- #1
This story is definitely a 4.9/10.The character development of the protagonist is one of the main points of this story. Moving on and accepting what happened to her despite the intricacies—despite what you think the truth to be not being all that it seems.The truth about Akarna’s and their origin which admittedly is introduced very early, but it has a very big effect on Jiwoo.The truth about the Crown Prince, rarely mentioned as his true name.The truth about the Temple.Nothing is ever as seen by Jiwoo, and in a way I think that is the biggest betrayal that she experienced.The ‘elves’ technically aren’t the Empire’s most despised species they’re apart of the group that the Empire despises the most.My favorite thing about the Crown Prince is that despite his name being known, health only ever referred to, even in his own POV, as Crown Prince. It symbolizes how even he only sees himself as the identity that holds importance to the world, and what influenced the way he treated Jiwoo.Spoiler
The fact that around the end of the story when she asked if he even knew her name, he knew it. The only reason he called her Akarna was because of it’s second meaning: “lovely lover.” But she forgot that.
[collapse]That brings me to my second point. No matter the truth about how the Crown Prince felt about her she never changed her mind and only knew one thing: his love never, ever made her truly happy.I don’t understand people who believe every single male in this novel is manipulative.The elves act the way they do because thats what is natural to them. They always respect her and never force her to do anything she doesn’t want. Why complain about that?In fact, the only manipulative males are the Temple's Holy Priests and the Crown Prince (he manipulated me into thinking he loved jiwoo gently and warmly)... But, yeah.I really recommend this novel.-.1/10 because the smut was good but I usually just skipped it. It’s usually minimum 2.5 chapters which is pretty long.Spoiler[collapse]