This novel is so depressing knowing what’s going to happen in the future. It’s like stepping into a mud pit.
Please, spoiler I need to know what happened. Pleaseeeee. Cause I read a lot of comments stating that the novel is too depressing. Can you spoil me?(〜￣△￣)〜
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I don't know what exactly op is referring to but the two situations from the novel that immediately came to my mind is Thalia having a miscarriage and both Thalia and Barkas dying. There's more after they die tho
WHAT??????? Miscarriage???!!! THEY DIE??????? WHAAAAAAT Like srsly? This is tragedy? I didn't know that Aw now I don't want to read it anymore. Is there like a reincarnation regression something after they die? Cause I really don't wanna read sad manwhas if I can help it. Life's already depressing as it is.
Novel spoilers
The entire novel so far Varkas treats her like dirt despite loving her and only regrets it after she’s dead—the novel is unfinished and rn he’s experiencing Talia’s side by being reincarnated into the past as her pet wolf, Khan.
But, Talia’s mother devises a plot on this trip to delay Varka’s marriage by causing wyverns to attack but it results in Talía getting her legs crushed under rocks and permanently crippled. From there up until her death she’s on drugs for the pain and a laughingstock to everyone else. Varkas marries her out of obligation as he technically caused her disfigurement by abandoning her to save her sister instead. Talia becomes grand duchess but the entire duchy hates her. She knows that Varkas will never love her like she wants and is deeply saddened by it. Her mother tells her to have an heir but Varkas won’t sleep with her so she r*pes him until she gets pregnant but it ends in a miscarriage. Talía is severely traumatized, mentally ill and has post partum depression that everyone else calls her “karma” and bratty nature and instead of comforting her Varkas leaves for some kind of war. Talía is left alone and adopts a wolf pup named Khan. When Varkas returns, Khan attacks one of Varka’s family members, Lucas, and mortally wounds him so Varkas kills Khan (he didn’t but never says he didn’t). Talia is stripped of her grand duchess title and exiled to the annex. More stuff happens and Talia dies. Varkas is stricken with grief by this after reading her diary and goes off to kill himself when Khan appears and bites his throat. Cue being reincarnated into the past as Khan.
....... wow
Oh that is bullshit
can u send the link please??
It’s a rough ride, the entire novel has a sobering atmosphere and it’s currently over 260 chaps.
I do want to briefly mention that Varkas is bound by an oath to Gareth and Ayla, so when he abandoned Talía to save Ayla it was because of his oath, but it was still really shitty. And he tried to strangle Gareth after he offered Varkas to marry Ayla after Talia died but couldn’t due to the oath. So, he loved Talia the entire time but his inability to show emotions and his oath ruined everything. He never loved Ayla either, he was forced to act per his oath. I don’t feel that sorry for him though, Talía suffered a lot of misfortune at the duchy bc of him. I have a hard time feeling sorry for Talía though too because she r*ped him. And sorry, but that’s inexcusable to me even if you’re mentally ill. I can excuse her cruelty towards others bc of how she was raised and it’s a defense mechanism but not the r*pes on Varkas.
what the fucckk
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That's so traumatic...
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Is-is there any chance for Varkas to change the past ? I mean... Is there any hope for a better ending?
Excuse me? What?????? Die?? Huhhhh???? I....
The novel is at a point where it does seem like the author is making Barkas go a few years back as Khan to try and change things but I have no idea whether it's gonna work tbh.
Spoilers
Yup, it's a heavy read. The novel has highs followed by devastating lows. A lot of tragic events, trauma, gray morals, hard and uncomfortable topics so it's understandably not for everybody. The whole scene where Thalia forces herself on/rapes Barkas is very uncomfortable to read (obviously) because not only does she coerce/force him to have sex after being manipulated by her mother but she's so uncomfortable doing it that it's just devastating to read. In my opinion it's a meaningful scene cause it perfectly showcases how Barkas will do anything for her. Even to the point of fighting the curse placed on him.
