Characters kind of boring, but the mystery of who the FL and ML was interesting. The actual truth revealed was…kind of dumb (as, badly written) but 🤷🏻♀️oh well
Lots of little quests and murder mysterious (dead students, rumoured rituals, hauntings, coffins ⚰️, blessing, ghosts) that are solved with some linking to overarching villains. Long story.
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MAIN CHARACTERS
🌹💰🪭Julia Robinharts (FL)
- confident, money-centric
- youngest of family
- rumoured eccentric
- can talk to ghosts
- charges for her talismans
- effects of talismans depends on value to person
- remembers her past life. has divine powers
- a Shaman
- a medium for the god, Mago
- Divine powers are oddly weakening
- how many lives has she lived but can’t remember?
💎⚔️ Leo Sirius Epesia (ML)
- confident, flirt, pouty puppy dog when with FL
- has a secret. Who is he, really?
- ‘she just doesn’t remember me’
- can control mana
- supreme commander
- no vulnerable moments. Little personality
- can see FL’s appearance in past life. How?
🌰🪻Patrick
- helps FL with her business
- has known FL for 10 years
- sensitive to ‘energy’ (mana, ghosts)
- FL’s bodyguard/close friend
- Very little backstory or development.
- ‘he’s just kind of there’ vibes
🌻🎨 Selvan
- famous imperial painter/artist
- well-knownfor his looks
- very immersed in his art. Rambles
- older step-brother is also famour painter
- featured as potential 2nd ML but after plot involving his brother was solved, he’s like never mentioned again
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ASPECTS / TROPES
- ML from a renowned swordmanship family
- FL tasked by ML to investigate rumours of ghosts
- Art looks a bit off (noses, eyes).
- Art changes I think when the new artist joined
- Gods (god of Seasons, Mago)
- Past lives
- Energy, harmony, principles, ying-yang
- Plot driven (graves, ghost sightings, student suicides, rituals)
- Slow burn romance
- Empire’s king is a villain
- Princess trying to escape political marriage (Side plot)
- Multiple POV (FL, ML, Princess, Villains)
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CONTENT WARNINGS
murder, war (mention), grave robbers, suicide (+ attempt), blood, death, human experimentation, skulls, corrupt religious figures
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The PLOTHOLES ~
- Rushed ending. Info-dumps a convoluted story of the past between Julia and Leo in the last 4 chapters.
Background
So it seems, Julia was a God and had answered a human’s prayers — Leo’s prayers (in past life). For interfering in human affairs, ‘nature’ was angered and stripped Julia of her divinity, turning her into a human. She was then cursed to be reborn over and over again until her soul is destroyed. If she experienced any happiness, ‘nature’ would employ its agents (priests, holy knights, followers of other Gods) to ruin/destroy her happiness and kill her (as punishment).
more on that later
- How are Mago and Leo the same?
Leo (in his past life) became a God in her place and began protecting Julia.
That boy also became known as Mago (the God Julia’s ‘served’).
But how can Leo and Mago be technically the same person? Did the boy split into two or something? Because Mago and Leo co-exist at the same time — one human and the other a God in the Heavens. It’s never really explained. 🫠
And if he was the one who was helped by Julia (when she was a God), why does ‘nature’ grant him [Leo] the authority to choose her ending —
kill her soul and break the curse OR let her soul continue it’s miserable reincarnation?
It’s not like he was wronged by Julia’s actions. Didn’t she help him, knowing she would be punished? 🫠
And the solution? She chooses whether to destroy her soul or not at the end of this life. How was that not an option from the beginning?!!
Also, if ‘nature’ (not Mago) in chapter 116 possessed Julia’s body, why did Julia’s hair turn white?
When Julia is possessed by Mago her hair and eyes would turn white— basically taking on Magi’s appearance. So this time, why didn’t she take on a different appearance?
And what was with that sudden death of the FL’s brother?!! Apparently someone close to the FL had to die to fulfil her ‘punishment’ in this life? But they never mentioned that in the info-dump. All they said was she had to live miserable life and miserable life.
Even if killing her brother was meant to achieve that, she was still happy with the ML, her nfriend, and the rest of her family. Does that mean those guys acting on behalf of ‘nature’ will come to ruin her happiness again?
Main conflict ends with the head of villain organisation promising not to fail the ‘next time’
But…the series ended, right?
Also what happens to the corrupt and evil King? He’s just still alive? No consequences?
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