I don't like how the ML handled the conversation, dismissing Paula's worries.
I was reminded of the movie "Raise the Red Lantern" where the emperor has a favorite concubine and at the end of the movie she asks the emperor not to choose her in her next life because love wasn't worth all the pain their relationship caused them.
Paula is trying to say exactly that, that she loves him but the idea of everything that revolves around their relathionship scares and hurts her too much
i completely disagree she's responding from trauma and he's trying to assure her over and over again that his feelings are not shallow and aren't going anywhere even in the face of her trauma just like she did for him when he was at his lowest. what she truly wants is someone who won't leave even if she thrashes about.
Can't say I agree. He doesn't know the extent of her trauma, but she never told him anything too. Not about the beatings, abuse, slurs, he can only guess by how she reacts to her own sister.
He's seeing her for the first time, bit by bit, down to how rough her hands actually are. He's not dismissing her fears, he's talking her through them.
But reality isn't going to suddenly change if she heals from her trauma. It's not going to change that she is a maid and he is a noble, that she isn't the prettiest and she doesn't have a will strong enough for that world.
Am I supposed to believe that once she heals unicorn will start flying over the rainbow and confetti will fall from the sky?
Ok let's stop using our brain since we are reading a romance and apparently everything can be ignored for a happy ending
nobody is saying you should ignore anything. the reasons she's rejecting him are real but the reasons she's screaming at the top of her lungs about it are not. those are the trauma. there are obviously logistics that need to be addressed for them to be together but one of those is not him showing her too much love. that is exactly what she needs. when someone has built walls around their heart the only thing that can solve that is gentleness, patience, and an overwhelming amoutn of love the kind of which they have never received. she isn't scared of him. she's scared of his love because she thinks she's undeserving of it. it isn't really about their statuses. that's just the excuse she's throwing at him. a very valid one at that!
I want to see him take a "normal" role, not a psychopath again and again. I love this story, but it's pretty known in the acting field that playing normal characters is more difficult than playing over the top characters, so if they want to show how good he is, they should make him play a chill guy (⌒▽⌒)
I have come to the conclusion that people who don't like the duke and Varia's love story are:
A) teenagers
B) people who only read the same genre and the same plot
I'm so tired of comments like " I want the duke for myself" or "in other stories it's not like this". Come on, touch some grass and open a book. This is what happens when the only thing you read are romance manhwa.
Make me forget my degree in quantum physics I beg you, because now all I can hear is bullshit. Maybe the author should have given a more metaphysical explaination instead of trying to combine a bunch of theories that even in real life create confusion and paradoxes.
Also, where did the "future that needs to be prevented" come from? It's your interpretation sir! The oracle literally said "no comment"
Removing all the philosophical parts, it's a way to see the world from a different physical point of view, meaning that instead of using classical Newton physics you can rewrite all the formulas in a new way, usually starting from the Shroedinger's equation. In university what we are taught is way less philosophical and way more practical (lots of algebra, integrals etc...)
For example quantum physics is useful to predict the movements of things extremely small, like electrons, so both in chemistry and in (micro)electronics at a certain point you will have to use quantum formulas.
The concept in movies and books that "if you don't look at it, everything is possible" is kind of true, in a mathematical complicated way that is a bit difficult to explain. Basically when you make measurements on these extremely small particles, you can only measure 1 thing at a time (or more things, but they need to be compatible), so you can only know the position of an electron for example, but not the speed. So we say that the speed could simultaneously be more values at the same time. Then we measure the speed and suddenly the position becomes the problem. It's called Heisenberg's uncertainty principle.
So in a very microscopic way, if we want to look at the philosophical part that comics and literature like to always mention, there are more futures overlapped in a single moment until you measure it ("you look at it").
For example quantum computers are way more powerful than normal computers (in theory) because until you measure their bits, they could be both 0 and 1, so multiple futures at the same time!
BUT it's a stretch to talk about parallel futures or different dimensions. Those can be very high level interpretations with very little ground of truth.
Everything else you see in movies is just speculation, but not much scientific. Truly, it's just a way to rewrite physics so that it can be applied to more complex scenarios than the traditional ones.









I think that the worldbuilding would have been more interesting if this arc hadn't been going for so long, moreover presenting a nesting structure where it is the consequence of previous arcs (go to the island -> get robbed -> go to the ruins -> go in a fucking place which is another world/hell/heaven, whatever -> overthrow the justice system of that world).
At this point the story has completely digressed from what it was before the island and you need some mental juggling to reconnect angels and mages.
Fuck the plot of rich people oppressing the poors, fuck the plot of a school for mages I guess