i like how lydia is fairly realistic. since she doesn't know what love truly is, she couldn't give/reciprocate it to lyrica. and only realized it far too late which caused lyrica's life. she was selfish and hungry for power as that's the only way the people around her was. it's truly saddening that she could not break the cycle back in her first life, and only lyrica was the true cycle breaker.
not everyone could truly escape the abuse they experienced for years and years on end (decades upon decades for lydia). thus, the qoute "the abused becomes the abuser" best describes lydia. lyrica and her mother are two sides of the same coin. lyrica being able to run free from the hurt of her abusive mother (able to love), and lydia who became exactly her abusers (in the first life, exploited and exploiter). it's probably the reason why lyrica is such a dear to me. she's truly kind, saw the beauty in it all, and did not become what her environment was, and that's something i truly envy.
i'm not excusing lydia's wrongdoings, i'm just saying that she was in survival mode. thus she could not love and only did what she knows (abuse). what she did is wrong, but that does not mean she can't get her redemption and forgiveness. imo, she's doing good as she recognized her mistakes and is trying really hard to correct them, though sometimes she falls short. not a lot of abusers recognize and make ammends with their wrongs, so you guys should chill out and at the very least recognize that she's doing better than before. also! lyrica forgave her already with the abused that she received from her! it's not explicitly said but you could see it in the way she interacts with her mother.
got mixed feelings for the ending of cliff. totally could see cliff going that way, but a redemption arc might have been good too. like i wish he snapped out of his obsession with that author after the restrictions were lifted, but this ending for him is fine too??
Novel spoilers
I don’t remember much of the novel, but cliff did get his redemption arc there. If I remember correctly he was against her at the last arc and defended Edith at the end. He apologized and still feels bad for his actions. I don’t even remember lilith(forgot her name) went to the real world. I think she was sent to the tower as a prisoner. What I do remember is that cliff did try to help her at the tower and there was a period of time where he was a deunk and at a really bad state, but he later on fell deeply in love with a women. And they got married and had kids. It was a different kind of love yk, here it was really genuine love, but with Lilith it was a controlled obsession and kinda toxic love. So it was nice that hr got his redemption arc.
honestly, i predicted this much that they'll somehow be shipped by the author. it's fine and all, but i wish that it was after the whole story or even later down the plotline. i really like seeing gyeol being single and so hee wanting to have girlfriends. so, i just wish she got another girlfriend before all that happened with gyeol. wish author made it develop further before making her confess or smth











do forgibe me for any grammatical error and typos as Im typing thjs under my pillow and it's currently the crack of dawn here and I javent slept cause i just finished reasing this hehe
i've been guessing and seeing all the hints since the save ooint thingy. andmy theory is that there's at least three separate but the same beings existing at the same time which is our ml. Tez/Terry, Reed, and the one from the redacted being who wishes to identigy fl when she tried to get the save point thing. theyall exist at the same time and their salvation is f and her death/transmigation is no bug/mistake by the gods as if was all planne right at the very start.
when fl retrieved the save poinf, the redacted being perished even before the dungeon collapsed, and ml came back to life that's why he was looking for the save point to destroy it once again. as for the reason being why he came back afyer his long salvation in the void, idk. but i think it's still connected with the favt that the fl have to stop reed from further corruption and give him the salvation he needed while still being tez/terry.
or maybe they need to find the og god of the universe so that they can stop it. ORRR MAYBE ML IS THE GOD HIMSELF AND HE'S REGRESSING TO STOP HIS WORLD FROM FURTHER CORRUPTION???! cause the god is no where to be found and why does he have a special condition which doesn't allow the other goda to spy on him like they do with fl??? though they did say that it does occurs sometimes, there must be a reason as to why.
love the story so fartho mehehe