I love how well written this is. Each character has their own arc and feelings to overcome and most of the time their reasons have meaning in the sense that they don’t just act a certain way because they can but theres logic behind it. I started reading this in middle school dropped it cause it wasn’t done now I’ve picked it back up in my second year of uni that’s how good it issss idgaf that it’s taking a long time. Good stories are well planned out and take time and effort. This needs to become a live action with a HIGH. Budget. Also reyonalds is a g consistently
Why is no one talking about how bad the romance plot was…? Like the whole romance side has us rooting for the knight from the start to a little after half way as the main character also liked him back… just to introduce the real ml and they literally had like 5 interactions that felt so forced . They made up for it in the side stories but that’s not even part of the main plot .
Okay this is such a stretch but in an alternative timeline I lowk want her to break and become more psycho than inseop but is better at masking / hiding it and even hiding it from the detective and the final chapter is her seeing someone as an insect like inseop does (like if she remains a teacher she sees her boss as an insect) then it ends but like she’s kinda learnt everything from him
She kills the praying mantis, she kills killers, bad things. She does love her brother which is why I think she'll kill Oh Inseop (he is the praying mantis). Oh inseop kills indiscriminately to get the object that shines, he even killed his own sister for a pen. She will kill to protect her brother. Her cousin was lucky the cops saved him from her (he did deserve to be beaten to death tho). I think once she kills Oh Inseop she'll find murdering those like him justifiable. All this is show in their childhood interactions with insects. I strongly believe it's foreshadowing.
I don't think she ever will find it justified, does not seem to align with her personality. Until now she never managed to even cut inseop. She is a normal person psych wise, she has empathy and love, she doesn't suffer from the same mental issue inseop does. Inseop totally lacks empathy on a pathological level that you cannot achieve if you are not born with that mental condition. That she will probably kill him we all know, but to turn into a psycho like him is unlikely cause you need to be born like that.








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