The story doesn't feel nonsensical to me.
When i was in middle school and uni the power balance and relationships in class werent that far off from this (minus the phisical violence)( both had rich classmates in the mix)
Even tho highschool was nicer (i moved) the fact that sometimes you have friends or crushes in your friend circle that sort of use you just a bit or force your hand in this power struggle has always been a issue for me. Heck even in uni.
Tho i do have friends groups outside of school, i find this sort of stuff happens often in school environments
this to me is an exaggerated version of realistic stuff.
I had really similar experiences with both crushes and friends where just sometimes they would behave mean with someone around them.
I feel like they get a bit high on the power from the social dynamic and then sometimes test out what they can get away with. It took me some time to stop having a crush or distancing myself fron said friends and chapter 57 felt especially relatable in how you both like and dont like their company and cant actually get a clean cut front hem unless you transfer and you start to get resentful and kinda hope they get exposed but at the same time it never happens because they were fun and nice to begin with so when in a sport they just revert back to being more normal and less pushy.
I do need to add that, altough it does happen sometimes naturally, a lot if times it was kinda self inflicted because of the previous experiences i had. i went jnto relationships with this sort of mindset and behaved like i wasnt on the same level as my friend and as such they would behave accordingly.
When i realised some of it was due to my subservient behaviour i stopped feeling so apologetic all the time and some of the relationships went back to being healthy. Some others didnt because they actually want to use you and when you stop saying yes all the time the friendship breaks.
The protagonist also realises that it's due to his shortcomings that he always ends up in this sort of dynamic, the school he's in worsens the situation but he's responsible for setting this righthandman/sidekick persona on himself
But without external help to break this bad behaviour it's hard, having been there i find the protagonist pretty relatable
I hope that whoever is in a similar situation where they feel pushed around by friends can next time think of themself as on their same level and not a sidekick
You are equals, even if they are better then you in some aspects that doesnt make you any less a friend
Dont act as if you are expendible, if they treat you wrong its not that they can replace you YOU CAN REPLACE THEM AS WELL
<3
Im sure he dropped the game once he tought he managed to get a connection irl with the mc
Sike for him he deserves getting ghosted irl since he's ghosting from that other side
He needs to learn a lesson. I hope the mc doesnt give much of a chance to the irl one so he can realise he fucked up (︶︿︶)＝凸
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If her father was cold and calculating enough to keep both children alive why would he want to kill her now?
He then would not have any remaining heirs?!??! Is he planning to grow a whole new one? Or adopt a nephew?
He probably thought she'd be of use in a political marriage and let her brother be the heir but now I think he maybe keeps her alive to have an heir with that other knight the bad one why was friends with her brother although im not completely sure this is just my guess
The friend of hwr brother does seem like he would imprison her and potentially agree to keep her by his side just to mentally torture her
But that's not what her father had in mind, at least from the translations it makes it clear that the father will kill her once she returns not make her marry
I can’t say this with 100% accuracy since I read the novel a while ago but what I believe what the father was referring to when he said he was going to kill Adi was that he was going to stage the male Adi’s death and then bring Adriana back as a relative to give birth to an heir with the asshole knight, and it doesn’t really matter what it looks like to outsiders because he knows anyway that Adriana is his true blood since he is so obsessed with the bloodline. But this is absolutely not what Adi wants so that’s why she told the other guy to crush his balls.
Thankyou
Thanks for the clarification
Now i get it
What Humongus pices of shit
Death >>>having a baby with that dude
No he doesn’t mean he’ll actually kill her, he means that “Adrian will die” as in he’s going to stage Adrian’s death so that he can re-adopt mc as a girl and marry her off bc he just sees her as an asset
Plus it’s because mc is getting close to the ML (red haired duke) which mcs father doesn’t want as it’s a different faction of the empire (that support him as the emperor vs the crown prince)
Based on myunderstanding, I think the “my father wants to kill me” phrase from Adi is a metaphorical term that she’d be good as dead if she goes back to the Grimaldi’s—because she’d be married to her bastard foster brother. (I forgot the name bcs he’s irrelevant)
Another thing i dont get is
If her father was cold and calculating enough to keep both children alive why would he want to kill her now?
He then would not have any remaining heirs?!??! Is he planning to grow a whole new one? Or adopt a nephew?
I dont remember exactly but like wasnt her father a viscount?
Even tho she's pretending to be her brother isnt she technically the only heir to a noble title of high rank right now? Same as the duke
Had she been brought up normally she would have been a potential match for the duke so i dont get it
Precisely, grimaldi is a count, and it's still below duke. Duke is directly under king, which is like 2 level above count (the usual order is count, marquis, then duke, king, emperor if theyre under an empire)
Visount is under count, the lowest is baron
Ye but like historically dukes wouldt just marry princesses and other dukes(outside of som incestuous outcomes) most times as long as the lower ranking noble had eithwr a lot of money or an incredible power or was from an historically relevant family jt was still fine.
Like it wasnt common but like not to the point of a servanto going "teh only problem is their standing
Like i was surpised that was the only problem he saw with this (not the fact that the son of a viscount was.... a son?
My understanding of the plot would be because grimaldi is not on the same level as woodpecker, grimaldi isn't rich either (the life potrayed in grimaldi territory are often more humble than the extravagant southern area) also no one likes grimaldi lol
And the ml isnt known to be sane either after his curse broke so i guess people don't really care about who he has interest with but i do agree that those ppl are pretty weird for not caring at the fact that adrina is currently known as a guy, i guess that's just how they are; class and pride above everything, because "well at least he's on the same standing as the duke" even tho he's a guy
XD the one time that they arent even gay the entourage isnt homophobic ┗( T﹏T )┛
That part actually caught me off guard too because at one point duke woodpecker is "well i can't just take a man as my wife so how i can make him mine?" but everyone else is just "duke is interested in a man? He can't be with a low rank noble"
Well i gues they have their own different priorities
i didnt know i wanted to see that until i saw it
Damn that meddlesome man and his tantrum fits we were so close （/TДT)/
I know this is fantasy like but bruh "you have to keep having sex"
Its giving the same energy as "we sold you to one direction to pay the debts"
Like no? What about if i dont? Am i gonna die? No? Then good im not gonna do it, better be ill for a few weeks than this :)
The logic behind this bs is so far fetched even for omegaverse that it's straight up fantasy wattpad at this point
He didnt listen