Edit: y’all I am reading on ridibooks and using Google Translate. It’s $6 in total for both books. If you don’t want to pay you can find translated copies up to chapter 10 (like 12% of the novel) on the web. It’s not rocket science to find them I promise, so I’m not going to send tons of links to people. And given the current placing of the translated novels, they’re behind the manga and it’s easier to read on ridibooks.
This is a big spoiler so beware
I am reading the novel and I will tell you that the prince(King) and Dam are endgame and after reading the ending of book 2 for confirmation they’re both romantically involved with each other. How they get there is a long rocky road and after Dam runs away and then returns to the palace, Mok-young (Prince) basically realizes he loves Dam and enters deep regret, longing and groveling for Dam despite Dam being completely traumatized and terrified of him. Also, the novel is jumping from past timeline and present timeline, so unlike the manga that is showing all the past events leading to the present I am reading the present timeline after the framing the princess event and then it’ll jump back to the past timeline. Which I prefer to reading an intense opener before being launched into the past universe for the next 30+ chapters. I’m on page 116/258 currently for novel 1. In essence, Dam returns to the palace with Mok-young, stays in the concubine palace and somewhere along the way becomes Chief Eunuch. It was also stated that the prince’s friend (in a conversation), the one that seemingly likes Dam, helped Dam escape by having him pretend to be a court maid and it was thought Dam was dead—probably by faking his suic-de, but haven’t gotten that far yet, I’m speculating. Then Mok-young finds out he’s alive and spends years searching for him and went nutty and wiped out the corrupt officials. But that’s as far as I got.
Side note: this is more speculation but it seems that Mok-young waits for Dam’s consent until the end of book 2(a statement was made by prince’s friend in book 2), but I find that hard to believe so I’m not sure if there’s anymore penetration sex scenes after the flashbacks. Also, literally the first night Dam is back in the palace Mok-young sleeps in bed with him and starts kissing his neck and shoulders and only stops after about sending Dam into a panic attack so there’s that, why I’m skeptical by that remark at the end of book 2. The author is trying to frame it as Mok-young’s trauma caused him to treat Dam poorly and fail to realize his affections until Dam flees, and then gets his redemption when he finds Dam again. Which personally, is so stupid and there’s no redeeming for Mok-young for me. I’m just really invested in this novel (the writing is honestly really freaking good the trauma aside, which I feel puts a realistic perspective on palace life in historical times) and I think the manga only doing past events first before the present timeline doesn’t do it justice.
Side side note: Mok-young sometimes refers to Dam in the present as Dam-a which according to a translator means “deep love”, so fucking cringe from Mok-young LOL
One side of me wants Su-Ah to bite him to read the angsty drama slop fall out but the other side of me is “oh shit, oh no! nooo!!”. Su-Ah is proving himself to be a real asshole, when MC has issues due to Su-Ah’s marking without permission, his good boy acting wasn’t fooling me. It won’t happen but I hope MC ends up with someone else or with no one and goes on a self-acceptance journey or something.
Can someone dm me where they read the novel? I’ve been searching everywhere with zero luck
If you got the link, can you dm me too? I don't even know where i can find the dm
If you got the link, can you dm me too? I don't even know where i can find the dm or how to get it T^T
I’m not sure where people are getting their information, because that’s not what I read in the novel?
Massive spoilers:
TLDR: ML is an orange flag and did two significantly cruel things.
Leshak (ML) is an orange flag and did two red flag things. I’ve read wayyy worse ML’s . He did two pretty cruel things and has a manipulative/possessive personality in general but gets better, especially in the side stories. The two things he did, one I can understand to a point given the circumstances and happened largely due to a misunderstanding. But I never read any grape scenes and there’s 18+ in the side stories. You could argue it was inferred, but again I didn’t even read anything where it could be inferred. Anyways, here’s what the ML did.
