I'm more curious on that fact that this story is smut hahahahaha.... I love the way the translator, translate this. Hahaha I never thought this is a smut novel.. I thought this is just a cute story...hahah
I am not sure why this is 19+ because there is nothing that I have noticed so far that is not pg-13. But maybe we will get smth like that later.
The translations are at chapter 23 right now so I will mainly write spoilers for the chapters after that.
So after Bianca gets into an accident and ml saves her he confessed. She is shocked and seeks the author. When the meet the author tells her that part about Ares loving her was not in the book and that she made the mistake of writing it from Leahs pov and never writting anything from the point of view of the ml. So obviously Bianka is questioning her why then does Leah now about her crush. Author tells her that it was Bianca in the novel that told it to Leah since at that point they were already friends that called each other names. Author also lashes out at Bianca for her status and angry at her for being rich and pretty. She also tells Bianca that it still does not matter and that one of the first pillars of the story is going to happen at the festival that ml and Leah will attend as sort of a date, where Leah will also aknowledges that she fell in love with Ares. Bianca says that as long as Ares likes her and since he has expressed his intensions of wanting to be with her he will not accept Leahs invitation. Author laughs at that and dissmisses that idea and leaves. After that Bianca was left alone to think through the newly acquired information.While she was sitting there Ares came to see her too. (My Korean is not great so I didnt really understand exactly how he got there. Apperently he was going to a wine bar? I also did not understand the conversation really well or whether he was tellig her that they should go to the wine club together lol. Thats not important anyway.) Bianca was also thinking now whether she can actually change future and if the pillars of the story clould be stopped. Since the festival was the first important event that the main couple from novel went to together maybe if that did not happen the story would change. Bianka trusted Ares to refuse Leahs invitation but in case the pillars were too strong she decided to ask Ares first.“I, Ares?” "Please speak. Bianca.”
Ares, who was a little discouraged because I had rejected his invitation, answered my question.
“If it’s okay with you, why don’t we go to the cherry blossom festival in a few days?”
I spit out the date request quickly without even taking a breath! Oh my God! I asked you out on a date! I did it without trembling!
As soon as I spoke to Ares, the shame after pretending to be crazy and courageous came flooding in. I stopped bowing my head. Aww, he looks like he's bleeding from his face!
With my head down like that, Ares' shoes appeared with a buzzing sound in my view. I don't know what his expression looks like. Because I was too shy to look at her face. Ares came so close to me and held my right hand, which was hanging weakly. My gaze unconsciously followed the fingertips. At the end of her gaze, Ares was smiling brighter and more beautiful than any smile I had ever seen. He grabbed my finger and pressed it against the back of his hand and his lips, not too hard.
“Anyway. I will pick you up that day as Count Uranus.”
uh huh? I succeeded! As I was looking at him with a puzzled face, Ares burst out a small smile on that beautiful face.
“Bianca, I am still waiting for you to answer my confession, but… … .”
His golden-brown eyes gently curved and embraced the warmth of warmth.
“Just, let me confess one more time, you don’t know how lovely you look right now.”
It was obvious without even looking in the mirror how stupid my expression had changed. I dont love Bianca as a character but I certainly like her. She had guts to ask Ares out and not just resign to her fate. Anyway after their conversation Bianca was back at the salon. She met Metis (her friend). Metis was like wow I am glad that you are okay since I heard that you were really sick recently. Other people were also concerned aolut her. Here is the part that I did not understand but was kinda lazy to translate fully lol. Its either she did not tell anybody about her being sick and only Leah knew since she wanted to visit her but was rejected due to the Fl illness. The fact that everybody else and Ares learned that from Leah made Bianca question some things I guess. Like this particular conversation with Metis was confusing. Maybe I interpreted the situation wrongly so dont take my summary too seriously its just a good exposition to the other part of Bianca questioning Leah in her mind.
So then Bianca is sitting and reading a bool there when Ares comes and sits down on the sofa near her. The greet each other. He is worried about her health from last time they had a conversation. And she says that it wasnt a big deal. Then when she wanted to continue their conversation the salon door opens and Leah come in and then shouts: "Bianca! Ares! You are both here!!". Bianca is like all teacher mode telling her not to shout next time she sees them lol.
Then Leah starts talking about flowers and that the day for the festival was chosen pretty well. Bianca naturally sees where this conversation is heading and is praying for Leah not say anything. But of course Leah is like why dont we go to the festival together! (Honestly, at this point I am not sure if she is oblivious to the fact that they are not really friends)
Omg my man Ares is like sorry I can't. Then she asks Bianca that she has made a promise to other person. (I was kind of amused by the word choice from Ares and Bianca. He used the word pledge in Korean while Bianca the regular promise word that all Koreans use.) After that exchange the conversation dies out. Bianca feels awkward communicating with Ares in front of Leah so she decided to leave.
There is a small moment from her here that I found to be cute. When she exits she lingers at the door a little bit kinda wishing that Ares would just leave Leah there and go after her again lol. But the door does not open and she finally leaves. The thing that I dont really like about the novel and fl is that there are too much inner monologs in her mind that are always kind of repetitive. Btw their conversations are much more detailed but I just wrote some parts I thought were important.
Anyway I will continue.
She then goes shopping for jewellery. While being there she also decided to get something for Ares. While she was doing that she also had a looong train of thoughts going on too obviously. >_<
She was thinking throught the authors motives. The author wrote her to be rich but despises the fact that she was born with a golden spoon. Here in the story she wrote it that way so Leah would be with Ares. Despite her hatred for her Bianca's rich status she does not have the same feelings towards Ares. However, he is even more influential and rich than Bianca. Then why is the author not mad at him. I think the double standard from author is strong here. She despises the rich Bianca and made her a villain while even more rich Ares is of course the ML.
Bianca is also thinking since the novel was written by author with such values and its from the pov of Leah could there be a chance that they both have the same opinion? I stopped reading here. Its half way through first volume already and after I read some more I will try to find time to spoile some more. I do wish for less thinking pages and more romantic action honestly.