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I didn’t like the author’s earlier more popular work (just didn’t resonate with me) so I had my doubts.

Then I fell so hard for this work. Makes me lament how short it is.

Worth the read, however short.

I need more development. This has the potential to develop in all kind of directions, why stop there?

Why why why. I was finding guwon adorable, and I feel kind of sick thinking I did. Double the regret, I imagine, for MC, since he fell for ML before remembering what actually happened. This is crazy development. Wow. SPOILER (Doctor Lim got killed just like that; when I could barely recover from the kid’s father being executed) (then soon finds out that mc’s father got killed by ML too). It’s one thing after another. I can’t fathom the trauma of having the people you’re desperate to protect, killed in front of your eyes by the person you believe would be able to help you in a desperate situation… lo and behold, ML is that person who gives people that trauma. Wth :(

“If you do your mind’s bidding, you will not make mistakes. But your actions will lack truthfulness. If you do as your heart tells you, you may make mistakes. But your actions will be true. Please do as your heart tells you.”

“..you are a wonderful person. I am evidence of that, for I have survived thanks to you. And I will continue to live, until you command me to die.”

These were my two favorite quotes from the story so far. Both were said by ML.

However, ML is not a lovable person. At least in the present timeline of the story. Far from it. There’s no excuse for him ruining the MC, albeit ML has been through hell.

Truth is, I felt much indignation and anger on behalf of mc for ml’s actions… but it was ML’s story that made me cry against my own volition.

This is just my take on it.

I’m very much looking forward to the plot development. I want MC to be happy and free.

As for ML, a part of me really wants his suffering to ends. I think he’s suffered enough - no child should have experienced other people’s scorn and their own family’s hatred like that. His own tendencies born from enduring as a child and being pushed beyond his mental and emotional limits on top of physically tending with squalid conditions are also a source of his own suffering to the present - it would be nice if the author could conjure a resolution wherein ML could find contentment, and perhaps healing at last. A safe place for him to learn how to love and be human while refraining from violence and free from mental torment.

To add, one of my favorite characters is also Jung Mo! The ML’s general. To think that the palace full of hatred could yield someone else other than MC who can actually feel for the ML pity and sorrow is a miracle.

I don’t like the eldest prince at all. He sent the ml to their brother who had sadistic tendencies and who hated ML. That prince is no simple prince, for sure. Mind ML at this time had no power. He also told the prince that he had no interest for the throne whatsoever - he only asked the prince for help so he could leave the palace, and perhaps follow MC and watch him from afar. ML at this time had not killed anybody, albeit he had shown tendencies to retaliating when his line has been crossed. Fully knowing this, the eldest prince still schemed against the downtrodden.

I can’t wait for the rest of the story. Very much feeling complicated but sincerely hoping the characters could achieve an acceptable ending. I wonder what the author has in mind

which is true for any works with learned helplessness and abuse involved.

This is another one where I don’t want a happy ending for ML, regardless of how flawed MC may be. Even if this may be MC’s karma in some way or another, ML still disgusts me.

Despite the revulsion, I’m invested in knowing the story behind why is he doing this though… albeit I’ve also considered the possibility that the reason might turn out to be negligible and ML would have done the same thing regardless of anything else.

Grateful either way, but the narrative and dialogue were easier to understand with the new updates.

Ofc grateful to the other other uploaded still!

I REALLY hated the rape, and the disparaging view Lucaon has towards servants… HOWEVER, with those two considerations aside, I relate to Lucaon. My nature would probably flip and I would probably also withdraw if the people precious to me were wiped out like that. It’s not even an accident. It was betrayal and premeditated murder. I still hate to my core that L raped Kyon, and I still hate how rude L was to Karis - it’s not like it was them who were there at that time, and one could be mistrusting without being cruel or violent - BUT I really feel Lucaon’s pain. It’s so insurmountably sad.

(Update) I know that Ryan has lived much longer than shown in the story, to the point that his memories of his earlier days have faded with time, and so I can see why the author may have arranged his story to end this way, but as the reader, it really broke my heart to see him go since it really didn’t feel that I’ve known his character for that long - it felt like I’ve only started to get to know him and then he was separated from the readers so abruptly. The way he went was so sad too. I’m bawling my eyes out and I still can’t get over it.

(Update) Why did the author not resolve the issue about Edwin…

I miss them so much TT^TT

Hope mc get a better life and act better in the next life so he can be spared from this. They are both shitty but this is going too far.

I’ve been looking for more yaoi Virgo characters. Do you guys know anymore? Please recommend. Appreciate it!