First thing: made Radan a prisoner of war, put him in a cage and planned to kill his family in front of him. Because Radan was the blue snake and Radan had assassinated almost his entire family prior to current events. The ML didn’t know the extent of Radan’s life and how he was treated. He gave Radan a chance to explain himself, but because of Radan’s inability to effectively communicate it didn’t happen. However, ML regrets everything really bad once he finds out.
Second thing: during ML’s crazy phase he shackled Radan for several days in his bedroom. ML kissed him and touched his chest even though Radan didn’t like it, but nothing else was written. It could be argued they “did it” but it wasn’t written or really inferred—and their “first time” after these events seemed more legitimately their first time. ML behaved this way to get Radan to remember him. This part of the story made me frown and not like the ML from that point on despite his “redemption” hence my air quotes.
Despite those two things, ML does “redeem” himself to a point. If I had to pick him or Ozdin I’d pick the ML. Ozdin is a secondary ML, kinda? Ozdin’s affection for Radan felt superficial and he wouldn’t listen to Radan bc “Radan didn’t know what he wanted”. Whereas the ML actually listens to Radan’s requests and feelings.
*ML gives Radan the highest ranking of Duke and his own palace that is also catered to his blindness I.e. servants wear bells, lots of flowers and fragrances, soft furniture, etc.
*Marries Radan, I think? I can’t remember but Radan is established as his lover and ML swore to never take another lover or empress and the story states he never did.
*Caters to Radan and does whatever Radan wants pretty much. Also respected Radan’s wishes when he rejected ML in bed lol.
*Is jealous of Radan’s pets and doesn’t like them but lets him keep them anyway.
*without giving too much context of a big plot point, ML vows to stay with Radan despite the dangers and spend all 90 nights with him. Which is a little endearing given how as time progresses, Radan might get very saddened by circumstances and their relationship might get strained but ML vowed to stay with Radan no matter what happened.
https://foolishtranslationss.wordpress.com/bloody-moon/
Gross. Why are you saying grape? Do you believe that rape is something to be ashamed of? Should victims not be able to talk about their rape? Do you think that rape should be censored and mentions of rape should be removed from society?
Do you think refusing to talk about rape will do anything except empower rapists?
Gross. The fact that you are trying to erase rape and to stigmatize people who talk about rape is gross.
Bro chill down i don't think that's what they meant most of people almost on all of the platform use that word isn't of rape it's not because THEY WANNA STIGMATIZE PEOPLE and shi it's not that deep it's a sensitive word and might trigger some people's trauma too
Did you take your meds today? Because wtf are you on about. Good grief. I censored the word because it’s a pretty explicit and serious word with serious context/subjects surrounding it to use like it’s a box of tissues. you sound like you just want me to say it outright for who knows what reason.
That's not at all while you're doing it. You're doing it because you have tiktok brain. You don't see the harm you're doing because you don't think critically. Saying the word rape is not in any way cursing, triggering, or harmful. Making it so people feel like they can't talk about rape is.
Why do most rapists get away with it? Because being a rape victim is highly stigmatized, it is widely considered something to be ashamed of, it is something that you are not supposed to talk about, and reporting it is incredibly harmful due to all the victim blaming. People are taught not to talk about rape and now you and all of the little tiktok brain degenerates are reinforcing that. You just lack the critical thinking skills to understand what you're doing.
What chapter is the regret <3
Use the link I gave to the web novel c:
Vol 2 chapter 26 - The Face of Truth and Vol 2 chapter 27 - The Master of the Heart
Note: it’s not a real “regret arc” it’s those two chapters bc Leshak goes crazy right after. If you want a better regret/redemption arc then that would be vol 2 chapter 38 - The Waters That Could Not Be Escaped — and onwards from there, especially with the side stories.
Cute ragebait
This is cool, interesting and all but I’m really confused with how he got into a mental hospital. Because it seems like the casino thing is real, but was everything else just what he imagined?
THIS SHIT STILL DRAGGING