Ok, so based on other comments around here, I suspect my view is unpopular. I’m not eloquent enough to accurately convey my thoughts, but here goes:
Dan-i has become tropey and one-dimensional. She was interesting at first because it seemed she defied the author and cliches more, but now all she does is go with the flow. This series has become a cliche web novel focused on dan-i and I’m disappointed it turned out this way. She’s always the damsel in distress and issues always arise because “something happened to dan-i”.
Also, it’s almost like she’s like a pet for her friend group: It’s always her who cheers up everyone else, we know nothing about her other friends’ struggles and she’s never helping the others. She receives and receives, but never gives.
Maybe my expectations for this series was inaccurate to begin with, maybe I’m just salty because I despise harems, who knows. I was fine with all other characters being one-dimensional, no matter if their one-dimensional personalities were “not cliche”, but dan-i isn’t originally a web novel character. I expected her to, no matter her affinity for the web novel world, be multi-dimensional in contrast to everyone else.
Well now that you point it out, I can see it- I agree with you on all of your points, but I'm mostly reading because it does create good points on Dan-i's side. I kind of find it a bit short-sighted in the sense that it really doesn't give us much insight on the other characters, but the connections it makes to real life is really nice. And because it doesn't provide insight on the other characters makes it more thrilling (per se) in that we dont know what we want the main character to feel or think. This probably didn't make sense, I'm probably rambiling ignoreee mee~
Well you ain't wrong, but I have to disagree on some parts.....its true that she seems like the damsel in distress but in situations like this .....it isn't avoidable and to make its worse her enemy is someone who's in a higher rank than her , So yeah she needs help.... She don't have power like the FL and MLs or side characters
Another thing I disagree on this you said she's going with the flow of the story, in this situation you have to understand the characters feelings especially being teleporated in a story you don't want to be in, you constantly have to know whether what you are doing is right or wrong......
You can't blame her for going with the flow of the story ......that's all she can do, avoid problems by using the stories flow. Be more understanding
I respectfully disagree with you.
1. On power: I don’t believe she’s powerless. Her friends are influential, she’s the focus of her friend group, surely she must helm a significant amount of power amongst her classmates. She just refuses to take advantage of that, which is fine because I guess it fits her current, meek personality, but it makes her out to be uninteresting. Take, for example, the accusation scene in ch.s 88 or so and the “princess-carry” competition, both in which she chose not to stand up for herself and just allowed surrounding characters to control her.
2. On blaming: Yes, you’re right, she seemingly has valid reasons for being the way she is. Clearly, this unassertiveness and meekness of hers is just how she is, and she can’t help that. However, as a character, this is unacceptable. It makes her uninteresting because it leads her to just do nothing for herself and let others fix her problems for her. She’s been this way for much of the story with no yet seen character development from her, which is why she’s one-dimensional. If character development is gonna happen later, great, but it’s been nearly 90 chapters so far, so I feel it’s okay to rant about this when we’re so many chapters in.
And yes, I know guys. Debating over a manhwa, stupid. Sorry, it’s quarantine, and the fact that people replied with interesting points made me think.
Oh yes, and thank you for the discussion @tri tri!
Someone explain why the author chose to put those last few chapters where it’s this whole confusing dream. I got so pissed scrolling through those cause I did not just binge-read all of this manga in 10-ish hours just for some of the last few chapters to be this clusterfuck of a dream. I honestly have no clue why they were included. Please explain.
Okay, I’m also kinda pissed the author hardly put any seol x jung interactions before the conclusion. I’m not one for open-endings, so there’s that too. I know the whole point of this series was navigating relationships and freeing themselves from the chains of their past, but at some point, I just stayed with for the romance. So yah. Not enough peaceful seol x jung, but yeah ik that goes against the point of the series. Sigh
That part was confusing, i had to re read the ending chapters a few times to understand properly how it ended. What I think it was is that Seol was think about how her life would be peaceful if she had never met inha inho and jung.
The dream was just what her life would be if she had never met them. But she wakes up from her dream back to her life with the three of them and it ends with what happened in chapter 300. That's how i interpreted it ヾ(❀╹◡╹)ノ~
Found the raws, but they’re either unavailable past chapter 8 or locked after 8, but here they are anyway because it was fucking hard finding them.
http://comico.kr/m/titles/17259
https://page.kakao.com/home/50645379
Hi any way thanks for share (●'◡'●)ノ
I cringe for Sebin. Girl, that’s not okay, stalking after your crush for so long and meddling with others just to ensure he won’t fall in love. You’re just gonna get in people’s way being like that, and it’s just so.... annoying. So stop girl. I get that you’re in love and blah blah blah, but you’ve gone too far. It’s not okay and people will (or have) dislike(d) you for that shitty habit.











