I regret wasting my time reading this. I found it a few days ago and dropped it today 100+ chapters in. Spoilers below.
Deon ends up stooping lower than the level of Duke Illuster (the main guy responsible for Deon's tragic backstory) in his pursuit of revenge against the world. He begins using and killing people left and right, including people who have treated him with kindness, innocent civilians, children, you name it.
I was not expecting to see comments coddling him, acting like the late Emperor did far worse things to him than he is doing to all these other people now, and getting mad at characters understandably wanting revenge against him. "He had a sad backstory, so I guess everyone else can go die" type of narrow thinking, as if he's the only one who matters. Nothing Deon went through justifies all of these gruesome actions he's taking in the name of so-called revenge. I have no interest in continuing to read a story with someone like him as the main character, or seeing comments from the people who continue to baby him and disregard the feelings, perspectives and experiences of other characters.
Besides all that, there were also a lot of plot holes and nonsensical decision-making throughout the story for an easy way to create and preserve conflict. I could look past that if I still liked the main character, but here we are.
I came into to this expecting a fun misunderstanding story (I avoided spoilers), but now I'm left with a bitter feeling. If you have any recommendations for manga that were more like the beginning of this story, please respond with them.
i was in a similar boat- dropped it after it kept getting worse and worse when I wanted a happy ending and that misunderstanding trope - not sure if you've read it since its not in the realm of fantasy but hunterverse, but illusion hunter from another world is a peak misunderstanding story! its lowkey what i wanted this one to be （￣へ￣）
i was in a similar boat- dropped it after it kept getting worse and worse when I wanted a happy ending and that misunderstanding trope - not sure if you've read it since its not in the realm of fantasy but hunt... cupofpudding
I'm kind of late as I've finally finished reading this story (read this back in 2023-2024) and I'm currently looking through the comments, and came across yours. I know I'm late and I'm not expecting a reply HAHAH I just rlly want to talk abt this story. For me personally, I'm not coddling Deon. It's clear he stooped way lower than the one who deceived him. For me, it's more so of a "what could've been" feeling yk? Like, how would it have been if xyz didn't happen, purely because xyz wanted entertainment and the other wanted power, which is something that happens in the real world (maybe the author didn't intend for it to go this far, but that's the reason why it hit so hard for me). I like this story specifically because it's such a morally grey area. I also think that adding a "tragedy" tag or something of the sort would've changed your perspective and opinion on this story. I personally found it to be a good story (might be one of my fave's), but I'm a sucker for revenge type stories and don't mind an unhinged MC and "bad" endings.
I regret wasting my time reading this. I found it a few days ago and dropped it today 100+ chapters in. Spoilers below.
Deon ends up stooping lower than the level of Duke Illuster (the main guy responsible for Deon's tragic backstory) in his pursuit of revenge against the world. He begins using and killing people left and right, including people who have treated him with kindness, innocent civilians, children, you name it.
I was not expecting to see comments coddling him, acting like the late Emperor did far worse things to him than he is doing to all these other people now, and getting mad at characters understandably wanting revenge against him. "He had a sad backstory, so I guess everyone else can go die" type of narrow thinking, as if he's the only one who matters. Nothing Deon went through justifies all of these gruesome actions he's taking in the name of so-called revenge. I have no interest in continuing to read a story with someone like him as the main character, or seeing comments from the people who continue to baby him and disregard the feelings, perspectives and experiences of other characters.
Besides all that, there were also a lot of plot holes and nonsensical decision-making throughout the story for an easy way to create and preserve conflict. I could look past that if I still liked the main character, but here we are.
I came into to this expecting a fun misunderstanding story (I avoided spoilers), but now I'm left with a bitter feeling. If you have any recommendations for manga that were more like the beginning of this story, please respond with them.
i was in a similar boat- dropped it after it kept getting worse and worse when I wanted a happy ending and that misunderstanding trope - not sure if you've read it since its not in the realm of fantasy but hunterverse, but illusion hunter from another world is a peak misunderstanding story! its lowkey what i wanted this one to be （￣へ￣）
Thank you! I’ll check it out.
I'm kind of late as I've finally finished reading this story (read this back in 2023-2024) and I'm currently looking through the comments, and came across yours. I know I'm late and I'm not expecting a reply HAHAH I just rlly want to talk abt this story. For me personally, I'm not coddling Deon. It's clear he stooped way lower than the one who deceived him. For me, it's more so of a "what could've been" feeling yk? Like, how would it have been if xyz didn't happen, purely because xyz wanted entertainment and the other wanted power, which is something that happens in the real world (maybe the author didn't intend for it to go this far, but that's the reason why it hit so hard for me). I like this story specifically because it's such a morally grey area. I also think that adding a "tragedy" tag or something of the sort would've changed your perspective and opinion on this story. I personally found it to be a good story (might be one of my fave's), but I'm a sucker for revenge type stories and don't mind an unhinged MC and "bad" endings.