shes not very smart, she has no unique talent, she doesnt have a distinct enough personality to be attached to, whys she wasting away such power for her!!! couldve maximised her joint slay with our MC and get rid of the emperor in a stride instead!!!
shes so smart and vicious and steadfast. its not her fault the emperor is a bumbling simpleton and she assumes power quickly. its actually really amazing knowing she held on against tias grandfather for so long ALONE given that the men in her family, her father, her son, her bro, her in laws (tias uncles) are useless and tactless. other villains in this story is such a comic relief and easy ragebait but the empress, though she IS enraging, isnt as much a villain as tias grandfather. they both holds enormous power and is maintaining it as they see fit.
it literally took tia dying once to even stand on the same playing field with the empress. thats a feat.
i love seeing ml suffer MUAHHAAHHAAH i hope this suffering arc stretch a bit more but dont make him a crazy controlling possessive psycho in return. hes actually doing pretty good i mean for a romance fantasy standard. hes aware at the fact that hes both a prince and her superior at work and his affection for her puts her in so much danger and risk, hes obviously sick with love but he doesnt lash out at her, and he accepted her rejection, though he hasnt bear results to control his feelings (and lets be honest he never will cause theyre endgame).
oh well, tara and kyle will laugh and tease each other about this phase in their relationship in their 30th wedding anniversary in my headcanon. its good spice!!!
ig now by right of merit, after all these are finished, mc gotta be crowned empress cause her backs bending so much from carrying the entire empires safety on her own haha
ML went from "prince hiding in plain sight" to "coward who marriage-trapped an independent woman" cause wym he bound adele WITHOUT telling her??? it was fine cause i was normal level annoyed when to the very end, he never admitted who he is with his own mouth while MC was already throwing your highnesses at him, but then he revealed that he had them bound together by an intricate magic bond without her consent by deception???? is it not enough for killian to take a stab on adeles integrity, taking her for a fool who wont discover his secret, even though he had witnessed firsthand what cunning clever ironfisted person MC is, he insulted her again by exercising the magic he use to trap her???
i mean obviously no romance fantasy webtoon is ever going to have a separated main couple but now adeles entire character hinges on how she's going to respond to killians insult on her judgement and her dignity as his wife. if she does nothing then shes has no self respect, if she divorces him, shell lose everything including the right to succeed her father until she finds another to marry to fill the inheritance clause.
i just...cant believe my eyes cause killian was an okay, swoon worthy at some points even, ML!!! though the main show of this webtoon is still MC, killian as ML didnt have anything quite bad to him. his character and his relationship with MC would have met a light at the end of the tunnel if he backs down and say "yes i kept things from you, but i have reasons, and if youd like ill tell them to you" or he can even just say sorry but noooooo he whips out the magic shackles instead
(from ebookjapan):Michael's seemingly carefree daily life, with his pampering and begging for food, ...
- Author: Kobayashi Makoto
- Genres: Comedy / Drama / Seinen / Slice Of Life / Sports
add the lord and theyd form the dumb triad the only serious character so far is just ML with a mystery to his background and being caught in a conspiracy hahaha. anyway i didnt expect to be enjoying this so much AND find a unified period costuming. all the italian renaissance dresses MC and her lady wears are so pretty im being indulged with these idk cohesive costuming in webtoon gives me a serotonin surge lmao
bc GOD every woman in this webtoon are entangled with another woman and eachother:
1. the duchess/emperors sister is probs having a repressed twisted love for her late sister in law, and thats why shes unreasonable in her hate to the empress who replaced her.
2. MC is in an angsty not yet disclosed emotional conflict with her former master, the crown princess of dunamis.
3. her rival knight, serene, is jealous of MC and crown princess relationship and blames MC for the crown princess losing her former self.
4. princess johanna of ollogos is a wild card who gets pulled in all of the other womens conflict.
5. MC's ex friends/fellow maids are struggling with competition with each other AND their puppeteers who are also higher ranking noblewomen.
