Can we talk about how destructive the mother’s choice was?!?! Forcing both kids to grow up as 1 person, which requires them to suppress their true personalities, interests, and abilities to keep up the ruse. Constantly being compared and forced to conform to a fake persona, never able to develop genuine personal relationships.
It’s established that twin girls are an ominous sign, but the explanation is that two sisters centuries ago got into a succession war about it. That’s the entire reasoning. It’s not like they would have been executed. There would probably have been some political back talk, suspicion, and negative rumors, and yes, the finger pointing could have messed them up, but ITS ALREADY HAPPENING BECAUSE OF WHAT THEIR MOM DID.
And what exactly was her endgame? Reveal the secret twin 18 years later and expect that to go over better sociopolitically? What’s more concerning, having “unlucky” royal twin girls born and grow up normally in society, or suddenly finding out there were secret twins later? People are going to freak out more for the latter because everything they knew was a lie so of course they can never trust the royals again.
The fact that she even hid it from their father robbed them of having a genuine relationship or effective support from him. And how guilty are they going to feel about deceiving everyone around them? And if/when it gets revealed, of course most people would feel betrayed.
Their mother threw them into an untenable situation with no way out just to sidestep a stigma that wasn’t a genuine threat to them at the time
This man is so goddamn stupid. She’s crying about how much his deception hurt her, that she misses her chosen home/family, and that she miserable to be trapped with him forever.
Then he flashes back to genuinely useful advice from his mom about honest communication in relationships, he digs deep, and the best he can come up with is some bs about how she changed his preference for chicken breast?!
I get that he didn’t have a lot of time, but he could have said literally anything, “ I know this is a difficult situation, but I want to treat you well”, “I’m sorry for deceiving you, I want to find a way to make it up to you”, “I know the circumstances of your arrival were not pleasant, but I want to have a positive relationship with you”, or LITERALLY ANYTHING OTHER THAN WHAT HE ACTUALLY SAID.
Granted, even if he says the right things it will ring hollow from someone who will be effectively imprisoning her for the rest of her life whether she warms up to him or not, but still
Jaehyuk really does cause all of his own problems. First he blames Garam for not properly managing the stress induced medical problems HE caused by constantly ignoring his boyfriend’s concerns and opinions. Then instead of just being more subtle in public and talking it out like Garam wanted, he dumps and ghosts him out of nowhere like that’s not going to cause stress. His problem is that he always does whatever tf he feels like in extremes and won’t compromise even at the expense of his boyfriend
hard agree, for some reason ppl love defending him. Also I went through your acc and omggg I love it (especially your guide verse list)ヾ(☆▽☆)
Thanks, I just get so frustrated with this trope. I hate when MLs cause issues for themselves, their love interest, and everyone around them only for the story to paint their suffering as equal to the others
Yesss, and then all the comments are just talking bad about the bottom like fym Garam is bad for simply asking for some space
Found my people
Top is so true to character here, he’s no longer interested in Gyuha, but he’s fine with going with the flow and basically using him for his own convenience until he loses interest despite the marriage and children. If I don’t want anymore “I can just walk away” excuse me that’s unacceptable even for a one night stand if a baby is involved (╯°Д °)╯╧╧
It’s always been about him and his wants. He’s never sacrificed anything for Gyuha
Yes! Very well written regression, he really did become different at the end of the main story, it’s sad to see how miserable his internal monologue is and he doesn’t even realize it
He's such a selfish jerk back then before Gyuha ran away when he got pregnant. He realized he's fallen for Gyuha back then. Now all that shit is forgotten. I hate the author ugh
I honestly feel like the creator really cheapened the story with the developments between Sienna and Asiel, her feelings were so random, there was no proper buildup other than the classic “feelings go thump”. Now this forced proximity angle is just so artificial and trite.
There were so many ways that the author could have arrived at them developing feelings and a relationship without compromising the quality of the story.
It should have been a genuine slow burn with both of them struggling to manage their feelings while healing from their trauma.
Sienna basically caught feelings out of nowhere, with some hesitation and literally no other exploration of the effect that had on her psyche or any complex reaction.
Asiel’s emotional arc was basically feeling guilty, guilty about having feelings, and then the forced proximity trope. We didn’t even get to see his initial reaction or the family’s groveling because the time skip happened immediately after they all remembered.
It feels like I was being served a ten course gourmet meal, and halfway through someone started bringing out fast food. If I wanted cheap and generic I would be elsewhere, I came for this story because of how beautiful and in depth it was, now it’s just one of a thousand other shallow romances with the same stale tropes
As always the novel is much better for the groveling the depth of trauma but you're right on something,the time skip just after their memories returned was too much ...
It’s so insane that the mom is like “oh no the 4 year year old is rly sad that he has no siblings, how could he ever recover from this deep and traumatic emotional wound” like her actual motive isn’t wanting another grandkid.
Imagine applying that logic to literally anything else a toddler wants. That’s how you raise a spoiled little monster. It’s even worse that everyone knows about his inherent struggles with his trait, to the extent that he got reassignment surgery, the psychological difficulties of the pregnancy. Even right now he’s not comfortable being open about his sexuality and traits in public. All that on top of the sheer debilitation the first pregnancy wrought on his body, but sure, the toddler is sad so we obviously need to consider that just as much
Lmfao why would you not just mention that shit to your partner?!
Wow the parents really were the true villains all along… even if you have a favorite, there’s no need to be that cruel and blatant about it. There was just no way Ethan would be able to grow up well in that environment. Hugo was raised to be selfish, elitist, and entitled. Just terrible all around
Sorry, I disliked by mistake Σ( ￣□￣||)
Dropped it at chapter 3. MC got completely blackout shitfaced with ML (definitely not that drunk) who then took him home and slept with him (consent wtf?!)
This is such a refreshing and interesting take on dungeon stories! I think it does something really unusual and focuses on mystery and suspense instead of action (thus far). I’m really looking forward to it!