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Okay I'm confused about something after reading the novel then coming back to reread earlier chapters here of the manhwa
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Why is Albert the one engaged to Daphne? Wasn't it James? The Kingsley family did not have ties with Laurel family, it was the Cheslow, right? That's why im confused and I feel like this will ruin so many things because so many scenes will not make sense if Bella is with Albert. I don't understand why the manhwa decided to do that
Same question! There was a guy named James Cheslow, and then suddenly in the manhwa it's Albert
OMG ME TOO i was wondering the same! but im sure the flow wouldn't change much i guess
It really would though once the angelhic plotline comes into place and the Bella x Cedric plot. If who she's with is Albert, a lot of scenes (the boat party, buying angelhic, trying to leave James, cedric fooling Bella, and even James leaving Daphne and the repercussions that had on him to anger the Laurel family) they all make no sense if it's Albert and not someone of a lower family and no ties to the Duke. That was such an odd choice in the manhwa tbh
aah now that you mentioned it, it truly doesn't make sense... i simply thought albert would just have an extra "job" other than a drug dealer lol, but i guess its not that simple considering his standings
I think Cedric's uncle will get a different role in the manhwa — maybe he will be the one that start to commercialize the Angelique?
BTW many things are different: Cedric's father dead (if he is dead in the battlefield, the Clarissa's Monastery help was less personal for Cedric), Tez already Bella's lover (when she uses him to hurt Harriet), the orphans already in the convents, Harriet without skin struggles (i want to understand how the manhwa will manage all the soap Clarissa stuff).
Honestly I don't like the manhwa. The characters are best-written in the novel. Cedric is not only a yandere cold man with red eyes: he is kind and he chuckles often thanks to Harriet (with this character design i cannot imagine Cedric laugh, chuckle or smirk).
Harriet is not only a serious woman: she is stubborn, proud, clever, smart: her every move is calculated and above all she prefers to die before to ask for help (in the manhwa she write Trisha without thinking twice, begging to be her guardian).
In the novel, the scene where Cedric offered his help but she refused it, gets totally different vibes. She was trying to suppress her anger, full of desire to get her revenge: she clenched her fists when the talk to him... she laughed in front of him, because he was concerned she could badmouthing him. She showed him all her pride and fierce. And her reaction left Cedric with a stiff face. In the manhwa she was simply serious, calm and in her thoughts she also justified Cedric's actions during the party... and Cedric? He didn't reveal a single thoughts and he seemed to threat her, instead of warning her.
I keep pondering on what young meant when he said there's a difference between them in chapter 18, but the way I see it is that the difference between both is essentially their biggest similarity: being human
If you look closely, both of them have their optimistic and pessimistic views. Despite Jiho's depression and loneliness, and how it affects him psychologically and emotionally, he's able to see meaning and beauty in everything. Everything in life, for him, has a meaning; an higher motive of existence. Things don't just "be", they're representations for bigger pictures or deeper meanings, and because of this mentality and his introspection, the burden of his loneliness and sadness burrows deeper into him and he can't help but feel it all.
On the other hand, Young simplifies everything in life. "It is what it is" mentality. Everything exists because everything exists, there isn't always a beautiful or a fundamental deeper meaning to everything that's going on. This was highlighted when he was talking about the orchestra. To Jiho, there was beauty in the arrangement, the ambience, and the setting. To Young, he cannot think or feel what this all means, he sees things from the other darker side or more nihilistic, which is there really isn't a higher meaning to those who're performing, to them, it's just another day at work. They don't care about all of this each time. And I think this is a beautiful way to reflect on both their characters.
It's so good and rare to see manhwas or even some media portray depression in someone so full of life and art and beauty and positive outlook, while the one who is in peace with life be so nihilistic, numb, pessimistic, and emotionally constipated at times.
Because Jiho feels too much, he aches too much. Because Young put a lid on his emotions, he turned a back to his aches, which manifested as his nihilism.
I feel like i lost my point but what I mean to say is, Young thinks they're different just because they're looking at things from different angles, but in the end they're both just looking for ways to cope with their lives. While one distracts himself with art and beauty, trying to give reason to everything that's happened to him, the other tries to convince himself things just happen, and that he couldn't have done anything about the things he faced.
This made my frontal lobe develop thank you
this lowkey made me tear up u got a beautiful way with words bro
you're the new shakespeare
Keep talking you’re gonna go far