Bro the duke can't catch a break, golly. Loses his entire family, almost ends his life, gets some of them back, just to get stabbed by one of them. I genuinely feel for the man. That's rough buddy.
Damn Norma coming in the red bottom Louis Vuitton heels. Slay queen.
You mean **Louboutin** heels… right ? ٩(๑❛ᴗ❛๑)۶
A lot of people sure do love to beef with a 3 year old.
I just started this but already have a huge gripe. The current emperor helping her now is also the same one that sentenced her to exile for the crime she didn't commit. It seems like her harbors no resentment towards the emperor. I get the timeline is different but I would at least have been angry at the emperor (her own brother) for essentially signing her death warrant. I am super angry for her.
Alright, I am going to lose it. Before the emperor learned the FL was abused, she was just the daughter of a vile woman. That plus a crime she didn't commit was enough to send a child to be exiled in Siberia. But now that they know she was abused, that somehow makes her more innocent than before??? Literally WHAT?! Oh my lord. She mentions the emperor being a good dude because he would send her supplies. HE SENT YOU THERE! She spends many years alone in an ice fortress to the point where she kills herself but he's a good dude because he sent me a couple supplies so I didn't die a different way. That is maddening. He sent an innocent child to their death. No. The emperor isn't a good dude. I get what her mother did was despicable but to blame her child, your own sister, and force her to survive in a harsh environment. Author is definitely tripping.
This logic is perpetuated by the emperor's half-brother. He meets her and immediately condemns her for because of her mother. It is not until the emperor tells him that she was abused, so that somehow makes her more innocent than before. Just asinine logic.
This, seriously, I'm pissed because this. She was abused in the firts TL too, and nobody given a fuck for it. They just sent of an abused child to die because her abuser was a trash, wow what a surprise. But now because the little prince saw that she is abused like muracle everything is solved. Wtf.
I get what you're saying but I think her being banished was also for her own protection. The emperor could do a lot but he's not able to stop every scheme and I think he knew she'd be in danger if she stayed. The emperor took the only option he had to keep her alive. Leaving her alone there was the biggest mistake. If he let her stay she would have been a target and he might have had a rebellion on his hands. He really didn't have good options to keep her safe at that point. Now he should have kept a better eye on how she was being treated by her mother in the first place, but he didn't and he was left with only bad options.
Yup. This is one of those times where I understand that the person who is in the shoes of the emperor (in this case) truly didn't have any options other than bad ones here.
So sending her to an uninhabitable region in solitude is "protecting her"? His "protection" was just killing her with a few extra steps. Was she just supposed to remain in solitude for the remainder of her life, never to be exonerated? Can that really be considered protection or wiping away the problem. Why didn't the emperor investigate this case while she was away? I'm sure he could have found a way to clear her name. Was she even asked by the emperor if she was involved in poisoning or did they just follow mob mentality? I feel like it wouldn't be impossible to figure out she was being abused. All her mother's maids knew she was abused. I really despise the argument "this was his only choice" because we were never presented with other possible solutions. He sent a child to rot away in a prison for a crime she never committed, that is what he chose to do. The fact she even regards him with any favor is a disserve to MC.
So ultimately, if your sibling punished you with solitary confinement in a extremely harsh environment for a crime you never committed, would you be able to forgive them because "they didn't have a choice"? Even when your sibling is the most powerful man in the empire. Pretty sure he went with "we've tried nothing and are all out of ideas".
Overall, i am angry MC didn't fault the emperor. She should have been angry at him instead of praising him for sending her supplies. I guess men really do get grace for doing the absolute bare minimum.
I am actually shocked this has a decently high rating. The story is incredibly simple and the characters are pretty bland. The main couple has no chemistry. Its probably because the ML has the personality of cardboard. He likes the FL, thats it. Absolutely no depth to that character. Honestly, the best relationship MC has is with her father in law. That is actually a somewhat nice relationship.
MC also isn't too complex. She is the "so sweet it will give you diabetes" type of FL. MC is supposed to be good but just abandons her siblings (she has quite a few but only her and two others count as people according to the author). She could have at least tried to save her five year old sister, who was also being abused, but I guess as long as MC is out of the mansion, its fine.
This story is like mediocre junk food, it tastes fine but it is mostly just empty calories. If you want a painfully predictable story, a ML whose only personality trait is liking the FL, a FL who can do no wrong, and a doting father in law, well this is the story for you. Just turn off your criritcal thinking brain and consume.
Pretty sure the high rating is for people who started the story and caught up with it when there weren't as many chapters as there are now, like myself. I liked it a lot in the beginning but at some point, can't remember when tbh, my rating of the story went down a lot because as you said, it just got more bland which is disappointing
Wow I just binged this story and its such a nice change of pace. I like MC and want her to achieve everything she wants in life. When it comes to Arthur, I have mixed feelings. While I am not sure exactly why he rejected her like this, I have a few thoughts. I do think he does have a genuine interest in Greta. He does like her but he mentions he wants to marry for love, an idea he did overhear her gawking at with her friend (for good reason based on her background). He knows she is a talented actress, so he just thought she was essentially confessing to him for money, marriage, and stability. Given Arthur's little knowledge about Greta, isn't entirely out of nowhere. While the audience knows that her feelings are genuine, Arthur cannot trust her words, so he rejects her. I truly think if he didn't like her, he would no have given her a check to fulfill her goals of marriage. Arthur didn't love her but I do think he did like her enough. Man, idk, but when Arthur rejected her, it didn't seem like a facial expression of annoyance that his toy is no longer interesting but something more akin to pain of possibly being this next person Greta was going to utilize.
Now it is time for Greta to misunderstand his rejection. She views him only engaging with her to satiate his boredom, which I do not think that is why she was rejected (and if I am wrong wow Arthur is a POS). It truly lights a fire under her feet to pursue her acting career. I do think this will only steel her resolve that love isn't something she ever wants to feel again. Although, we know it will happen again because this has a romance tag.
Perfect read of the situation!
Don’t I love when a simple misunderstanding just balloons into a large problem. It’s crazy this whole situation could be solved if the FL and ML had a 5 minutes conversation with each other.
I find it funny that an adult is calling the ML a coward. She is the one picking a fight with a child....
Lmao ifkr. Girl must be so shit doing her work for her to bully a child. ToT
This story is moving at the speed of light omg. It has had more development in 12 chapters than most stories cover in 40. There are so many points that you just need to accept and move on. You can’t even get hung up on one issue because they will introduce another issue and then solve it three pages later. It’s like whiplash.
Ummm. I just finished chapter 14 and I am bit concerned. Pretty sure they just executed a child along with her father. A child probably around the age of 6 or 7. I get she pushed Eve into danger, but to just execute her like that is some messed up stuff. I know child care stories are supposed to have doting brothers and fathers but to punish a child with death for doing something her father chose to do, is not cute or nice. It is entirely fucked up. IDK why authors must create these ridiculous punishments for children who go against MC. It ruins the story entirely.
Don't contract with demons, don't get killed. Exterminate all who consort and work with demons. The fact the entire household wasn't put to death is a mercy.