Rape, rape, actually ok (they only made out while drunk & the rest was consensual - happy he didn’t turn out to be an asshole), blackmail & rape (her being messed up at the end just felt like an excuse for it - it was still rape), drunkenly questionable that looks like it’ll turn into rape by a psycho that’ll use being in a relationship as an excuse
Sexy af but the translation is a hot mess.. still a solid 4/5 tho (would’ve gotten 5 if I could actually follow the plot/their backstories better potentially)
I agree for sure with the translation made some parts confusing
translation is a bit messy but easy to read past. The MC seems to sorta flip flop between being physically strong or not, but they’re consistent with the initial flaw of her having good quick judgement, but bad long term thinking when under stress (like she didn’t have to stab the guard if she was going to the dungeons anyway).
Interesting enough to continue reading, but I suspect this might be a slower story. Either that or a shorter one maybe. Can already tell this is gonna end with her marrying Bently (is that the silver haired royalty adjacent main dude?) and they’ll become the king and queen. Since like… EVERYONE seems to be in cahoots with ruining her/his family apparently.
The current one up is the same as ch. 3, so it makes ch. 5 sort of weird to follow since she said in the letter that she couldn’t leave the house and all of a sudden she’s outside the house.. Something was explained in Ch 4 that’s now missing to bridge these eps.
Really good pacing and plot development. I’m bittersweet about the author not being afraid to kill off chars (potentially?), but ultimately happy since it helps story wise (I just get sad when you see that an author is scared of offing anyone that might be a popular char, even if it would help with char development) and might be necessary to give their hate some extra motivation. He may be their father, be he ain’t their daddy!
Ok, so the world building is pretty decent here. Art is good, costumes are nice, but not overdone. Plot takes a whiiiiiiile to flesh out and get to a part where the chars that were making you go ‘wtf?!’ stop doing that.
So you’ll need to get close to ch 50 to start approving on the ml. I’m proud of the fl for standing her ground until everything came out in the open and I respect her decision from there so far (SO glad she got her loving family to show her how healthy love is supposed to feel - and that she deserves it!). ML has actually been LEARNING from his mistakes and I’m proud of him doing a 180 away from his obsessive path. I love the comedic relief in the high priest trying not to eff up this time around. Fake saintess lady doesn’t stop being selfish and I’m pissed at how she used her guiding to coerce the prince into being an idiot. Like it even messed with his feelings T-T. Reason I feel bad for him is because he actually proves to be a proper member of royalty (a leader), once information is revealed to him (this also just takes forever to finally happen).
Reason for why everything takes so long to happen? My guess is that there was a lot of world building and explaining of the Korea past vs the book that turned out to be complete fiction vs the real past of the other dimension (Stern? I’m forgetting names again) that needed to happen, so everything just took a while to get through so that we’d get to a point where people would realize what’s going on.
Personally, I don’t like the guide/esper genre since it feels very rapey, with sexual things being required in order to save someone’s life if they’re far gone enough. Also makes it VERY hard to tell if the guides even actually get a say in it in most series I’ve begun reading with it - maybe even the espers since it looks like the guiding is like a drug for them so they can’t think straight, but the guides just have to hope they get turned on enough to enjoy it too? Regardless, I’m actually enjoying this since it seems to be getting handled ok (minus how in the past Korea time, he was totes fine with doing her while treating her like nothing while she was getting empty sex with the guy she wished would love her - I’m glad he’s doing better now)
TL/DR: I’m enjoying this a lot since it’s a bit different, but has character growth (even if not everyone gets the growth). It’s takes quite a while (like 40 - 50 chapters) to get to where people know enough to be making sensible decisions, but it’s worth it when you start seeing the changes. Personally, I don’t like the guide/esper genre, but I like this.
Need to take a break from this atm (she got him decrowned and it’s the hunting event now - Murdock!! TwT).
So, the FL is a modern Korean woman who's been in the workforce for a few years and is pretty smart, is what I’ve gathered. She was able to realize early on that the family is VERY powerful and even rivals the power of the imperial family - potentially even trumping them (since she can still win an argument with them in public - the imperials don’t just auto win). She ALSO found out kinda early ish that the original chick forced the engagement to go through. This is where I start getting annoyed by her. To her knowledge from the story, the prince NEVER liked the original chick. Now that she found out that the engagement was also forced on him by said chick, why on earth would she be pissed at him for cheating? She has 0 experience or knowledge of this dude showing affection toward her or the original. PLUS she is smart enough to know the power of the house vs the imperials. Why on earth does she want to take revenge on him (all arguments with him stem from him being forced into marriage)? And to get the crown taken from him? For cheating? I thought this woman was smart. That’s what her character was portrayed as when we started this ride and it’s what they keep showing with her business acumen, people skills, and overall foresight. She’s not a teen doped up on hormones unable to control her anger (as she’s proven she can keep calm in infuriating circumstances dispute being mad, MULTIPLE times now). Why does she want to take revenge on him as if she’s actually a woman scorned??
Yes, WE as readers now know that there is a whole lot more to this story: the queen obviously taught her messed up stuff and emotionally damaged her, that made her do some major mental damage to the prince in turn (this spreading of the trauma was shown through the prince having nightmares), and apparently they DID love eachother in the beginning of it all (this was also shown as the prince’s memories, not the FL’s). But the FL still doesn’t know any of this (I suspect she needs more memories to figure it out, since she hasn’t indicated that the webtoon said anything about it). Hence why I’m pissed about her char at this point.
Otherwise, this is an alright fluff piece (I read toxic stuff sometimes so this is pretty light for me so far - could get more intense with the mental issues tho)
TL/DR: FL char writing is broken & prince getting his crown taken for revenge makes no sense - could’ve been approached differently. Otherwise, story seems ok as a fluff piece. Tired from the FL nonsense, so will read the rest later.
Felt like the beach arc was taking a while, but I’m happy with how that’s ending now. Also folks complaining about Eve not growing up yet: it hasn’t been that long that they’ve been together yet. Like 1 month that we know of for sure and maybe another one for all the other traveling. I’ll add another as a buffer for the sake of it. I think he’ll probably grow up closer to meeting the hero tho due to necessity or he might just be growing over time naturally since there hasn’t been a catalyst for the growth yet. I’ll say I’m VERY happy that Kiri didn’t end up needing to accept the goddesses words to res the dude (essentially giving up his life). I hope he ends up being ridiculously good at medical science and ends up being better with healing magic from having a better understanding of how the body itself works (although Gozu can probably only help with basics of that field).
I need a versatile couple to exist in this art style T-T
Got through Ch. 4 and I’m definetly interested, but the translations are off enough that it’s making it tough to read and I can’t get a good handle on the mc’s thoughts. Will definitely come back to this if better or official translations come out tho.
I thought that too but when u read further it gets better (I didn’t like the font but it gets back to the wild fonts later on)
It’s an interesting read! ヾ(☆▽☆)