6. not to mention the main relationship between MC and empress who gets on at first chance and the empress begging her husband to spare MC despite her precarious standing and dependency on his favor for her.
both the emperor and his son (who is unfortunately, the ML) literally only serves as extra problem trigger IM DYING LMAO and its kinda really funny too cause ML is genuinely a strong well built character!! he manages not to be a useless cog in the sea of sapphic yearning and frustration, so ill give credits where its due.
its also kinda amazing that while this is very angsty, you dont get that vibe at all and instead it carries its comedic tone well. im so glad i scrolled through the latest update page and find this webtoon cause this is incredibly entertaining despite not being actual GL
im only on the first chapter and when MC was so awestruck and pledged herself to the empress on first sight i lowkey got butterflies so im going to join the already massive chorus crying over the fact that this isnt gl
cause even when shes killing left and right and plotting to kill her husband only based on a previous timeline i was rooting for her haha. even if shes killing just to be empress and not some noble causes or proportional revenge id still root for her. i love me all the cersei lannisters in stories cause women dont need reasons to crave power!!! the fact that she has a legitimate reason now dont change the fact that she outsmarted everyone, even the girl who has the same advantage of being brought back in time with her. her husband was right to fear her
theres no ethical consumption OR even dignity under capitalism. unfortch, thats currently the default. capitalism being the issue this webtoon is built upon makes other 'slice of life' webtoon pales in comparison. this is THE slice of life webtoon.
you get ur ordinary family ridden with real money problems, you get having to choose between your self respect or ur paycheck. you get no male lead in this webtoon because theres no male lead in real world, but everyone is their own main characters. you get no happy ending/resolution bc as long as you live, life will always have a chance to be worse.
i went to this expecting a heartwarming slice of life or sumn like that but stayed bc of how real it is. brace yourselves before you read this.
sedin is a carryover of the tower owner's soul or spirit or energy or something. hes not in the novel, he has crazy abilities and latches onto MC the second he saw her. maybe idk hes a byproduct of the tower or the system, maybe? something foreign to the novel theyre getting in just like MC
and its so damn crazy how bad i wanted to bitch slap yoonso cus he keeps torturing chaeah! but then i get to the later chapters and seeing how pathetic and pitiful yoonsoo became cus he wants chaeah so bad it crumbles his sense of self. it pays off soooo good!! my god i love this webtoon so much. i love all the 'all powerful immortal/supernatural creature being reduced to a loser when they lost a mind game with a survivor traumatised mere mortal that the creature underestimated' is my fav genre in books so to have this in webtoon is gratifying for me!!!
i was vibing sm she and the others are doing children shenanigans, i love her relationships with everyone, even down to her mom with little screen time, i love how they have her all disheveled, tomboy, and her persistent eyebags BUT THEN the shady ginger ML showed up and ruined everything omg i want him dead kinda
flower boy is actually just ML with a wig or sumn cause have they been seen in the same room? no? thats what i thought!!!! (coping cause i cant handle another ML when ML is already this cool and flower boy is that cute)
this is so anticlimatic. as funny as everything is i personally hate this thanksgiving pardon parade!!! to have his entire foundation of opposition crumble in like 3 panels, after us spending 100+ chapters with him being a fuckass douche? im kinda really not satisfied!!!!!!! he gotta get tortured!!! dungeon dweling!!!! balls plucked!!!!! IDKKKK something more!!!
im just taken by surprise by the fact that this isekai webtoon focuses on mother daughter bonding and not entirely lone FL surrounded by men competing for her or whatever. ive always been bamboozled by how easy they brush off mothers; often having them nonexistent by killing them out of the story and not even bringing them up at all, or have them be a very tragic death to be used as a vital relationship trigger between FL and the male members of her family.
BUT THIS?????? empress and FL are both fiery and sassy and snarky and stubborn and they might be bickering all the time but no one can deny that this, at its core, is a mother-daughter story. theories about whether FL is her bio daughter or not aside, as a mommas girl myself...im so happy to have given this webtoon a chance cause i did thought this was going to be the usual male centered FL story
this is the first isekai i read where ML is kinda.....ordinary?? but it makes it interesting. hes not a swordsmanship/magic prodigy, hes not a strong politician, he does his duty and martial arts but not exactly have exaggerated achievements or anything, hes also obviously defeated in terms of express power and mentality before FL came, so he doesnt have a leg up in court. hes just a regular joe who is a firstborn prince. that makes FL's struggle even more precarious bc her husband isnt special like the many other isekai ML. i do like their modesty, its a different protagonist flavor.
ON THE OTHER HAND i feel like, the lady in waiting is what the typical isekai FL is; modern, audacious, and confident. i feel like instead of ML, the prodigy/trump card on their side is the lady in waiting. theres only little chapters now but im kinda hooked on her character, she steals the scenes sorta