Had trouble connecting to ML with his limited expressions. Some frustrating moments that could have been resolved if FL told ML the truth about why she was so determined to marry someone else.
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Improving familial relationships after regression
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Loving family
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No big move to change much
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She falls first
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Struggle between current happiness & her to-be daughter
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Character-driven plot (little outside pressure)
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Finally tells ML everything ch 40
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Religious undertone (mentions of God)
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Character development
FL = learning to live for herself
FL’s past husband = saying no to mother/ protecting his wife & kids
- Ending felt a bit dragged on after all the conflict was resolved
- Side stories include large jumps in time
FL & ML’s kids grown up, after parents passed
The story really seems to find fault with this perfectly nice guy (FL’s previous husband) —who loved his daughter — because he was frugal (couldn’t give FL’s daughter fancy dresses so they therefore, apparently, couldn’t experience ‘the joys of life’?) and wasn’t tall…The only real problem was his controlling mother, pushing for them to have a son but even he tries to protect the FL from that. That aspect of the story is smoothed over in season 2.
🪻🎨 Lehanne Copland (FL)
- mature, calm, passion for art
🌊 ✨ Schdermel Raft (first love)
- calm, polite
- illegitimate child
- excels in academics
- well-known powerful magician
CONTENT WARNINGS
Death (implied), sexism (women only taught for marriage), r*pe (implied), abusive relationship (of side character), abortion, grief over the loss of her daughter, a child guilty they were born, emotional manipulation (ML says if FL married another, he’ll hate him to the point he could die), bullying