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I now remember why I dropped this before, the story is not bad but the author tried to put a lot of complicated plot and in the end it felt like a lot wasn’t properly explained or was over complicated just for the sake of making MC shine, the harem is not my favorite thing but I could already see it coming and chose to continue reading so that’s on me, the art really isn’t helping with immersion, it’s not bad, it’s just the author made MCs body into a woman’s body, I don’t think is the style fault cause no other male character (even the more feminine ones) that I remember had this problem, it’s not the clothes either, it’s just the combination of the face with the body that makes it impossible for me to read while imagining a male voice speaking, it just felt like the author should have made MC a woman from the beginning, I had to keep stopping myself every time someone referred to him as a “him” to try to imagine that he was indeed a cis man… gender should not matter overall, but for some reason in this case it threw me off a bit cause I kept having to police myself… idk, maybe I’m being too harsh and for that I apologize, but it felt so tiring having to try to remember or ignore certain things (not just gender, but the MCs plot armor almost made me dislike him at times) that I couldn’t really get into the story, the beginning was really nice, but the more you read the more you detach from it, would say this is a 3,5/5 stars P.S.: if this review sounded transphobic I’m sorry, please know that’s not my intention, honestly, what I meant to say is that it felt like the author wanted to write a female MC but had to write a male MC for whatever reason
hiiii the author talked about how lucian is actually genderfluiiddd but its not explored as much in this story- hence why he likes wearing dresses however still is referred to by he/him
its a bit offputting bcs its not explained in this i agree
but in the authors new story a sense for love the mc is cis he/him so u can read that one ^^^
Oh, ok! That makes sense, wish the author had explored more on that
yeeeahhh it only really makes it obvious when you read the sequel "lucent" on webtoon, or in the scenes with raven where he wears a dress ^^
I didn’t read the novel but saw spoilers and thought this was gonna go the novel route. Thank God the manhwa went a different direction, I was getting kinda desperate with that ending ╥﹏╥
Huh how did the novel end? O.O?
Forget what I said, I just looked at the spoilers again since it had been some time since I saw it and it’s happening exactly like in the novel #－.－)
The good thing is that the ending wasn’t as bad as I remember
NOVEL SPOILER
- The story ended kinda happy with them alive together, but Illic never says he loves Sayan, he obviously is attached to him, but there never is a love confession, so Sayan is never loved the way he probably wants Illic to love him.
- Even though the duke is sick he is described by Illic as “getting better” contrary to his dream where Sayan dies
- imo Illic loves Sayan, he just doesn’t love him at the same intensity that Sayan loves him, but in canon he never officially admits this (but then again, why cry at the thought of your boo dying then? )
Oooh! Thankies!! I agree 100% hope they won’t die without confession to each other ᕦ(ò_óˇ)ᕤ