The quick decree of execution on Cedric’s part was unbelievable. I feel like the author got lazy and decided to just go for instant gratification (*to make readers feel better) for closure. *I realize the treason Aubrey committed, but I don’t believe it’d be possible for someone like Cedric to harbor such a black-and-white attitude towards this issue, especially since Aubrey was a little sister to him. Really? He had no ambivalent feelings? Just pure anger? No sense of betrayal? Just immediately decided to execute her on spot? *I would accept this had the author displayed some sort of struggle and conflict on feelings towards being betrayed by someone he trusted and grew up with before deciding on execution. But no, he’s just mad, and this anger could be duplicated exactly as is towards a stranger servant he didn’t know existed. That is why I’m turned off, it’s not convincing at all the way Cedric was depicted here.
*Edited for clarification. Before the edits, I made it seem like I didn’t agree with the execution, which failed to paint my true qualms regarding this chapter.
Bro, no offence to your argument but your argument could literally be turned around on to Aubrey. She let her emotions get the nest of her and let hundreds (maybe but a lot of people) die because of her hatred of one person. She wasn't really allowed to roam free before instant gratification.
She was let go to the church to repent after hurting someone previously. If that wasn't an alarm to you before then I don't know what is.
Instead, she did not repent and betrayed the one person that thought of her as family. It's not that Cedric wasn't hurt. It was because he was hurt that he took that decision.
Ultimately he leads a lot of people, he is a leader. If a leader just lets such a huge incident slide and let her go to prison (ie, church again cuz her parents spoiled her rotten so they would plead for mercy), what would the rest of his subordinates think?
"I can do the same thing and get away with it" OR even worse
"Is this guy really capable? When he lets his feelings get in the way of rules meant to protect the people, can he really lead us properly?"
Ngl, I also thought the same in the beginning, that her death was too much but it was a good lesson, not only to her family (whom I feel extremely sorry for- their daughter ruined years worth of trust in 1 day- and also because Cedric gave them a trauma for life ) but also to the people that are watching that situation. No one must repeat such a foolish mistake, thinking that they're acting for the greater good of someone else. It was foolish, it was reckless and worst of all, it destroyed lives and livelihoods.
But I believe that everyone should have their opinion on this and I respect yours.
Her actions were treason and put everyone's lives at risk. In this kind of society their is very little due process.
"There"
To clarify, my qualm with this was Cedric’s reaction. Yes, I realize she was a complete brat and committed treason and deserved some sort of punishment. But, I do not believe that someone who regards another like a little sister could instantly decree execution for the sister figure without emotional turmoil. Yes, I also realize that he needs to make an example of her, but the execution was literally determined within less than a chapter. Am I really to believe that he bore no ambivalent feelings of extreme disappointment and sadness towards Aubrey’s betrayal? That he had no conflicted feelings about the poor turnout of a girl that grew up with him since she was very young? He seemed to have simply have been simply furious, which was very unbelievable to me. Btw, the instant gratification I spoke of was the author’s on behalf of readers, not the characters themselves.
I was aware that my opinion would be regarded as unpopular, given Villainess series readers are very passionate about black-and-white justice for their MCs, and I am oftentimes guilty of that as well, but this especially bothered me for some reason. Granted, I guess I shouldn’t be complaining about poor writing for series such as this and it’s possible I’m reading too much into this.
Nevertheless, I very much appreciate your input and thank you for responding so respectfully to an opinion you disagree with.
Fuck me, my writing’s a mess here.
Yes, our thinking is similar. I understand the anger, the sense of betrayal and everything, but it was a strange scene. Although I agree with Aubrey’s execution, he killed her without hesitation. In cold blood although she gave him his reasons. He also tore the title of nobility of people who had nothing to do with it. Honestly? I would have just banished her away.
I totally get where you’re coming from but from a neutral perspective I think Cedric treat everyone in an equal manner, sure he does spoiled Audrey but tbh she plays such a little role in his life. I’m sure there’s loads of other individual that he treated them the same as Audrey. If she was the only kid that he grew up with and have a strong emotional bond with then I the chance of him killing her on the spot is slim but never 0. I feel like his swift action is due to 1/ mainly because of his wife is missing, 2/ his castle is in ruined and his people are either hurt or dead, 3/ his own people betray him and he’s just in disbelief. Furthermore. at that moment, he was in shock, he doesn’t even know if his beloved wife is alive or not, let alone think about all the sweet memories he and Aubrey have when they were kid (I doubt that there were many since he’s in and out of the place constantly). Honestly he could have just lost it and kill her on sight but he did tried his best to hold back because of her family deed. He even let her explain her reasoning. I think he really just wanna hurry and save his wife but there needs to be order and he need to sort things out in his castle first, he’s in a rush so I don’t think there’s time to reminisce. He’s been in war and have saw his fair share of death so killing a person (even tho they’re close) right then and there it’s not much of a shocker. Taking the timeline of the story I don’t think it’s such a big deal. Us reader reading this during peaceful time might find it unnecessary or cold hearted but that was just how things were settled back then. I guess he could feel a bit sad after the whole thing is dealt with but at that moment I totally get why he order an immediate execution. We’re all human in the end (even tho he’s a fictional character ;)))
I think it’s just different perspective tbh and there’s nothing wrong with ur opinion of course! Thank y for sharing ur thoughts with us!
Also please do excuse my writing! Grammar was never really my thing ;; A ;;