I suspect a lot of us that are still reading this have a love-hate relationship with this story. 30+ chapters of misery and angst is a lot to deal with. We get it - everyone treats her like sh*t and her life sucks. I don't think we needed 35 chapters of that just to get back to the prologue (where she runs away). The point could have been made in half the chapters I think.
Plus, is the male lead just socially inept? Or is he a complete d-bag? Sometimes it's really hard to tell. I think this comment on the page for Chapter 26 sums everything up nicely: YOU SHOULD SAID THAT YOU ARE SORRY s*upid.
Chapter 35 is supposed to be where it loops back to the prologue and I have a feeling that'll be a decision point for a lot of people still reading. I will withhold judgement/rating until then.
Edit: now at chapter 41 (from 31) and I have to say, I'm feeling a bit conflicted.
The male lead is completely miserable at this point - he's neglecting his health and in awful shape while he mindlessly tries to find his missing wife. It appears he's finally realised things likely would have worked out if he had just talked to her (and apologised) a long time ago. Was he a total prick to her before? Yes. Do I want to read another 30 angst filled chapters of him being miserable to the point of neglecting his own health (he walked on broken glass, cut up his foot and didn't even notice FFS) ? No. Also, Spoiler
the fact that he was very reluctant to leave her so she said she would wait for him and because she never lied to him he took her at face value and then she buggered off the next morning... That right there is adding to my conflicted feelings. Ya he wasn't good to her for most of their marriage, but he knew she wasn't a liar and took her at her word so when she left and he felt betrayed I could kind of understand. Between that and his intense misery over the months she is missing at this point I'm starting to feel bad for him.
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Based on a few things that have been going on I suspect they are both going to need to find each other again anyway in order to sort some stuff:
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She appears to randomly have bad backlash from using the holy power to escape and he is having flashbacks, etc. It could just be me, but they seem to be tied together which would suggest they will need each other to resolve this on both sides. Maybe related to the fact that he has her pendant?
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