i regret persevering through it. the side stories were better than the main but i think too much is missing in context for it to be consumed separately.
all in all, she was sold like a broodmare by her own father at age of 11 to man i approximate to be 21 from the clues, a political manoeuvre she remained completely ignorant to for the sake of securing support for a prince that was to die a death only an inch less pathetic than being shot on the toilet, prior to which she was told by her father never to return, during which she was neglected and scorned in her home for being what if not being a child then by her own accounts raped (because i do not know what succumbing to him means but that cannot be fulfilling any tenets of consent) every time he went off to war, thrown out of the land she was sold to when zachary died like the stupid fuck he is, left to starve and died in some abbey only for god to turn back time so that she could die giving birth to an heir that must exist?! what level of bioessentialist fuckery must one possess to write a story in which the purpose of their main character’s entire existence is to have some white guy’s child because said child would unify the continent??? im convinced she has gone insane from the trauma of her previous life because the level of pure delusion required to accept being the saint of such a god requires the abandonment of all sanity.
im not even angry anymore because i was angry the whole time i read this and now im just exhausted. this whole story is exhausting. it is so tiring to read stories of women and girls being forced to perform emotional labour to save men from themselves/each other so that the women/girls in question will not become canon fodder for their capital gains or personal development. it is draining to read about her happiness being entirely dependent upon her husband’s power and the children she bore for him like some kind of incubator you take to the ball. sure you could make the argument that she is a saint (with the power to do what beside help her husband lmao) that she brought lace to arno but is any of that independent from zachary? no. he can have all his achievements for himself but everything she achieves is tied to the duchy which belongs to him. if i wanted fuckass misogyny masquerading as white feminism i would just look outside why would i pay for it
there is so much of this story that just did not make sense to me. 1) why they fell in love or what they fell in love with because they seem to have just clung onto each other for survival like what did zachary love if not pussy (since she was fifteen no less,,, kill him!! i need him hung and quartered, i need him gunned down in the streets like a ceo) and what did she love if not the future in which he existed thus she did not suffer (as much)? what annoyed me about the tone of the epilogue was the narrator acting as though this somehow became a marriage of love when it is still very much a marriage of convenience. this is just two people, abandoned by their family, trauma bonding and for some reason we’re calling romance. lets be so serious. 2) the antagonist was the second prince but how is her father not the ultimate villain in all this? if he was just remotely fucking for real he would have thought, being a man of paper as they so claimed, damn i should write to my daughter, that my wife died to have, which i sold like livestock, because surely her coming home to see people who dont fucking hate her guts would not for some reason nullify a marriage?? is that not basic math or simple logic or common fucking sense oh my gods. i need this man to be thrown at the sun i dont want a molecule of him to remain. the fact that her father didn’t even know she was upset with him to me displays the depth with which he did not even consider her to be a person because even if the subject in question were a dog and not a child i still would have visited something known and precious to me for eleven years. if he had empathised with her grief and anger for a single moment, im convinced that he would have drowned. 3) is more general but i have always questioned the cishetero patriarchy not on a ‘moral’ basis at first but more on a logical one because how does it make sense that women cant inherit titles when the children comes out of them? “you can never trust that the child belongs to the man because you never know where the woman have been” men claim to scorn a woman’s sexual history but you leave the title to them when they fuck anything thats remotely warm? you dont need a paternity if you can hear the screams of labour through the door babe. this is my problem with the patriarchy, its fucking stupid. yall sound like the dumbest person to have ever crawled to earth.
ceasar slitting his throat because leewon tried to break up with his is a) classic manipulative tactic of an abusive relationship but also b) he should have let him lmaoo. pick up the gun babe ill even cock it for you say ahhh