I feel like Kallen was a bully when they were kids, and he's a jerk, and he deserves her anger... But I'm starting to feel a bit bad for him. He made a lot of awful choices when he was a child, but he made those decisions as a child. As an adult, he's trying to make amends, and she's fully justified in not forgiving him, but using and manipulating him is a decision she's making as an adult.
Well, his bias as a child followed him long into adulthood that he never stopped to contemplate on even when Korean Girl was desperately fishing for their love, and he does have a dangerously disgusting possessiveness of her (“You NEED to rely on me because I’m all you have” with that kind of weird self-satisfied smile? And getting jealous at the thought of her having other support systems when he hasn’t been one in years? Eughhhh…)
You are right that he is (so far) the only remorseful one around her which minutely softens our view of him (the dad is being very complacent with most of Kanna’s demands but I hesitate to pop him in the remorseful category right now). But I’m with Kanna that it still feels a little self-serving. Especially since he was denying it for so long and being like “I’m not THAT bad” and that he’s working to protect the blonde kid from prejudice but never once stopped to realise that Kanna was going through the same thing when younger up until the present.
I do look forward to a good grovel though and maybe with work, he grows more sincere and ditches that weird hero brother complex he seems to have around her.
Most of these are boilerplate and boring, but this one kept me turning pages. The intrigue was excellent. 9/10.
I can follow a story where a woman falls for her abuser. But he needs to have actually done something to earn it. This feels surface and shallow. Why would she go searching him out after all that. She should have taken 200 years to forgive him or else he should have sacrificed his life to turn back time... This is... Boring and completely unbelievable.
To me, it reads like a story that was stretched past its intended end point for some reason? I mean, you can wrap the story up at many places past chapter 79, each giving the work a different flavor.
At the cabin, it would have been a ghost/horror story with MC finally overcoming the impossible. Contracting with him would end the story at pretty much sequel bait. Him giving up his power, walking away or even sealing himself up would have been a start to redemption, as would him actually giving MC power instead of blondie. The confrontation with the villains could have changed it to a thriller, especially if the queen actually found a way to be a threat. It didn't even need to put MC together with him, it could have just ended with him becoming a true protector to what she held dear, even after she passed. But I guess none of those would be this story specifically.
What I feel the weirdest about is that ML isn't really human to me, more like a great old tree-god or some kind of alien species fundamentally incapable of truly grasping romantic love. I do appreciate his strange mind tho, so it was kinda weird to see it end the way it did. Well, at least the first 80-ish chapters were fire, and the ending wasn't all that bad overall.
I am very confused. The translation is bad. Ban keeps using male pronouns for Lidi. The pages in chapter 4 seem to have been uploaded out of order. But I think the initial problem might have started with the plot. It's all over the place. Are we trying to discover a way to break a slave contact? Or are we being summoned to the capital? Or are we searching for clues about the girl? I just don't know what's happening.
I really hate ai translation is being used alot recently without someone proof reading this. But the one doing it might not even have English as one of their main language.
I think the main thing is mc is searching a way to dispel the slave contract but is getting denied the easy way to do it from people she knows who can help her with it. She suddenly wants to know more about the kingdom she once lived in because of unknown circumstances of finding her former lover in the slave market. She is invited to royal castle, probably related to her achievements in making potions but the king has a power to scan people abilities and maybe more and desires the mc as queen.
Im a bit confused what going on with the game heroine, she chose a different target? Is it the lion king? Or a different prince? Is the director a royal prince? Who killed the king? Is the 2nd prince ruling the other country?
The art is this story is glorious. Gorgeous. Top notch. 10/10... But the pacing isn't quite right. The story jumps back and forth in time which breaks the flow. There are a lot of unnecessary flashbacks. I feel like you could reshuffle all the flashbacks into the correct chronological order and make a more cohesive story. I suspect this is entirely the fault of the publication schedule and editorial requests, and not necessarily an artistic choice made by the author.
This is so ridiculous and funny. And those poor girls, all bickering over the hot guy club and little do they know, they aren't getting any of that.
Nobody behaves in a believable manner in this story.